He has great CC, is tanky, and only needs 2 items to do dmg (triforce and devourer/botrk). His clear is also great after his first clear, and his ganks are good too. His only weakness is that he doesn't have a good gapcloser.
Late game, with a stacked devourer and tank items, he can kill anyone he reaches.
Because he has to walk to initiate.
He's really dependent on flash to do anything in teamfights. Without it, he's got basically no hope of landing his ult on a priority target.
Maybe he could be good in a Sivir team or something. Still seems like a lot of work for not really that much reward.
Maybe they could buff his ult to where not just his shield, but his ult gives a small speed boost..
Because it is not funny to be kited forever by Vayne or any other champion with an escape/disengage
Thing is Skarner is good on paper, but if you are able to walk into their team without getting kited and CC'd to living hell then props to you. I play a lot of Skarner, but i stopped playing him mainly because he is a jack of all trades , but lacks in all fields. Rammus is tankier, Jarvan IV has more damage ( can be tankier than Skarner too) and other champs are just all around better.
Again you have to run up to the opponent to do damage. With the amount of mobility in this game you are way better building full tank w/ iceborn and peeling for your team being a utility tank. I used to build triforce elder lizard on Skarner unfortunately that lead to him dying in 2 seconds.
