Xerath with Skarner
How to Synergize Xerath and Skarner
based on 486 Xerath with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Xerath Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Xerath vs Skarner Counter Build
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Core Xerath Items
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Guide to Synergizing Xerath and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Xerath with Skarner
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
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.
Xerath Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Xerath in LoL
The Xerath 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, Xerath sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Skarner helps Xerath perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xerath is paired with Skarner, he gets a little increase in his full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Skarner provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Xerath is played 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 alongside Skarner.
Additionally, when Xerath plays with Skarner on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Skarner does a poor job of covering Xerath in team fights.
Synergies between Xerath and Skarner
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Is Xerath better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no one best champion pairing for Xerath that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, Skarner is a relatively poor ally for Xerath. By being on the same team as Xerath, he decreases their win rate by -1.2% to 49.4%. This proves that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Xerath and Skarner that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Skarner has a much lower diffuclty than Xerath. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Skarner allies to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Xerath players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Xerath and Skarner together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a lot of attack damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Xerath in order to work well with Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Xerath and Skarner synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Xerath used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Skarner than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Xerath boasted an average win rate of 49.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Skarner with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Xerath and Skarner pairings, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
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