Talk:Skarner/@comment-217.131.115.69-20110813043249/@comment-3486816-20110814051741

building full AD is honestly pretty moronic. He has the highest base AD in the game along with Cho'Gath, and pretty mediocre attack speed (his steroid is helpful but won't last long at all under focus without resistances and AP), while his passive makes him scale incredibly well with attack speed. AD is a little over twice as expensive as AP, so you actually get a little more damage per gold on your Q from AP than from AD. So no, full AD is no more viable than full AP. Attack speed/crit would be the way to take advantage of his autoattacks, but wouldn't do much for his skills. Hybrid with attack speed focus is honestly the only non-stupid way to build him for damage. Glass cannon is probably the dumbest thing you could possibly do on him though.