Talk:Skarner/Strategy/@comment-88.148.30.233-20110810213306/@comment-1663285-20110814112702

You'd rape faces even harder with Trinity Force. Lich Bane will do less damage than TriForce until you get around +200 AP (Which is a massive waste of gold unless you run Rageblade due to his horrible scaling) because of Skarner's massive natural AD. AP focused Skarner is a very bad idea, he needs to balance Attack Speed with AP or else he turns into AP Kass: A moderate burst that becomes useless for about 6 seconds while he waits for his cooldowns, in which time he will usually die. I know this from experience, I've used the OP's build and it leaves much to be desired in pretty much every area (It doesn't make him a powerful mage, he can't fight while on his cooldowns, and he's generally very easy to kill. When compared to an *actual* hybrid build it's waaay too expensive and isn't repaying the gold you spent on it)