New Skarner : "The Scorpion is almost there" but... he lacks... - let's gather DATA

XuWarrior·6/18/2014, 10:44:44 AM·2 votes·874 views

DMG at late game.

Im only gold/plat player. I know he should be now CC champion. He kinda is. But he rlly provides nothing beside that. Other Tanky CC champs have that "UMPH" dmg.

I came 3 times to late game as skarner. FULL BUILD. Maby my build was wrong but I went:

*Tank Jungler Item (was thinkin about SoTel MABY).

*Swiftness boots

*IceBornGauntlet

*SunFire

*BansheeV

at last item I was thinkin about something tanky or DMG (maby).

During Team Fights I was a lil bit confused.. Small form of CC , but dmg was not there at all. Any Ideas how to Build him now ? Let's Collect Data Feelin and Opinions

14 Comments

CaptainWednesday6/18/2014, 1:03:29 PM1 votes

If you have not heard yet, Skarner kit is getting a followup rework. You can read more about it here.

Sgt Slapnuts6/18/2014, 3:37:06 PM1 votes

He is talking about the rework...

Are you really thinking he's talking about 1st rework skarner? Because 1st rework skarner stuck to enemies JUST AS WELL as permaslow skarner, PROVIDED YOU LAND YOUR E

This rework has completely gutted my favorite character.

I could give 3 craps less if I get a SINGLE TARGET stun. Skarner has no teamfight potential anymore.

Scaling gone, cooldown reduction gone, damage on ult gone...

IDENTITY GONE

Earl Eulrich6/19/2014, 1:56:13 AM1 votes

Yea, I pretty much can´t understand why they gutted all his ap-scalings that hard. Building Ap leaves him less tanky anyway, so there is already a tradeof there - you can´t stick to a target and dmg it while not being alive. Also e and w suffered quite a bit from the loss of his old passive, old skarner had been very strong once you had cdr-cap,as both these skills went to very low cds while being infight (and hitting people) - having it only for the q doesn´t do much for skarner.

Now he can pretty much only deal as some kind of single-target-cc-bot, but there are way better options for the job. High dmg always had been part of his identity - I really miss it.

L7xLoTek6/19/2014, 12:37:56 PM1 votes

Ok, I only have a couple of games (and some custom game research) behind me with this, but here's my current build: item 3209 item 3111 item 3025 item 3146 item 3065 item 3091 + defence item X, such as item 3068 or item 3143 . with 0/21/9 masteries (be sure to get the mana regen) and weirdling runes: Hybrid Penetration reds, Armor yellows, MReg/lvl blues and HPreg quints.

This is actually close to what I was using pre-re-rework (that's a mouthful), and it seems to work even better now. Powerwise, the full build with elixirs or double-buffs is enough to solo baron, though it'll put up a fight.