Riot Games has just shipped a new patch to League of Legends, and it brings some much-needed changes to Skarner.
For the uninitiated, the recent VGU rework dropped the Primordial Sovereign’s winrate to a mere 37.3 percent. This hotfix aims to address that issue by introducing several minor buffs to Skarner that will help the Champ become more relevant in the Jungler role while nerfing some aspects of Skarner top.
“Right now, Top is outperforming Jungle when at low mastery (yet to be seen whether that’s the case when mastered though). High mastery Skarners are performing pretty well on him,“ LoL’s lead gameplay designer, Matt “Phroxzon” Leung-Harrison, said in a statement. “We think despite his low average winrates, he’s still quite strong, but has several optimizations that need to be learned (eg. Q before E, etc.)”
LoL Micropatch Introduces Skarner Changes
Here’s a list of all Skarner changes introduced with the latest LoL update:
- Mana Growth: 60 >>> 45
- P Monster Damage Cap: 75-250 >>> 100-300
- Q Monster Damage Cap: 100/175/250/325/400 >>> 150/225/300/375/450
- W Mana Cost: 40/45/50/55/60 >>> 50/55/60/65/70
- E Cooldown: 24/22/20/18/16 >>> 20/19/18/17/16
Alongside the aforementioned Skarner buffs, the new LoL micro patch also brings with it some bug fixes to the Champion.
Riot devs have also stated that the larger changes aimed at reducing Skarner’s impact on top will come via a new patch at a later date.
