Skarner with Rengar
How to Synergize Skarner and Rengar
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Skarner Rengar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Rengar
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Rengar
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 Rengar Will Play
Make sure to take paths through brush when chasing opponents to take advantage of Rengar's passive.
Use Rengar's ultimate to find and assassinate high priority targets in team fights and skirmishes.
A lot of Rengar's power comes from empowered abilities he uses at the right moment - choose wisely!
Skarner Rengar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rengar as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Rengar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rengar, 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 Rengar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Rengar helps Skarner perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner is an ally to Rengar, he gets a moderate decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Rengar does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Rengar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Rengar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Rengar.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Rengar on the same team, he often takes much less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Rengar does a decent job of protecting Skarner in teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Rengar
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Rengar?
There is no top synergy for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, overall, Rengar is a very bad companion for Skarner. By locking into the same team as Skarner, he lowers their win rate by -7.8% to 40.5%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Skarner and Rengar that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Rengar has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means you should be careful when enlisting Rengar teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Skarner and Rengar together, you may not be granting your other allies much AP. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Rengar ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Skarner in order to pair well with Rengar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Skarner and Rengar synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Rengar than with most other common builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 40.5% helping carry Rengar with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 40.5% win rate overall.
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