Skarner's Status as a Juggernaut

Numpty·5/3/2016, 5:51:49 PM·2 votes·806 views

With the Mage rework coming tomorrow, and the field open for the next class update, I wanted to go back and look at Skarner.

Does Skarner today still fit into the category of Juggernaut?

Typically, Juggernauts are high damage and high tank champions with limited CC and limited mobility. Skaner fits in two of these categories, high tank and limited mobility, pretty well but he hugely fails on the other two. Skarner has a slow on his E along with a stun so long as he can get in close, and his ultimate is the 2nd most potent suppression in the game, after Tahm Kench. That's hardly limited CC when you compare him to the other juggernauts: Garen has a silence, Darius has a slow and a short range hook, Morde has nothing, Illaoi has nothing, and Renekton (if he counts?) has a stun.

Skarner also does far less damage on average than any of those champions described.

Skaner does, however, have some undeniably powerful tank stats and he is definitely limited by his lack of mobility. The idea of a late game Ezreal is maddening for a Skarner who just wants to CC the enemy carry.

Do you guys, or anyone at Riot, think that this 2/4 is enough to warrant the Juggernaut status, or do you think he fits more appropriately into one of Riot's evolving categories for Tanks?

10 Comments

SaltyKracka5/3/2016, 5:55:31 PM3 votes

Riot's already admitted that they made mistakes in pinning Skarner as a Juggernaut and trying to balance him around that.

Also, Renekton isn't a Juggernaut. He's a Diver. Nasus, on the other hand, is the prototypical Juggernaut.

Venowolf5/9/2016, 5:48:18 PM1 votes

This is a good post I always have the same doubt about his role. I don't know exactly if he is a juggernaut or a vanguard tank, but if you analyze his kit he is more a vanguard tank than a juggernaut. low damages, decent cc, decent mobility, good endurance.

Meep Man5/9/2016, 5:56:59 PM1 votes

Riot stated that Skarner really shouldn't be called a Juggernaut, more of a Vanguard.