Play safe til you get Heartsteel, poke with Q, wait for them to make a move and then target ADC with CC. This is the most important thing to remember.

Most bot lane matchups are ADC's alongside poke supports, you will lose if you overstep, pay attenton to cooldowns to secure bushes and cannon minions, you will be okay.
After you get Heartsteel you get to play the game a little bit more. Utilize bushes a lot to hide what your intentions are, wait for adc to step up and then punish them.
Once you get Iceborn (if you are able to use the standard or the armor heavy build) you can force a lot of fights (within reason)that will result in kills in lane.
If you can roam to mid to force a fight, do it, it will most likey result in a free kill for your mid laner due to your E being able to make them very far away from their safety zone.

Keep in mind that if you push people out of their safety zone, they will have to cross the glacial augment slow to get back to their safety zone (i.e. tower, allies) they will most likely look for alrternative routes or blow flash to escape.

With this build, you are nothing but a displacement machine. You dont do damage, you are a huge punching bag keep that in mind.

Initiate as much as possible on high value targets, keep them locked down and let your team follow.
If you can get in range safely, try to make sure to displace the grabbed target as far away from their team as possible.


It doesnt make any sense to use E and go straight into a 3-4 enemies because you grabbed someone and stunned them into a wall.

Using your E to make u-turns is just as helpful as stuns, if you can do both, even better.

(This concept is still a WIP I will add more information and tweaks as I see fit! Have fun! :) )

- Heartsteel is really good here on Skarner due to the extra damage he gets from max HP, it also makes you into a major punching bag (as long as you get stacks), stacking is really easy especially with E. Simply wait til they have the heartsteel icon pop up, E in, pin then auto. Bingo, you just got the free-est stack in the world. Rinse and repeat.

- Merc. Treads Really nice for lowering the time that you will be stunned for and the extra MR is always nice, would recommend against stun heavy botlane.

W.I.P