Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
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.
The Udyr 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, Udyr 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 fall shows that Skarner helps Udyr perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Udyr tries to synergize with Skarner, he observes a clear improvement in his total damage output. This change may signal that Skarner supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Udyr is played alongside 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 Udyr plays with Skarner on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Skarner does a decent job of covering Udyr in teamfights.
There is no one best companion for Udyr that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, Skarner is a terrible companion for Udyr. By being on the same side as Udyr, he drops their win rate by -3.6% to 46.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible bond between Udyr and Skarner that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Udyr. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Skarner teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, Udyr players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Udyr and Skarner together, you may not be providing your side much magic damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Udyr in order to pair well with Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to include in your Udyr and Skarner synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Udyr combined at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Skarner than with most other common builds. In fact, Udyr had an average winrate of 46.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Skarner with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Udyr players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.2% win rate overall.
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