Skarner with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Skarner and Vel'Koz
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Skarner Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz Will Play
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Skarner Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, 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 Vel'Koz. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vel'Koz helps Skarner perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner is an ally to Vel'Koz, he gets a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Vel'Koz does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Vel'Koz. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of protecting Skarner in teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Vel'Koz
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no perfect synergy for Skarner that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, Vel'Koz is a below average ally for Skarner. By being on the same team as Skarner, he drops their win rate by -2.3% to 46.0%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Skarner and Vel'Koz that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players need to be careful when finding Vel'Koz comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Skarner and Vel'Koz together, you will not be providing your team a lot of engage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 to synergize with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to build first in your Skarner and Vel'Koz synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Vel'Koz than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 46.0% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating 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 chose for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.0% win rate overall.
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