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.
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.
The Skarner Janna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Janna, 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 Janna. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Janna helps Skarner perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner is an ally to Janna, he gets a clear improvement in his full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Janna provides protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played together with Janna on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Janna. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Janna.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Janna on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Janna does a decent job of covering Skarner in teamfights.
There is no top champion pairing for Skarner that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, Janna is a fantastic companion for Skarner. By being on the same side as Skarner, she increases their win rate by 3.3% to 51.6%. This proves that there is a strong synergy between Skarner and Janna that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Janna has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players need to be very careful when finding Janna allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, Skarner players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by aligning Skarner and Janna together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Janna ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Skarner in order to pair well with Janna during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Skarner and Janna synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner used at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Janna than with most other common item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 51.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Janna with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.6% winrate overall.
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