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.
If you're in a lane against ranged players, leveling up Meditate can allow you to stay in the lane longer and gain levels faster than they will.
Try using Alpha Strike on a minion in front of an enemy champion so you are placed at a safe distance at the end of the spell.
Wuju Style is very strong early for last hitting minions.
The Skarner Master Yi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Master Yi, 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 Master Yi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Master Yi helps Skarner perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is an ally to Master Yi, he gets a small decrease in his full damage output. This may indicate that Master Yi does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played together with Master Yi on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Master Yi. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Master Yi.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Master Yi on the same team, he on average takes less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Master Yi does a decent job of protecting Skarner during teamfights.
There is no top ally for Skarner that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, Master Yi is a very bad companion for Skarner. By locking into the same team as Skarner, he drops their win rate by -8.7% to 39.6%. This signals that there is a terrible synergy between Skarner and Master Yi that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Master Yi has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Master Yi teammates to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, Skarner players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Skarner and Master Yi together, you probably will not be giving your side enough AP. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Master Yi teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Skarner in order to pair well with Master Yi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Skarner and Master Yi synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Master Yi than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 39.6% when playing alongside Master Yi with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 39.6% winrate overall.
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