Talk:Skarner/@comment-89.75.167.175-20120107225517

Hey people. I played Skarner during the free week and I liked him a lot. I'm still pretty noob (level 22 now, have only Orianna, Karma and Nidalee unlocked) and I'm looking for a champ to begin my jungling career with. Skarner seems to be a nice choice, he's dynamic and fun imo.

One thing that bothers me about jungling is Smite. I LOATHE the idea of locking away half (!) of my summoner spells just to jungle. As such, I played around with a jungling skarner with Flash and Ignite (in coop games so as not to bother people in normal games). I consistently managed to get level 6 by 7:40, getting regrowth pendant+pot and going wolves-> wraiths-> golems-> wolves-> recall, get Philo -> Blue and clear the jungle. I will probably be able to do significantly better once I hit 30 and have the masteries and runes. Oddly enough, there is no youtube video on jungling skarner w/o smite ;-/ so I suppose it's just not viable for some reason.

Does anybody have an idea if it's viable to jungle skarner w/o smite?