Skarner with Yorick
How to Synergize Skarner and Yorick
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Skarner Yorick Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Yorick
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Yorick
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 Yorick Will Play
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
Skarner Yorick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yorick as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Yorick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yorick, 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 Yorick. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Yorick helps Skarner perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner plays on the same team as Yorick, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Yorick doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played together with Yorick 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 Yorick.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Yorick on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Yorick does a poor job of protecting Skarner in team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Yorick
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Yorick?
There is no one best companion for Skarner that will always be his top teammate. Yet, Yorick is a very typical ally for Skarner. By locking into the same side as Skarner, he lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 47.8%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Skarner and Yorick that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Yorick has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means you need to be cautious when arranging Yorick allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Skarner players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Skarner and Yorick together, you probably will not be granting your other allies enough crowd control. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Yorick ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 to work well with Yorick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Skarner and Yorick 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 significantly better as an ally of Yorick than with many other typical builds. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 47.8% when playing alongside Yorick with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Skarner players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.8% winrate overall.
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