User blog comment:Astanas7/Fixing Skarner: Proposal 24§3c/@comment-1330314-20140215132416/@comment-8234800-20140215182620

You're right about this kit being more dependant on an early gold advantage than his current one - but I feel that it would be a compromise between the current and the old, where the permaslow was virtually unstopabble if no flash/knockback was available. Plus, the slow would be much weaker until the mid-game, as it wouldn't scale with the same spell which is also his main source of damage. Really, I think that's one of the broken parts of his old kit.