Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
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 Janna 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, Janna sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Skarner helps Janna perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Janna tries to synergize with Skarner, she gets a sizeable uptick in her full damage output. This could signal that Skarner helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Janna 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.
Moreover, when Janna plays with Skarner on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Skarner does a poor job of covering Janna in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Janna that will always be her #1 ally. Yet, Skarner is a very typical companion for Janna. By being on the same team as Janna, he raises their win rate by 0.6% to 51.6%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Janna and Skarner that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Janna. That means Janna players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Skarner teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. Combined, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Janna and Skarner together, you may not be giving your other teammates a great deal of sustained damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Janna in order to work well with Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Janna and Skarner synergy build include Redemption, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Skarner than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Janna boasted an average winrate of 51.6% when playing alongside Skarner with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Janna players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.6% winrate overall.
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