Skarner with Nidalee
How to Synergize Skarner and Nidalee
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Skarner Nidalee Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Nidalee
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 Nidalee Will Play
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
Skarner Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, 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 Nidalee. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nidalee helps Skarner perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner is paired with Nidalee, he observes a big decrease in his total damage output. This difference may signal that Nidalee does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played together with Nidalee on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nidalee.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Nidalee on the same team, he on average takes much less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Nidalee does a decent job of covering Skarner during teamfights.
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Skarner that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, Nidalee is a very bad teammate for Skarner. By playing on the same team as Skarner, she lowers their win rate by -9.6% to 38.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible bond between Skarner and Nidalee that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Nidalee has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means you should be careful when arranging Nidalee teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should witness 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.
In contrast, by aligning Skarner and Nidalee together, you may not be providing your team a great deal of utility. Plan to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Nidalee ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to work well with Nidalee during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Skarner and Nidalee synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Nidalee than with many other common item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 38.7% when playing alongside Nidalee with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Skarner players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 38.7% win rate overall.
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