This is skarner's third new passive now...

Morgy Morgy·Aug 8, 2015·2 votes·603 views

First, auto attacks just reduced his cooldowns. Now,auto attacks stun after a few ability hits. In PBE, there's some crystal spire bologna. How many times are we gonna change the poor thing's passive?

2 Comments

Knight AuditorAug 8, 20151 votes

Until Riot finally lucks out and stumbles into something that works.

ShadeCrenshawAug 8, 20151 votes

IMO this passive is the most useless one there is.

Its only good for jungle sustain, you can pretty much give blue buff to your midlaner at the start of the game as you will never have mana problems as long as you suck on your thumb for about ten seconds near one of the crystals.

However that is it. No one is going to be dumb enough to fight you in the area, its nice that they tried placing them near dragon/baron pit but considering that an enemy just needs to sit on it for a couple of seconds to take it is just dumb. As far as I am aware Skarner is the only champ to have a passive that can actually be made completely useless by a somewhat-not-stupid team.

Its nice to see that they are actually trying to make his passive useful outside of the jungle, with his E and R stun procs giving the passives MS/ATKSPD boost and mana regen, but its really just...not all that great. the MS is cool I guess but if you've stunned someone you don't really need the MS do ya?

Granted I see it being amazing with his ult, as an extra 100MS to drag someone away into the warm embrace of your team is delicious..

So i'm kinda torn really, I still prefer his old two passives over this one, the only 100% beneficial and useful part of it being the MS boost on R stun.

His Q though I am really unsure about...I cannot tell how bad of a nerf it is, if its just a nerf to the utility, or a nerf in damage as well.