Talk:Skarner/@comment-4022742-20140506130613/@comment-20434720-20140506200258

I suppose if they wanted to make his E slow potentially up there - like 4+ seconds - they'd need to seriously reduce the current E's slow value. Right now, if he can stick during those 2.5 seconds, get some auto attacks off with the Q AS buff, and have a small bit of CDR he can just use E again maybe 3 seconds after it wears off. More CDR and attack speed brings the uptime to a decidedly high amount, and consuming the mark to slow again... well, it would be interesting, for sure. It would mean that his overall amount of time he can spend getting free auto attacks off would be decently high (some would argue too high), his early-game slowing potential would increase (he currently needs some AS + CDR to do very well), he would still have counterplay.

The only problem I see is that if the total slow-time gets up to 4-5 seconds, it translates into a late-game permaslow. However, with this being only a late-game permaslow and being more friendly towards Skarners who don't start out their fights within 350 range, as well as having obvious solutions to dealing with it (DODGEEEE), it could prove to be a more... I guess "acceptable" permaslow than what he had before. Because he would need items and additional stats to make it work, but it's not like it's irrelevant before he gets those.

And to be fair, 2.5 seconds at all ranks is a pretty long slow. Especially given how strong of a slow it can get to be and how low the effective cooldown *can* be.

Reflecting on it once more, I actually think that the slow-on-mark-trigger is a pretty decent idea. Right now it seems like Skarner suffers from "I can get in range of you but can't stay there" - syndrome. Giving him a lighter slow to work with after he's caught up to them after landing the E slow would work well with his passive... very well, actually.

One of the few Skarner ideas I can get behind. Although personally I feel that, by the numbers at least, Skarner should be perfectly fine as he is now, it seems that most people don't feel that way and *if* he needs buffs/changes, that would be the way to do it.