Skarner with K'Sante
How to Synergize Skarner and K'Sante
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Skarner K'Sante Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and K'Sante
Tips for Playing as Skarner with K'Sante
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 K'Sante Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Skarner K'Sante Synergy Stats
How to Play with K'Sante as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner K'Sante synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with K'Sante, 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 K'Sante. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that K'Sante helps Skarner perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner plays on the same team as K'Sante, he observes a noticable increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that K'Sante provides cover for him to deal more damage or that their presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside K'Sante on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with K'Sante.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with K'Sante on the same side, he often receives more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that K'Sante does a poor job of covering Skarner during team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and K'Sante
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Is Skarner better when played alongside K'Sante?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, overall, K'Sante is a very bad companion for Skarner. By playing on the same team as Skarner, they decreases their win rate by -5.1% to 43.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad bond between Skarner and K'Sante that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
K'Sante has a much greater difficulty compared to Skarner. That means Skarner players should be careful when lining up K'Sante teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Skarner players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Skarner and K'Sante together, you will not be giving your side a lot of support. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your K'Sante ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 learn all of the intricacies of Skarner in order to work well with K'Sante during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Skarner and K'Sante synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of K'Sante than with most other common item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 43.2% when playing alongside K'Sante with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Skarner players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 43.2% win rate overall.
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