Talk:Skarner/@comment-4035707-20140426040352/@comment-8506165-20140427151008

"people who never really played Skarner whining about his utter necessity for CC"

Um... who are you playing against as Skarner that you can just walk up to them and put out your melee damage without CC? Before rework, his damage was actually almost identical (higher if you include the fact that you didn't have to spend an item slot on your sticking power and your AS didn't have to "ramp up"), post-rework his damage wasn't actually that significantly altered but people complained because being able to put out any damage means keeping in range for your Q and AAs after you've used E.

By the sounds of it, with this passive change, his damage won't actually be significantly altered from live values, but he'll just stick better.