THE SKARNER REWORK IS FINALLY HERE! THE MOST ANTICIPATED REWORK OF ALL TIME!

THE SKARNER REWORK IS FINALLY HERE! THE MOST ANTICIPATED REWORK OF ALL TIME!
League of Legends season 14 Skarner Rework Gameplay!
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[@Vexy93]

"We have 2 champions that can throw rocks now, Malphite and Skarner" Taliyah, being literally the champion designed on throwing rocks: :(

[@lukadimic5065]

*sad Taliyah noises*

[@zeparoff]

What about Big Gnar??

[@Chromodar]

@@lukadimic5065 Sad Taliyah noises is literally her saying "throw another rock" in a really dejected way 😅

[@allo1234566]

She throws dirt

[@GlacialScion]

​@@allo1234566 Sometimes, being a contrarian just makes you an idiot.

[@justanotherwalnut]

The Mordekaiser died @ 15:00 because he (possibly by mistake) tried to heal using his shield but there is a very brief delay between when the shield disappears and when the heal applies. The turret basically hit for damage during that brief delay, so the actual heal never went through.

[@JoseAguilar-ui4xv]

Towers deal true damage.

[@IIIlIl]

​@@JoseAguilar-ui4xv no, physical damage but it ignores a percentage of your armor and has ramping damage

[@ruben2o147]

​@@JoseAguilar-ui4xv no es Mobile Legends

[@muimeko2774]

@@JoseAguilar-ui4xv True damage doesn't penetrate shield.

[@GreatGig]

@@JoseAguilar-ui4xv youre so confident lol do you even play league?

[@zachcrouch168]

they should make it so that if you pick someone up and run them into another enemy champion it stuns them both. It would make ulting more than one person way easier.

[@alexandrereynaud7884]

That's a great idea actually !

[@BrokutheSonofSparda]

That would be good. The E stun is pretty unreliable since there won’t always be a terrain near by to activate the stun. They should make it be able to hit multiple people or maybe make his Q rock become a terrain when you throw it then you can use to set up a e stun

[@zhongyichen9967]

bot lane is reeling with this one

[@ethanlee4910]

@@BrokutheSonofSparda idk about unreliable. gonna always hit during buff and objs fights. pretty sure destroyed turrets count as well, and it has sizeable range.

[@burd12]

​@ethanlee4910 yeah I think this video wasn't a great indication of it, he picks up speed when getting a champion and then can go farther so it's a lot easier than people realize

[@tobygen3296]

For fun squad should do the Earth Bender comp: Taliyah, Skarner, Malphite, rek sai, gnar

[@kayn9651]

except instead of Rek'sai who's just land shark, go Ivern because Daisy is a big rock golem.

[@jundeed]

Or go original skin Trundle or Ornn instead of Rek since they summon a rock pillar.

[@wingbm]

Twitch threatening jax at the beginning in team chat lol

[@NOCKGAMES]

The fact that he didn't even type in all chat make me scared

[@connormccale4077]

"In game"

[@DeathDawns]

that ult is gonna be a pain in the ass to land against any champ with any mobility with how slow it charges

[@brainstormsurge154]

Ya, especially since the old one was designed to actually counter those kinds of champs as long as you get get to them.

[@osramdupa2724]

This was BS

[@OpexNZ]

I think you only need to charge it as long as they are in range, so if they're right in front of you you can probably hold it for less than a second.

[@tuckerspradley9592]

@@osramdupa2724 Why say things when you have no idea what you are talking about. You cannot, you are forced to charge it even if yout tap it.

[@kurooaisu]

True. You will automatically toss a rock if you're holding your Q, though.

[@pdofosho]

I think fleet footwork could be pretty cracked on him helping with speed issues and giving some nice healing over the game

[@kameron1130]

Liked for all the choo choo's - I'm a sucker for trains

[@icyjules]

Guess you'll like the new Ornn skin lmao

[@tanook6073]

I think a juggernaut build would be pretty good with Iceborn, Sundered sky into Titanic and maybe unending despair and rookern last 2

[@qtsoft6096]

Doesn't make use of ad so sundered wouldn't be good

[@KyteMasa]

​@@qtsoft6096 Healing go brrrrr plus aa champ

[@tanook6073]

@@qtsoft6096 ik but still gives HP and some sustain

[@alexandrereynaud7884]

@@qtsoft6096 Hmm... auto-attacks ? Like, he uses it a lot imo. We will see when he will be released anyway ^^

[@qtsoft6096]

@alexandrereynaud7884 not gold efficient tho, it just means there are likely better options

[@ReallyReallyTrying]

it's really nice how his ult is no longer the solo reason for playing. All other abilities complement his kit very well. Good job, Riot!

[@kyleberts]

“Did Zwag get the first Drake?” No, the enemies got it first Lose Streak: 1

[@AngelosRitter]

finally after so many yearss!!! edit: i already see myself trying: Attack speed skarner(Q only) with essence reaver and navori. full Movespeed-tank skarner for the E rush. full AP, focusing only on R.

[@saltybacon7600]

I saw that if you activate Q first then E during the charge the Q timer doesn't decay, so I think the engage combo should involve setting up Q first so you don't self stun yourself to pick up the rock and waste the stun of the enemy in the wall. You could also use this set up while already having Q active and E slamming someone into the wall then Instant Ulting to auto proc the Q rock slam and guaranty the Ult landing.

[@meechow153]

Sooo he has a scaling % max hp damage on passive through level and scaling % max hp ad based damage on q3. So you can just build any bruiser ad item like Sundered/Titanic combo or Sundered+Eclipse maybe for more shielding and get big damage while still being bulky and then go full tank after first 2 ad items and shred people while being ridiculously tanky with a high amount of cc. Looks hecking fun.

[@DocOctoganapus]

I think the rock empowering AAs is kinda weird since visually he’s still swiping with his claws

[@bugrakaanaknc5218]

the emotional support tail rock

[@exoticbreadstick8661]

well obviously his claws are stronger than his stinger, which he uses for normal AAs

[@Obsdragon]

Day C (100) of asking for max MS Warwick. Also, go like the crit Rek'Sai dude!

[@benjaminvalencia1017]

I hope he bans you

[@Charles-kc2vt]

Keep up the good fight brother.

[@cheebahjones420]

​@@benjaminvalencia1017 Who hurt you?

[@Obsdragon]

​@@benjaminvalencia1017 that's not very nice 😢

[@manolismaragakis9424]

He alr did MS Warwick

[@krayzdang]

37:19 you can hold Q infinitely during E duration.... just in case u didn't notice

[@ldsforlife43]

good catch i missed that

[@bugrakaanaknc5218]

i think its nice since how long u stay in the e can change a lot

[@Captain_Garchomp]

I already know, I ALREADY KNOW you're going to make a video on AP Skarner ult.

[@AlryFireBlade]

2 Champs throwing Rocks... Scar and Gnar... Taliyah: hello... aren't you forgeting someone? How could you forget the Rock thrower champ nr 1 :D

[@roman4ick]

sad malphite noises

[@brainstormsurge154]

Some thoughts. The W aoe seems a bit small. I think Jarvan's is bigger. Having no way to get movespeed other than E seems like it hurts a lot which means Deadman's is almost mandatory. Maybe if they added movespeed to Q and a couple seconds after as well as making Q last longer would feel any better. Though that would be kind of funny that holding a giant rock would make something faster. Throwing or hitting with the Q rock seems lackluster. Maybe a mini-stun would make it feel better like 0.1 seconds or something. Don't know how the final scaling will be but it would be nice if it does have good scaling. It's kind of sad about losing all cooldown reduction for hitting stuff. Not like other champions don't have it like Yi, Shyvanna and Wukong but Skarner used to have CD on-hit for all his non-ultimate abilities till the mini-rework then it was only on his Q. Now it's on nothing. Though at least at max rank it's only like 3 second cooldown. Just from watching this it seems like either R needs to give unstoppable all throughout or at least during cast and perhaps tenacity during it. Does the R apply his passive? If it doesn't perhaps it should. For the passive, it would be better if it was more like a stacking passive where hitting something once is 1/3 as effective stacking up to three times. The all or nothing doesn't look good.

[@gordoteton9830]

Man i'd love if the rock throw had on hit effects. Might be annoying in top w/grasp, but just wanna hear funny hearsteel sound from distance

[@wingbm]

hey zwag could you make your chat box bigger so its easier to read in vids? especially for mobile and low res streaming

[@ATMEIDAREYAIDOUBLEDAREYA]

6:59 Taliyah: am i a joke to you?

[@AINARIL]

5 champs that throw rocks are: Malphite, Skarner, Taliyah, Gnar (mega form), and Rek Sai (q while burrowed)

[@kayn9651]

She doesn't really throw rocks, though, Rek'sai shoots void waves -through- the earth with her burrowed Q.

[@MONKEH1510]

A Stridebreaker or Tri force might also work well on him for hp + attack speed meaning you’re procing the passive faster and getting the 3rd hit from the Q faster too.

[@indigodegelder]

With how much cooldown the E get per level i think maxing it first is actually good, specially in those skirmishes in river or in botlane ganks will be able to use it twice. A good keystone would be predator for sure, running through a wall with it and slamming someone into a wall at mach speed seems amazing.

[@featherfox6700]

Dumb take for fun: Top - Hybrid Mid - AP Jungle - HP Bot - AD Support - Mana It's possible to build entirely around these attributes. :P

[@N0toriousSaint]

A for fun squad video with all the rock throwing champions? might have to fill it out with champions that have skins that throw rocks. Or maybe champions that all have to do with stuff found in the earth. Malphite, gnar, taliyah, skarner and taric.? maybe? idk maybe i am forgetting one

[@Ariverfish]

Dang, I feel mixed with his abilities. I do not like how they only scale off hp and his new Q and W seems so slow. You're basically locked into playing tank.

[@goblin5496]

Zwag casually forgetting about taliyah throwing rocks lol

[@croakertheannalist3457]

I love zwag's "rock" every time he uses the rock

[@Vverp265]

Stride breaker and cleaver looks readily good on him

[@wakkadakka9192]

I remember how Riot nerfed Shaco E by removing "% of missing hp" as bonus damage - saying that skills that deal damage with %hp are too strong and spoil the game And here is a new Skarner, with passive that do ~10%of max hp burn and Q third attack that do ~20% of max hp.. such a hypocrisy 🤦‍♂ Another unkillable tank that do dmg without any dmg items wow so cool so clever so new

[@plankcaller]

i think the combo is gonna be activate rock, e someone and while they're stunned + slowed you ult

[@isaac_marcus]

Since E has kinda high CD and Q is based on getting Autos off, a Quickblades attack speed/crit build might be bad but fun

[@benmrvich261]

I preferred building him attack speed, lifesteal. Idk if I like it, health scaling only weakens him idk

[@VM-lg7sz]

Feel like hail of blades would be WAY better than grasp on skarner, instant passive and instant q proc would be really strong

[@12345wery]

The irony there was a seraphine playing, the entire reason skarners lore got reworked cause they refuse to change hers

[@manusosa766]

i just want to know if you can ult them trough a wall

[@Astroweasels]

I like how the description on the Q has the variables in the code displayed instead of the values lol. I'm surprised they didn't see that.

[@tynancrawford1793]

I love how the rocks that malphite and gnar throw are way smaller and slow but that massive rock you throw doesn’t?

[@reneschaflein7910]

Wasnt/isnt there an MR "sunfire cape" ? If it does, does that stack with the usual one?

[@IIIlIl]

Yes, the new MR sunfire is called Hollow Radiance. And no, you can't buy it together with the "classic" Sunfire.

[@reneschaflein7910]

@@IIIlIl ahh thx 4 the info. and sad they dont stack :/

[@kylemasson9324]

we totally need a skarner skin that brings back the crystal theme, and the ROCK is a different colored rock every time

[@danielthomas5530]

I think the only thing he might need is just having the e speed scale with move speed like nunu snowball. All the movespeed buffs were useless every time he e'd and he needs that for engage.

[@incendium6615]

16:56 This is exactly why I think Skarner's new E is actually worse than his current E. If old Skarner lands e on TF there, he just gets the stun off and secures the kill on him. Instead he just has a slow, clunky, easy to dodge charge that puts HIMSELF in danger without even giving him the luxury to choose to follow up with a stun for hitting the first part of his ability. New Skarner E turns him into his current E's projectile in a meta where getting caught out leads to you getting one shot...

[@Wenndigo]

May be but i think that is one of the coolest and most fun abilities in the game, as a skarner main, running in the middle of the enemy team is what i usually do, so i aprove it.

[@osramdupa2724]

You can run through walls and push them towards your allies instead of trying to run behind them

[@tuckerspradley9592]

@@Wenndigo Tbh you were never really a Skarner main if you like the new e better than his old one. His old e was one of the coolest abilities in the game.

[@tuckerspradley9592]

I like Skarner's old e better, but I don't think the new one is particularly worse. He still could've hit tf there if he used a better angle on his e, and he wasn't even in range for old skarner e lol. And you can just cancel it if you are running into danger.

[@Wenndigo]

@@tuckerspradley9592 i was? He is the champion i play the most for a lot of time now, there's literally no point on what you just said, just because you prefer the old e it doesn't mean everyone that likes the new one is wrong, i think both abilities are amazing, i just think the new one is way more fun to play. Everyone has it's own taste, i don't think hes old e was even close to be one of the coolest abilities.

[@firatulug]

13:01 gives more vision about other places. Like red

[@leticiaamaral4673]

Você disse Brasil?!?! Você nos convocou!!!!! 27:30

[@beware3586]

Wonder if you should start tri force. Gives you health attack speed and a move speed buff. He does seem to benefit from a little attack speed and CDR too.

[@MoistyUnicorn]

I only play league for almost 8 years now so definitly no expert So you are playing against a Morgana, Karma, Morde, Jax and Nilah and your choise is... armor boots "i cant move" "what cc'd me for so long? i coulndt move" "i need more mr" "i took alot of magic damage there" Somehow i got confused, i meant twisted fate instead of morgana but they both have annoying cc anyway lol

[@haggimcarlos7172]

new sckarnerr can actually quite to the minions or smite when is really need?

[@HirikoShuhei]

"I wish it wasn't all buggy" *Happy Skarner noises stops*

[@CocaoDemon]

I think the Q would be more interesting if the empowered hit was current health and the rock was % missing or something. Then you at least have more of an incentive to reactivate even when you are in the thick of it instead of it being a black and white "you only throw if they're faster." *Edit: I also think that the tackle should at least be able to hit two targets. One for each claw.

[@victorledezma6652]

I totally forgot Skarner was a champ

[@DaGraveCrowder]

His abilities seem interesting but I don't really understand why or how a scorpion would fling rocks? I dont really like the muted colour palette of his base skin and the 3 tails make his design look cluttered Hopefully he turns out to be a good champ though

[@kirsvald9513]

It's matter of taste. I love his new palette, old one sucked, and three tails make him more monstrous, which we don't have enough in this game

[@DaGraveCrowder]

@@kirsvald9513 I just wish he retained the crystal aesthetic

[@kylemasson9324]

Well, we did get a skin for Asol that is his old Ao Shin design, maybe we'll get a skarner skin to give us the old diamond Scorpi back@@DaGraveCrowder

[@DaGraveCrowder]

@@kylemasson9324 That would be cool

[@freshlymemed5680]

He looks fun but losing his stun then making his ult a skill shot with long wind up is gonna be a bit of a pain. Frozen Gauntlet is definitely gonna be a must I feel that or just have a team with great setup.

[@YaBoyIggy]

Since his passive is a burn, could he work with liandry 3rd-4th item maybe? he'd only benefit from the ap in his ult, but the damage amp would affect all his other skills

[@NoName.3]

i think press the attack and titanic hydra would work really well on skarner because of his passive + q and the titanic for the auto reset to get his third attack faster and proq all of them at once myabe you should test that

[@pyrogundam117]

If you and Singed would’ve been in sync more, you could really drag someone down the lane having Singed chuck someone into your charging ult. Heck probably could E if they don’t flash away lol

[@Vectorbro]

It not mentioned in the changes but if you yell "men go in" when you e you get an adaptive bonus

[@overcross2960]

I dont know if playing it with phase rush will be nice, for avoiding the weakness of being quited by range and be able to stay on mele range, i think it will be easy to activate the rune

[@aamonesamiit-baur2857]

Mordekaiser died because turret damage ramps up and he had already taken three shots, he had full skarner DOT on him plus took the damage from the rock right beforehand. The final turret shot does a deceptively large amount of damage because morde already tanked so many. If Morde lived at all, the DOT killed him immediately

[@rockerfarm6445]

If i see this symbiosis of the three Autoattacks i can't help but wonder if Hail of Blades could be an option

[@TheDaylon21]

The ancient grabby daddy is finally getting his insanely overdue rework 😭 I just cant wait to see his newfound viability in pubs!

[@lastraw2367]

is this only in the pbe?

[@jimmoore7712]

rock throwing team: gnar top scarner jungle malphite mid taliyah bot orhn support?

[@kfederico]

Skarner’s new E is what Shyvana’s ulti was supposed to be and never could

[@humanoid2525]

It's weird seeing a Skarner game without the crystal spires, but I'm so glad they're gone!

[@MegaYoutunes]

Skarner top. Fimblewinter, spirit Visage, and undending despair. He has lots of slows and has shields.

[@MasonStoijck]

Not fan of the health scaling Give him some variety. Atleast on the Q and E and/or passive.

[@Smilling_Sadface]

ngl, this rework was pretty good, but I actually expect and hope that he had an earthquake-like ultimate and a passive that would be triggered every time he killed enemies - smthing like an AOE poison or something idk.

[@quintonpoole2027]

Thanks for being a place of comfort zwag.

[@Alice0_0Liddell]

Hope they change the fact he only scales off health, the one thing I loved about skarner was the fact you could build anything and it would work.

[@RySin89]

Malphite, Skarner, Gnar, Trundle, and Taliah. The Dwayne Johnson Comp.

[@connormccale4077]

So we all say "MOOOOOOOOM!" for Smolder ult. Now we all have to say "rock" for Skarner Q throw

[@stefanomunchili4767]

I like to see that Skarner is still doing Skarner things

[@rocknroller3000]

Damn, Hail of Blades on this dude would slap so hard with passive and Q synergy.

[@Nozzen-ny1vx]

I'm pretty sure Morde dies because it was the 4th turret shot he recieved. It scales its damage with each shot, so the one that kill him should have deal over his shield too

[@kirsvald9513]

So, I guess they officially retconing champs for Arcane? To saving Jayce from using literal soul stone from Scarber's people in series x)

[@gernotfalkenstein2949]

Always fallin asleep during zwag videos lmao

[@speddspretten]

I dont think the E is working properly yet. You landed a few wall collisions, but I did not notice a reduction in cooldown!

[@Lephim_]

i think the obvious thing to do for balance is to reduce the amount of damage done in the 3 hit passive. almost 10% max hp at lv9 is way too much, should be like half that to champs and like 3/4 or 2/3 to jg monsters that way his clear is still stable

[@kevinanders5570]

I think the better way to look at it is it does X/4s=Y dmg per second, as sn example 10% at level 9 is really 2.5% per second for 4 seconds

[@FauxR]

I really really think skarner being so slow and health reliant made it so unbelievably different playstyle. But I do think skarner needs scaling movement speed, with respect to the amount of speed/movement people have.

[@BridgerBurt]

New Skarner kinda feels similar to shen, where he's tanky and deals chunky but slow damage. Which I really like

[@koztak8171]

Triforce seems good on him, attack speed for faster q/passive, stacking ms, haste, hp, sheen proc

[@RobertAniFreak]

Pretty sure this is still Test Realm and not officially released We might have to wait 3-4 weeks but still hyped as hell

[@bacak1010]

he will be out april the 3rd, so 2 weeks till we all can play him

[@CPT_Nelson]

So they removed the special pylons found around the map when he was played?

[@ModernWarfareMan977]

Rock Bonk Build, Health/On-Hit Skarner Top with either Hail of Blades or Lethal Tempo

[@stantheman143]

Zwag having fun in league again after the sterile gameplay of high elo just made my day.

[@GaireDuine]

Zwag: Takes 90% magic damage top to morde with 0 M. Res items I better take more armor.

[@zaldysoriano8696]

They should've made his q an auto reset at least to bring out more damage :

[@dylanmarino7486]

And to not alienate the current skarners who play him sheen his current main item/play style it is just gone

[@justinroylance4941]

Thanks for the great vid Zwag!

[@WillSindra]

When the kidnapped Karma says "stop touching me"

[@DJMcRey]

glacial augment,hail of blades or phase rush would be good on him i believe

[@sethsmith29]

Malphite Top, Taliyah mid, Skarner JG, Gnar bot, Anivia Support (ice is a rock, scientifically speaking) Full rock team

[@clydeericksoncapati7566]

Funny how the icon still shows the old skarner splash art haha

[@fenyxuprising1212]

I can't wait for zwag to face against this as an immobile mage champ

[@qayiyaxakwe6585]

I think RiftMaker is gonna be a must as like a 3rd or 4th item for the vamp and AP

[@IIIlIl]

His only AP scaling is on his ult, it seems pretty fucking bad ngl

[@gamma_draconis9905]

Skarner now has some jump scare potential lol

[@omikamiz568]

Stride Breaker should be good on him too. More slow more AoE + some attack speed and move speed on hit.

[@roygbiv1230]

With that passive I feel like adc build with kracken with liandrys for extra burn could be mean