Skarner is a pretty pathetic champion right now and needs a rework. His ult is pretty pathetic. I mean blitz has a long distance grab for his Q and you give skarner a grab where he has to be really close to the enemy champion. Thats kinda dumb. He is also slow as hell and has no gap closers. His Q is weak as hell as well. You really need to do something to make this champ more influential in the game.
Violet Fields2 votesHe's already on the rework list.
War Lord931 votesReally?! Thats splendid. When do we expect it to happen?
WinBoat1 votesI carried myself out of Bronze with Skarner with nearly a 70% win rate, averaging 12 kills a game, if not more. Only playing Skarner from bronze 4 to Silver 5 (taking a small break before I go and hit Gold, or start my grind to gold which could take maybe 2 weeks since I'm playing at night).
(You are Bronze 4), not that it matters, but I'm just saying. Skarner is definetely not useless in low elo. He's good up until I would say Platinum 5, then he becomes somewhat useless (unless you are god at him and have a good team comp, and they don't). Some people say certain champions are useless in high elo. People said Blitzcrank was, now look, he's in the League LCS every game... lol... So while "certain champions are useless" is wrong, it just means he is harder to execute in higher play. Anyhow, Skarner is good until I would say Platinum 5.
His ultimate is one of my favorite abilities in the game. You can dispatch a fed member and pull them out of the teamfight, or pull them into your team.
This is a crazy build, but trust me, try this. 
as your first 3 items. If they are heavy AD (do lots of damage) then get Froze Mallet second, Triforce 3rd, and of course rest of your items should be tank depending on what damage they are.
Also, Skarner has a positive win rate, or did on champion.gg
War Lord931 votesI loved playing skarner, and most of the games I played so far with him i've won. I just think that he really needs a rework especially after the new champion reworks they've done for tanks and urgot. Don't you feel that his ult, looking at the curent circumstances, should offer more for his game play? And yes i've started playing lol about 8 months ago, just about getting the hang of it.
War Lord931 votesI loved playing skarner, and most of the games I played so far with him i've won. I just think that he really needs a rework especially after the new champion reworks they've done for tanks and urgot. Don't you feel that his ult, looking at the curent circumstances, should offer more for his game play? And yes i've started playing lol about 8 months ago, just about getting the hang of it. And I'm going to try out the build you suggested. Thanks for the tip mate.
WinBoat1 votesWell, I don't think his ultimate should offer more than what it does. I mean you could say that for about a bunch of champions in the game. I think if you were to give his ultimate more, it would just be overloaded.
For example if you let him attack the player when he ults them.. It wouldn't be healthy. I mean his ultimate is quite lengthy on the player he is ulting.
As for his Q. It's actually good, not sure why people don't like it.. I hope you have used Triforce (I honestly dont know if you have used Triforce) cause to me, when I get Triforce, that Q damage becomes insane cause the sheen proc after the Q or whatever just does awesome damage.
His W is decent. I like that it gives him a massive speed boost and resistances. Can get around the map in a breeze and surprise people, especially if you control crystals.
His E is the only ability I think that could be reworked really. He shoots it too slow, but it sets up his stun if he hits you with it, and slows you. I think he can possibly shoot it faster and be good. Maybe increase the damage it does just a bit cause it's a little weak.
I kinda enjoy Skarner the way he is, I mean I got a mastery 7 skarner too (well if I spend my blue essence on him, already got the 3 tokens). I got about 60k+ experience on him, so I can say I definitely play Skarner and at a pretty good level.
To recap.
If I was to buff him. I would change his E to shoot faster, possibly do more damage.
Maybe do something different with his Crystals and passive. Skarner is at his best when fighting inside a crystal he controls.
Kaeblen1 voteswhat order do you build components in?
WinBoat2 votesI always do Sheen first, then Phage second. (I use attack speed runes) so I attack at a good speed with Skarner and don't need to get the stinger component unless I got enough gold. I also manage my crystal control, and that's honestly a massive steroid for Skarner.
I usually get the Triforce itself after I get the Warrior enchantment. (I know Korean's for awhile were getting Triforce before they got their major jungle item, they were doing it with Hecarim for example). So yeah I get Triforce second UNLESS... My team is feeding, and the enemy team has a full AD team, or just heavy damage team, then I get the frozen mallet 2nd always if that's the case for the massive HP boost, and well, the slows for days.
After Warrior, Triforce, Frozen mallet, I normally get Randuin's. Just really good for slowing enemys attack speed, and the crit reduction on hit, and offers lots of armor!! If my team is SUPER feeding, then well, I have to put Randuin's 3rd item.
As for boots, just get the boots for the specific damage type the enemy will be doing, or whoever is getting fed, or you think will get fed on the enemy team. If it's a nasty ADC like Draven, or Twitch, you might want to just get ninja boots anyways lol.