Talk:Skarner/@comment-7881237-20150121002459/@comment-5605969-20150124070229

NOT EVEN BY A MILE. His damage is not higher now. In fact, it could never be. Skarner was so butchered it makes me wonder what riot was thinking when they reworked him.

His passive is the new damage here, and its nothing big. Sure its useful, but i prefer the old one. Why? Because i could use my LONG CD spells more than once during a fight. His new kit is far from bad. I do enjoy it a lot. But skarner was never once to build a lot of offense items (or ap items in that regard). He was made to be the perfect triforce user. And now, thats all he has. His Q bases were butchered so much, i dont even feel they do dmg anymore. Passive proc could do percentage HP dmg, because it takes so long to reproc the base dmg is a joke. The W is so bad as a shield, u use it only when gap closing or right before ulti. It use to be good when u could have it every 3 seconds (you know, when his passive was great) And his E... ok, its better now. Except i actually miss the heal. Cant complain though. That thing was pretty meh.(Though much better than Kha's heal. In fact it was good heal. Around 120/240.)  And his ulti. I remember using ulti bot, clearing bot junlge, ulti mid, clear top jungle, ulti top. You know why? Cuz a single target CC should have low CD. VI's ulti is arguably MUCH stronger and WAY more lethal and has LESS cooldown. Like, wtf is up with that. Overlall, I can play him and enjoy playing with him. Its just post rework pre passive  was just such a good combo. And not to mention i could actually 1 vs 1 any ADC with him if using him well. Now either u are UBER FED or dont even try it. Oh, and i did use to build only a IBG and SotEL to 1 vs 1 adc. Before Skarner was a bruiser. A good one. Now? A poor tank who uses well triforce. Good luck getting it.