Talk:Skarner/@comment-4636093-20140606012128/@comment-15667791-20140608164411

That's bullcrap. They haven't released a UP champion in forever, and many OP ones are from recent history: Jinx, Yasuo, Lucian, Thresh, Vi, and especially the most recent release, Braum. They have plenty of capability to release champions that can compete in today's game, they simply refuse to put that much effort into it. Seriously, who has movement speed boosts on two different skills? A character who had their first movement speed skill nerfed into the ground, that's who.

There is simply no brainwork involved in this rework, and I wholly believe that if Riot is listening to anybody in this process, they are listening to players who dumped Skarner long ago because he wasn't as easy a build as they hoped. Now they can't stop adding bells and whistles to him, and meanwhile taking away his real identity, like his slow, his shield's damaging factor, his sustain, and most importantly, his cooldown reduction passive that was his identity, and instead they give him what he didn't slightly need, such as even more movement speed, ranged CC, and now a hard CC to replace consistent CC. Ridiculous.