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 Skarner Fiddlesticks synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Fiddlesticks, 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 Fiddlesticks. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Fiddlesticks helps Skarner perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner is an ally to Fiddlesticks, he observes a great improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Fiddlesticks supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played together with Fiddlesticks on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Fiddlesticks.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Fiddlesticks on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Fiddlesticks does a decent job of covering Skarner during teamfights.
There is no top synergy for Skarner that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Fiddlesticks is a terrible ally for Skarner. By playing on the same side as Skarner, he drops their win rate by -4.0% to 44.3%. This proves that there is a terrible bond between Skarner and Fiddlesticks that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Fiddlesticks has a much greater difficulty compared to Skarner. That means you need to be very careful when enlisting Fiddlesticks teammates to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Skarner and Fiddlesticks together, you will not be granting your other allies a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Fiddlesticks ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to work well with Fiddlesticks during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to include in your Skarner and Fiddlesticks synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Fiddlesticks than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 44.3% when playing alongside Fiddlesticks with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.3% winrate overall.
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