What would happen if Skarner could drag his Crystal Spires around using his ult?

JaxMoonStealer·5/13/2017, 3:40:35 AM·4 votes·389 views

Would that break him? Would that make his passive less gimmicky since you can actually control where these key areas are? Would his Dominion mini-game become more interesting for both teams? Would he become viable in other lanes? Of course, his ult would have reduced cooldown when used on Crystal Spires, and you wouldn't be able to drag the same Crystal Spire again for x seconds.

But I'm just a pleb unranked player, what do I know about balance? However, I've been playing since Season 2 and have therefore seen every iteration of Skarner. The point control champion concept sounds interesting but restricting it to 6 unmoveable places around the map makes it too dull and gimmicky.

3 Comments

Variks the Loyal5/13/2017, 3:47:31 AM1 votes

It would be useless.

A lot of people bring this idea up, but honestly it would be useless.

I play a lot of Skarner (He's my highest Mastery champion), and playing around his spires isn't an issue. Being able to move them slightly by wasting an ult cooldown (No matter how short, even if it were just a 20 second CD) would be worthless.

He's a good champion. One of the healthiest and fastest jungle clears in the game (Except Krugs, killing them is hell before Triforce). Deals plenty of damage if he can get on top of someone. Very sticky, but kitable before he reaches you. Triforce+Steraks gives you all the damage you ever need, especially with the Steraks buff.

In my opinion, he only needs one change: AA the target he ults.

And then he'd be great.

A few QOL things would be nice. If enemies couldn't claim his spires if he were in the radius, it would make him much better. Also, if he were claiming one, and an enemy steps on it, he should keep claiming it. Skarner should take precedence over anyone for the spires.

ShinkoMinori5/13/2017, 4:19:16 AM1 votes

You might be unranked, but your normals elo is bronze 3.

Next time you can say you are bronze 3!!!!

Auz the Ripper5/13/2017, 3:18:17 PM1 votes

My guess is someone would use it to immediately crash the game