Skarner with Garen
How to Synergize Skarner and Garen
based on 400 Skarner with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Garen Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Garen
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Garen
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 Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Skarner Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Garen helps Skarner perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is paired with Garen, he gets a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Garen supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Garen.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Garen on the same team, he often receives more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Garen does a poor job of protecting Skarner during teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Garen
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Garen?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Skarner that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, overall, Garen is a very typical companion for Skarner. By locking into the same side as Skarner, he lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 47.8%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Skarner and Garen that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Garen allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Skarner players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Skarner and Garen together, you may not be providing your other allies enough magical damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Garen ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Skarner in order to synergize with Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to use in your Skarner and Garen 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 significantly better when paired up with Garen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 47.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Garen with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Skarner players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Garen with Skarner are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu above.