Skarner's kit is way to irrelevant

Teemo Did 911·Dec 1, 2017·4 votes·564 views

he was good on season 3 ... now he is simply useless . i haven't seen a skarner for 1-2 years in my games ... and i picked him on my last game... very bad champ needs a rework

9 Comments

LordGeovanniDec 1, 20173 votes

because he has too much power around jungle objectives but no power at all anywhere else. who the hell thought that was good design

BeastOfCaerbanogDec 1, 20171 votes

Agreed. With all the crazy mobility and damage flying around poor Skarner is left in the dirt when it comes to ganking early game or when ult is down. A lot of junlgers have far better engages and much more meaningful tools for 1v1 duels. And i'm talking old boys like Jax or Xin here.

Even a damn Tryndamere can spin through a wall to safety or after someone, and has point-click slow. Skarner feel like Annie levels old in terms of gameplay...

FOR JUSTICEDec 1, 20171 votes

I concur, i dont feel like ive done anything particularly satisfying with him.... other then ulting someone who wandered a bit to close to my fountain XD was best GP shutdown of 2017

KaìjuDec 1, 20171 votes

My biggest issue is that he doesn't have enough CC to be worth picking as an immobile champion. Generally a champ with as little ways to get to their target as him should be able to melt or lock down a target, but you can QSS, spell shield, or a few other effects to negate or halt it mid use. As well as the fact that against any decent team even if you do grab the carry, they will probably just CC/wall you off in them and get chunked if not outright killed. He doesn't do enough outsude his spires to be worth it. I think the spires should go. Not because they are a bad idea they could probably work on a totally new champion, but because they don't fit with the weird light juggernaut catcher engage bruiser that he is. Like what even us he now, since they removed him the juggernaut category? I think he's a vanguard now, but he only has two CC spells and no engage, just some catch which again, is highly telegraphed and easy to negate. I think being a big "creature" type of champion he should be made a tank, with an emphasis on playing up the scorpion theme. Maybe give him a passive or spell that makes him use his stinger, giving a slow that slowly turns into a root, kind of like sleep. You could give him a dig mechanic similar to Rek where maybe his tail still shoots shit out and he becomes a mini tower. Just something to make him interesting.

ZURELLDec 1, 20171 votes

AND... and... if or when they rework him. they need to make sure he/she/they . have NO HUMAN VO. JUST GIVE HIM SOMETHING ANIMALISTIC. IM SO DONE WITH ANIMALS HAVING HUMAN VOICES. ANIVIA. WW. WHAT'S THAT LIL VOIDLING ADC'S NOT KOGMAW THERE YOU GO. LIKE... STOP. IF THEY EVER MAKE A CANINE CHAMP ON ALL FOURS HOW I DREAM IT. IT BETTER NOT HAVE A FUCKING HUMAN VOICE rant over

Teemo Did 911Dec 1, 20171 votes

ironic... you have kindred as icon

ZURELLDec 2, 20171 votes

KINDRED HAS HANDS AND A BOOTY SHE DOESNT COUNT

Solidair3Dec 1, 20171 votes

Consider this: Unsealed spellbook on skarner for flash ults all day.

I gotta try that.

KindredAndWolfDec 1, 20172 votes

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Consider this: Unsealed spellbook on skarner for flash ults all day.

I gotta try that.

Itried it last night as a matter of fact, the cool down build. Let me tell you It looks great on paper but absolutely FUCKING SUCKS. He squishee as hell early and you cant duel anyone. When I got level 6 I thought "finally my time to shine" go to gank a lane and what do you know, his ult range is SO FUCKING TINY I can't grab the adc thats basically on top of me. They stayed right out of range. I took the spell book rune so I could use ghost early and switch to flash later and it just sucked. Even with ghost up I just couldn't get to anyone. I thought he was gonna be good but boy i was very fucking wrong. Seriously just pick ranged champs with a dash and you are golden in the jungle. Skarner is so bad it tilts me thinking about those games.