Skarner with Poppy
How to Synergize Skarner and Poppy
based on 118 Skarner with Poppy pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Poppy Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Poppy Counter Build
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Early Items
Core Skarner Items
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Summoner Spells
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Poppy
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Poppy
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 Poppy Will Play
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Skarner Poppy Synergy Stats
How to Play with Poppy as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 Poppy. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Poppy helps Skarner perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner tries to synergize with Poppy, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Poppy provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Poppy on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Poppy.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Poppy on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Poppy does a decent job of protecting Skarner in team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Poppy
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Poppy?
There is no one best synergy for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, Poppy is a very bad teammate for Skarner. By locking into the same team as Skarner, she decreases their win rate by -4.2% to 44.1%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Skarner and Poppy that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Poppy has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means you must be careful when enlisting Poppy comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by bringing Skarner and Poppy together, you probably will not be giving your team a lot of magic damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Poppy ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Skarner to pair well with Poppy during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to use in your Skarner and Poppy synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Poppy than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 44.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Poppy with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 44.1% winrate overall.
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