Talk:Skarner/@comment-8468980-20140604032302/@comment-5057599-20140610010330

They're not 'raping' anything, don't be stupid. His Q does pratically the same base damage, only the ratios got halfed which isn't that big of a deal because you never built over 20/30 bonus AD or AP on Skarner to begin with, at least on a VIABLE build. His damage on E was halfed, but since the ability was always maxed last and his passive does damage now it's not really noticeable. In fact if you use E+Q+R (2 passive stacks) and then apply 3 stacks for a passive proc you'll actually do the same or even more damage as the current live version on top of the extra CC from the new passive.

Yeah, 'add value to CDR' was not the best choice of words, what I mean is that CDR is a bigger necessity with the new kit to hit a higher power level whereas he could skip CDR with his current kit in favour of more tanky items like Banshee's, Sunfire, Randuin's, etc. Now he's gonna have to spec for at least 30% with either Frozen Heart, Ionian Boots or CDR runes and blue bot. But either way, people are making way too much fuss about the loss of his passive. Q still gets the CD reduction on-hit, W went from 16 sec to 11 sec at max level (which is the equivalent of 5 auto-attacks on an enemy champion), E is mostly to get in range anyway and R was reduced by 30 (!) seconds. It more than makes up for it.

If this current iteration gets pushed to live Skarner is gonna be in a better place overall and people will understand how idiotic their reactions were.