riot halved the skarner's damage because he could stick to the targets

Farily good slow in his kit.

Low cd on his Q.

For 250 gold never be without a ward again.

Q isn't that hard to hit.

Not that you are wrong, just that your points are. Lee Sin is balanced as is, its just the way every other jungler is just... so... pathetic... And it leaves them open to his extremely strong early level invades.

Also Skarner doesn't stick that well...

they also gave him 60 damage on his E...

you also have to realize that it has virtually no cd. it will speed up his clear rate by a lot.

ikr

hold on a second let's look back over those numbers 1 more time.

Crystal Slash (Q) damage increased to 20/30/40/50/60 from 18/28/38/48/58 Crystal Slash (Q) while charged bonus damage increased to 20/30/40/50/60 from 18/28/38/48/58 They literally increased the damage by 2 (4 when charged). Even that was probably not for the actual damage, but to make it a round # and easier to read.

Fracture (E) damage increased to 40/75/110/145/180 from 40/60/80/100/120 Here they did make a nice increase to the damage/level, but let's compare the scaling a damage/lvl to lee sin E. Both of which are aoe and slow. 60 / 95 / 130 / 165 / 200 (+ 100% bonus AD) 40/75/110/145/180 (+ 40% AP) (post)

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when was skarn nerffed?

check lolwiki skarner

After he got a small buff post-rework, he got picked in a pro game. Once. Where he went up against Lee Sin and lost.

Then Riot halved his damage.

He got a slight rework, became crazy strong afterwards, and then was nerfed.

is balanced, and I haven't had a problem with her since the last nerf.

also balanced, it's weaker champs that need to be buffed.

I guess people have problems with her. I've never cried out "nid OP" since mid S4 when I was a noob.

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He's got buffs coming on the PBE. Nautilus has more nerfs coming :(

They are buffing Gromp smite bonus and buffing Juggernaut

Those 2 alone are huge buffs to Nautilus and his E is getting a massive CDR buff

Losing .2 AP ratio on E and 25 damage on W at rank 5 is not really a nerf with those buffs in the mix

There are a lot of ways to build Skarner. Mine is

I know a lot of people prefer but with Skarner having the highest base AD at level 18 in the game and constant procs I just couldn't pass it up!

skarner was released back before riot's balance team shunned the development and existence of hybrid champions, his kit has a lot of things which scale differently depending on how you build him. AD builds can look at him as a bruiser style, AP builds can look at him like an assassin/bruiser, tank builds can view him as a single out tank (like blitz). His kit has many options to build, but isn't very versatile. If you build him like a tank, you probably can't assassinate. If you build him like a bruiser then you probably shouldn't engage into the whole enemy team to initiate.

I personally use to build a crit-scorpion build, because his crit animation was the only attacks which he would stab with his tail (now his passive triggers are made with his stinger too). Even that was fairly effective.