Talk:Skarner/@comment-5086858-20120613163409/@comment-5028389-20120615200723

if you cut back your use of his abilities sure you won't use all of his mana, but then again your jungle clear-time suffers.

If you try to clear each camp as fast as possible, you WILL run out of mana. That's why he has mana problems. Even if you don't use E, and only use Q and W at each camp, if you don't have blue buff or sheen/glacial, you WILL run out of mana before you're ready to go back. You can sort of get by only using Q once you reach level 5, but using W at each camp is extremely useful both for clear-speed and for maintaining high health.

This is why I get sheen on him after getting hog/philo/boots. The mana and passive are too good too pass up for the price.