Champion Update...Update - 4.9 & 4.10

With Karthus's Requiem voiceover, will he be able to hear his own lines globally? If I'm ulting as Karthus, I'm often looking at a different part of the map than the one I'm in, so I'd miss out on all those badass VO lines.

"Sing, with your final breath!"

I personally refer to Karthus as CLOTHUS due to all the hours put into animating all his tassels. Soraka takes a close second to difficulty in animating!

I don't see anything here about .

This onslaught of propaganda will continue my crab has received Riot's attention.

Question: Can the stunned target from Skarner's passive look similar to how they're encased in Skarner's ultimate?

Skarner in this meta going now is just about nothing. I know im not the highest elo but i dont see him coming back into any scene anytime soon even with this update.

About Skarner...With all the given respect, Qs damage nerfs are actually too much to compensate the new passive, along with damage nerfs on his other abilities. I know, these changes are not yet confirmed to go live, but i hope You're going to raise its damage, if not revert it. Thank You for reading.

About Skarner;

I played a lot of Skarner and Nautilus to teach myself the jungle, and for awhile, Skarner was accepted because while he was niche, he at least had a niche. The idea with him was that he could get in, and as the game progressed, it went from hard to get in to easy to get in, and the enemy team took a lot out to stop Skarner from getting in or making him blow his ult on the wrong person. He was great for fighting teams with hyper carries because on the right engage he could either get the hyper carry killed real fast, or at least force them out of the fight solely on the fear of his stinger.

You (Riot) made this impossible with changes to his W, which therefore made him more squishy, made his early game worse, made his farming take longer, and essentially put him out of comission for any serious player, and this was done on purpose because for whatever reason, despite how poorly Skarner was represented, you didn't like his play pattern. So you purposely nerfed him to make him unviable, as you did with Eve, so that you could focus on remaking him while not worrying about balancing him.

Now that you've completely remade his kit, you've admitted to failing on his remake, and have already started to remake the remake that you forced through anyway. Lets keep in mind that since you gutted and remade Skarner, you've also thoroughly changed the way the game is played, through champion nerfs and buffs, balancing of champions, items, etc.; What made Skarner good before, even in his original state, completely untouched, he would still be completely unviable right now, much for the same reason Nautilus is; building tanky early with mediocre base values does not give as much of an effect due to how bursty big name champs are right now, and their shields get eaten. You can't build early damage on them to give them threat during champions trying to break that shield by punishing them because they scale awfully. The more recent version of Skarner was on the right path in that at least if he was on a target with a shield, he could put out some damage in exchange for having his shield eaten. His major problem was that there was no longer a reliable slow, and even when landing an E, it did not allow him to capitalize on anything other than maybe landing an ult, but as soon as the ult was done, Skarner was back to bad.

Now you're trying to fix him yet again by giving him a worse version of Braum's passive, and removing his damage across the board, as well as killing his scaling. So now he will have the exact same balance and play problems as before; he will not be able to build tanky due to bad base damage, and he can't fix it by getting an early DPS item because the options for early DPS items in the jungle will not scale on him at all, and just make fixing the squish issue take that much longer, item wise. You've lowered the cooldown on W, but that doesn't mean anything as part of (what I think) made Skarner was that landing auto attacks lowered the cooldown, and that has long since been removed. All you've done with that change is give a little of that cooldown time back, but we still can't itemize to scale the shield at all like Nautilus so without the ability to make that mediocre shield come up more frequently we are again, as always, back to square one.

I get the overwhelming feeling that I'll not really ever get to seriously play Skarner again in ranked, and that's pretty disappointing. I also get the impression that that doesn't really matter to Riot, as the repeated 'focus' on Skarner is to ignore most of what made Skarner good and try to make us feel better that you've essentially taken the engine out of our Ferrari and put in one from a KIA, but you gave us power doors and windows and seat warmers and other funsies.

Please just accept that you've tried this iteration of Skarner, and that you've extremely failed this iteration of Skarner, and that you need to go back to the drawing board and wipe that shit clean. Start over. I'd really like to play him again before S6+ and not get scolded for it.

Will the new "3 stacks for Stun" pattern dominate Skarner's flow now? That's going to considerably change the feel for the champion than the heavily specialized-movespeed-champ "I make myself faster and you slower and attack while moving" feel he's had since day1.
Back in Season2, there was always some background noise of "champion homogenization!" and I never thought I'd join it, but I really don't want to see 'all bruisers collapsing upon a single balance point'.
At the very least, How about replacing the stun with a micro-duration super-slow? Like 99% Slow that fades off over 0.5s or something? Doing this could allow him to apply it more often, and try to interweave it with his other slow. (A 'sine' pattern of heavyslow/lightslow would still offer more counterplay than his previous moderate-to-heavy-slow-constantly)

With the new (imho inappropriate-for-this-champ) passive, will his damage types still come out a nice balanced 50%/50% mix? That's one thing that most people forget about the 'bruiser' group as a whole, and most people stack one damage over the other anyway, but what they generally lack in "IE+LW" or "Cap n' Staff" they make up in available opportunity and base damages to deal non-insignificant quantities of either damage type. Even Lee Sin often maxes E first, and countless people gloss over the significance of this as he rushes a Brutalizer for dem Qs+AAs.

Skarner still can't get the enemy reliably.... E slow wears off by the time the ramp up of W gets him there.

Texture update for Skarner? Huh, cool. Nice add-on to the fixes.

Scruffy: I am PUMPED

Any chance Skarner's skins got some unique VFX with the art updates?

Wait so they basically gave Skarner Braum's passive except with one less hit and it only uses spells to proctor, ok then. Also can you please hurry up with the Tribune? Its hard enough trying to be magically given a competent team, its harder when one out of five games results in refusing to get a gank because some jungler got upset, some level 5 soraka shouts "SILVER FOREVER!" in Swedish and afks, or people start intentionally feeding after a surrender vote is denied. I dont care if Urgot got a visual downgrade so that I see more of him on the battlefield as an excuse to see his horrific new "haircut", I want less people tanking games.

Also on the side note, congratulations on the visual update to Karthus, I see more of him now and I have yet to see him win one game, but he does look like a giant floating blow up godzilla so that works too.

Also, RITO START UPPING YOUR SERVER QUALITY, I AM TIRED OF THE ENDLESS LAG AND THE CONSTANT DROP HACKS, IS IT THAT EASY NOW TO JUST DROP HACK A GAME BECAUSE I GET IT ABOUT 1/50 GAMES NOW, EVEN THE BRAND MIRROR MODE GAME GOT DROP HACKED.

Where is the Eve VU? she hasnt even been given a new skin in forever

The "dont walk here" circles on Karthus' Q and E were unneccessary, kills my excitement for the champion update almost completely.

Will karthus be getting any new particle effects? :3

The stun passive on Skarner is way to low.

0.5 and 1 second late game is nothing. It doesn't even feel like they don't stop at all in PBE matches.

Making it 1-2 seconds needs to happen. That or lower the "targets will not receive Crystal Poison for 6 seconds" down to like...3 seconds.