Talk:Skarner/@comment-20434720-20140509044045

CDR or attack speed offensive tree masteries?

I'm seriously contemplating saving up for a new set of glyphs just for CDR on Skarner. Jungle/top don't have too many AP matchups commonly (exception Ryze), and frozen heart would give Skarner 20% CDR, but most of the other good CDR items give 20% (not planning on IBG), and it's usually preferable to simply not get 40% with just items unless you're Nasus, though most of them seem to run CDR glyphs / masteries anyway.

Build I'm looking at right now for top lane is TriForce, Blade of the Ruined King, Frozen Heart, Spirit Visage, Rod of Ages, merc treads / ninja tabis. Rod of ages seems like an awkward laning rush, though, and you DO need to rush it if you want to get the benefits reasonably soon. But I do like having health, mana, and AP - especially given pretty decent scalings on W and E, and very good scaling on Q for how spammable it is. It feels like if I just swapped it out for randuin's or something I would be lacking in magic damage. Perhaps if I swapped out Spirit Visage for Wit's End, then replaced ROA with randuin's? Overall less health, though more effective health vs physical damage dealers.