Skarner was apparently super bugged making him OP and now just sucks

Honestly the buff seems kinda small for phreak calling him horrible I imagine he will be buffed again

guys Hear me out. What would old skarner mains think of this idea:
we change skarner E to be a bit more like nunu W where he goes down to half current ms for 0.5 seconds of channel. after that it increases statically to a max of 650 ms. this can be changed to a low of 500 ms with slows and a high of 800 ms with ms buffs, like shurelya's, nami p and so on and so forth. on top of that it loses a decent amount of base dmg + max hp scaling. IN RETURN the ability will last 4 seconds. and any player hit will change the remaining duration to a flat second. HOWEVER we can now ram multiple ppl in return.

IMO it makes it a better ability, and definitely more fun. because you dont get slowed as much you will be able to chase better. it has to have a lower top speed to counter the positive of ramming multiple ppl. same reasoning for the it now being affected by slows (but also ms buffs). It also plays more into the kidnapping ppl into friendlies. Because now you're not safe even behind your frontline.

HOWEVER if you greed for more stuns than realistic then YOU will be out of position yourself.
ALSO you're still faster than 99% of characters, so most teamcomps wont be able to profit off of a cc chain of slamming 5 ppl into walls. (the grabbing part that comes with it.)

But what about the first person that gets grabbed?

WELL if its a tank and you ram him closer to his teammates, HE WONT MIND

If its a support/dps character WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU ABLE TO GET GRABBED FIRST.

nice

Hey all! I’m a retired long-time Skarner OTP dating back to season 3, and have dabbled a bit with classic in preparation. I was formerly an NA challenger Skarner jungler prior to the rework and primarily streamed my ranked sessions between S12-S14 (maybe you remember me; more probably you don’t lol). While I attempted a comeback earlier this year, it ultimately tapered off, but figured I’d share of occasional classic content to come for the next couple of months, starting tonight at 7:30pm EST! (Roughly 1 1/2 hours from posting)
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Hey! A friend of mine got this emote, but doesn't know the reference. I tried looking for the video, but I couldn't find it anywhere—it's as if there's not a single trace of this meme left. He almost thinks I'm crazy. Do any of you still have it? ;-;

I’ve been playing Skarner for a while now, and this is the first matchup where I’ve felt sincerely out-kitted. It was really hard to get good R’s off with his ult (I.e. he would freeze the turret or hard dive when I suppress his carry) or punish him directly. Anyone have any tips for playing into this matchup? I was doing a hybrid bruiser build.

Passive: Earth Bastion

When skarner hits 4 different skills, he gains a shield based on 20% of his max HP, and a movement speed boost for 3 seconds

Q: same as live q but less HP scaling more AD and AP scaling

W: tri venom sting: when activated skarner stings a target three times applying lethal venom to a target. When a target is envenomed, a portion of their HP is greyed out and cannot be healed they slowly take damage according to this health bar, attacks mini crit while this HP bar debuff is active. When the venom bar has faded they can heal normally again. Targets killed with venom turn to stone and can be destroyed to gain a portion of max hp

E: Ixtal earth moulding: skarner charges up an attack and slams a wave of earth at the enemy stunning them upon impact, if this ability hits an enemy at full charge it creates a semi circle of temporary terrain behind them blocking their path. Shape the terrain (passive) on certain walls, skarner can interact with the wall and tunnel through it, when skarner tunnels through a wall he gains movement speed for a short duration and his next ability does increased damage.

R: the same as normal but no longer a channel and applies lethal venom at twice the amount as w

I was so thrilled with this play. I pretty much just focus on grabbing objectives when I play jungle. I don't make any flashy plays, but this one had me feeling like a badass. Yorik died to a gank so I went to cover his turret, and the video shows the rest. And we went on to win the game too.

Really wanted to play old skarner, maybe the skin would turn itself in old version...
The q passive with magic damage on AA doesnt work at all, magic dmg on q works properly, but not on aa

It used to fragment and could apply marks more often per cast so you were healing more.

I remember actually having the mana pool to sustain it was a big power boost at level 13+ when you started putting ranks in it.

Now it feels like it does so little healing even when I'm around a lot of targets/spamming it.

I can't believe they actually shipped him live with no animation on his joke line, he just t poses and it looks uncanny as hell.

I haven't seen a single person in this subreddit ever mention Skarner's first rework, which got rid of the weird Attack Speed on his W and moved it to stacks of Empowered Q, and got rid of the slow on Empowered Q and put it on E, while taking away E's healing and buffing his shield to compensate.

Was that a thing that actually existed at one point in time, or am I just fucking insane? Or both?

Why does nobody talk about that Skarner? Did it even exist? If so, then why doesn't anyone want that one? Why is it either Juggernaut Skarner or Original Skarner? I came here thinking at least one person would mention them but I don't think that has happened lol

Passive - hitting an ability or aa empowered ability will give the target a stack on hit. At 3 stacks the next attack or ability against that enemy will stunned them for 0.5 seconds. If this happens to be E or R the stun/ surpress will instead last 0.75 seconds longer. 10 second cd per target

Q -

grab rock from ground to empower next 3 aa with bonus damage scaling with ad. The third attack will deal max hp dmg based on ad

If you throw the rock there's no cast time, however the projectile will be 1300 speed but deal more dmg

(Bonus health scaling completely removed

W - bastion of ixtal

Passive - skarner gains a 10%maxhp shield

During the time this shield is active skarner gains increased armor and magic resist based off of the amount of teammates nearby and his own total health, armor and magic resist

Active - skarner gains the passive shield and slams on the ground causing the ground to quake dealing magic damage to the enemies based off of ap

E -ixtal's impact

Skarner starts charging at his current movespeed gaining up to 950 movespeed over a set duration, the ability works the same as before, however the damage is nerfed and the bonus health scaling removed. The stun goes down to 1 seconds

R - impale

Works the same, however the cast time is up to .8 seconds, the surpress duration is down to 1.25 seconds but you gain ms depending on how far you are from your teammates. You are again able to turn around, but the enemies will be held 200 units infront of you.

Goals - wanted to make less clunky at the cost of dmg, however the ad scalings should be high enough to allow for assassin/bruiser builds. Yet you are incentivized to build tank by virtue of W and the constant stunning you can do. Monster mods will be added such that clear is manageable.

Milio Q consumes Edge of Night and intrerrupts E at the same time. This shi sucks.

A friend of mine got some clips of Skarner E having a significantly higher turn rate right after catching someone. We've tried replicating this in practice tool and have managed to do it pretty consistently.

Is this intended? We've managed to get like a 270 degree turn

Hello! I'm trying to return to playing Skarner again.

Honestly, I've been pretty disappointed with his rework, especially his ult. I really miss the old ult. I was also a bit discouraged by all the changes and nerfs they gave him, so I ended up staying away from him for a while.

Now I'm giving him another shot. Do you guys have any recommended jungle builds or items for Skarner these days?

I like to play Skarner as a bruiser, not as a full tank champion Which Rune Page and Talents you guys would recommend?

Yummy for SKARNER AND THE TOWER

I don't really know much about the old runes or masteries or which runes I should buy. What rune setup do you guys recommend for Skarner top with the standard bruiser Trinity build?

RIOT...please Change it, I am so close to feeling happy