Skarner with Taric
How to Synergize Skarner and Taric
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Skarner Taric Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Taric
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Taric
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.
Advice to Understand How Taric Will Play
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
Skarner Taric Synergy Stats
How to Play with Taric as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Taric synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taric, 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 Taric. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Taric helps Skarner perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner tries to synergize with Taric, he gets a clear improvement in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Taric supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played together with Taric 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 with Taric.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Taric on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Taric does a decent job of covering Skarner in team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Taric
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Taric?
There is no ideal ally for Skarner that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, Taric is a very typical teammate for Skarner. By being on the same side as Skarner, he improves their win rate by 0.6% to 48.9%. This shows that there is only a small strategic relationship between Skarner and Taric that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Taric has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Taric teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting together, Skarner players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Combined, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by pairing Skarner and Taric together, you probably will not be giving your side much magical damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Taric ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Skarner in order to pair well with Taric during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to include in your Skarner and Taric synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner combined at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Taric than with most other typical builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 48.9% helping carry Taric with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, Skarner players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
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