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.
Attacking a
Vulnerable
target marked by Valor will put Harrier on cooldown. Quickly consuming Harrier marks will allow you to generate them faster.
Use Behind Enemy Lines for traveling very long distances quickly, for farming minions around the map, or for chasing wounded targets.
Vault is powerful but must be used with caution, as enemies can attack Quinn when she strikes them. Vault can sometimes be used to cross terrain if your back is to a wall.
The Skarner Quinn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Quinn, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Quinn. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Quinn helps Skarner perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner plays on the same team as Quinn, he gets a big decrease in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Quinn doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Quinn on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Quinn.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Quinn on the same side, he usually takes less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Quinn does a decent job of covering Skarner in team fights.
There is no one best synergy for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Quinn is a terrible companion for Skarner. By locking into the same side as Skarner, she decreases their win rate by -3.6% to 44.7%. This proves that there is a terrible bond between Skarner and Quinn that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Quinn has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Quinn comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing alongside, Skarner players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Skarner and Quinn together, you may not be providing your other allies enough magical damage output. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Quinn ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner in order to pair well with Quinn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to build first in your Skarner and Quinn synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Quinn than with many other typical builds. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 44.7% helping carry Quinn with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Skarner players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.7% win rate overall.
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