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Skarner Enthusiast Community Urges Riot to Create a Completely New Passive in the Upcoming Rework.
As many of us know, Riot Games recently announced Skarner as the victorious champion in the 2022 rework vote. This decision was quite logical considering Skarner is viewed as the most outdated among the other contenders like Tryndamere, Quinn, or Shyvana. Fundamentally, Skarner's gameplay has remained unchanged and stagnant over the years, as his skillset is deemed too simplistic compared to modern League of Legends.
Immediately following the revelation of Skarner's victory in the rework vote, the most joyous individuals were the avid fans of this champion. They were so thrilled, in fact, that they devised numerous ideas for Skarner's rework and consolidated them to present to Riot Games. Furthermore, Skarner enthusiasts are advocating for Riot to eliminate the current Crystal Spires passive as it lacks excitement and grants additional resources to Skarner's adversaries.
'It's truly surprising that Skarner has seen a plethora of diverse build paths throughout its existence, being viable in both Tank and Fighter roles. The majority of rework concepts aim to preserve this versatility by augmenting skills that scale with AD, AP, and health. Skarner has always been associated with dealing hybrid damage, so rework ideas strive to uphold that. Essentially, Skarner's abilities should deal magic damage while the passive provides hybrid damage capabilities.'
In addition, the Skarner enthusiast community unanimously agrees that Riot should remove the Crystal Spires in the upcoming rework. It's nearly the only passive in the game that opponents can neutralize, leading to Skarner becoming overly reliant on whether allies choose to contest the Crystal Spires or not' - Excerpt from the passionate article by the 'Skarner main' community.
Fundamentally, the idea behind the Crystal Spires is to allow Skarner to comfortably farm in that area by increasing both attack speed and energy regeneration for this character. However, this also makes Skarner overly reliant on the Crystal Spires and quite weak when skirmishing in areas without this influence.
Furthermore, when you unfortunately find yourself in a situation where you're forced into a constrained map, Skarner becomes even more ineffective due to opponents seizing control of the Crystal Spires. This is clearly extremely frustrating, so Skarner currently has very few users, with this champion even having the lowest pick rate in League of Legends. Perhaps Riot should heed the ideas of passionate Skarner players and remove this Crystal Spires passive in the future.
