Talk:Skarner/@comment-4242272-20110810141521/@comment-206.35.36.4-20110810172711

As to ToG and Chalice: If you invest in 1800 gold worth of items that don't do anything for your offense besides let you spam fairly weak spells (since you have no AP/AD), you will be behind in the early game by a large margin. And you won't even have the luxury of them being gp5.

Philo is a nice option, especially if you run top lane and teleport, but vampiric scepter is not. For one thing, your AD isn't that great, and for another you won't get much out of it unless you push lane. Much better to just save for Revolver or something imo.