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.
Cleavers are a powerful tool for killing neutral monsters. Instead of returning to base, farm neutral monsters until your ultimate can heal you.
A well-timed Sadism can bait enemy champions into attacking you even when they lack the damage to finish you.
Spirit Visage will increase the healing done by your ultimate and lower cooldowns on all of your abilities.
The Skarner Dr. Mundo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Dr. Mundo, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Skarner sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Dr. Mundo. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Dr. Mundo helps Skarner perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner tries to synergize with Dr. Mundo, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Dr. Mundo provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Dr. Mundo on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Dr. Mundo.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Dr. Mundo on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Dr. Mundo does a poor job of protecting Skarner in teamfights.
There is no one best synergy for Skarner that will always be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Dr. Mundo is a very typical teammate for Skarner. By being on the same side as Skarner, he raises their win rate by 0.6% to 48.9%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Skarner and Dr. Mundo that results in them performing better together than alone.
Dr. Mundo has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players don't need to be very careful when arranging Dr. Mundo comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by bringing Skarner and Dr. Mundo together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of utility. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Dr. Mundo teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Skarner in order to pair well with Dr. Mundo during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Skarner and Dr. Mundo synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Dr. Mundo than with many other common builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 48.9% helping carry Dr. Mundo with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Skarner players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Skarner and Dr. Mundo pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Dr. Mundo with Skarner are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.