Skarner with Sivir
How to Synergize Skarner and Sivir
based on 185 Skarner with Sivir pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Sivir Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Sivir
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Sivir
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 Sivir Will Play
Sivir's Boomerang Blade returns to her after reaching the max range, so you can shift position to hit enemies who would otherwise have evaded it.
Try saving Spell Shield for enemy abilities that can disable you such as stuns and roots.
Ricochet resets Sivir's basic attack timer on activation, so activating this immediately after landing a normal basic attack will maximize damage output.
Skarner Sivir Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sivir as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Sivir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sivir, 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 Sivir. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Sivir helps Skarner perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is an ally to Sivir, he sees a little decrease in his full damage output. This difference could indicate that Sivir does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Sivir 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 Sivir.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Sivir on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Sivir does a poor job of covering Skarner during teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Sivir
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Sivir?
There is no ideal ally for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Sivir is a below average ally for Skarner. By playing on the same side as Skarner, she drops their win rate by -1.3% to 47.0%. This signals that there is a negative synergy between Skarner and Sivir that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Sivir has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Sivir allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Skarner and Sivir together, you may not be providing your other teammates enough magic damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Sivir ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will 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 work well with Sivir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to include in your Skarner and Sivir 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 did a lot better when paired up with Sivir than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 47.0% helping carry Sivir with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Skarner and Sivir pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.0% winrate overall.
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