Skarner with Maokai
How to Synergize Skarner and Maokai
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Skarner Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Maokai
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 Maokai Will Play
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Skarner Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, 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 Maokai. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Maokai helps Skarner perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner plays on the same team as Maokai, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Maokai helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played together with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Maokai on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Maokai does a decent job of covering Skarner in teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Maokai
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, Maokai is a great ally for Skarner. By playing on the same side as Skarner, he improves their win rate by 3.2% to 51.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a very strong bond between Skarner and Maokai that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players don't need to be cautious when lining up Maokai teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Although, by bringing Skarner and Maokai together, you will not be providing your other allies a great deal of sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Maokai ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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
If you would like to truly master Skarner in order to synergize with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Skarner and Maokai synergy build include 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 much better as an ally of Maokai than with many other typical builds. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 51.5% helping carry Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Skarner players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.5% winrate overall.
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