RIOT: Give Skarner a slight buff to make him viable for his new legendary skin!

Skarner is a champion who hasn't seen much playtime for a while. He's sad and he's lonely, he misses his kind. He told me so! I think that the main issue with Skarner is that he's a horrible fighter and a sub-par tank. With other fighters doing much more damage, other tanks being much more durable, and Skarner not really fulfilling either role successfully, he has dropped in popularity and usage.

Riot, the new Battlecast Alpha Skarner skin looks amazing, and I would hate to see its popularity and sales plummet because it's on a suffering champion.

Here is what I feel is what's making Skarner so inferior to others.

1. His Q. His Q does mixed damage in a (very) small area around himself and applies a nice movement and AS buff after hitting an opponent. However, for a Skarner going Fighter the ratios are much too small (40% AD and, 20% AP after the first strike) and the base damage 18 / 28 / 38 / 48 / 58, and 18 / 28 / 38 / 48 / 58 after the first strike is much too little. Whereas for a Skarner going Tank it's still inferior to what other tanks can deal, such as Rammus. To fix this increase the base damage, or the ratios.

2. His E, fracture, is his only ranged attack and it has some big issues. First of all, the CD (a constant 12) feels a little on the high side for champions these days. Maybe scale it 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 / 8. Not only is the projectile tiny as hell, it also moves slowly for a skillshot projectile. This makes it often hard to land and over-punishing if you miss. Not to mention a 40% AP ratio makes it exceptionally underwhelming compared to tanks such as Sejuani who have a 1000 range AoE slow on a lower CD that deals more damage. This fix is simple, speed up the projectile and increase ratios slightly.

3. Up his movement speed. At 345 Skarner definitely isn't slow, but in the age of leaps and jumps and dashes and teleport abilities Skarner can't even hope to catch up to someone that isn't right next to him. Even with his bonus speed from W. Considering he's nearly an exclusively melee champion who's abilities all rely on him being right up on his target, his ability to catch up to said target is very underwhelming. I mean the guy has six legs!

4. His ultimate is his signature ability and there's only one thing wrong with it. It doesn't feel like a true suppression. When you ulti them Garen and Wukong still spin, Rammus still shockwaves, etc. This makes it very difficult to drag said opponent away from your dying teammate, and makes you take considerably more damage while using your own ultimate. That just doesn't make sense. The guys are crystallized, how can they still be using an ability like that? Either make it stop abilities like that, or give Skarner bonus Armor and MR while dragging an enemy.

If you address at least the first two of these four things I'm certain Skarner will see the light of the rift once again en masse, and your skin sales will increase greatly. (After all, why go through the effort of making a cool skin if you can't maximize profit from it?)