Talk:Skarner/@comment-26909914-20151009141629/@comment-5955640-20151009145611

Black Cleaver and Triforce occupy the same slot due to having a simliar passive effect. Those are the two simliar items not Triforce and Hydra.

In that I'd say take Triforce because you have a very mixed ratio. Physical damage output. One AD scaling. Two magic scalings and three AP scalings and one health based scaling.

Not only should you take Titantic Hydra you should also be taking Triforce. If you need Health steal here's what you can do.

Spell vamp or life steal quints. Make the one magic resistance item Spirit visage. You can spend 11 points in the utility tree to get 3% life steal and Spell vamp or go deep enough into the defense tree to get Second wind (much better choice).