Talk:Skarner/@comment-24486730-20141102021526/@comment-1330314-20141102022522

His base damage is pretty terrible, he has nowhere near enough burst to work as an assassin, not even if he goes full damage, and he doesn't scale that well with damage items in general, bar and its upgrades. His playstyle mostly consists of running at you and sticking to you until you die, so if you don't build tanky on Skarner you're going to get popped fairly easily, even with his generous base tankiness. If you really want to build more damage on him, get and, which will give him pretty good damage while allowing him to get all the tanky items he needs to survive. Items like and  could potentially scale well with his attack speed steroid, but I'd say they're too much of a gamble most of the time.