Skarner with Taliyah
How to Synergize Skarner and Taliyah
based on 92 Skarner with Taliyah pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Taliyah Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Taliyah
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 Taliyah Will Play
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
Skarner Taliyah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Taliyah as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Taliyah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taliyah, 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 Taliyah. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Taliyah helps Skarner perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner plays on the same team as Taliyah, he observes a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Taliyah helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Taliyah on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Taliyah.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Taliyah on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Taliyah does a decent job of protecting Skarner during team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Taliyah
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Taliyah?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, Taliyah is a relatively poor companion for Skarner. By being on the same team as Skarner, she decreases their win rate by -1.6% to 46.7%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Skarner and Taliyah that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Taliyah has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Taliyah teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Skarner players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Skarner and Taliyah together, you probably will not be giving your side very much AD. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Taliyah teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to pair well with Taliyah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Skarner and Taliyah synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Taliyah than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 46.7% helping carry Taliyah with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Skarner players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.7% win rate overall.
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