Skarner with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Skarner and Kog'Maw
based on 83 Skarner with Kog'Maw pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Kog'Maw
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 Kog'Maw Will Play
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
Skarner Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Kog'Maw synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kog'Maw, 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 Kog'Maw. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kog'Maw helps Skarner perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner tries to synergize with Kog'Maw, he gets a little increase in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Kog'Maw helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Kog'Maw on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kog'Maw.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Kog'Maw on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Kog'Maw does a poor job of protecting Skarner during teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Kog'Maw
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no top ally for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Kog'Maw is a below average teammate for Skarner. By playing on the same side as Skarner, he lowers their win rate by -2.5% to 45.8%. This signals that there is a bad strategic relationship between Skarner and Kog'Maw that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kog'Maw has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players should be careful when enlisting Kog'Maw allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Skarner players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Skarner and Kog'Maw together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates much tankyness. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Kog'Maw teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Skarner to pair well with Kog'Maw during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Skarner and Kog'Maw synergy build consist of 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 a lot better as an ally of Kog'Maw than with many other common item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 45.8% helping carry Kog'Maw with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating 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 sets we have analyed for Skarner and Kog'Maw pairings, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.8% win rate overall.
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