Skarner with Illaoi
How to Synergize Skarner and Illaoi
based on 199 Skarner with Illaoi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Illaoi Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Illaoi
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 Illaoi Will Play
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Skarner Illaoi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Illaoi as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, 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 Illaoi. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Illaoi helps Skarner perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner tries to synergize with Illaoi, he observes a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Illaoi does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Illaoi on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Illaoi. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Illaoi.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Illaoi on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Illaoi does a decent job of covering Skarner during teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Illaoi
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Illaoi?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Illaoi is a very typical teammate for Skarner. By locking into the same team as Skarner, she raises their win rate by 0.9% to 49.2%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Skarner and Illaoi that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Illaoi has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Illaoi teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Skarner players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Skarner and Illaoi together, you will not be giving your other allies a great deal of AP. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Illaoi teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 Illaoi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to use in your Skarner and Illaoi synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Illaoi than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 49.2% helping carry Illaoi with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Skarner players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
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