Skarner with Veigar
How to Synergize Skarner and Veigar
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Skarner Veigar Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Veigar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Veigar
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Veigar
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 Veigar Will Play
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
Skarner Veigar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Veigar as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Veigar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Veigar, 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 Veigar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Veigar helps Skarner perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is an ally to Veigar, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Veigar helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Veigar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Veigar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Veigar.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Veigar on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Veigar does a poor job of covering Skarner in team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Veigar
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Veigar?
There is no top champion pairing for Skarner that will always be his top ally. However, Veigar is a great ally for Skarner. By being on the same side as Skarner, he raises their win rate by 7.0% to 55.3%. This shows that there is a strong strategic relationship between Skarner and Veigar that results in them performing better together than alone.
Veigar has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players must be careful when enlisting Veigar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Skarner and Veigar together, you may not be giving your side enough cover. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Veigar ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 in order to synergize with Veigar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Skarner and Veigar synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Veigar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 55.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Veigar with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Skarner players should equip 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 this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 55.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Veigar with Skarner are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.