Skarner with Kalista
How to Synergize Skarner and Kalista
based on 93 Skarner with Kalista pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Kalista Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Kalista
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Kalista
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 Kalista Will Play
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Skarner Kalista Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kalista as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Kalista synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kalista, 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 Kalista. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kalista helps Skarner perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner is an ally to Kalista, he gets a measurable drop in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Kalista does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Kalista on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kalista.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Kalista on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Kalista does a poor job of protecting Skarner during teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Kalista
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Kalista?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Skarner that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, Kalista is a terrible teammate for Skarner. By playing on the same team as Skarner, she lowers their win rate by -5.3% to 43.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad synergy between Skarner and Kalista that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Kalista has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players must be careful when finding Kalista allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Skarner players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Skarner and Kalista together, you will not be giving your other teammates very much utility. Make sure to include other champions on your team that fills this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Kalista teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Skarner to work well with Kalista during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Skarner and Kalista synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Kalista than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 43.0% helping carry Kalista with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 43.0% win rate overall.
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