upcoming Skarner adjustments
> {quoted} > > I believe the idea of doing more of them has been tossed around. Making an "@Meddler" post and asking the question to him might be a good way to get it on his radar, as he's one of the main drivers of these "FOLLOWUP" posts.
> {quoted} > > Hello! Skarner main since season 2 (Not necessarily a great one or anything) and a fellow designer and I'd love to chime in here. > > First the spire passive was an interesting idea, and I think you are on point about how players who didn't sign up for it are now forced to interact with it. I can't tell you how many games I've add where players don't know how valuable they are. It really requires a lot of extra attention to your laners. Some ideas on how to address this. > > * Only Skarner can interact with them. Once he activates them, they last 30-60 seconds, then fade out for 1-2 minutes. This adds a strategic element of when to activate them and makes them a valuable resource for the player to manage. > * Only Skarner can activate them. Once activated, any enemy can destroy them (like a ward). Once destroyed, they respawn in 1-2 minutes. > > Either way, remove the gold gain from activating them. > > Next, you mention going less Juggernaut-y, and a bit more Diver/Vanguard like. Admittedly I had to look up exactly what you mean by "Vanguard like", and I'm still not 100% sure, but you also mention the history of being a sticky low damage threat. THAT is the Skarner I fell in love with in Season 2. Even today, I still build him like that (Cinderhulk for tank, and Iceborn for sticky). I'd love to see stats pulled away from AD, and more into AS/Move in order to synergize with his Q. Get him back to that type of character. I want to support and enable my team to get kills, not snowball the game. > > Lastly, I saw in your comments that this isn't a rework. That's great to hear. His ult is great. I love his E now, as I feel so satisfied when I hit the shot and get the stun, especially on multiple targets. His W is fine (more movespeed?). Really just bring back some stickiness into his Q, and make those adjustments to the spires, and I'll be a happy Skarner main.
We were talking about whether them having a minimap icon and being seen in FoW for enemy is really necessary at all. We'll have to test this and stuff like it out.
Hi, thanks for the post! And sorry for going silent on the matter.
I have some stuff saved up and sitting locally on my machine. Maybe I can throw something up on the PBE following the worlds patch or something, but I don't want to disturb any of the end of season balance work going on.
Hopefully I can get a chance to get it out there as we approach the pre-season patch, but either way, I'll try and give an update as to where it's at even if we decide not to.
Could it be that the changes got delayed and it may be possible to see them on the upcoming Divers update? or what happened? （；へ：）
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