Skarner Abilities

Hey, so I made a separate post on the Story forum page about his lore, but I moved here to mention his abilities. These I do not have too big a problem with except a few main points, he is terrible for ganking. I main him, and my teammates constantly complain even when we win because he is useless until late game. It is just general opinion Skarner can do nothing in lane until at minimum level 5, and even then if its someone who doesn't play him often there is a good chance they'll die.

This is mainly because he basically has no passive when ganking, it cancels quick enough as you exit jungle so all it really is good for is farming (Which Skarner is great at) or if you happen to run into the jungler or someone else crossing paths with you. Add to that he has no quick getaway or get'in'? Half your health can be gone just by the time you get in melee range of the enemy and that is assuming you had your shield upgraded, then you usually die by running or away or lack of health since a dying jungler doesn't exactly inspire a push. Try to push on a decent mage and between stuns, roots, knock ups, damage, and whatever else hits you before getting to them and you'll end up like myself where you go from confident to me

His ultimate, everyone who plays him seems to agree on, maybe a few small tweaks, but most people are okay with it if nothing else because its iconic for him. Though the passive he has is so weak it isn't really even useful for pulling them into jungle to get buff, it cancels fast enough they can just dash out and its more worthwhile to drag them towards your teammates or hold them still.

His E is decent, nothing too major about it I dislike, except how you have to tag everyone singularly to stun them and even then its short. If your trying to gank more then one person like on bot then you just get one free smack since you have to hit the other one to stun them too. It would be interesting too see if the Q could be changed so maybe everyone it hits with the crystal effect on them are all crystallized at once, give you a bit more breathing room with ought being too overpowered since people dodge it easily.

His Q gives me.... Mixed feelings. It is the absolute bane of those jungle chickens, but feels kind of weak as far as ganking go. Like I said with the problem of how he can't approach, it is only useful when right next to them just for a small damage boost. As mentioned above the crystal effect may be a step, but some buffs could be used or nerfs depending on IF its changed, do not nerf it in its current state or dear god help all of us Skarner mains. It could be easily changed though for something maybe tying more into his crystal based abilities, some sort of burrow like Rek'Sai since in his lore it mentions he too can burrow and live underground. Also giving him an ability to close in which he needs badly.

https://rankedboost.com/lol-tier-list-solo-queue/ Hell even look at sites like this, I only saw one counter he can do and that is for Nidalee and I can vouch for. Asides from it he isn't even on the list, mainly because anyone that needs to be can do it better then he can.

If you know how to play him he can be somewhat okay but you have to play extremely cautious and safe, not really something Junglers get a lot of. He is not exactly a bad champion, but he is underwhelming, easy to kill, and sweet god his passive is easy to cancel. All the enemy does is wait till you switch jungle sides then go and cancel it on your other side so your screwed when you try and fight on that side, or they just camp your crystals till you come back. At least give a consistent vision radius around the crystals themselves on your map so you can see when they are right on top of it, not the whole jungle but 1.5 seconds isn't a lot when they can run in at any time and yoink your entire passive.

If you have arguments or criticism feel free to post it, I am no expert so im not going to try to default that I am right. There is definitely flaws with my ideas too, but they are just concepts rather then something I would want set in stone the way I worded.

relevant not season 6, but still applies [sg-janna]

If you wanted to check out the one i posted relating to his lore, I focused more on that since it needs arguably more work, and can be found here