Talk:VPBE/@comment-4290320-20140627125313/@comment-8506165-20140701141826

"I would say Skarner's initial rework was fine, just like Katarina's, but it took a buff for people to actually start trying the play them - then it turns out they didn't need that buff."

Normally, yeah, I'm skeptical of the "They changed it, now it sucks" mentality of the League community, but Skarner's original rework was atrocious. I played it, and hated it. Everyone I know that played him before, hated it. Someone I ran into in a game who tried post-rework Skarner during free week, and thus had no investment in pre-rework Skarner or irrational reason to dislike post-rework Skarner immediately said "Hm... Skarner sucks" after coming out of the game. (Which they won, so he wasn't just sore over losing.)

But what they've done now? More of a rework than their original one - which was basically just "we're removing permaslow - now all your CC is loaded into an unreliable skillshot", without giving him sufficient compensation elsewhere - and I love it now. Yeah, probably a bit OP, but that's a numbers thing. Tweak down the damage and you're good. But there was no way I was going to like rework Skarner in his original form even if they'd decided to overcook the numbers then - and that would have just made him unhealthy (again?).