Skarner with Gangplank
How to Synergize Skarner and Gangplank
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Skarner Gangplank Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Gangplank
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 Gangplank Will Play
Try placing Cannon Barrage on the path of escape to cut off fleeing enemies.
Parrrley applies On Hit effects like Frozen Mallet or Black Cleaver.
Paying attention to low-health enemies on the map can land you a surprise kill with Cannon Barrage.
Skarner Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Gangplank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gangplank, 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 Gangplank. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gangplank helps Skarner perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner tries to synergize with Gangplank, he sees a little increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Gangplank helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Gangplank on the same team, 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 alongside Gangplank.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Gangplank on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Gangplank does a poor job of covering Skarner in teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Gangplank
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no ideal ally for Skarner that will always be his best teammate. However, overall, Gangplank is a below average companion for Skarner. By being on the same side as Skarner, he lowers their win rate by -2.9% to 45.4%. This proves that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Skarner and Gangplank that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Gangplank has a much greater difficulty compared to Skarner. That means Skarner players should be very careful when lining up Gangplank comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Skarner players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Skarner and Gangplank together, you may not be giving your team a great deal of AP. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Gangplank ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Skarner to pair well with Gangplank during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to focus on in your Skarner and Gangplank synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Gangplank than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 45.4% when playing alongside Gangplank with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Skarner players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Skarner and Gangplank pairings, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.4% winrate overall.
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