Skarner with Sylas
How to Synergize Skarner and Sylas
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Skarner Sylas Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Sylas
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Sylas
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 Sylas Will Play
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
Skarner Sylas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sylas as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Sylas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sylas, 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 Sylas. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Sylas helps Skarner perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner tries to synergize with Sylas, he observes a little drop in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Sylas doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played together with Sylas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Sylas.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Sylas on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Sylas does a decent job of protecting Skarner in team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Sylas
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Sylas?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Skarner that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, Sylas is a very typical teammate for Skarner. By being on the same side as Skarner, he drops their win rate by -0.3% to 48.0%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Skarner and Sylas that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Sylas has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Sylas allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, Skarner players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Skarner and Sylas together, you will not be giving your team enough utility. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Sylas ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Skarner in order to pair well with Sylas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Skarner and Sylas synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Sylas than with many other common builds. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 48.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sylas with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Skarner and Sylas pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.0% winrate overall.
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