Talk:Skarner/@comment-94.156.18.156-20110909183011/@comment-99.159.45.111-20110913020730

Erm, Gunblade + Trinity + Rylais is quite good for damage. It's not just about the Q, but attacking as well, and MVSPD and Crit both help that as well (as does his high base Damage).

Even if you're concerned about the Q, Deathcap, Rylai's, and Will of Ancients won't make it much better, and you'll be trading the auto-attack damage for better E's and R's, which is pretty even all told if you have all cooldowns, and favors hybrid if you don't have/use Impale (which is most of the time).

I think if you want to focus on AoE and burst with Q and E, AP is the way to go, but if you just want to kill that one guy and be more tanky, Hybrid is better, and still provides decent AoE.