Talk:Skarner/@comment-4948122-20120630222417/@comment-5034042-20120701024838

I dont like your build in general. My suggestion:

Start with regrowth + pot, on first recall get philo + boots + Ruby Crystal. Now you got health, speed and can give blue to your mid.

Next Recall: upgrade Ruby on Catalyst and get Mercs, why: mercs is a must for skarner, he always need to get close to his target without tenacity when a enemy slows you your gank sucess drops critticaly. And with Catalyst your mana problems are (almost) gone forever.

Next: Upgrade your Catalyst into Banshee's Veil and philo into shurelia, why: whats is more fearsome than a foe who can grab you and can negate one CC with banshee's shield? Shurelia gives you both even more health and a ability to you and your team mates get closer to enemys and escape.

Now you got lots of health and a good MR, time to buy some armor: get shen to improve dmg and buy chain vest, then upgrade chain into Guardian angel, why: Guardian Angel give you lots of resistances, with your previous health items it makes you a true tank, who can jump into the mid of 5 enemys grab the carry, do AoE dmg with AoE slow without fear of death. Now if you can finish Trini.

Skarner got one of the best base AD on the game and shen/trini only prooced base AD dmg, these 2 are the only real offensive items you need because skarner spams his skills a lot prooceding shen/trini every 2 seconds. :)