Skarner (League of Legends)

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Skarner

the Crystal Vanguard

Crafting

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2880

Ratings

Damage	1
Toughness	3
Control	3
Mobility	1
Utility	1

Style

Difficulty

Champion Spotlight

Skarner Champion Spotlight

Skarner is a champion in League of Legends.^[1]

Base statistics
Skarner
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Health

580+85

Mana

320+60

Health regen. (per 5s)

9+0.85

7.2+0.45

38+3.8

65+4.5

32+1.25

175%

335

125

Attack speed

0.625

18% (mod. 0.5)

N/A

+2.1%

Unit radius

80

130

50

600

Special statistics

ARAM
Nexus Blitz
One For All
URF
Ult Spellbook

Dmg. Dealt

+0%

Dmg. Taken

+0%

Healing

+0%

Shielding

+0%

Dmg. Dealt

+0%

Dmg. Taken

+0%

Healing

+0%

Shielding

+0%

Dmg. Dealt

+0%

Dmg. Taken

-3%

Healing

+0%

Shielding

+0%

Dmg. Dealt

+0%

Dmg. Taken

+0%

Healing

+0%

Shielding

+0%

Dmg. Dealt

+0%

Dmg. Taken

+0%

Healing

+0%

Shielding

+0%

Abilities

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Innate: Skarner's presence causes 6 Crystal Spires to appear at set points on the battlefield:

One beside Baron Nashor's pit
One beside Dragon's pit
One nearby each buff monster's camp

Crystal Spires can be captured by champions after minions have spawned by standing near them for 2 seconds. Once captured, Crystal Spires are owned until contested and the defending team can stand on the spire to prevent the opposing team from capturing it.

Crystal Spires grant 30 gold split among its captors upon being captured, or 15 gold if only a single champion participated in its capture. Capturing a Crystal Spire grants sight of its radius for 1.5 seconds and renders it unable to be captured again for 15 seconds.

Skarner gains Crystal Charge while within range of a Crystal Spire controlled by his team, for 1.25 seconds after triggering Crystal Venom, and for 1.75 seconds after stinging an enemy champion with Impale.

Crystal Charge: Skarner gains 70 − 120 (based on level) bonus movement speed, 43% − 160% (based on level) bonus attack speed and restores 1% maximum mana every 0.5 seconds.

Crystal Spires near buff monsters start the game already captured by the side's respective team.

Crystal Charge's duration refreshes if it was gained by an ability.

Howling Abyss differences ^edit

Number of Crystal Spires spawned on the battlefield changed to five:
- One in each brush (with the central one being neutral)
- One in each team's base (below each inhibitor)

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Active: Skarner slashes around himself, dealing physical damage to all nearby enemies.

Physical Damage:: 1 / 1.5 / 2 / 2.5 / 3% of target's maximum health (+ 20% AD)

If an enemy is hit, subsequent casts of Crystal Slash within 5 seconds deal bonus magic damage.

Bonus Magic Damage:: 1 / 1.5 / 2 / 2.5 / 3% of target's maximum health (+ 20% AD) (+ 30% AP)
Total Mixed Damage:: 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6% of target's maximum health (+ 40% AD) (+ 30% AP)

Basic attacks reduce Crystal Slash's cooldown by 0.25 seconds, quadrupled to 1 against enemy champions.

Spell shield will block the damage but will not prevent Skarner from triggering the bonus effect.
Basic attacks against structures will not trigger the cooldown reduction.

Ultra Rapid Fire differences ^edit

No longer reduces its cooldown on-hit.*

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Active: Skarner crystallizes himself, gaining a shield for up to 6 seconds.

Shield Strength:: 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14% maximum health (+ 80% AP)

While the shield holds, Skarner additionally gains bonus movement speed that increases in effectiveness by 100% over the first 3 seconds.

Initial Bonus Movement Speed:: 8 / 10 / 12 / 14 / 16%
Increased Bonus Movement Speed:: 16 / 20 / 24 / 28 / 32%

No additional notes.

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Passive: Every time Skarner triggers Crystal Venom or stings an enemy with Impale, Fracture's cooldown is reduced by the corresponding base duration of the disable.

Active: Skarner launches a blast of crystalline energy in the target direction, dealing magic damage to all enemies within its path and slowing them for 2.5 seconds, as well as marking them with Crystal Venom for 5 seconds.

Magic Damage:: 40 / 65 / 90 / 115 / 140 (+ 20% AP)

Slow:: 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50%

Skarner's next basic attack against a target marked with Crystal Venom consumes the mark to deal them bonus physical damage and stun them for 1.25 seconds.

Bonus Physical Damage:: 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 / 110

Fracture is disabled during Impale.
This ability will cast from wherever the caster is at the start of the cast time.
Fracture's projectile deals area damage, while the Crystal Venom on-hit effect deals proc damage.
Crystal Venom triggers even if the attack is blocked ( stun applies), but not if it's dodged. The damage of the entire attack is negated in both cases.
- 𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐓 : Blind.

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Active: Skarner roots the target enemy champion over the cast time and attempts to impale them with his stinger. Upon successfully impaling the target, he deals them 60% AD physical damage and bonus magic damage and suppresses them for 1.75 seconds, during which they are revealed and Skarner can drag them with himself. At the end of the duration, the target takes the same damage again.

Bonus Magic Damage:: 20 / 60 / 100 (+ 50% AP)
Total Mixed Damage:: 40 / 120 / 200 (+ 120% AD) (+ 100% AP)

Impale's drag ignores displacement immunity.*

Skarner is unable to basic attack, cast Fracture, or use Flash during Impale.

"Feel my sting!"

The target will not take Impale's secondary damage if the suppression is removed before the duration ends.
If the target becomes untargetable, dies, or is too far away or no longer in sight during the cast time, this ability will cancel but does not go on cooldown nor pay its cost (if applicable).
- The range cancel distance is 800 units.
Spell shield will not block the root.
Impale is special cased to end prematurely if the target is affected by Devour, both for an ally and enemy Tahm Kench or if Skarner is teleported by Realm Warp.
- Impale will not end prematurely if Skarner enters resurrection.
Skarner cannot use hex-gates during Impale.
While Impale is active, and for the purposes of direction-conditioned abilities, (e.g. Petrifying Gaze, Mocking Shout) Skarner is considered to be facing in the direction he is moving and not the one his model is facing.
Impale applies a small displacement to the target every 0.25 seconds whenever they are not close to Skarner. These displacements do not apply airborne and are not flagged as displacements, meaning that targets who are not immune to the suppression are also never immune to the displacement, either. As a consequence, displacement immunity fails to ignore this movement. See the table below.

Special interactions

The following dashes are interrupted and do not apply their 'on dash completion' effects (if they have one) when successfully impaled:

Corki's The Package
Nocturne's Paranoia's recast
Sett's The Show Stopper
- This ability attaches its target to Sett. Dragging him out will detach that unit from him.
Shyvana's Dragon's Descent
Yone's Soul Unbound (recast)
- Yone's very high dash speed makes it almost impossible to catch him during the dash. Skarner is required to be close enough to Yone and needs to have near-perfect timing with Impale's cast in order to successfully cancel the dash. If cast too early, the recast will be deferred to the end of Impale's duration, or if cast too late, Impale will be canceled as Yone is already too far away.

The following dashes are stopped likewise with the ones mentioned above, however, they do apply 'on dash completion' effects and when their dash is interrupted, the ability's effects are centered around their initial stopping point from Impale.

Hecarim's Onslaught of Shadows
Jarvan IV's Cataclysm
- The terrain that would usually be formed on impact is instead delayed until the forced movement of Impale ends. The displacement immunity is not removed.
Malphite's Unstoppable Force

The following abilities do not have any special interactions with Impale other than being displaced during their cast.

Illaoi's Leap of Faith
Ornn's Bellows Breath
- The cast direction for this ability cannot be changed.
Viego's Heartbreaker

Rek'Sai's Void Rush has two different outcomes:

Impale is cast before the burrow into the ground:
- Rek'Sai will not vanish while she's being dragged and her ultimate goes on a 10-second cooldown after a brief delay. The displacement immunity is not removed in this case however, which ends when the ability cancels.
Impale is cast after the emergence:
- Rek'Sai's dash is interrupted.

Vi's Cease and Desist behaves differently in contrast to the previously noted examples due to its uniqueness.

The dash is not interrupted and the displacement immunity is not removed. Vi will continue to march towards the target while simultaneously being displaced by Impale and dragged to Skarner. Once Impale ends, she is free of the displacement and will perform the ability as normal.
Enemies that come into range of her are still affected by entering her path.
The primary target is dealt the ability's final effects if they move into the respective range of Vi, thus performing the ability successfully in spite of Impale.

Camille's The Hextech Ultimatum is impractical to test, as it renders her untargetable instantly the moment it's activated, which will always cancel Impale's cast, regardless of the timing.

Kalista's Fate's Call and Tahm Kench's Devour are not possible to test due to the target being vanished, rendering them unable to be selected for unit-targeted abilities like Impale.

Type		Cast time
Attacking		Disabled
Abilities		Disabled
Movement		Disabled
Items	Usable	Shurelya's Battlesong Turbo Chemtank Youmuu's Ghostblade Gargoyle Stoneplate Randuin's Omen
	Disabled	All the other item-actives are disabled
	Interrupted by	N/A
Consumables		Usable
Spells	Usable	Barrier Clarity Cleanse Exhaust Ghost Heal Ignite Smite
	Disabled	Flash Teleport Recall Hexflash
	Interrupted by	N/A
Interrupted by		Death, unless protected by Resurrection

Champion skins

This article section only contains champion skins. For all associated collection items, see Skarner (Collection).

Original

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09.08.2011

Skarner is an immense crystalline scorpion from a hidden valley in Shurima. Part of the ancient Brackern race, Skarner and his kin are known for their great wisdom and deep connection to the land, as their souls are fused with powerful life crystals which hold the living thoughts and memories of their ancestors. In an age long past, the Brackern entered hibernation to avoid untold magical destruction, but recent, threatening events have roused Skarner. As the only Brackern awake, he strives to protect his kind from those who seek to harm them.

David Lodge

Wesley Keil

Loot eligible

Patch history

For the expanded patch notes, see here.

V12.3

Battlecast Alpha Skarner
- Bug Fix: SFX of marking a minion with Crystal Venom by hitting Fracture and gaining Crystal Charge from triggering Crystal Venom now properly play correctly.

V12.1

Fracture
- Bug Fix: Consuming the mark now correctly deals bonus damage.

V11.24 - December 15th Hotfix

Fracture
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where immediately attacking a marked target would not consume the mark.

V11.12

Battlecast Alpha Skarner
- Bug Fix: Iceborn Gauntlet's purchase lines now play for Frostfire Gauntlet's.

V11.4

Stats
- Base health reduced to 580 from 601.
- Health growth reduced to 85 from 90.

V11.1

Stats
- Base magic resistance reduced to 32 from 32.1.
- Base health reduced to 601 from 601.28.

V10.23

Stats
- Base mana regeneration reduced to 7.2 from 7.206.
- Mana growth increased to 60 from 40.

V10.16

Crystal Slash
- Mana cost reduced to 10 from 15.
- AD ratio increased to 20% AD from 15% AD.

V10.15

Crystal Slash
- AD ratio reduced to 15% AD at all ranks from 33 / 36 / 39 / 42 / 45% AD.
- New Effect: Now deals 1 / 1.5 / 2 / 2.5 / 3% of target's maximum health as additional physical damage, and 1 / 1.5 / 2 / 2.5 / 3% of target's maximum health as additional magic damage while empowered.
- Empowered ability duration increased to 5 seconds from 4.
- Mana cost increased to 15 at all ranks from 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14.
Fracture
- Removed: Missile speed is no longer reduced for each subsequent enemy hit.

V9.7

Battlecast Alpha Skarner
- Bug Fix: Buffs aura now properly follow the model during certain animations.

V9.5

Crystal Spires
- Removed: Spires are no longer shown on the minimap.
- Spire radius increased to 1600 units from 1150.
- Red side spire has been moved to be in the vicinity of the Krug and Raptor camps.

V8.5

Fracture
- Stun duration reduced to 1.25 seconds from 1.5.

V8.4

Fracture
- Bug Fix: Now correctly stun targets afflicted by Fracture's Crystal Venom if they received the debuff in between when he began and initiated the attack.

V8.3

Stats
- Base health regeneration increased to 9 from 8.928.

V8.2

Impale
- New Effect: Now draws nearby minion aggro when targeting an enemy champion.

V8.1

Stats
- Base mana increased to 320 from 272.2.
Fracture
- Bonus physical damage increased to 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 / 110 from 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 / 65.
- Stun duration increased to 1.5 seconds from 1.

V7.22

Stats
- Base attack damage increased to 65 from 57.156.
- Base armor increased to 38 from 29.384.

V7.21

Battlecast Alpha Skarner
- Bug Fix: No longer incorrectly plays classic VO lines in addition to the correct ones.

V7.2

General
- Bug Fix: Guardian of the Sands Skarner no longer causes an insanely loud noise to play if certain actions were taken.

V5.24

Fracture
- Removed: Being able to hit up to 6 units.
Impale
- AD ratio reduced to 60% AD from 100% AD.

V5.18

Crystal Spires
- Bug Fix: Bonus movement speed and bonus attack speed scaling too quickly during early game.
Fracture
- Slow reduced to 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50% from 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 / 65%.

V5.17

Crystal Spires
- Bonus movement speed changed to 70 − 120 (based on level) from 100 at all levels.
- Bonus attack speed changed to 43 − 160 (based on level)% from 48 − 160 (based on level).
- Per-second mana regen reduced to 2% maximum mana from 3%.
- Bug Fix: Skarner gaining the bonuses despite target removing his disables.
- Twisted Treeline
  - Spire positions changed to remove area of effect overlapping.

August 26th Hotfix

Stats
- Movement speed reduced to 335 from 345.
- Attack damage reduced to 57.156 from 61.156.
Crystalline Exoskeleton
- Shield reduced to 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14% maximum health from 12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / 16%.
Fracture
- Cooldown increased to 14 / 13.5 / 13 / 12.5 / 12 seconds from 13 / 12.5 / 12 / 11.5 / 11.
- Projectile damage reduced to 40 / 65 / 90 / 115 / 140 from 40 / 75 / 110 / 145 / 180.
- Crystal Venom mark damage reduced to 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 / 65 from 25 / 50 / 75 / 100 / 125.

V5.16 Gameplay Update

General
- Recommended items updated.
Stats
- Health growth reduced to 90 from 96.
- Attack damage growth increased to 4.5 from 4.2.
- Attack frame improved but scales less efficiently with attack speed (same as Kalista and Thresh)
Crystal Spires (New Innate)
- Skarner's presence causes a number of Crystals to spawn. Crystals can be captured indefinitely by standing on top of them (neutral zones are unable to be captured until 1:30) granting 15 or 30 split among contributors, giving sight over the area for 1.5 seconds, and preventing recapture by the opposing team for 15 seconds. Defending champions can stand on the Crystal to prevent capture.
- While near captured Crystals or a Crystallized enemy, Skarner gains Crystal Charge, granting him 100 bonus movement speed and 48 − 160 (based on level)% bonus attack speed as well as regenerating 3% maximum mana per second.
Crystal Slash
- Physical damage changed to 33 / 36 / 39 / 42 / 45% AD from 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 (+ 40% Bonus AD).
- Magic damage changed to 33 / 36 / 39 / 42 / 45% AD (+ 20% AP) from 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 (+ 20% AP).
- Cooldown reduced to 3.5 / 3.25 / 3 / 2.75 / 2.5 seconds from 3.5 at all ranks.
- Charge duration reduced to 4 seconds from 5.
- On-hit cooldown reduction against non-champions reduced to 0.25 seconds from 0.5.
- Mana cost reduced to 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 from 16 / 17 / 18 / 19 / 20.
- Removed: Stacking bonus movement speed and attack speed bonuses.
Crystalline Exoskeleton
- Base shield changed to 12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / 16% maximum health from 80 / 135 / 190 / 245 / 300.
Fracture
- New Passive - Crystalize: Enemies hit are afflicted with Crystal Venom for 5 seconds, causing Skarner's next basic attack against them to deal 25 / 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 bonus physical damage and stun them for 1 second.
- Enemies afflicted with Crystal Venom's stun or Impale's suppression grant Skarner Crystal Charge as well as reduce Fracture's cooldown by each disable's respective duration.
- New Effect: Projectile can hit up to 6 enemies but speed is reduced per hit landed
- Mana cost changed to 55 at all ranks from 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70.
- Cooldown increased to 13 / 12.5 / 12 / 11.5 / 11 seconds from 12 / 11.5 / 11 / 10.5 / 10.
Impale
- Removed: Bonus magic damage to targets afflicted with Crystal Venom
- Cooldown changed to 120 / 100 / 80 seconds from 110 / 100 / 90.
- Mana cost reduced to 100 at all ranks from 100 / 125 / 150.
- Base damage reduced to 20 / 60 / 100 from 100 / 150 / 200.
- New Effect: Has a (+ 100% AD) ratio.

Trivia

Skarner was deemed overpowered and obnoxious in Ultra Rapid Fire (2014 edition) and was ultimately disabled in non-custom games.
Skarner had his game assets reused for several featured game modes!
- He was given a retexture and features as a monster called the "Draggy Tail Monster" in Invasion.
  - Skarner is the only unit that was retextured for this mode that isn't a Voidborn.
- His animations were reused for the Crimson Stinger and Petal Claw monsters in Odyssey: Extraction.

References

↑ Skarner's profile page at LeagueOfLegends.com

[1] Skarner's profile page at LeagueOfLegends.com

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Skarner (League of Legends)

Abilities

Crystal Spires

Crystal Slash

Crystalline Exoskeleton

Fracture

Impale

Champion skins

Patch history

Trivia

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