Talk:Skarner/@comment-3493296-20150804221254/@comment-26812025-20150805160359

ok so as i see, skarner's dps is getting gutted outside of  control areas, unless you build much AD on him,.

He becomes a pick with situational effectiveness at best,  whose unique niche will most probably be effectively utiliesed only by pro teams, since it requires teamplay.

His only way to come close to his pre-rework dps is to actually build those 2 new bruiser items, getting some hp but sacrificing most of the tankiness. The good part is that, because they made all his bonus AD scalings into total AD, building the new base AD item will increase your Q and ult damage, in addition to your TF procs. So apparently, going Cinderhulk - Trinity - Sterak - Frozen - Locket     seems like a solid core to me. OR you could go YOLO and build  Warrior - Trinity - Sterak - Black Cleaver - Titanic Hydra. And now that his AP version is royally nerfed beyond repair,  a shield-trollish version could be  Cinderhulk - RoA - Rylai - Liandry - Deathcap for a 1290 full build shield on top of 4800HP.

With this shield rework, Frozen Heart, a core item since his release is suddenly  a not so appeling choice, because now u want  health. You have to also try and find alternative ways to reach 40% cooldown. maybe some runes or black cleaver (meh). You could still go with frozen heart tho because even with it, the shield strength is considerably higher than before.