Daily Reminder to Riot that Skarner still exists.

Bellows·Jan 14, 2017·3 votes·709 views

Revert, rework didnt fix the issue with him, and now hes 112th champ picked out of 136 champs. For a jg champ thats sad. Even his devoted less then 1% player bass has a collective 49% winrate. Pls revert him and you can balance old skarner SIMPLY by adding a cd to the slow on his q. The perma slow was literally the ONLY thing that made him broken. Remove that and he woulda balanced out like other champs with similar issues.

RiP Skarner 2016

Make Skarner Great Again 2017

EDIT: Checked the page again, hes actually 127th out of 136.

EDIT: These stats are based from OP.gg high elo korea.

6 Comments

WoonStruckJan 14, 20172 votes

All Skarner needs, tbh, is for his attack speed and MS to be lowered on spires, and his base attack speed and MS to be increased.

Make him less of a juggernaut, more of a vanguard.

Spires are fine as long as they are a BONUS, not near-required for his success.

If Riot were to do that, Skarner would be almost identical to the old one, just...better scaling and bonus objective control, which is something he DID need prior to the 'rework'.

Even if you don't like them, spires solve "The Skarner Conundrum" where he was either too weak in the jungle and too weak vs champions, or viable in the jungle and too strong vs champions. ESPECIALLY the mana and Q spam part of that.

XxDottisJayzunxXJan 15, 20171 votes

Didn't he get picked at Worlds a couple times last year?

BellowsJan 15, 20171 votes

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Didn't he get picked at Worlds a couple times last year?

Niche pick, still lost though, didnt have enough jg pressure on map.

XxDottisJayzunxXJan 15, 20171 votes

yeah about as i remember

I still like Skarner though. My friend played him as support to me playing Kalista. Seemed to work LOL

PPPPPPPPPPPP270Jan 15, 20171 votes

When I think of old old Skarner today, I still think he would be a massive terror. Current trinity force would be insane on him as he gets CDR attack speed and the sheen passive. His shield would have almost 80% uptime.

Then again we would have to make Skarner's E completely useless again.

BellowsJan 15, 20171 votes

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When I think of old old Skarner today, I still think he would be a massive terror. Current trinity force would be insane on him as he gets CDR attack speed and the sheen passive. His shield would have almost 80% uptime.

Then again we would have to make Skarner's E completely useless again.

I dont think his e was useless, I always thought it was a decent chasing tool. Nice mid range slow projectile.