Hi I'm the last skarner main pls toss my man some QOL changes at least

Relámpago·10/24/2015, 5:13:22 AM·0 votes·574 views

His ult damage was destroyed and is no longer a threat by itself (it went from 200+ damage at level 1, to 40 flat and increased cooldown). I've found if your team loses lane and you ult the enemy squishy, they will often flash/escape skill out with 50% hp still. But back when skarner was op with the 60% winrate this wasnt a problem, because the op E damage shredded them right after but then that was nerfed to the ground to a point where it is leveled last now. But we didnt stop there, we then took base movespeed off him, nerfed his shield and gimped him to the point where he cant fight anyone without spire control (a mechanic no one asked for). Played well he can still have a decent presence in the game dont get me wrong (until they buy qss, so basically skarner is playable until plat level gameplay) But he is actually not at all strong and definitely not viable. I just feel it is my civic duty to voice that skarner is in a bad place right now. Not really complaining, just bringing to attention. Some ideas to make him decent are reverting the ult and movespeed nerfs, or increasing skarners base movespeed back to non slug levels and just taking it off spires and making it so that skarner does not stop moving to shoot his e. I know riot takes the spires into account with all of the changes, but Since I main him I know for a fact 0% of teamfights happen within range of spires. Just skirmishes and they are normally disengaged because of the nerfs to skarners sticking power so the request is not unwarranted.

Ps. I see alot of you are still mentally scarred from the dark time of skarners reign, perhaps hold your judgement on him needing help if you dont actually PLAY him

8 Comments

Legendary Anubis10/24/2015, 5:19:58 AM3 votes

I've seen a fed Skarner take on 3 people by himself and win. I think his ult was meant to be more utility-based anyway.

Bârd10/24/2015, 5:25:42 AM3 votes

I will make no comment on Skarners balance.

BUT PLEASE

INCREASING MOVEMENT SPEED IS NOT QOL.

THAT IS A BALANCE CHANGE.

dunder kill10/24/2015, 5:33:51 AM2 votes

so basically skarner is playable until plat level gameplay

Well actually Skarner has the 3rd highest winrate out of all the junglers on the site that only uses plat+ games. If you factor in that the #1 spot is currently only a sample size of 900 games so it's probably not very accurate, Skarner could be sitting on the second highest winrate of all junglers in Plat+ games

http://champion.gg/statistics/#?search=&roleSort=Jungle&sortBy=general.winPercent&order=descend

Skarner is completely fine and needs absolutely no buffs. His damage is fine. He is 100% viable. You seems to just want him brought back to when he was insanely OP