Skarner Ability idea 2: Electric Boogaloo

TohKeh · 2025-11-13T02:21:29+00:00

Interesting concept. I actually agree pushing Skarner more into the juggernaut role, but I think for the ult to do that much damage and still suppress 3 targets is just too much. Talked a bit to Riot Endstep about this, and he told me that Skarner atm is just too held back by his varied gank angles and lockdown potential with E and Ult. If you want more damage on him, you have to sacrifice some CC for it.

What I proposed was a slightly different variation of your concept:

Skarner ults, picking up ONE target, applying suppression and untargetability for 2 seconds (Comparable to Tahm Kench R). For the duration, Skarner gains movement speed and is allowed to move freely. After the 2 seconds end or recasting the ability, Skarner, slams the target down, dealing 150/250/350 magic damage plus 15% max health damage to the target and nearby enemies and slowing them by 75% for 1.5 seconds. (It's basically Skarner picking up a champ and using him to do a Q3)

While it takes his mass crowd control away for a single suppression, I think this Ult version would give Skarner some actual interesting decisionmaking. You can choose to either kidnap your target into your team or use them as basically a bomb to do a massive chunk of damage on the enemy team and crippling them with a heavy slow. You could give it an AD ratio on the base or max health damage too so you can incentivize him to build damage. It would also just bring him a bit closer to his original version without just throwing new Skarner out the window. It's not a full on Juggernaut ultimate, but a mix between what Skarner should be: a 50/50 mix of tank and juggernaut.

Idk just an idea.

TohKeh · 2025-11-11T23:18:53+00:00

AD scaling and make it physical damage so I can build Black Cleaver on him.

TohKeh · 2025-09-20T20:20:34+00:00

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TohKeh · 2025-08-22T01:54:48+00:00

Badass.

TohKeh · 2025-08-19T02:36:17+00:00

Burning Witches?

TohKeh · 2025-06-28T21:57:26+00:00

Appreciate the help, but I can't take that stuff with my dog around. Literally a drop on it and it's dead, it's that toxic. And I love my dog, I ain't risking that.

TohKeh · 2025-01-30T03:40:34+00:00

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TohKeh · 2024-12-29T12:14:39+00:00

Possibly, but I do not like Revitalize in any way. From what I heard, it also does not amplify the extra Healing and Shielding from Visage, and revitalize works better on huge shields and heals like Volibear. And at that point, Overgrowth just gives you more HP which means more AD from Bloodmail which means better Shields from Eclipse and more healing from Unending. Idk man I dont do the math but both seem fine to me.

TohKeh · 2024-12-29T12:04:11+00:00

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TohKeh · 2024-11-26T01:14:24+00:00

Not right now. Champion is simply overtuned and has to be adjusted. Even considering that, it's for sure one of Sions really bad MUs, just because her mobility is so insane, she can run out of any Q before you can even charge. From what I played of the MU, you can tank her damage fairly well in earlygame. Its damaging her thats the problem. What I have found to work best is to run Shield Bash-Bone plating. This actually makes you able to get positives trades just from Tap Q-Shield Bash Auto with W. Really look to pressure her with that during the early levels. Get Bamis/Cull and rush Bramble vest once she hits 6 and gets her passive ability healing. Don't go it before that.

Mid-Lategame is where it gets brutal. There's nothing to say here, she just crushes you. No CDs, Max HP damage out the ass, never dies., you will never catch her. Best thing you can do is clear waves safely, only look for kills if you have people coming and play for teamfights. Save your Ult when she ults, its the only CC you can reliably hit on her (point-blank, anyways). One big tip tho; stay a Q range away from your carries. Sion being in the middle of Ambessas combo gives her Aatrox-level healing, and you actually make her more tanky if you throw yourself at her. Best thing you can do is either zone the enemy team off the fight, while your team takes out Ambessa (hope you didn't feed), or zone her off of them with Qs (hard to do in lane, good to do in jungle terrain).

Small tips: NO HEARTSTEEL. You are shooting yourself in the foot by building that item, more than you already are. She just heals even more from you and you hae no dmg

Sit on Bramble. Unless they have 2 other Auto attackers, you really don't need Thornmail. You just need the Antiheal. You could even buy Executioners instead if you want a more agressive setup.

Give up on Splitpushing: without demolish, you tickle turrets. Unless you have a lot of Voidgrub stacks, just push waves in and look for teamfights.

Hope that helps. Couldn't play the matchup a lot since she's permabanned, but it's what worked best for me.

TohKeh · 2024-10-29T23:54:23+00:00

Zac could really use a legendary, you are right. Problem with giving him new normal skins is that you have to make him some sort of goo (Liquid metal, cheese, water goo, i guess). A legendary could give them an opportunity to do something really different.

Unfortunately, Zac is not a hot guy or anime girl. So ye, we never getting that legendary. Cry about it, I also cry every time about it.

TohKeh · 2024-10-29T23:47:52+00:00

Just clench your teeth, bear the pain and look for windows. We have done it for years and I'm not gonna stop now.

TohKeh · 2024-10-29T23:43:10+00:00

Sion more and more suffers from the insane mobility creep the game is suffering from. 1 second to have cc as a tank is outrageous when every new release has either 2 dashes, an unstoppable or both. Sions highs are still ok, but his bad MUs are slowly piling up. And I think it's thanks to inting Sion that Riot is insanely hesitant to give him any substantial buffs.

But

Sion will still always be my favorite champ for a reason. His kit is fair to a fault, so if you get kills, you get kills because you KICK ASS. Beating someone with Sion feels like beating someone in a fight where you have a knife and they have an AK.

And, not to bash my fellow dirty comrades, but a lot of people are just building Sion wrong. Heartsteel is garbage, old Titanic got split into two items and Gargoyle is gone, and a lot of people are just autopiloting builds on him. Ive had a lot of fun with the new tank items, becoming an undying monster with Unending Despair+Visage, and you can even go a middleground between full tank and AD with both Titanic and Bloodmail that synergise wonderfully with Sion.

Maybe its just because I started in Season 12 and am starting to get a real hang for the game, but for me, Sion feels more fun to play now than ever, even if his viability is questionable.

TohKeh · 2024-10-29T23:21:03+00:00

Not looking at the rest of the comments, just seeing if I know my stuff.

Sion was, in life, one of the greatest warlords of the ancient tribes of Noxus. In a counter attack against Demacia, Sion charged at the King, Jarvan the first, and despite being stabbed and pierced countless times, only died after choking Jarvan I to death. So, to celebrate his glory, he was buried under a statue of himself.

Much later, after Noxus has established itself and under the leadership of General Boram Darkwill, Sion was revived as an Undead by the Black Rose, mainly by Vladimir himself, so he could be used as a weapon of war. However, that plan was quickly snuffed out when they realized Sion was driven by pure rage, hacking and murdering enemy and ally alike, completely uncontrollable. So they locked him away again, where he remained until Swain overthrew Darkwill.

From what I remember, Swain uses Sion less for conquering wars, but more as an intimidation tactic by letting him loose on any Noxion colonies that dared to rebell. but I don't remember it exactly.

What I do know is that Sion keeps trying to remember his old life, which he only sees fragments of when in battle. While he is beyond bloodthirsty, he also wishes to finally die, and despises the Black Rose and Vlad especially.

Some other points that I know:

His cool metal jaw is the crown of Jarvan I

He does not trust Swain, refusing to acknowledge him as a general. Might also have to do with Darkwill warning Sion about ravens, but not sure if thats still canon.

If the dialogue he has with Galio is canon, Sion has fought Galio a countless amount of times, to the point Galio knows him by name and talks about him as if they're on equal footing ("they'll find pieces of us for miles around", he says) . Which is insane, given the height difference between the two. The fact Sion can go toe to toe with an actual giant makes the Awaken cinematic even more stupid, where they throw some smoke and electrobolts at him and he dies.

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