Skarner with Ornn
How to Synergize Skarner and Ornn
based on 187 Skarner with Ornn pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Ornn Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Ornn Counter Build
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Core Skarner Items
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Ornn
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Ornn
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 Ornn Will Play
Volcanic Rupture can be used to set up zoning areas to threaten enemies.
Learning build paths of items can help quickly select upgrades in lane.
The order of your abilties matters! Try to optimize Brittle usage.
Skarner Ornn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ornn as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Ornn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ornn, 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 Ornn. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Ornn helps Skarner perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner tries to synergize with Ornn, he sees a clear improvement in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Ornn supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Ornn on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Ornn. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Ornn.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Ornn on the same side, he usually receives more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Ornn does a poor job of protecting Skarner in teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Ornn
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Ornn?
There is no top companion for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, Ornn is a very typical companion for Skarner. By being on the same team as Skarner, he raises their win rate by 0.9% to 49.2%. This signals that there is not really a strong synergy between Skarner and Ornn that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Ornn has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Ornn comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing together, Skarner players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Although, by bringing Skarner and Ornn together, you may not be giving your side a lot of magic damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Ornn ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to work well with Ornn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Skarner and Ornn synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Ornn than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 49.2% helping carry Ornn with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing 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 players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.2% win rate overall.
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