Thresh with Skarner
How to Synergize Thresh and Skarner
based on 482 Thresh with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Thresh Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Thresh vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Skarner
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Advice to Understand How Skarner Will Play
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.
Thresh Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Thresh sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Skarner helps Thresh perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Thresh is paired with Skarner, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This change may indicate that Skarner provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played alongside Skarner 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 Skarner.
Additionally, when Thresh plays with Skarner on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Skarner does a decent job of covering Thresh during teamfights.
Synergies between Thresh and Skarner
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no top ally for Thresh that will no matter what be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Skarner is a not very good ally for Thresh. By locking into the same team as Thresh, he drops their win rate by -2.2% to 46.3%. This demonstrates that there is a bad bond between Thresh and Skarner that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Thresh. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Skarner comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by aligning Thresh and Skarner together, you will not be granting your team very much magical damage output. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Thresh to synergize with Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Thresh and Skarner synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Thresh bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Skarner than with most other typical builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 46.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Skarner with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Skarner with Thresh are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.