Talk:Skarner/@comment-10880231-20130617194538/@comment-3358335-20130618183900

Your attitude is all wrong for advice. First, if you go outside the meta expect to be trolled whether you are right or wrong. AP bruiser Skarner is outside the meta. Non-Jungle Skarner is pretty much outside the meta.

Secondly, Bruisers AP or AD are not supposed to take kills. Secure kills? Yes. Grab kills when they can? Yes. Be angry that someone else took them? Absolutely not. Skarner is not a carry. If you build him as one, you are playing against his strengths and you are hurting your team by doing it. It would be like Ashe building herself up as a tank that did no damage. Could it work? Maybe with the right team comp, but it's just not the best use of the champ for the team.

Which brings me to my third point. It's a TEAM GAME. No matter how stupid or idiotic your team is, it will always be a team game. So make decisions that help your team, not yourself. If you go 17-0 and lose, it's still a loss. You don't get any more or less points by having a flawless individual performance. So figure out how to protect the guy that is feeding, or draw the enemy team to protect other parts of the map. Making your Skarner as an AP bruiser "Carry" does not help anybody. And, in fact, it kind of makes you a bad player, because you are failing that fundamental game principle: It's a team game.