"...Wait what is my kind exactly?"
When do you guys plan on giving back Skarner's badassery Riot?
All he is now is a lobster with dementia that screams "Feel my sting" when he used to be the last of a powerful arcane race that had fallen asleep.
"Lobster with dementia" is all the description I need; fucking sold.
*Skarner, the crystalline guardian, defends the entrance to a realm deep beneath the shuriman wastes. The few who survive trespassing his domain describe a creature of terrifying intelligence, anger, and precision. What this merciless creature protects, no one knows. *
Gonna go cringe now
"I miss missing my kind."
When dodging Skarner skillshots in-game:
"Hey Skarner, am I your kind? Because you sure do miss me a lot."
"I miss my kind"
"You have no kind"
Skarner was the first champion that actually got me interested in lore. I didn't even know there were little stories for champions and I probably wouldn't care if it wasn't for that "I miss my kind" line from Skarner. Granted, most lore is just bad, but I liked that Skarner wasn't some generic "RAAAR I'm so brutal and dangerous" monster like most other monsters, but rather someone who, while though, was lonely in a new world.
But for some ridiculous reason Riot thinks that making monsters generic evil creatures whose only relevance is how dangerous they are makes for interesting characterization. There was something they said about Skarner being a mistake because of how not-monster-like he is. Really?
I have been screaming this to my friends forever, im like the only one I know that actually reads lore. I sir, agree with you.
i'm hoping the rest of the bracken are whatever he guarding in Shurima now
I mean at the very least you guys could've started by writing more than a small paragraph when you retconned his old lore.
R.I.P. depressing old lore
I dont get why they dont release the lores on the boards if they arent releasing them due to technical difficulties.
I want to take this opportunity to analyze a conceptually great character and what the old lore, pre-retcon, meant for him.
In summary, his old lore was just crap overall. He had literally no relevance to the local, ongoing conflict he emerged in. There was absolutely no aesthetic or thematic cohesion in anything or between anything surrounding him; not the JoJ-story, not Kalamanda, not The Crystal Scar and not the Brackern (a name I never really got nor liked).
Skarner then joining the League put a flat and unfulfilled end to his narrative and first appearance, as was always the case with everyone having to sign up at the institute to be at all relevant.
He wasn't so much his people's guardian as he gave that over to summoners the day he awakened; instead he applied for a dayjob at the institute to lobby for environmental policy. The IoW moved champions' roles into weird, mundane territories (with a strange gladiatorial routine, I guess), taking away their relevance as actors in the world and their own stories. His "wisdom and ferocity" fell flat and never really played out.
Obviously him having very little in terms of story now sucks, but the retcon did wonders by paving the way for Skarner's potential when he *does *get some lore lovin'. Whatever story he gets can't possibly be as bad or convoluted as what he had before. I love the *idea *of Skarner, but the execution and limitations imposed by the nature of the *IoW plot device *never let that idea amount to anything.
TL;DR: IoW is was bad for Skarner. Once he gets a new story he will be much better off.
Lost my fucking shit. 10/10 post.
"A lobster with dementia"
snickers XDD
"lobster with dementia"
is this taken as a summoner name
Let's talk Riot.
"...Wait what is my kind exactly?"
When do you guys plan on giving back Skarner's badassery Riot?
All he is now is a lobster with dementia that screams "Feel my sting" when he used to be the last of a powerful arcane race that had fallen asleep.
"Feel My Sting" - I lost it...
58 upvotes and no Red response.
Let's talk Riot. I wanna know where we're at with returning Skarner's dignity.
His "new backstory" mentions him protecting something, but they never stated what. Perhaps his race?
