Skarner with Zilean
How to Synergize Skarner and Zilean
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Skarner Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Zilean
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 Zilean Will Play
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Skarner Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, 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 Zilean. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zilean helps Skarner perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner plays on the same team as Zilean, he gets a noticable increase in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Zilean provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played together with Zilean 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 with Zilean.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Zilean on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Zilean does a poor job of covering Skarner in team fights.
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Skarner that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Zilean is a fantastic companion for Skarner. By playing on the same side as Skarner, he increases their win rate by 9.3% to 57.6%. This demonstrates that there is a very real strategic relationship between Skarner and Zilean that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means you must be careful when enlisting Zilean comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. Combined, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by aligning Skarner and Zilean together, you may not be giving your other allies enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should 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 work well with Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to use in your Skarner and Zilean synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Zilean than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 57.6% when playing alongside Zilean with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Skarner players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 57.6% win rate overall.
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