Skarner with Lux
How to Synergize Skarner and Lux
based on 1,283 Skarner with Lux pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Lux Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Lux Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Lux
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Lux
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 Lux Will Play
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
Skarner Lux Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lux as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Lux synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lux, 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 Lux. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Lux helps Skarner perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner plays on the same team as Lux, he gets a small decrease in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Lux does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Lux on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Lux. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Lux.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Lux on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Lux does a poor job of covering Skarner in teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Lux
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Lux?
There is no one best ally for Skarner that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Lux is a decent ally for Skarner. By playing on the same team as Skarner, she improves their win rate by 1.3% to 49.6%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Skarner and Lux that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Lux has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players don't need to be very careful when finding Lux allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, Skarner players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by grouping Skarner and Lux together, you may not be giving your side much attack damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Lux ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 to synergize with Lux during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Skarner and Lux synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Skarner combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Lux than with many other common item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 49.6% when playing alongside Lux with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.6% win rate overall.
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