"...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.
A Superb Villain57 votes"Lobster with dementia" is all the description I need; fucking sold.
Only Play Darius20 votesI'm a Skarner main, and I approve of this.
Tas Since 935 voteslol this made my day
IMTOOJUICY6 votesluuulz. maybe we can classify all of the Shurima champs in a similar manner.
rek'sai = worm with tourette's renekton = reptile with anger issues azir = birdman with god complex rammus = cactus with lobotomy amumu = zombie with amnesia
AquariusGine23 votes*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
insaiyanbacca2 votesits not the worst lore just compared to his old lore just makes me so sad
Celio Hogane HD4 votesBut is basically the same lore, just in shurima.
insaiyanbacca1 votesexcept it is a lot shorter
Shíny1 votesYou don't know that.
OperationDEEZ19 votesAt least it's longer than TWO SENTENCES.
Decaedeus3 votesI almost thought that was Rek'Sai's lore for a second.
CupcakeTrap17 votes
"I miss missing my kind."
HandheldBrandon8 votes "I miss my kind"
"You have no kind"
OperationDEEZ11 votesShould totally be ingame.
333lom6 votes "The subject no longer misses its kind"
http://36.media.tumblr.com/ba4405f5705c4b1ae397038be98fc40a/tumblr_nfo750yzaT1tbpqalo3_1280.png
There, all better. If Riot tries to turn Vik into some generic villain and Skarner into a raging bug, I'm going to be really disappointed.
libraryseraph 3 votesyeah viktor messing with skarner's personality when he leaves most of the void monsters alone doesn't really make sense as far as i'm concerned, that comic is canon in battlecast verse
CupcakeTrap8 votesWhen dodging Skarner skillshots in-game:
"Hey Skarner, am I your kind? Because you sure do miss me a lot."
Kobila20006 votesSkarner 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?
GamerGirlKawaii4 votesI have been screaming this to my friends forever, im like the only one I know that actually reads lore. I sir, agree with you.
NobSaiboot3 votesI mean at the very least you guys could've started by writing more than a small paragraph when you retconned his old lore.
Fried Noob13 votesI'm pretty sure they have more than a few sentences for his lore (along with other retconned lore), but it's currently in lore purgatory, awaiting release pending technology fixes and a sacrifice to Lord Teemo.
qetzel5 votesBurn the mushrooms in your bloodstone circle and call down the hooded figures. Only then will you get your lore.
libraryseraph 3 votesi'm hoping the rest of the bracken are whatever he guarding in Shurima now
Meep Man2 votesI dont get why they dont release the lores on the boards if they arent releasing them due to technical difficulties.
Solideus2 votesI 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.
The Red Warden4 votesHe went from an actually interesting character to frking raid boss #2678
SanjiSanada2 votesR.I.P. depressing old lore
fwL7umeoQe2 votesLost my fucking shit. 10/10 post.
droolcup2 votes"A lobster with dementia"
snickers XDD
NobSaiboot1 votes58 upvotes and no Red response.
Let's talk Riot. I wanna know where we're at with returning Skarner's dignity.
SelflessTeammate1 votes"lobster with dementia"
is this taken as a summoner name
iEpicFailLoL1 votes"...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...
The Other Sara1 votesHis "new backstory" mentions him protecting something, but they never stated what. Perhaps his race?
NobSaiboot1 votesLet's talk Riot.
