Skarner Build Guide by ninjabrain

I just like this guide, i tested it the 1st time i played skarner and now i love him ^^

I honestly see 0 viability in this guide. Just saying.

3 straight damage items, with only real survivability being Philo for the regen and the HP from Phage?

Id use this vs bots or against a really bad team. Nothing more.

ignore the guy above me
except for trinity i use the same build as u
+1

wtf is wrong with u noob. u suck badly

Looks great and makes sense :)

Oh, I see you are new to this game.
I think so because you don't know that Guardian Angel and Warmog's Armor are survivability items. They are very common, so you should learn what they do quickly.

No explanation.

To me, you just seem to be mad on something, you have posted comments like this on many threads on Mobafire.
Just tell why you vote down next time, please.

Youre waiting until after Nashors, Trinity Force, AND Gunblade to get survivability. Anybody who has a small enough attention span top lane will abuse that fact, and you wont be able to farm those items. 3 damage items, waiting until your 5th and 6th item to get survivability, as an offtank? Wat.

Youre waiting on 2735G for Nashors, 4070G for TriForce, and 3625G for Gunblade. That adds up to 10, 430G, not including boots, Philo stone, pots, and wards. This build REQUIRES you to stomp. If you meet ONE matchup that beats you, youre pretty much underfarmed for the rest of the game. Too many of the top laners nowadays ( Especially when the enemy team is tryharding ) will beat you, since the only regen you have is Philo stone, and you go for a Sheen first, so you miss out on HP from Phage.

Youre a melee running pure DPS items until about 12k gold. I honestly dont see how that works out. Id ABSOLUTELY LOVE to see some scores+replays on how you outplay somebody in lane with that build, without 100% stomping the enemy solotop.

Edit : Dont bring up the argument that Skarner is naturally tanky. SINGED is naturally tanky, but he still needs resistances or else he gets melted mid game and late game by the AD carries.

acctually, you have a point.
Maybe i should swap some items.

The reason i chose this order, is that it have always worked for me. You get the extra damage, and can take out some squishies. And you will get enough farm, check the farming section ;)
But people that isn't as experienced as me with Skarner might need some survivability earlier.

But you have a good opinion.

Sorry for my earlier comment, i just missunderstood you.
Now i am thinking of swaping Trinity Force with with Warmog's Armor.
You will be able to stack it up early and get Health.

I am not doing that, because he isn't, just like you say.
That's one reason i pick most defense runes and defense masteries.