User blog comment:Deshiba/RIOT Reworks./@comment-24420226-20140319233717/@comment-24420226-20140320213541

In reply to Deshiba: you could never use Skarner's heal in lane. Unless you were going AP Skarner, the amount you healed was negligible at best for the amount of mana it cost. Putting ranks into it early was lane suicide and you would never be able to fight your opponent. Which was destined to happen because marking minions and going in to heal was basically like saying in all-chat "This would be a bad time for me to get engaged on because i need to focus on hitting all of these marks." Not all laners automatically require natural sustain. Just look at Shyvana.