Talon with Skarner
How to Synergize Talon and Skarner
based on 210 Talon with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Talon Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Talon vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Talon and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Talon with Skarner
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
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.
Talon Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Talon in LoL
The Talon 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, Talon sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Skarner helps Talon perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Talon is paired with Skarner, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This may signal that Skarner provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Talon is played together with Skarner on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Skarner.
Moreover, when Talon plays with Skarner on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Skarner does a decent job of protecting Talon in team fights.
Synergies between Talon and Skarner
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Is Talon better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no ideal companion for Talon that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, Skarner is a terrible companion for Talon. By locking into the same side as Talon, he decreases their win rate by -4.7% to 44.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Talon and Skarner that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Talon. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Skarner allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, Talon players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Talon and Skarner together, you will not be granting your other teammates very much magical damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's skill level, you need to 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 truly master Talon to synergize with Skarner during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to build first in your Talon and Skarner synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Talon incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Skarner than with most other typical builds. In fact, Talon had an average winrate of 44.3% when playing alongside Skarner with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Talon players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Nullifying Orb, and Absolute Focus runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 44.3% winrate overall.
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