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.
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
The Skarner Shyvana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shyvana, 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 Shyvana. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shyvana helps Skarner perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is an ally to Shyvana, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Shyvana helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played together with Shyvana on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Shyvana. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Shyvana.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Shyvana on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Shyvana does a poor job of protecting Skarner in team fights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Skarner that will always be his ideal ally. However, Shyvana is a very bad ally for Skarner. By locking into the same side as Skarner, she decreases their win rate by -4.1% to 44.2%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad synergy between Skarner and Shyvana that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Shyvana has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Shyvana teammates to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, Skarner players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Skarner and Shyvana together, you may not be giving your side much support. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Shyvana teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner in order to work well with Shyvana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Skarner and Shyvana synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Shyvana than with many other common builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 44.2% when playing alongside Shyvana with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Skarner players should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Skarner and Shyvana pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.2% winrate overall.
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