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.
You can use Comet of Legend's flight to grow Starsurge to massive proportions.
Comet of Legend allows you to move quickly around the map; use it to put pressure on other lanes.
Save Voice of Light to use as a defense against melee opponents if you need to - otherwise, use its slow to start a fight at long range.
The Skarner Aurelion Sol synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aurelion Sol, 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 Aurelion Sol. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Aurelion Sol helps Skarner perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is an ally to Aurelion Sol, he observes a clear improvement in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Aurelion Sol provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Aurelion Sol on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Aurelion Sol.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Aurelion Sol on the same side, he often takes more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Aurelion Sol does a poor job of covering Skarner in teamfights.
There is no top synergy for Skarner that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, Aurelion Sol is a top-tier companion for Skarner. By locking into the same team as Skarner, he raises their win rate by 7.2% to 55.5%. This demonstrates that there is a strong strategic relationship between Skarner and Aurelion Sol that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Aurelion Sol has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means you should be very careful when enlisting Aurelion Sol comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, Skarner players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Skarner and Aurelion Sol together, you probably will not be providing your other allies much sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Aurelion Sol ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Skarner to work well with Aurelion Sol during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra 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 top finished items to get in your Skarner and Aurelion Sol synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Aurelion Sol than with many other common item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 55.5% when playing alongside Aurelion Sol with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Skarner players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 55.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Aurelion Sol with Skarner are shown for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.