Talk:Skarner/Strategy/@comment-173.95.158.169-20110820162618

Boots 1 and consumables for start. Then rage blade. Then mercs if cc heavy, swiftness if not. If they are almost all auto attack champs i will get tabi. Those two items are always first.

Then after that my last 4 items order depend on the teams, my damage items are always nashors and lichs bane.

Survivability i go with 2 of 5 items out of GA, B Veil, Thornmail, Abyssal Scepter, or Zhonyas. On the off chance I don't need survivability my last two items are Hat and Gunblade.

Standard 9/0/21 masteries, red aspd, yellow per lvl mrgen, blue flat cd, ms purps.

With ms purps and masteries lvl one boots move me faster then most people with lvl 2 boots. Runes and masteries and nashors get me to 39.8% cd. No health built, because shield is temp health, resistances are better for keeping shield active.

I prefer the three damage items i chose because he gets really bursty out of nowhere. Play mind games. Poke with 0 stacks of rageblade, but go for the kill with 8 stacks. attack minions, not champs with the Lichs bane proc until you're going for the kill. dont hit them with q at all until you're going for the kill. His animations don't look very intimidating, and if they arent paying attention to how much you're doing to the minions they will underestimate you.