Skarner Build Guide by SirSpankAlot

Not good! :(
I think it's the best build for this champ!

Excellent guide and build! I just tried it, without having played Skarner for at least a month, and I ended up turning a team score of 16-28 to 45-44 and victory, with my score being 16-2 :) Solid guide, solid build.

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Thank you very much , people like Meinhardd and Ahlgreenz keep me happy and let me maintain this guide! Thanks again and a have a very nice day.

Well, Skarner isn't that usefull...

But tanky dps fits to him perfect and the guide is well written.

Skarner is a great Tanky Dps when build well. Anyways thanks for the comment.

Went 17/4/11 with a triple kill. Boss build.

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Pretty solid guide, i personally dont like skarner but this build made me think different. If you get to lategame with this build you'll be unstoppable ;). Carried my team 11/5/22 but we ended up losing, my back was hurting too much. :D

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P.S. I prefer getting hextech gunblade before the randuin's since that lifesteal, spellvamp and damage on skarner is pretty incredible.

I really like this build. If I wanted to play Skarner, my build would probably end up looking like this. The guide format is also pretty great (jhoi's guide is awesome, isn't it?) and you have a lot of useful information.

The only issue I have with your build is you don't build a Heart of Gold. Picking up a HoG early (probably after Sheen) is a very good idea for some extra gold/10, and you'll build it into a Randuin's Omen anyway. Also, I would remove Phage and Zeal from the cheatsheet, as Sheen is the only important one that you have to get first. Some games you might want Phage before Zeal, or vice versa.

I'd suggest adding 21/0/9 as alternative masteries (avoid Lethality if you can, it isn't that great on Skarner). You can say you don't like it as much, but it's fairly good on Skarner since he does a mix of damage and scales well with AS, Arpen, AD, and CDR. Havoc is a great mastery for him as well.

16/0/14 and 1/14/15 are also great jungle masteries, but they might not be the best fit for Skarner. I don't have much personal experience with him.

Remove the "Core Build" set of items. It's redundant.

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All right, time for some nit-picking. I hope you forgive me for this, but I picked out a bunch of very small mistakes in your guide. Please don't take this criticism personally, because I do like the guide. I just would like it even better if it were fixed up a bit.


These are two different sentences, and should be separated by a period.


Your Marks of Alacrity title says Greater Marks of Desolation instead.
I think you're mistaking "seeming" for "since." Should read: "since (not "seeming) armor is always welcome, isn't it?"
Glyphs should read: "since (not "seeming) AP carries (not "carry's") probably inflict the highest amount of damage."

It doesn't. The Trinity Force proc is only affected by your BASE damage (scales with level). It is not affected by items, runes or masteries.

You could add that you won't be taking any magic damage in the jungle, which is another reason to take MR/lvl over flat MR glyphs.


Should read: "since (not "seeming") the movement speed buff is quite high."


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Rewrite to say something like: "I prefer the extra health and useful passive/active from Randuin's Omen. Frozen Heart's passive lacks an MS slow.


Wolves are always the closest camp to blue buff. Rewrite so Step 4 is Wolves and Step 5 is Wraiths.


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Good guide, but you can't take Archaic Knowledge without maxing Sorcery .

Awesome editing!