Skarner with Katarina
How to Synergize Skarner and Katarina
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Skarner Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Skarner Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Katarina helps Skarner perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner plays on the same team as Katarina, he sees a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Katarina supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Katarina 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 with Katarina.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Katarina on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Katarina does a poor job of covering Skarner in teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Katarina
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no perfect companion for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Katarina is a not very good ally for Skarner. By playing on the same side as Skarner, she lowers their win rate by -2.8% to 45.5%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Skarner and Katarina that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means you must be careful when enlisting Katarina allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Skarner and Katarina together, you may not be granting your team a lot of crowd control. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Skarner and Katarina synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Katarina than with many other common item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 45.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability 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. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.5% win rate overall.
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