Skarner with Vi
How to Synergize Skarner and Vi
based on 47 Skarner with Vi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Vi Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Vi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Vi
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Vi
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 Vi Will Play
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
Skarner Vi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vi as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Vi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vi, 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 Vi. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Vi helps Skarner perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner tries to synergize with Vi, he gets a noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Vi doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Vi on the same side, 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 Vi.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Vi on the same side, he usually takes much less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Vi does a decent job of protecting Skarner during teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Vi
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Vi?
There is no one best synergy for Skarner that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, Vi is a below average teammate for Skarner. By being on the same team as Skarner, she lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 46.8%. This demonstrates that there is a negative synergy between Skarner and Vi that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Vi has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Vi comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Skarner and Vi together, you will not be granting your team enough AP. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Vi ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner in order to work well with Vi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Skarner and Vi synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Vi than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 46.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Vi with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Skarner players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Skarner and Vi pairings, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.8% winrate overall.
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