Skarner with Shaco
How to Synergize Skarner and Shaco
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Skarner Shaco Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Shaco
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Shaco
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 Shaco Will Play
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Skarner Shaco Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shaco as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Shaco synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shaco, 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 Shaco. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shaco helps Skarner perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is an ally to Shaco, he observes a clear improvement in his full damage dealt. This could signal that Shaco helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played together with Shaco on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shaco.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Shaco on the same team, he typically receives more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Shaco does a poor job of protecting Skarner during team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Shaco
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Shaco?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Skarner that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Shaco is a very typical companion for Skarner. By playing on the same side as Skarner, he raises their win rate by 0.9% to 49.2%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Skarner and Shaco that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Shaco has a much greater difficulty compared to Skarner. That means you should be cautious when lining up Shaco allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, Skarner players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Skarner and Shaco together, you will not be providing your side much tankyness. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Shaco ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 synergize with Shaco during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to build first in your Skarner and Shaco synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Shaco than with many other common builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 49.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Shaco with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Shaco with Skarner are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.