Skarner with Nasus
How to Synergize Skarner and Nasus
based on 299 Skarner with Nasus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Nasus Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Nasus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Nasus
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 Nasus Will Play
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
Skarner Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Nasus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nasus, 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 Nasus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nasus helps Skarner perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is an ally to Nasus, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Nasus does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Nasus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nasus.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Nasus on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Nasus does a decent job of covering Skarner in team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Nasus
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Skarner that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Nasus is a very typical companion for Skarner. By being on the same side as Skarner, he increases their win rate by 0.5% to 48.8%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between Skarner and Nasus that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Nasus has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means you must be very careful when arranging Nasus teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Skarner and Nasus together, you will not be granting your team a great deal of utility. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Nasus ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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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 Nasus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Skarner and Nasus synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Nasus than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 48.8% helping carry Nasus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Skarner and Nasus pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.8% win rate overall.
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