So... what are your plans for Skarner?

Xemeron·Nov 10, 2014·2 votes·528 views

You took a perfectly fine champion, whos only crime was to be unpopular, and gave him an unneeded rework, then you gave him nerfs cause he became popular and people were somehow to stupid to play against him, and now he rots in the "pure Tank" barracks, where Bruisers always throw eggs on the wall or write "We do what you do only better!" on the walls.

So what? You gonna let him rot and hope people forget about it? LIke you do it with all your mess ups coughcoughutilityscalingtsupportscough

2 Comments

Vore MonsterNov 10, 20143 votes

Skarner doesn't have to be a pure tank right now. You can build him AD or bruiser and he does remarkably well to what his kit gives him. He has a 60% slow that goes through multiple units, a speed boost AND shield built into one ability, a mobile suppress, and a passive stun just by using Q and AA. His dueling capability is remarkable due to his ability to catch up to any champion he wants, stunning them, and dealing massive damage when building AD and Trinity Force. Hell, he can even take on a full-build fiora when he gets full build.

Not only that; but he is one of the few champions that has synergy with so many champions with just one ability, his mobile suppress. He can catch out a carry or target, drag them to the allies while going through AoE like Thresh's ultimate while holding enemies in place for skill shots, and move onto the next unit by tanking or joining in for strong DPS.

majulitoNov 11, 20141 votes

I agree fully. A trinity is usually all the damage you need. Later on I may get a frozen mallet. But other than that he can build the rest tank and put out respectable damage and is very hard to shake off unless they jump walls.

However that isn't to say he has no problems. He still eats mana and his passive can be annoying to proc since you need 3 spells then an auto for the .5/.75/1 sec stun. And you will probably be spamming everything to keep up to proc it which goes back to the mana problem. But tbh I've found success with him. He starts off slow but he scales quite well.