Talk:Skarner/@comment-70.45.46.110-20110810172752

Rapacious, I tested a build very similar to yours: I've realized that skarner can be built as just about anything. AD scales with his Q and the AS buff from W, AS works with his passive to wreck his cooldowns. Everything scales off AP, and I bet he'd even make a decent tank, due to his suppression ultimate and what is easily a 45% aoe permaslow from his Q. That said, the reason why everyone considers him UP is that hes being viewed as a jungler when hes really rather lousy in that capacity, he's fairly complicated to build due to all his abilities scaling off eachother, and he doesnt put out massive in your face damage. But I think that Q spam puts out consistent dps, making his damage more powerful than it looks upfront. Regardless of his damage, his ultimate makes him useful to a team. Generally speaking, people consider burst OP, since the damage comes instantaneously, whereas consistent damage over time never looks as powerful as it really is (look at the public opinion of champions such as cass or wukong versus, say, leblanc)