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.
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
The Skarner Zac synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zac, 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 Zac. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zac helps Skarner perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is paired with Zac, he gets a moderate decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Zac does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Zac on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Zac.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Zac on the same team, he often takes less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Zac does a decent job of covering Skarner in team fights.
There is no top champion pairing for Skarner that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, Zac is a very bad companion for Skarner. By being on the same team as Skarner, he drops their win rate by -8.1% to 40.2%. This proves that there is a very bad synergy between Skarner and Zac that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Zac has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players need to be careful when lining up Zac comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working together, Skarner players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by bringing Skarner and Zac together, you may not be providing your side very much AD. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Zac teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Skarner in order to work well with Zac during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Skarner and Zac synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Zac than with many other typical builds. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 40.2% when playing alongside Zac with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you 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 rune combinations players picked for Skarner and Zac pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 40.2% winrate overall.
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