Talk:Skarner/@comment-3985944-20110807050536

I'm guessing that this champion is going to be a magic damage melee, similar to Jax. Although Riot doesn't stay true to their discussion of the champ before release, they did mention this champion to have "high risk, high reward" gameplay. Looking at his ability set I'm wondering where the risk/reward factors will be. Some speculation of this includes.. (Assuming he will truly be risk/reward)

1. Q will become more noticeably powerful after 3-4 consecutive uses, allowing the reward of higher damage, while also the risk of overcommitment.

2. W will promote aggressive gameplay because it also provides attack speed, promoting the player to use this offensively, as opposed to activating it and running, thus wasting the attack speed. I guess the risk and reward here is apparent.

3. E will most likely have a medium cooldown with a medium range. Noticing this ability is a skillshot, I'm lead to believe that the duration of the mark and the heal amount will be fairly significant since it is conditional, not inevitable. The risk here being the commitment to combat where you might have marked multiple opponets, with the reward of *possibly* healing a large sum.

4. R will probably have a short range with a low amount of damage as compared to most ultimates. I'm assuming this because the utility of this would most likely be OP with a irregularly high base damage. The risk lying in how close you have to be to activate it, the reward is obvious.