Talk:Skarner/@comment-24363729-20140110040928/@comment-5763148-20140117052314

Easily kited. Decent to good farmer once u focus on Q or E but u just lack speed then and u lose MP quickly. If you focus on W, you gain good speed and some durability, letting you survive and evade ganks often thanks to the speed bonus (unless the enemy Jungler has a Lockon Gap Closer or a long Dash Tech).

Building him like a Tank is a waste of time in lane cos you can't kill your opponent in a conventional manner. So you've got no choice but to just farm. You CAN build him with AP Items. Doin so lets u stay relatively bulky when u use W and ur E hits for huge numbers, letting you clear waves quickly and have constant sustain in lane.

Recommended Items for Top Lane as AP Skarner are Liandry;s, Nashor's, Rylai's and Iceborn. Guinsoo's Rageblade is quite a good item as well as Skarner's Kit lets him maintain the stacks constantly in battle and he has good sticking power like Jax and Akali.