2011-08-14, 05:18 AM
(This post was last modified: 2011-08-14, 02:33 PM by KajitiSouls.)
Oh man, I just played a brutal laning phase with my irl friends. Naturally I was playing Skarner.
Teemo vs. Cho'Gath + Skarner top
Maokai vs. Kennen mid
Annie + Skarner vs. Sona + Caitlyn bottom
Master Yi jungling
Annie was recently introduced to LoL, so she got paired with me so she wouldn't screw up a solo lane. We lost the tower pretty damn fast unfortunately. The adversity we faced early game was soon turned around with good teamwork and top elo strategies. Even though Maokai played like Chu8, I learned quite a bit from this game, both due to the fact that dire circumstances were thrusted upon me, and there's a comparison mark between me and the rival Skarner.
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Now having said that, here's what I think is a good general-purpose lane Skarner build:
Exhaust and Ghost for summoner spells. Apparently my rival agreed with me here.
I went with 0/21/9 masteries, but I'm looking at 8/21/1 as well. Not sure which one would work better.
AS marks, but otherwise typical tank runepage setup.
Start with Q if you're up against melees, or if you think your lane partner can back you up. Otherwise, start with E.
R > W > E > Q skill order. Even though you don't get longer suppresses from leveling up R, it has an effective 1:1 AP ratio, and is the most "bursty" of any of your skills.
Regrowth Pendant --> Philo Stone
Boots --> Mercury Treads
Sheen --> Trinity Force (core DPS item)
Build tanky, or get Rageblade if you're having a boner.
Start with Regrowth Pendant + pot. Build it into a Philosopher's Stone, so you can survive laning phase and not go OOM as much. Seriously, Skarner has mana issues early game, but they pretty much disappear late game. This is in part because some items give you a mana pool increase, and if you want to, you could get blue buff with decent speed after you have Sheen. But back to laning phase, Skarner is quite vulernable to harass. W and E are his sustain skills, and E is the safest way for Skarner to get some CS.
Q is intentionally kept at level 1 because it drains your mana the fastest compared to W and E, and chances are his laning can become craptastic against certain setups. But it's still great for getting Sheen procs, since it has a low CD, and the procs come every 2 seconds at minimum. Seriously, Sheen has better deeps than a couple levels in Q, unless the opponent builds armor.
Mid to late game, Skarner can't survive getting focused, so you'll want to have tank items soon. For this reason, I am unable to suggest sparing much more gold on DPS after Trinity Force.
EDIT: zOMG Skarner's easter egg actually shows up consistently in LoL Replay xD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJXbJNO7F-4
Teemo vs. Cho'Gath + Skarner top
Maokai vs. Kennen mid
Annie + Skarner vs. Sona + Caitlyn bottom
Master Yi jungling
Annie was recently introduced to LoL, so she got paired with me so she wouldn't screw up a solo lane. We lost the tower pretty damn fast unfortunately. The adversity we faced early game was soon turned around with good teamwork and top elo strategies. Even though Maokai played like Chu8, I learned quite a bit from this game, both due to the fact that dire circumstances were thrusted upon me, and there's a comparison mark between me and the rival Skarner.
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Now having said that, here's what I think is a good general-purpose lane Skarner build:
Exhaust and Ghost for summoner spells. Apparently my rival agreed with me here.
I went with 0/21/9 masteries, but I'm looking at 8/21/1 as well. Not sure which one would work better.
AS marks, but otherwise typical tank runepage setup.
Start with Q if you're up against melees, or if you think your lane partner can back you up. Otherwise, start with E.
R > W > E > Q skill order. Even though you don't get longer suppresses from leveling up R, it has an effective 1:1 AP ratio, and is the most "bursty" of any of your skills.
Regrowth Pendant --> Philo Stone
Boots --> Mercury Treads
Sheen --> Trinity Force (core DPS item)
Build tanky, or get Rageblade if you're having a boner.
Start with Regrowth Pendant + pot. Build it into a Philosopher's Stone, so you can survive laning phase and not go OOM as much. Seriously, Skarner has mana issues early game, but they pretty much disappear late game. This is in part because some items give you a mana pool increase, and if you want to, you could get blue buff with decent speed after you have Sheen. But back to laning phase, Skarner is quite vulernable to harass. W and E are his sustain skills, and E is the safest way for Skarner to get some CS.
Q is intentionally kept at level 1 because it drains your mana the fastest compared to W and E, and chances are his laning can become craptastic against certain setups. But it's still great for getting Sheen procs, since it has a low CD, and the procs come every 2 seconds at minimum. Seriously, Sheen has better deeps than a couple levels in Q, unless the opponent builds armor.
Mid to late game, Skarner can't survive getting focused, so you'll want to have tank items soon. For this reason, I am unable to suggest sparing much more gold on DPS after Trinity Force.
EDIT: zOMG Skarner's easter egg actually shows up consistently in LoL Replay xD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJXbJNO7F-4