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.
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
The Skarner Orianna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Orianna, 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 Orianna. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Orianna helps Skarner perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is paired with Orianna, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This could signal that Orianna provides protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Orianna on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Orianna. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Orianna.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Orianna on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Orianna does a decent job of covering Skarner during team fights.
There is no perfect companion for Skarner that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, overall, Orianna is a very typical teammate for Skarner. By playing on the same team as Skarner, she improves their win rate by 0.1% to 48.4%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Skarner and Orianna that results in them performing better together than alone.
Orianna has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players need to be very careful when arranging Orianna allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Skarner players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Skarner and Orianna together, you probably will not be granting your side a lot of engage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Orianna ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Skarner in order to synergize with Orianna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Skarner and Orianna 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 much better when paired up with Orianna than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 48.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Orianna with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Skarner players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.4% win rate overall.
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