Sylas with Skarner
How to Synergize Sylas and Skarner
based on 344 Sylas with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sylas Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Sylas vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Sylas with Skarner
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
Advice to Understand How Skarner Will Play
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.
Sylas Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Sylas sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Skarner helps Sylas perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sylas tries to synergize with Skarner, he gets a clear improvement in his complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Skarner helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played alongside Skarner on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Skarner. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Skarner.
Additionally, when Sylas plays with Skarner on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Skarner does a poor job of covering Sylas during teamfights.
Synergies between Sylas and Skarner
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no ideal synergy for Sylas that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, Skarner is a very typical teammate for Sylas. By being on the same team as Sylas, he lowers their win rate by -1.0% to 48.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Sylas and Skarner that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Sylas. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Skarner teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Sylas and Skarner together, you probably will not be giving your team enough crowd control. Plan to pick other champions on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Sylas in order to synergize with Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Sylas and Skarner synergy build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Sylas incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Skarner than with many other common item sets. In fact, Sylas had an average winrate of 48.0% when playing alongside Skarner with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Sylas players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.0% win rate overall.
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