Talk:VPBE/@comment-24795478-20150808062213/@comment-4270771-20150812124822

Unless you build a noticable amount of AD, skarner's Q will do a lot LESS damage than it does now. With 0 bonus AD, his new Q will almost exactly equal his old one at lv18 (meaning at lv18 it will be the same strenth that old Q was at lv9). Before that it's weaker. A lot weaker. Unless you start building attack damage, which really isn't skarner's thing. His Mana costs are better, but not by that much. His passive is painfully situational. His ult and E do a little more damage because they have physical damage now. His E and W are better, and CDR will be a very important stat for him to spam those a lot more.....also the 3 stacks thing doesn't even exist in this rework.....

Still, he is massively dependent on items, which means if he falls behind he isn't worth shit. This rework didn't really fix that. Thought I am interested to see how well the new Dead Man's Plate item works for him, it seems like a core skar item. And while AD stacking isn't really viable to skar, the titanic hydra or gauge items might be worth getting as a single damage item (plus gauntlet and all tank after that). The cone on hydra is pretty big and it gives him an on hit effect that his AS buff can utilize while getting tanky. But we'll see......