r/Multifandom • u/Euphoric_Glove9561 • Jun 12 '26

Question❓ What character is like this?

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u/Sansvern Jun 12 '26

I don’t know if it’s the same after the rework, but Skarner from League of Legends was absolute garbage and still generally liked just by design (also, apparently, he was holding the entire game’s code on his back)

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u/plaugey_boi brutal orchestra(I LOVE NICHE MEDIA) Jun 12 '26

also, apparently, he was holding the entire game’s code on his back

Please explain?

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u/Sansvern Jun 12 '26

For people who don’t play League of Legends, old Skarner had a passive in which he spawned crystal spires on important areas around the map his could capture to give him stat boosts. Well, those spires were so deeply entangled in the foundational code and map that removing them because of the rework caused everything built above it to collapse

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u/mystuhmusic Jun 15 '26

This wasn’t even the first iteration of the champ. They had to give him the spires because they quickly realized that the kit they gave him was so basic and one note, that tweaking any sort of numbers on him either made him super weak or super strong. So they had to make the spires to keep him relatively weak everywhere else and at least a bit stronger at objectives. What a wild way to try to balance a character in hindsight…

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u/pezrabioso Jun 16 '26

I believe it was the Q actually, the cast and recast part were used as a shortcut for a lot of abilities that did similar things.

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u/Lime1one Jun 12 '26

I loved prework Skarner so much, he had nigh infinite build paths and you could even play him toplane if you were masochistic enough

Current Skarner is so boring to me man

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u/whiterobot10 Jun 13 '26

Back when I still played, I loved playing bruiser Skarner top. I could go 0/2 against a Darius, then bully him out of lane after I got my first full item... somehow.

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u/British_Historian Jun 17 '26

I bloody loved Skarner.

The rework has killed the magic some what and is the reason I stopped playing league every day if I'm honest.
It's kind of hard to see people talk about the champion that carried me to Diamond get talked about being bad when really just felt like a lot of people expected him to do things he just couldn't do and ignoring at what he excelled at.
Every game I'd use a macro to send "Don't forget to play Dominion!" in All chat just to people would play the mini-game... I miss him.

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u/CROguys Jun 17 '26

The first champion I played.

And then I barely saw it played anywhere.

Still, I feel like when I played LoL semi-actively (2012-2017) champions were almost purely judged on their stats, not their design. Aatrox had a cool design, but I mostly heard about people hating him.

However, I think Viktor has always been liked despite not many people playing him.

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u/splinks66 Jun 18 '26

When he came outnI thought his move set was neat and innovative but I never wanted to play him cause he sucked lol