Skarner Theorycraft Thread

[quote=absent-reality]I've had the best luck laning with him. His jungle seems pretty lame. The build I've been using with him has been working out fairly well for him (at least for me). I start with a mana crystal and pots with one point in fracture for light harassment and last hitting occasionally then focus on leveling Crystal slash and exoskeleton, taking one more point in frature when the other two are at about 3 each. I finish maxing out Q and W then finish up E. For items I'll build a Trin Force starting with the Sheen and basic boots, then I make whatever I feel I need more (zeal for more AS and movement or Phage for some more health and damage) somewhere building merc treads or boots of swiftness if I feel I can get away with it XP. Once Im done those I build a guinsoos (really awesome with the blue buff b/c you can constantly keep up your stacks with your Q indefinitely). I'll usually build a FoN at this point for some regen and MR (also by this point you can move ridiculously fast, 529 with utility masteries and boots of swiftness). From there I'll build a Rylais followed by a gunblade. Of course mixing things up depending on the game. With flash and exhaust as summoners no one can escape, with your already ridiculous movement spd if someone is out of range you can just Flash, grab, W, drag, exhaust and proceed to tear them a new asshole ;P This is just how I play him personally at least. Probably better ways to do it, not a pro or anything >.>[/quote]

[quote=JEFFY40HANDS]Lane Skarner Runes: Arp Marks/AS Seals/Mana Regen or Flat mana Glyphs/1 ArP Quint 2 AS Quints/AS Quints/ArP Quints Jungle Scarner: AS Marks/Flat Armor Seals/AS Glyphs/ArP Quints Doran's Blade or Shield start if lane Cloth Armor Health pots jungle Core Build: Triforce/Hextech Gunblade/Merc Treads or Boots of Swiftness/Mobility Survival/Additional items: FoN or Banshee's Veil/Atma's Impailer or Frozen Heart/Wit's End or Guinsoo's Rageblade Why Wit's End [icon= Wit's End size=25] or Guinsoo's Rageblade [icon= Guinsoo's Rageblade size=25]? His passive Energize. More AS means more up-time on your Q/W/E abilities. Phreak seemed to ignore AS entirely. Which I believe is a mistake. Once you have a sustainable mana pool being able to spam your abilities will make you more of a threat. Think of Skarner as a new Udyr. The more times you can rotate through your abilities the better your survival and your DPS.[/quote]

[quote=caucheka]i like [[malady]] on my ap build, because i need the as and the mr shred is nice.[/quote]

[quote=Dotter]In my first game I got: [[Mercury's Treads]] [[Trinity Force]] - Early Zeal for the AS. [[The Brutalizer]] [[Thornmail]] - To counter their fed Ashe [[Banshee's Veil]] [[Youmuu's Ghostblade]] [[Stark's Fervor]] - We had me, Xin & WW ^^ It worked all right, but we lost. I went 8-3-8 and it was really easy to farm this way. Had 300+ creep kills.[/quote]

[quote=xLiqur]Build him like rumble, but with some AS. GG[/quote]

[quote=Flubadoo]Triforce Frozen MAllet Wit's End Atma's Gunblade Not in that order, but you get good amount of resists, good amount hp, good amount lifesteal/SV, good amount AS.[/quote]

[quote=Queso]Tanky mage solo top worked pretty okay for one of my opponents. Catalyst, Merc, roa, rylai, sunfire cape. damn hard to kill, might be worth a try for people who have him.[/quote]

[quote=caucheka]ok heres what i've been building and its been working pretty nice. regrowth and pot to start, duo lane bot. philo stone boots 1 tear sorcerer shoes sheen malady deathcap lich bane archangels game usually ends as i start building lichbane.[/quote]

[quote=JunSupport]Just saw his actual ability stats on leaguecraft. Definitely an ad/ap hybrid here. Just off the top of my head... [[Doran's Shield]], [[Sheen]], [[Guinsoo's Rageblade]], [[Phage]], [[Nashor's Tooth]], [[Trinity Force]][/quote]

[quote=Searz]Nashor is generally a bad idea..[/quote]