User blog comment:Muffintehbrony/Unseen 'unviable' champs/@comment-10540150-20140320220851

Honestly, I looked at the Skarner rework a lot like other people, until I tried him as an AD offensive tank. You grab boots and three defensive items, one of which is probably Frozen Mallet, which gives you back your permaslow, then you grab triforce and another AD item, probably IE, to bring him up to about 200 AD, and then you just have fun.

You're tanking for decades at a time, and they can't even really ignore you because you're running around destroying people with Sheen procs and crits at 1.5 attack speed. The few reasons I don't like it is because it is partly situational and excels when they have a team that is heavy in one type of damage or the other and because it is rather costly to build the items I like to build. But apart from that, I can duel the majority of the champs in the game if I'm even slightly ahead. Unfortunately, I didn't play enough of him pre-rework to really say if he's more or less viable this way.

Also, I actually do miss the heal on his E beause I feel like it would make him one of the stronger duelists in the game if it had stuck around.