Skarner with Leona
How to Synergize Skarner and Leona
based on 437 Skarner with Leona pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Leona Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Leona
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Skarner Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Leona helps Skarner perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is paired with Leona, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This may signal that Leona supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played together with Leona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Leona.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Leona on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Leona does a decent job of protecting Skarner in teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Leona
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Leona?
There is no top synergy for Skarner that will no matter what be his top ally. However, Leona is a very typical companion for Skarner. By locking into the same side as Skarner, she raises their win rate by 0.2% to 48.5%. This shows that there is a weak strategic relationship between Skarner and Leona that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Leona has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players don't need to be careful when arranging Leona comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Skarner players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by bringing Skarner and Leona together, you may not be granting your team much magical damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Leona ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner in order to synergize with Leona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to focus on in your Skarner and Leona synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Leona than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 48.5% helping carry Leona with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Skarner players should take 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 champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Leona with Skarner are given for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.