Talk:Skarner/@comment-25807555-20141203213950/@comment-25807555-20141208063638

No because that's not who Skarner is, I built him with Hydra my first time playing him and realized how wrong of a choice it was. Zephyr isn't an atrocious choice but there are better items.

First off the Trinity Force is a very early game item, generally if you don't build it first, it's best not to build it, it can make a good second item to, but it's very early game focused, so start with that on Skarner.

Now that you have a trinity force and it's later in the game, Ravenous Hydra doesn't make a lot of sense, for one you scale poorly with life steal, but aside from that you need more durability and you make terrible use of hydra passive. So the next thing you buy is a Wits End, this is because the on hit magic damage synergizes with attack speed fighters, and that's what Skarner is, however it not only gives you 25 extra MR via it's stacking passive, but it also lowers your enemies, and a large portion of Skarners damage is magic. He is a very hybrid champion, probably more so than any other champion. After that you have some durability, but it's not enough, wits end takes time to be good durability and trinity force is 200 hp, you could have gone IG in the past but that's still low, so at this point you stack durability.

Now assuming you are jungle, before all that you buy the devourer, which means only 2 high durability items. There is no room for stuff you build because other stuff synergizes better on this attack speed fighter. It's because people like you have such a hard time building him that he is in the state he is now. I understand how difficult a champion to understand he is, but I assure, this is the best way to go, or rather was the best way to go when he has his passive.