Talk:Skarner/@comment-4304118-20120505175900/@comment-175.143.208.75-20120507174313

Wits End is fantastic for Skarner, no 2 ways about it. However, I find if you need more immediate tankiness in games where there are no tanks -pub games are always like that- I usually go for an early HoG and Negatron Cloak (upgrade from there). Most of the time if possible, I leave Reverie to a secondary tank or support hero to get additional MR/Armour items as early as possible.

As for having more gold and what to buy, look at the enemy compo and decide. Skarner is super-duper flexible in build terms, and many items can work well on him. The items you mentioned -Gunblade, Atma, FoN etc.- are all solid choices on him. I usually build a general Skarner as Omen + Merc + Banshee + Atma + Tri-force + Last situational item.