Skarner

Like, you wanna play Jinx, Tahm Kench? Holy moly, I'm gonna make you swim home.

Like, he, he had, he played Skarner, Nocturne, Nocturne, and one more game.

Like, if you are as good as we believe you to be, as genuinely, whenever AL was at their best, it was because Tarzan was, like, doing tricks on it.

Even when they won Spring last year, it was him, like, playing Zed jungle perfectly, and then, like, the next game Sejuani perfectly, and then another carry, and he was just so dynamic, you know?

I thought he was the best jungler in the world because he was the most complete and he showcased nothing.

He literally showcased nothing.

The Skarner game, he stole one drake and managed to, you know, catch enemy Lucian on mid.

That's about it.

Chovy is having a very good game on mid lane Tristana, pulling the game back from a deficit, making it even.

And then Chovy's AD carry pays, steps too far forward on the play, gets hit by a Skarner ult, and the game is over.

We don't get a game five, Chovy goes home.

We all know what happened last year where he had the biggest choke of his life, basically, in the series against KT where he was just significantly outplayed by BDD and the rest of the team was also playing poorly.

Remember, it was like Doublelift saying in the post-match interview, he was like, well, I guess they didn't prepare for us.

They didn't know we played Skarner.

And it's like, they clearly just didn't watch our games.

And like, even having your opponent...

So probably-

This game it was a Skarner

... something like a Shyvana.

Yeah.

He's like, he's a Bub, like we can just run away from him.

Uh-

What about all our tank friends, like Zac, Shen, Skarner?

Shen is-

pushed a lot of...

I think it was actually really well done because some of them still build Centered Sky, but now we're seeing more Chogath, more Skarner, more Qiyana, more Lee Sin.

And then also, it's a slight deprioritization of Jarvan now he does different builds.

Zin might do a different build.

I, I don't think this team actually can function Which is crazy to think about when you have, like, such stud superstar carries in Saint and Berserker, but if Inspired doesn't have agency to do what he wants to do, this team looks lost.

He loses on the Trundle, he loses on the Skarner, he loses on the Sejuani.

The only game they won here was on the lethality J4, uh, where he just chain ganks bot lane.

That, that, th- dude, I know we're skipping ahead a little bit, but game three was some of the funniest, like, rage jungling I've seen.

... for that because the, the draft was weird.

Like, Skarner TF together, I don't, I don't know about that one.

Um, you don't really have any damage, and-

We saw that too [laughs] in the third game.

Yeah, it, it just kept happening.

They just were taking these 2v2s mid that honestly didn't even look that bad for them with how they started.

It's like, you know, they're hitting Skarner ult on two people.

He's dragging them in, and then they-

If you want to pick up a tank jungler who can gank lanes, carry fights through CC, and actually deal some damage, then you should consider Skarner.

Today I'm joined by Wakanya, a 3000 LP peak challenger Skarner OTP from EUS who is the best Skarner in the world.

He's going to show us what to build, how to get the most out of Skarner's abilities, and how to actually carry games on a tank utility jungler.

Let's get into the details.

All right, so Wacky, I want to start off with your interpretation of the best Skarner build for Skarner right now.

I'm seeing a lot of the Protoplasm Harness first item you seem to be liking, but there's also that Heartsteal Sterak's build, which I famously, I played a lot of Skarner.

I know this was like the meta build for a long time.

So what's the thought process? What's with this harness rush?

These are the things that we can do.

Yawn can still push out their front line 'cause they don't have, you know, the snap, uh, engage on him." And so they would, they were doing things where he was like, "Yeah, we'll just have Yawn arrow this Skarner so we can chunk him, you know, to 50% and then get, make them reset on the map so that they then ha- like, stall 30 seconds."

Mm.

We're d- they're just, like, thinking 30 seconds at a time.