R.I.P. Skarner
Crystal Spires (Passive) Attack speed bonus lowered to [39-90%] from [43-160%] Impale (R) total AD ratio lowered to 40% from 100%
What the hell???
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Went from unpopular but viable to being OP and FotM, to unpopular but viable, and now he's going to be unpopular and unviable. Except now they've funneled much of the power he used to have in his kit into a bunch of freaking rocks.
His winrate is actually pretty decent right now, especially considering his average amount of games played is low-ish. I can understand the nerf. He's not fotm op, but maybe he's a teensy bit too good? http://champion.gg/champion/Skarner
There are way bigger problems atm, and with the Merc Treads nerf, those games he wins are often because there's little CC, or mostly AD that he's against.
Most low-pick champs have over 52% winrate.
Skarner has no excuse to get nerfed.
Just had a game where the botlane went to take a spire for the 30g, and it ended in all 4 of my team mates dieing in the first minute of the game. Just remove the spires, give him some kind of Wukong passive, and leave skarner the way he is please.
Seems like a prelude to his pet rocks getting removed.
never read a single comment, this threads bad, skarner is meant to be a jungle tank, after watching a video of him hes a huge control jungler with that passive that very few junglers wouldnt be able to contest vs, hes going to need him from his mid/top alot in higher levels of play' i assume' he was never meant to be played as a damage dealer, way back before any reworks i played him top ap/hybrid/tank vs jax before that nerfed that.
none of these nerfs will bother what skarner is, a big jungle/map pressure bully.
in short, name a few junglers that can take skarner in his passive right now?
I have never liked the new Skarner... Once they put that crystal spire passive through I was done. Even when he was "OP", it was primarily because he was ACTUALLY strong in his zones and people were not really contesting them.
Now that people know how to beat him, hes nothing. Everyone knows this, hence the extremely low pick rate. His winrate is probably only decent because the only people playing him now are people who are Skarner experts, and only vs enemy junglers who don't like to invade.
In spite of any of it, I miss the Skarner who I could niche pick in lane vs squishy melees as well as Jungle. This New Skarner is limited in effectiveness to ONLY the jungle and ONLY if the enemy team doesnt decide to wreck your day early.
He is still in a similar spot game wise: Trash when behind, potentially overbearing if ahead. RIOT needs to rethink this champion, because they also butchered his lore to put extra icing on the cake.
Now they are nerfing him... Why do I feel like another rework is coming?