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Fix Skarner

Stealthlly·3/14/2015, 2:02:36 AM·2 votes·835 views

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I love Skarner. He has so much potential. The problem is, right now, he is the most diverse champion on the Rift while being not good at anything. He can be built, AD , AP, or Tank while never being able to do anything. His abilities scale off of AP but none of the ratios go higher than 50%, making them effectively useless. He can be built AD but then his abilities do next to nothing except maybe his Q if you do it right, but then you get melted right away because your attack range is so short. He only really became useful this last patch with the new Jungle Tank Enchantment, but even then he's still acknowledged as a "bad champion." His ult could be amazing and it makes for some really funny plays but once you hook someone you got about 1.5 seconds to drag and drop them. During that time it will disable flash, and you can not auto them either so pretty much useless unless you can get a bunch of people to jump on them right away. If you had those allies to jump on them though you never would have got them in the first place because that would mean its a team fight and you would have been melted trying to get someone. Basically awesome ult, but it makes both you and the person you grabbed useless. His E is so useful but with the way champions have changed recently most everyone can dodge it. Also it does UNDER 180 Damage unless you build AP. His W is awesome but its a defensive ability, those get you next to nowhere. Passive would be great too but the stun lasts for less than 1 second and only adds a tiny bit of extra magic damage while having no scaling.

Plus he's a jungle with terrible ganking potential. A well placed flash or that dash that too many champions have could effectively render his ganks... USELESS!!

Remember that AP build I kept talking about? IT DOESN'T EXIST! Why? If you build AP your early game is just deaths, your middle game is deaths, your late game might work if you have a nashor's tooth and a lich bane ( not sure about that, tend to lose before that.)

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3 Comments

Buttigieg 20203/14/2015, 2:27:21 AM1 votes

He has a good kit but his numbers need to be buffed.

DrathTurtle3143/14/2015, 2:42:44 AM1 votes

I play him more of a tank, the only offensive items I really get are a righteous glory(to get to my ult target) and wits end(because attack speed). I usually only build one or the other though. Also, play it with a Janna, flank the back line ult the adc and run to janna so your team can jump on them...

but yeah, I love skarner and his kit is in a good place... if you last pick him... into a low mobility team...

Just lick it3/25/2015, 3:32:15 PM1 votes

i started playing skarner again recently in a game with some friends and decided to build massive slows and health that game (Chilling smite: cinderhulk, trinity force, randuins, merc treads, frozen mallet, and rylai's) as a troll build that got me to 5000 health and i did pretty well that game, so well that i've been playing him a lot more (and more seriously). So i started going a stronger build with better results by trading the tri for an IG and the rylai for thornmail or banshee's (depending on the other team's comp). He's a safe pick for ranked who can out duel most champs, he's better off with a premade team though who can back him up. As for ganking, he's a strong ganker even pre-6, the point is just knowing when to use your e, if you have red buff you can use e from far away at the beginning of the gank and if you don't then you have to run and land e up close. And teamfights, he can only have two roles which are important; Peel for you team/carry with your ult (an assassin's worst nightmare is getting ulted by skarner while trying to burst the carry), or ult the opposing team's carry by preferably catching them out, not flashing into their team, then dragging him into your team. Only problem i have with Skarner is that he doesn't do much damage to jungle monsters fast enough early game, and he does dragon and baron incredibly slow which means the other team will end up doing drag (or have much more time responding to your drag attempt) and there's not much you can do about it unless you are crazy fed and they are afraid of you, lol. TL;DR- He's in a good place, just need a little skill with his e and knowing when or not to fight, premades are strong with him. Believe me, i was pissed when they reworked him but he's great now. RIP AP Skarner, except on aram that shit works.