Skarner with Aphelios
How to Synergize Skarner and Aphelios
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Skarner Aphelios Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Aphelios
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Advice to Understand How Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Skarner Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Skarner sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Aphelios helps Skarner perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner plays on the same team as Aphelios, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Aphelios does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played together with Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Aphelios.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Aphelios on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Skarner in teamfights.
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Skarner that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Aphelios is a very typical ally for Skarner. By being on the same team as Skarner, he increases their win rate by 0.1% to 48.4%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Skarner and Aphelios that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Skarner. That means you need to be cautious when finding Aphelios allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting together, Skarner players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Skarner and Aphelios together, you probably will not be granting your other allies very much AP. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Aphelios teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Skarner to synergize with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to include in your Skarner and Aphelios synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Aphelios than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 48.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.4% win rate overall.
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