Skarner with Gwen
How to Synergize Skarner and Gwen
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Skarner Gwen Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Gwen
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 Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Skarner Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gwen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gwen helps Skarner perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner tries to synergize with Gwen, he observes a little drop in his full damage dealt. This could signal that Gwen does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Gwen 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 alongside Gwen.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Gwen on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Gwen does a poor job of covering Skarner during teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Gwen
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Skarner that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, Gwen is a very typical ally for Skarner. By playing on the same side as Skarner, she drops their win rate by -0.9% to 47.4%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Skarner and Gwen that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Gwen has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Gwen comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, Skarner players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Skarner and Gwen together, you may not be providing your side a lot of AP. Plan to bring other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Gwen teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Skarner in order to pair well with Gwen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to focus on in your Skarner and Gwen synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Gwen than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 47.4% helping carry Gwen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Skarner players should use 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 set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Gwen with Skarner are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.