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.
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
The Skarner Yasuo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yasuo, 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 Yasuo. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Yasuo helps Skarner perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is paired with Yasuo, he sees a little drop in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Yasuo does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Yasuo on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Yasuo.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Yasuo on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Yasuo does a decent job of protecting Skarner during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, Yasuo is a very typical ally for Skarner. By playing on the same team as Skarner, he increases their win rate by 0.6% to 48.9%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Skarner and Yasuo that results in them performing better together than alone.
Yasuo has a much greater difficulty compared to Skarner. That means Skarner players must be cautious when enlisting Yasuo allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Skarner and Yasuo together, you will not be granting your team much magic damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Yasuo ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to work well with Yasuo during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Skarner and Yasuo synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Skarner combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Yasuo than with most other common item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 48.9% when playing alongside Yasuo with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Skarner players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
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