Talk:Skarner/@comment-120.28.64.75-20110813003129/@comment-3486816-20110814052047

He starts out next-to-useless (the base damage on his skills is pretty terrible), but then scales very well. Then, however, he's still insanely easy to kill because of the range he has to be at to do damage. So you have to build pretty darn tanky to stay alive. So it takes a pretty damn significant amount of gold to be effective on him.