Talk:Skarner/@comment-4022742-20140218133649/@comment-4636093-20140219144942

Look at the pros of Wriggles over Spirit of the [X] items.


 * +40% gold from monsters usually gets much more gold than Conservation provided you arrive at a camp the instant it spawns and clear it as fast as possible before moving onto the next one without pausing.


 * Gives an extra ward which ontop of your trinket gives you 2 free wards. Or gives you a free ward if you went for the sweeping lens as most junglers do.


 * Basic attacks deal a lot of bonus damage to monsters

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Now the negatives:


 * Spirit items give you 30% bonus damage from all sources to monsters, this will be A LOT more damage to both your auto attacks and your skills. Skarner is very skill usage based.


 * 8% of damage done by auto attacks or 4% of damage done by Skarner's (AoE) skills is restored as health. Wriggle's 10 health heal on auto attack won't even sustain you through a single small wraith's auto attack, while a Spirit Stone item will let you actually lifesteal from jungle camps and end up with more health than you had.


 * 4% of auto damage or 2% of Skarner's skill damage is returned as mana. Every time you press Q the base damage alone gives you back 5 mana so 20% of the cost of the skill is restored.


 * Conservation gives you what is considered an extra jungle camp's worth of gold every 60 seconds. This potential gold is 'stored' for safe keeping and as long as you don't go over 2 minutes without clearing a camp (the time it takes you reach 80 stacks) you're never missing out on gold.


 * Spirit items give actual stats. The attack speed and armor of the Wriggle's doesn't do very much if you have to fight an enemy champion. Spirit of the Ancient Golem gives you Health, CDR and all important Tenacity.

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So Spirit items give more damage, more sustain, actual stats you'll want to keep lategame and allows you to leave camps alive so you can go ganking without wasting the gold generating power.

Wriggle's Lantern is for those junglers with fast clears, are entirely auto attack reliant, don't have mana, can't or won't ever gank, has the power to move instantly to a camp as soon as it spawns to clear it, and won't ever run into the enemy jungler....

.... Such a champion does not exist. Wriggle's Lantern is a horrible item.