Skarner with Ziggs
How to Synergize Skarner and Ziggs
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Skarner Ziggs Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Ziggs
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 Ziggs Will Play
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
Skarner Ziggs Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ziggs as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Ziggs synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ziggs, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ziggs. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Ziggs helps Skarner perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner is paired with Ziggs, he sees a small increase in his total damage output. This change may indicate that Ziggs helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Ziggs on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Ziggs.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Ziggs on the same team, he often receives more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Ziggs does a poor job of covering Skarner in team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Ziggs
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Ziggs?
There is no one best synergy for Skarner that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, Ziggs is a very bad companion for Skarner. By being on the same team as Skarner, he decreases their win rate by -5.8% to 42.5%. This shows that there is a terrible synergy between Skarner and Ziggs that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Ziggs has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players don't need to be cautious when lining up Ziggs comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Skarner players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Skarner and Ziggs together, you probably will not be granting your side very much sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Ziggs ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Skarner to work well with Ziggs during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Skarner and Ziggs synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Ziggs than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 42.5% when playing alongside Ziggs with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Skarner and Ziggs pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 42.5% winrate overall.
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