Skarner with Vladimir
How to Synergize Skarner and Vladimir
based on 346 Skarner with Vladimir pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Vladimir Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Vladimir Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Vladimir
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Vladimir
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 Vladimir Will Play
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
Skarner Vladimir Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vladimir as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Vladimir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vladimir, 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 Vladimir. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vladimir helps Skarner perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is an ally to Vladimir, he sees a measurable drop in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Vladimir does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Vladimir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Vladimir. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vladimir.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Vladimir on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Vladimir does a decent job of protecting Skarner in team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Vladimir
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Vladimir?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Skarner that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, Vladimir is a not very good companion for Skarner. By playing on the same team as Skarner, he drops their win rate by -2.1% to 46.2%. This signals that there is a bad synergy between Skarner and Vladimir that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Vladimir has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Vladimir teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, Skarner players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Skarner and Vladimir together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates much crowd control. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Vladimir ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to synergize with Vladimir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to get in your Skarner and Vladimir synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Vladimir than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 46.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Vladimir with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Skarner and Vladimir pairings, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.2% winrate overall.
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