@Riot Skarner, the mid season class update is a good opportunity to do some work on him
9 months ago, RiotRepertoir made a followup post on the latest skarner rework. That's because althought the rework got some positive aspects (more depht to his gameplay, mana costs in the jungle got solved, that E, W scales with max% hp), it brought up some negative ones. and these are:
- skarner got bottlenecked into the jungle, due to alot of his power being enclosed in fixed area, located in the jungle;
- this makes him awkardly goofy if outside those zones;
- he's not the "premiere-objective-controller" you wanted him to be. i mean, skarner becomes clearly stronger inside of the spires, but still lot's of junglers can take objectives without the same team effort needed to control skarner's spires;
- team effort: skarner spires have become so important to make skarner function, that often becomes a team effort to control them. i mean, we clearly don't need any more objectives other than dragon, herald, baron, turrets, and base structures;
- when behind, skarner falls off pretty hard, as he can't have a proper access to his spire buffs: tell me how pleasant it is to kill superminions without the crystal buffs, for example.
- Crystal slash (Q) is now just bland AoE dps, it's uninteresting unless i buy a sheen item/black cleaver
Yeah, i know Skarner is in the vgu list, but he's a low priority, and personally i don't want to have him like this for the years to come. Now that vanguards are going to be worked on, i see an opportunity to look again at skarner. after all, Riot devs rather skarner to be a vanguard, than a diver, since he failed at being a juggernaut. i'm asking for no bigger change than this:
Reduce skarner harmful dependence from his crystals.
with all the given respect to repertoirs work, these crystal were a poorly executed fix to some skarner's problems. They brought more problems than fixes, especially as of how LoL is going.
please Riot consider breaking your silence on Skarner, even a "we're not planning anything for him" would be fine. thanks
