Tristana with Skarner
How to Synergize Tristana and Skarner
based on 429 Tristana with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Tristana Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Tristana vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Tristana and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Tristana with Skarner
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Tristana in LoL
The Tristana Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Tristana sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Skarner helps Tristana perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tristana is paired with Skarner, she sees a sizeable uptick in her total damage output. This could demonstrate that Skarner helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Tristana is played with Skarner on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Skarner.
Additionally, when Tristana plays with Skarner on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Skarner does a poor job of protecting Tristana in teamfights.
Synergies between Tristana and Skarner
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Is Tristana better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no top companion for Tristana that will no matter what be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Skarner is a terrible companion for Tristana. By being on the same side as Tristana, he decreases their win rate by -3.2% to 45.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad synergy between Tristana and Skarner that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Skarner has a greater difficulty than Tristana. That means Tristana players must be careful when arranging Skarner comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Tristana and Skarner together, you may not be granting your other teammates very much utility. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Skarner ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Tristana to work well with Skarner during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to use in your Tristana and Skarner synergy build consist of Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Skarner than with most other common builds. In fact, Tristana boasted an average winrate of 45.7% when playing alongside Skarner with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.7% win rate overall.
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