[Skin Idea] Neutral Monster Yorick

ModCaptainMårvelous·6/18/2014, 4:33:50 PM·14 votes·679 views

With the current wolves, wraiths and golems being phased out of SR with the update...why not give them a job as Yorick's familiars?

Neutral Yorick (Placeholder name) would have Yorick as a sort of Summoner's Rift custodian, tasked with removing all the old creeps that once populated the rift. Instead of a shovel, he'd have a sort of net that would poach any roaming stragglers and bring them back to the Institute for..."decommission" purposes.

However, unlike other skins, the real draw of Neutral Yorick is the ghouls. Rather than an assortment of ghastly wraiths, Yorick would instead use the powers of the decommissioned minions that once inhabited the jungle!

Omen of War is now Omen of Wolf. Upon slapping an enemy with his net, Yorick summons a ghastly wolf that chases down enemies. This would be associated with Q because the Wolf minion was the one who always chased down and struck me as the "fastest" minion in the jungle. Along with that, Q is Yorick's hardest hitting physical skill. Just as the wolves were the only neutral minion who could crit.

Omen of Pestilence is replaced with Omen of Golem. Bursting from the ground is a massive golem (Akin to the double golems at bot) who chase down enemies. This (to me) is the hardest skill to find a neutral minion for. Golems I chose as the third group of "neutrals" while also striking me as lumbering, heavy and slowing. If this doesn't fit, however, you could easily replace golems with Lizard Elder as the Lizard elder had a slowing skill with his buff.

Omen of Famine is easily swapped with Omen of Wraith. As the Wraith was the minion who had minimal lifesteal, it's an easy change to give this minion a new job as Yorick's life-stealing ghoul. There's no real work associated with this, as you can easily just slap the minion on top of the famine ghoul considering it already has a life-steal componant.

Omen of Death however would likely remain unchanged. While it'd be cool to replace him with, say, Omen of Vilemaw or Omen of Baron, the key part of Yorick is being able to tell who he ulted by a glance at the ghost. While it'd be cool to summon a ghostly version of old baron, I think it might attribute to problems.

As for Yorick himself, you could easily change him to a sort of hunchbacked big game hunter who wanders the rift and captures stray minions. Heck, if the skin is popular add in two versions: One for the original minions and one for the rift VU minions.

2 Comments

Dicerson6/18/2014, 5:25:26 PM1 votes

Hmm, sounds good.

RiotRiot Girl6/19/2014, 5:14:58 PM1 votes

Pretty cool.