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 Zeri Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Zeri sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Skarner helps Zeri perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zeri is paired with Skarner, they gets a small increase in their total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Skarner helps provide protection for them to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Zeri is played with Skarner on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays without Skarner. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Skarner.
Additionally, when Zeri plays with Skarner on the same side, they usually takes a little less damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Skarner does a decent job of protecting Zeri during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Zeri that will always be their top synergy. Yet, overall, Skarner is a very typical companion for Zeri. By being on the same side as Zeri, he improves their win rate by 0.9% to 47.1%. This signals that there is not really a strong synergy between Zeri and Skarner that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Zeri. That means Zeri players don't need to be careful when enlisting Skarner allies to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Zeri and Skarner together, you probably will not be providing your side very much AP. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Zeri in order to synergize with Skarner during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Zeri and Skarner synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Runaan's Hurricane, and Titanic Hydra. When Zeri bought at least these three finished items in their build, they did much better as an ally of Skarner than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zeri boasted an average winrate of 47.1% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Skarner with these items in their kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Zeri players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Skarner with Zeri are presented for all ranked divisions. To narrow the stats and builds to a distinct division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.