What Went Wrong: Skarner’s VGU Kit Design Failure

In trying to please everybody, Riot managed to please nobody. Held together by arbitrary rules to force certain play-styles and limit his kit from being too strong rather than designing it to not potentially be broken, Skarner’s VGU has proved to be one of Riot’s biggest disasters in years. I know I didn’t do much with the editing on this one, but I needed to get this out fairly quickly to condense my thoughts on the rework with retrospect. Enjoy the rant video essay 0:00 Introduction 0:43 Lore Tidbit 1:07 Gameplay Introduction 3:30 Passive 4:18 Q 5:38 W 6:55 E 9:46 R (jumpscare/volume warning) 12:08 Removal of mechanics 13:03 Builds 16:51 The Results 18:47 Closing Remarks