Talk:Skarner/Strategy/@comment-5482962-20120914055730/@comment-75.133.147.122-20121022144004

AP items, unlike AD items, actually help him tank, and quite significantly if you get Cooldown Reduction, and moreso yet if you get Armor/MR as well. Frozen Heart is great, and Athene's Grail too, because of the mana the two provide as well as Cooldown Reduction, and damage mitigation additionally. He has 3 skills that improve his damage with AP, and 2 that improve his damage mitigation, more than most characters get. If you want your AD to work, put it on a character that either has skills that have significant AD add-ons (his Q is not high enough...), on an AD that actually has range, or on an AD that actually has Armor Pen/AD improvements inherant in their skills. Skarner is not that character.