Skarner, once one of my favorite champions, my go to jungler and a decent top laner. Reduce to garbage 3 times.
In 4.2 he was slightly nerfed, Riot hates perma slows, that's fine it had to go, he got his AS moved, and he lost his heal for no good reason, minor nerfs but nonetheless nothing to make up for the loss of the perma slow.
In 4.10 He finally got the movement speed on Q to make up for losing the perma slow in his 4.2 nerf. However the cost of this was a loss like none other known to LoL. halved base and scaling damage on Q and E, and a loss of the passive that made him great, thus doubling his cool downs (they lowered them a little to compensate but my Trinity Force Wits End Skarner had enough AS to get much lower CDs on shield than that)
This was pretty bad, the champ was beaten hard into the ground with instruments of torture that could only be found in the underground Riot laboratories, but it was gonna get worse this patch. As if the nerf wasn't good enough, THEY CALLED HIM A TANK! He was a Fighter, a duelist and a durable DPS! But they called him a tank! He is nothing like a TANK! Just because his build is durable does not make him a tank!
He was seeing some play, despite two nerfs, all those who never bothered to give the champion a proper chance, had now started playing him for a little while, this cannot be said Riot, we wanted this champion to be the most unviable Fighter.
and with patch 4.11, his head had been severed, a swift blow the the movement buff he'd been given and an even deeper cut into the damage of his lowest and already too weak skill.
RIP Skarner, may you someday receive this rework.
http://imgur.com/ouo9V1J
Riot pls I really want him back, I miss Energize, and Dueling and my second or third favorite champion. (difficult to decide)