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>he maintained 49-53% winrate for over 5 years with practically no changes


winrate is not a indicator of subjective satisfaction. ANY champion can get pushed or lowered to X winrate when you pump enough numbers into the kit. doesnt mean its fun nor healthy nor interesting. Illaoi/Zed/Yorick/Rengar/Fizz can be at 45% winrrate and players would still uh oh stinky shart themselves in pure rage when they appear in the loading screen. the crux of Skurnurs problema was that he was a boring piece of dogshit to play and noone wanted to bother with him.

he was a R-kidnap bot at best and outside of that was a mess of ratios and numbers who's gameplay amounted to arthritic-Q spam for tickle damage. even WITH the spire nonsense it was still garbagio comparative to other champions. the Skarner reworked happened because Riot thought a new playstyle could reinvigorate interest in him but the playstyle they picked out was ...well as you said clunky and slow (to allow for proper le EXCITING counterplay of course).