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Hey MetalHydra, how are you liking these changes so far?

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amazing skarner gameplay

GOAT

Running straight into 3 people with trinity and ruined king blade was so much fun. You'd go full attack speed and damage, into your passive, destroying them with chain cc and brillance proke reset on Q spell, spamming like crazy. People were always choked, offendend being destroyed by a goofy crystal scropion who walks faster than a car moves. Sometimes I'd go AP or Full Moovespeed to takedown one ennemy only with ult into our base. So much fun, it was overall the best champion I played in this video game. Just wanted to go crazy, go stupid Now it's a rock with legs It's like losing my own blood F*ck you Riot

Not sure if you did any sort of research for this video or not. However i just wanted to state that you are completely wrong with this take. 2015 Riot introduced to us the juggernaut update V15.6 where they completely changed multiple champions alongside darius as the only viable change to stick to this day. During this time frame where you say skaner was "optimal" he was running the rift at 60% wr, the highest percentage over any patch the rift has seen. no champion has seen higher. You are comparing a point an click 2 second suppression followed his old ability called fracture that is a slow for 2.5 seconds that if autoed within that range induced a 1.5 second stun.... That is 3.5 seconds of point an click cc. Clear was accelerated due crystalline areas around the map buffing him to at lvl 1 46% attack speed making it nearly impossible to duel further more he would get a charge of his stun just for being within his spires.... Id like to see you do a comparison with new poppy an old poppy if you are this off on the skarner rework... an i would love to know your rank to get these very poor takes.

If a League of Legends player doesn't complain about something, he's probably dead.

I honestly have no idea what they were thinking with his design and lore. They said a crystal scorpion was too generic, so they made him scorpion Galio?

I dont understand why they can’t just leave champions to be lower pick rates. There wasn’t an issue with old skarner since not that many people played him. He was strong but not overtuned and it wasn’t an issue since his play rate was low. Reworking him like this just alienates the old players and as we can see, fails to bring in new players to stick with Skarner

that first clip is not cool. thats just straight up cruel, you cant do that to a man

If they just make him scales with AD or AP🗿

im sorry riot decided to erase your favourite champion from the game but, man, the new skarner is cool

your voice is identical to vandiril's voice

Skarner's rework makes me fear what they are going to do with Shyvana

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Skarner E

After what Skarner did to me and my toplane brothers after the rework, I don't want him to be a viable champion. Something like this shouldn't be in the game. Or at least he should stay underpowered and uninteresting just so he wouldn't break toplane again

I got it guys… Rito just isn’t a good company and this is a large pattern.

I miss old skarner

In my own opinion (I haven’t watch the whole video yet so if you cover these my bad) his Q is too clunky, no reason he needs to self CC when casting it, W doesn’t fit into the kit and feels like an afterthought, e lasts nowhere near long enough so it feels less like this insanely fun gank tool and more like a hinderance, his R is the only well designed ability but most the time you’re using it on 1 ADC or equivalent carry making it almost feel worse than old skarner ULT. Also his looks are just not it, I like how bulky he is but going for gray and green is just so boring and not as appealing at the purple, blue, and pink of old skarner.

I really liked old skarner gameplay. Although he wasn't strong in normal games, I believe he was one of the strongest in aram. The crystal tower defense was really funny/frustrating, but it would become really reliant to winning or losing (if you're winning they're better and if you're losing, you'll lose harder). What I felt was bad for his old kit was his passive, a area buff that stretched to the start of a lane or new crystals positions would make it a lot better, since he could get some buffs ganking or while laning. The new skarner feels like a go in and hope you can tank long enough to kill or wait until your team win, just like a sion, and his ult is just a cc that stops the enemies long enough for them to aggro to you, or reposition around it. One thing I don't think the video mentions is how bad his mana ratio is at the early game (until around level 5-6) his q uses relatively a lot of mana, and since he always want to be using it, feels like a mf burning her mana through her q, making it unreliable. I also miss his old e, where a good placed e could win a teamfight or make it easier for kidnapping an enemy player, his new e can reposition an enemy player, but will most of the time be a frontliner or a tank, like a braum or zac (I really the the skarner e response for zac e though, where he just kidnaps zac from the air) and will not affect the enemy team that much, and it is hard for a flank in a teamfight since you'll be tanking for your team. As a person who like to build strange builds in champs, skarner lost a lot, we can't have an adc skarner, since no abilities benefits from it (q cast time is really long for an adc, and his passive is a joke), ap skarner is a meme build and bruiser is just weaker than a tank skarner.

asol rework was worse they completely ruined my fauvorite champion to still be barely played

They should change his scalings to open up more build options

Champ is just boring as shit!

Old AD Skarner was very fun and now he is very boring. I don't know how you can end up with only max HP ratio on a champ...

Riot drops an “abject failure” at least twice a year at this point

Boring asssssss kit its boring as fuck

Giant ass rant incoming, be forewarned. The personal dealbreaker for me is the lore: were before Skarner was this tragic ancient being that even Shurima's sands forgot and born of a race to whom a good chunk of Runeterra is indebted to without ever knowing, now he's legit just a boomer afraid of change and shoehorned into a region that even his current visual design doesn't match because, and i will die on this hill, *Ixtal is a failure of a region that serves only as a containment zone for cool ideas that do not fit in league. at. all.* The miniscule amount of champions it has, 2 of them already being reworks mind you, should yell you everything you need to know. Like explain to me where in the FUCK does Malphite's entire being ever scream "ah yes, this giant living mountain is from Ixtal!" 'cause i can't see it. Also even *IF* Ixtal had good characters and/or actual vision for it's future by the very nature Ixtal doesn't amount to jack. fucking. shit in the longrun because they are *isolationists* for Christ sake: THEY LITERALLY WROTE THIS REGION TO BE WORTHLESS SO THEY COULD THROW WHATEVER IN IT AND NOT HAVE PEOPLE COMPLAIN! ...And also to ride of that Wakanda hypetrain lmao. "oh but they reworked Skarner's lore so it wouldn't hurt Arcane/Seraphine's lore!" i hear you say and i raise you a mighty: you telling me you don't think it'd be cooler if the "good-vibes singer" had a secret psycopath side? like seraphine *knew* what she was doing was manipulative and cruel in nature but did it anyways for the fame? *kinda like a good chunk of famous people do?* Hell did you ever consider how cool it'd be the scene when Caitlyn/Heimer discovered the truth? what if they discovered the Brackern's past but were forced to keep it a secret because *Piltover is now entirely dependent on Hextech to function?* how would these supposedly good guys, and jayce lmao, react to having to put the future and greater good of Piltover over the past and suffering of another? If you honestly think anything about that scenario is somehow worse than "giant earthbender scorpion is too scared of the outside to do anything meaningful" you must be a reeeeeal party to be around.

Feel like a big problem with Skarner is they completely changed his role with the rework. Instead of him being a juggernaut like he was before the rework (and before the spire rework) he's a tank now. He can't even build like a juggernaut like Darius, Garen, Illaoi, Sett, or even Morde. Before the rework he even had ap item options but now he's just a generic cc tank.

A fix for his lackluster ult would be: After the ult rruns out, sharker turns the enemies into the direction of his cursor (so if the cursor is behin him, he spins 180 with enemies attached) at a fixed distance. This would then combo into his charge, if you did not engage with it, essentially giving him the old charge grab back but putting thee power of it into his ult. Then to diversify buildpaths, make the final hit of his 3 hit Q am activation trigger. Meaning it acts as if skarner used an ability to get trinity procs in. Nerf His HP scalings slightly and buff AD scalings. To enable juggernaut builds. And as a final Fun option: add AP scaling to his Q and E.

Nooooo my boy skarner is wonderful rn

Or people like humanoid champions

It's a retcon. It's no longer scarner

the only problem is that the champion is nerfed as fuck. Buff him a little bit to balance the victory rate and you get a proper champion and its popularity is going to rise. I like his new lore and aesthetics. The schizophrenia he has about the external world matches the lore around Ixtal. his gameplay is way better too, his old passive to get crystal pillars around the map was just awful, the new one is related to him being a "earthshake maker". The new ult is much more impactful and unique. It's good rework, it could be better for sure but I can't agree with you that this is a failure.

This is like the Morde rework all over again

New skarner alienated old skarner players by not being fun and the rest of the community by not being good lol

The skarner rework has the same issue that the aatrox rework had. But failed in every way. They took. A low playrate champion and just removed them

Honestly, the entire problem with Skarner boils down to - no Identity/target goal

I really hate rito and his decitions, sometimes just feels like they choose the more mid decition they can or sometimes they even say falacies that THEY make real "monster champs dont generate hype" b*tck you are the one that took almost 4 years to make skarner, each time you tried to make hype for him you announce it will be later and later for YEARS, and when you finally release it is just a op stats tank that when nerfed everyone is asking for old skarner to be back or re rework him, just look at belveth she got hyped not because her "waifu face" but because she feels like the monster champ of the year, so is not a hype thing is a you thing rito

Riot trying not to release champion for specific role that is completely overpowered on different roles challenge. I swear 90% of new champs and reworks suffer from this

the fact they nerfed his ultimate is the worst part. his old ult was more powerful. although it only targeted one champion, it's more than enough as the effect is instantaneous and you can move it around freely. you can isolate one particular enemy and bring it into the hands of your team, making fights 4v5 in what cases do you need to bring 3 people? not to mention, once the effect expires, there's now 3 enemy champions at the middle of your team, which could be more disastrous than if you just didn't ult them in the first place

I don't play, since news about addition of vangshit. So I don't really know, the new Skarner, but... I dislike the reworked one, because of completly ruined lore.

Revert the abilities but change the passive.

It's boring asf

here's the thing. riot had always been upfront it wa gonna be a galio/aatrox type rework even during the vgu poll.

I used to play Skarner support around 2019-2020. It was awesome, especially when enemy team was also playing a melee support. This new Skarner looks like trash and I wouldn't be able to play it as a support.

I like the skarner rework and this reminds me of the quit having fun meme

New skarner is fucking resident sleeper shit

I cant think of any other rework (aside from maybe Asol) that has ONLY had a negative impact on the champ playrate and general fun. Volibear rework kept him a very similar champ, with the same amount of build variety with an updated look that doesnt stray from the old champ Mundo gave him quality of life and (incredibly minor) skill expression, with an updated look, that again doesnt look entirely different. Morde, Sion, Urgot, all 3 of these champs were heavily changed on rework, but were still praised due to the genuinely more engaging gameplay (aside from maybe morde) and AGAIN they can still be recognized as their old champion, even through skins. Skarner Has lackluster abilities that not only completely throw away his old "fast single target lock down scorpion" but are also clunky and so heavily restrictive that he just turns into GENERIC TANK MONSTER CHAMPION 5000. At least Ornn has combos in his kit and some semblance of item variety due to masterwork items. Skarner instead turned from crystal scorpion thats the last of his race with an engaging passive and self synergistic kit into big rock monster that does damage based on his health. Skarner had so much opportunity to become ANYTHING. Instead he turned into nothing

Honestly, the fact that they been sitting on this rework for a year if I remember well, and the only thing they could come up is a stat stick even after doing a "erase the champion" type of rework... I can't decide either to be baffled or sad here.