I would love to slap everyone who.

Yeah but once his numbers are worked around he will still have that weird crystal mechanic so hopefully that ends up working out when he isn't overtuned.

And he may still end up getting gutted for this rework. They have to hot fix nerf him so we will see where he ends up after that.

They're probably listening to the people on the boards here in which they have not personally tested the champion before telling riot how to balance their champions. Who knows, either way they went overboard on skarner.

PBE players try to warn Riot.

Riot proceeds with next patch like it's nothing.

Yeah, I DID say there were TWO possible outcomes for these juggernaut reworks: either they'd be unplayably shit; or they'd come out overtuned as fuck, dominate every game, then be massively overnerfed in response and THEN be unplayably shit. So it's case B. Doesn't mean I was wrong.

I just find it hilarious that i was talking to people about skarner and they were like yeah hes getting gutted, his Q sucks wah wah wah.. and i'm like bro hes wrecking on the pbe. "well im a skarner main so my opinion is right" facepalm

I'm just gonna miss the stacking q for aa stun, I'd prefer that to the stun on the slow. I just thought it was fun being able to put stuns on ppl behind me and in front of me at the same time after stunning the dude next to me. I don't the he needs a huge nerf at all though.

To be fair, I think it's okay if Skarner is broken OP if he's in his zones and good everywhere else.

Players should be rewarded for using their area-exclusive tools for their advantage, but not be punished when they can't use those areas. Like Azir should be able to create a turret to be really OP for a while, but still be strong when the turret expires. Skarner is roughly the same thing.

This is the correct answer.

Basically where his E gives the crystal effects right? Yeah they snuck that one in to make deadline.

Even after they did that people still thought he was shit.. This guy literally never runs out of mana anymore and can stun any target without too much effort. I aint bitching, I'm just simply stating the facts here.

TL;DR Skarner is fucking strong as hell.

To be fair while definitely not a gutting, Darius could use a buff as admitted even by Rioters

Garen's final changes were after a massive community outcry, and as someone who's played Garen a long time before and now, I'm still not sure his weakened late game stickiness is worth yet another nerf to his early game laning.

He's falling short of even Darius' tankiness in fights too, since Darious has on demand 10% healing with a sweet spot a mile wide on a short cooldown. If you're running a comp with more then 1 melee he more or less becomes unkillable on a tanky build while still dealing respectable to terrifying damage ( depending on if he gets an execute ).

what no way man his aoe stacking passive was better imo, it was more reliable if you build tanky, (who doesn't build tanky though) and could hit spread out people better.

Look at his winrate. Nobody needs to deal with that. I want him to get some shine too but not like this. People hate him right now because of how oppressive he is. I don't know what this hotfix will do, but, sadly, I don't imagine it'll be kind. Riot is known for emergency knee-breaking in situations like these where formally underplayed heroes get a huge spike in pick/ban/winrate.