Skarner with Naafiri
How to Synergize Skarner and Naafiri
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Skarner Naafiri Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Naafiri Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Naafiri
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 Naafiri Will Play
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Skarner Naafiri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Naafiri as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Naafiri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Naafiri, 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 Naafiri. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Naafiri helps Skarner perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner is paired with Naafiri, he observes a little increase in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Naafiri provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that their presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Naafiri 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 alongside Naafiri.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Naafiri on the same side, he typically takes less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Naafiri does a decent job of covering Skarner during team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Naafiri
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Naafiri?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Skarner that will always be his ideal ally. However, Naafiri is a decent teammate for Skarner. By playing on the same side as Skarner, they increases their win rate by 1.7% to 50.0%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Skarner and Naafiri that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Naafiri has a much lower diffuclty than Skarner. That means Skarner players don't need to be very careful when finding Naafiri teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Skarner and Naafiri together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Naafiri ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should 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 pair well with Naafiri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Skarner and Naafiri synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner used at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Naafiri than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 50.0% helping carry Naafiri with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating 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 players used for Skarner and Naafiri pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.0% win rate overall.
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