Entry for contest (hopefully in time)

Igwell, the Rogue Biogineer

Lore Igwell was once one of many promising students at the Bandle University of Engineering and Invention. but as Igwell approached the end of his academic career, he felt unfulfilled in the stale rote of his daily learning, and felt his of education was holding him back. As a result he began to delve into more and more diverse subjects. Eventually he fell in to biology, and in observing biological systems and studying what little he could find in a library of engineering and invention, he began to observe and take note of the amazing efficiency of biological systems over their mechanical counterparts. He then decided that he wished to 'engineer' living systems. Unfortunately, when asked to delve further in to such studies, he was met by his superiors with looks of disgust and bewilderment, and when pressed admitted that they had no course of study for ‘such vulgar things’. But at the constant prodding of Igwell to organize such a course of study, the collegiate authorities finally wrote him a recommendation to the little known Institute of Biological Sciences. Igwell took the bait, but arriving there, found a building on the edge of the city, abandoned, labeled IBS with a broken sign trapped under a thick layer of dust and debris. The institute hadn’t a single student, then or apparently for many years before.

The college likely sent him there expecting him to give up and return to more ‘clean and sensible’ pursuits, experimenting with living beings was the area of the horrendous Zaunites and yordlekind had a hard time seeing biology as anything else.  Instead their spurning only heightened Igwells resolve, he took the building as his own, gathering knowledge from every area of the city and beyond he made his own library, and expanded it with his own treatises and experiments gleaned in the nearby wilderness.  He ‘borrowed’ and manufactured equipment until he had the premiere biological lab in the city.  His experiments grew over the years, becoming more complicated, more successful.  But all the while, very limited, as they had to remain within Bandle Cities incredibly restricting laws on experimenting with living creatures.  Eventually, he hit a wall, and could not progress to the point of actually engineering a biological system without breaking the law.  Once he welled up the courage, the results of his hidden experiments deep within the abandoned IBS college surprised even him.  

Attempting to create an experiment that would aid him in his research, he manufactured a basic system which produced bioplastic lattices with a basic network of  highly adaptable cells inside.  These could, when coming in to contact with any creature, record it's cellular map, and integrate them in to a living data network which could then populate and reproduce on command, with no harm to the host from which the data taken.  The experiment worked perfectly, but was still in every way contrary to the laws of Bandle city.  Other minor experiments followed as Igwell grew (both literally and figuratively) his library of living data in secret.

That was until, working in the secret area below the college, he felt the very building above him shake as if the sky had just fallen on it.  Leaving his lab for a viewpoint higher in the building, he saw a giant creature of iron tearing its way down the street in to the heart of the city.  Obviously a rampaging experiment, which weren't so uncommon in a city full of overzealous scientists, especially in the student quarter, but this one looked as if it would present even the elite Bandle city authorities with quite a challenge.  Not having any thought of what he could do, Igwell watched as the wayward machine was herded in to a plaza in the center of the city.   He watched further as, igniting some force within itself, every machine that was brought against it was disabled and pulled in by an unseen force, not only failing to stop the rampage but adding a coating of armor to it in the form of disabled weapons and vehicles, magnetically stuck to its hull.  Finally, in an ephiphanic moment, Igwell thought, “I might be able to do something about this”

Bolting to his lab, he quickly selected as series of previously identified genetic traits, fitting for combat against such a machine, and using them as the data input, introduced a mutagenic compound into his biocatalogue system.  The result came to be known as Lucy, in a laymens description, a 10 foot long six legged frog-lizard covered in bioplasmic bubbles.  Unsatisfied, Igwell lead the creature to the street and further introduced a mutagenic growth syndrome until the creature came to a size comparable to that of the iron monster.  With that, he hopped on its shoulder and marched it towards the plaza.

The ensuing battle was the likes of which even Bandle City had never seen, the two titans beat on each other for hours, by the end the plaza was reduced to a crater, and Lucy stood triumphant and roared over the broken machine, torn and dismantled in a fashion that almost made one feel sorry for an unfeeling machine.  Igwell stood cheering on his creation, and in that moment a bond clearly formed between them, somewhat like partners and somewhat like parent and child  Soonafter the majority of the mutagenics reversed, returning Lucy to her original size, but she couldn’t return to the simple-celled growth lattice she had come from, she was here to stay.

Unfortunately for Lucy and Igwell, in spite of their heroics, they had broken laws on which no compromise or leniency could be given.  Igwell was to be imprisoned followed by banishment, and Lucy was to be dismantled as a monster.  Or so that was the intention.  Igwell managed to attach a mutagenic bioplast to himself, and upon activating it, broke free from the prison and saved Lucy.  Taking as much of his lab as he could (and reversing the mutagenic affect on himself) Igwell and Lucy fled the city, and have been running from Bandle authorities ever since.

Stats Health: 392 (+45 per level) Mana: 260 (+35 per level) Attack Damage: 45 (+3 per level) Attack Speed: 0.72 (+2.4 % per level) Movement Speed: 325 Health Regen: 4.0 (+0.55 per level) Mana Regen: 7 (+0.65 per level) Armor: 15 (+2 per level) Magic Resist: 25 (+0 per level)

Mechanics and kit Basic Attack: Lucy’s gecko/frog tongue Range: 650

Living machine Every 10 of Igwell’s AP counts towards 1% cooldown reduction, and he may reach up to 60% cooldown reduction instead of 40%.

Physioplast Cost: 40/45/55/66/80 CD: 7 seconds Time: 5/6/7/8/10 Range: 700 On ally or Lucy: Grows the character slightly, giving a small amount of AD, armor, and health for 5/6/7/8/10 seconds.
On enemy target: Deals damage and briefly loses a small amount of AD for 2/3/4/5/6 seconds. CD of 7 seconds at all levels, mana cost of mutaplasts last less time outside of combat.

Cerebroplast Cost: 40/45/55/66/80 CD: 7 seconds Time: 5/6/7/8/10 Range: 700 On ally or Lucy: The character gains a blue glow, gaining a small amount of AP, MR, and MPen for 5/6/7/8/9/10 seconds.
On enemy: Loses a small amount of AP and MR, mutaplasts last less time outside of combat.

Evoplast: Cost: 40/45/50/55/65 CD: 9 seconds Time: 5/6/7/8/10 Range: 800 On ally or Lucy: Gains a small movement speed increase for 2/3/4/5/6 seconds.
On enemy: Loses a small amount of movement speed for 1/2/2/2/3 seconds, mutaplasts last less time outside of combat.

Biodiversity: Cost: 220 CD: 320 Time: 6/7/10 seconds Range: 650 Passive: Each plast may give one of an array of brief bonus effects on ally hit.
Possible Effects: Fire breathing, Ice breathing, poison trail, lighting aura, fire aura, stun on next auto-attack, resistance to control effects, stealth, gain a minion, ignore unit collision. Active: Target ally, or lucy, grows exponentially and gains extra affects per mutaplast attached. 320 second cooldown.

Quotes and interactions On selection: “I see room for improvement.” On basic attack: “Take this!”, “Give ‘em a licking!” “Go Lucy!”, “Wet willy!” “Put some extra spit on that one.” “That’s not gonna’ to wash out.” Joke: “Life is mutable, mutatable even.” On attaching with a plast: “Eww…”, “Sticky” “It looks good on you!” "That’s definitely your color" “Ignore the scales… and the tail…” On ult use: “Rise my creation!”, “LIVE!”, “It’s… a… DORABLE!” Taunt: “You would be a prime candidate for dissection.” Dance: Igwell jumps off, and they do the dance from Lilo and Stitch to Elvis' The Devil in Disguise. For reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX_OY7iwOb4&safe=active

Special interactions When seeing lulu's ult, will often say his ult quote as well. When meeting Singed: "Never like you, never..." When Meeting Twitch: "Eh, not bad." When meeting any void champ: "Oh, you are just..." squee's in delight "perfect!" Whenever on the same map as Heimerdinger, Tristana, Teemo, Ziggs, Rumble, or Corki, he will have an ‘Unjust Outcast’ debuff.

Skins Standard: Igwell dresses in waders and a shirt, wears safety glasses, and is always astride Lucy. His mutaplasts leave blue/green bubbles attached to the collision box of whoever they they hit as a visual effect. Paintball Igwell: Igwell is dressed in full paintball vest and gear, Lucy is mechanical and tank/cyborg like. His mutaplasts look like paintballs and leave splatters. Poro Igwell: Igwell is dressed in arctic gear, lucy is a giant six legged poro, and Igwell shoots poros which latch on to his enemies. Void Igwell: Igwells interest in the void creatures lead him down a dark path, becoming touched by the void, both he and lucy appear as void creatures, his plasts are now blobs of dark matter.

Design Notes Igwell is very strongly taken after the theme of the Simic Combine, a guild of crazed biologists from Magic the Gathering. Specifically, the idea of mutaplasts came from the Simic cytoplasts. Nonetheless I didn’t want him to be evil or insane as the Simic, because that’s kind of how biologists are too often depicted in pop-culture media and I wanted to break the trope.

I also wanted the mutaplasts to be more than just a buff, but a way of customizing a character through mutation.  Igwell is capable of supporting anybody, he can provide either of the principle two stat paths or a combination of both depending on how he stacks his mutaplasts, or he can go solo by buffing Lucy.  His buffs do scale off AP, but only slightly, because he can stack them into the dozens, nonetheless AP is very valuable on him.  Mana costs are low early in the game, but scale up at later levels, so he has to worry about his mana later than earlier, as consistent spam could drain him quickly.  This provides him with two options of play, one wherein he can support by taking advantage of his buffs and ult the initiator or a carry into teamfights, and one where he can continually buff lucy until he explodes over the enemy with a ramped up ult.