Talk:Skarner/@comment-132.3.33.68-20110919125744

I'm enjoying how so few people know how to play Skarner. I consistently go anywhere from 7:1 to 10:1 ratio on K:D when I jungle with him. Got a nice quadra kill with no ally help - would have been a Penta if the other guy wasn't across the map... His ganks are solid, but the build is critical.

Start w/ blue crystal and 2 pots, go to wraiths (take enemy wraith camp if they don't have a jungler). Take E first, use smite on big wraith, E the other three and start swinging. Move on to wolves on your side (regardless of which side you killed wraiths on. if theirs, take your wraiths after wolves before going onto the next step). E again and keep swinging on the big wolf till it dies, take your Q, and start using that + E to keep the health up as you go. Eat a pot if you think you need it, but with the right runes and masteries, you should be fine. Move on to twin golems, kill them using smite on one of them that you focus down [if you didn't start at enemy wraiths, wait until your smite CD has less than 5 seconds on it]. B immediately, then go to blue buff. Start ganking if any lane is pushed too close to team towers, otherwise, keep jungling until you have your ult, then start ganking more.

Get your sheen ASAP, then merc treads, then bilgewater cutlass (for extra slow), which you rush into a Hextech gunblade. You now have the core, and lots of sustain. Go from there to Trinity Force for more stats + move speed. I emphasize move speed, because it compliments his ult [and the champion] well, and makes it easier to choose engagements. So if you need defense, get a Force of Nature, otherwise get a PD. Either way, I get the other one afterwards, so it's just the order of the two that varies. Last item is your call. Anything goes. Another PD for more output if you want, guardian's angel... it doesn't matter.

I take Smite and Ghost. AP quints, armor yellows, armor pen reds (trinity force and the physical component of Q, + rapid attack swings means most the damage, surprisingly, is physical even though he' s mostly AP ratios), CDR blues.