[Champion Concept] Ariel, the Poromancer

Rubitonabuilding·4/30/2014, 5:12:28 PM·8 votes·8,597 views

So, Banshee was a pretty serious/scary champion concept. I thought I'd lighten the mood with a silly champion like Ariel. Her kit revolves around making poros do her bidding.

Appearance/Character


Ariel is a really nice, friendly girl, maybe a bit of a klutz, and she gets the poros to do what she wants by feeding them. Technically the term "poromancer" would mean something like "one who does magic involving poros", but there's no real magic involved here besides procuring Poro-Snax. All Ariel does is toss out snacks in certain ways to attract poros.

Poros in themselves are harmless critters, only interested in eating, sleeping, and other poro-related matters. A poro will never intentionally hurt a person, but they can certainly be used to inconvenience one's enemies!

Ariel has red hair and is maybe 25-30 years old. She's attractive enough (because Rito won't make a female champion who's not marginally attractive), and has a bubbly disposition, something like Lux's. I have no idea who she'd be associated with lore-wise, maybe Braum if we find out he has a pet poro?


Abilities


####Passive: Poro-Snax Packs

  • Ariel has no power over the poros unless she can feed them. Instead of mana, Ariel uses Poro-Snax for her abilities and generates 6 Poro-Snax per minute, carrying 4 sacks of Poro-Snax around her waist that hold 30 Poro-Snax each (120 Poro-Snax (P.S. from here on) to start). One item slot is reserved for this purpose (i.e. she starts with the P.S. packs item at no cost), and she can upgrade her P.S. packs (at gold cost) through three different paths, similar to Viktor's Hex Core items.

  • Path 1: Poro-Snax Potency

  • Potent Poro-Snax

    • This increases the duration of all of Ariel's abilities
  • Perfectly Potent Poro-Snax

    • This increases the duration of, and adds special effects to, Ariel's abilities.
  • Path 2: Poro-Snax Production

  • Poro-Snax Producer

    • This increases Ariel's P.S. production from her base production of 6 per minute, to 10 per minute.
  • Professional Poro-Snax Producer

    • This increases P.S. production to 12 per minute, and reduces Ariel's Cooldowns by 10%
  • Path 3: Six Poro-Snax Packs

  • Six Poro-Snax Packs

    • This adds 2 sacks of P.S., increasing Ariel's max P.S. to 180.
  • Six Snazzy Poro-Snax Packs

    • This upgrades all of Ariel's P.S. packs to hold 40 each, increasing her maximum P.S. to 240.

####Q: Poor Poro! (2/3/4/5/6 P.S.)

  • Ariel summons a single poro at a target location. Enemy champions who encounter the poro are overcome by its cuteness, and charmed toward it for (0.5/0.75/1/1.25/1.5) seconds. Enemies cannot be charmed twice by the same poro.
  • The poro remains on the ground for (4/6/8/10/12) seconds and cannot be injured.
  • Perfectly Potent bonus: The poro remains on the ground for an additional 1 second per level (maximum 17 seconds at level 5). Each person who is charmed toward the poro feeds it 2 PS. If all 5 enemies are charmed, the poro will have consumed 10 PS and explodes into 8 poros, dealing very low physical damage to anyone hit (like 5 damage or something).

W: Hail of Poros (10/12/14/16/18 P.S.)

  • Ariel scatters a handful of PS over an area. Poros rain down from the sky to gobble up the Snax, each dealing (5/10/15/20/25 + 0.3AP) physical damage if they hit an enemy.
  • Perfectly Potent bonus: the duration of Hail of Poros is increased by 20%

E: Borrow a Poro (2/4/6/8/10 P.S.)

  • Ariel lends a poro to an allied champion, who gains increased HP regen, MR, and movement speed for the duration (based on Ariel's AP).
  • These poros have HP based on Ariel's AP and can be damaged by any spell. The poro is extremely nimble and cannot be basic attacked, but it will intercept projectiles as a normal minion would. The bonus stats end if the poro dies.
  • Perfectly Potent bonus: the duration of Borrow a Poro is increased, and the target also gains a very minor attack speed buff.

R: The Problem With Poros (1 ---> 30 P.S. (or up to 40 with six PS packs))

  • Ariel "accidentally" spills one of her sacks of PS. A veritable flood of poros swarms around it, numbering 5 per snack dropped. Enemies are slowed/snared by the sheer volume of poros around them (unless they have phantom dancer or ghost etc to avoid unit collision). These poros also have HP based on Ariel's AP, and can be easily cleared by AOE spells. Allies do not collide with the poros.
  • There is a minimum of 5 poros (1 Snax) and a maximum of 200 poros (40 Snax).

So yeah. Rhyming and Alliteration and Tongue-Twisters galore! Ariel is pretty much just a joke champion concept, but I thought it would be funny if there was a Poromancer in the League of Legends.

Let me know what you think!

P.S. If you liked Ariel, please upvote this thread and check out some of my other champion concepts here!

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26 Comments

RiotLtRandolph5/1/2014, 6:25:08 AM11 votes

WTB more Champion name wordplay.

RiotRiot Girl5/1/2014, 4:56:09 PM6 votes

Also, who leaked Poromancer?

Hyrum Graff5/1/2014, 4:54:36 PM6 votes

Ok, I have a few essential problems with this champion:

  • Poros should not do damage. Ever.
  • Poros should not die. Ever.
  • Nobody should be forced to deal damage to poros. Ever.

Here're my thoughts to make Ariel into a viable champion without sacrificing any poros to Teemo


###Passive: Poro-Snax Pax

Make her PS pack be a trinket, like rengar's bonetooth necklace.

###Q: Poor Poro

Should act like shaco's jack-in-the-boxes. Once it charms someone, it disappears from the map.

###W: Snack Toss

Ariel throws a poro-snack in a straight line (skillshot). If it hits an enemy champion, it deals 1 damage to them and sticks to them. A poro begins following the enemy around, begging for the snack. This reveals the enemy and distracts them, lowering their [stats, could be AR/MR/AD/AP/MS/Whatever] for the duration of the reveal. The duration and amount of stat reduction scales with Ariel's AP.

###E(1): Toggle off: Aura of Cuteness

Ariel attracts poros to herself. Their healing aura grants her increased HP regen (based on AP). Additionally, they are so cute that enemies do not want to damage her, so Ariel takes 3/6/9/12/15% (+ 2% per 100 AP) reduced damage from all sources.

###E(2): Toggle On: Borrow A Poro

Ariel steadily hands her ally poro snax, costing X poro snax per time. As a result, the poros that normally follow Ariel around follow around her ally instead, granting them the Aura of Cuteness buff. However, since Ariel is actually quite frail without her Poros, she takes the same 3/6/9/12/15% (+ 2% per 100 AP) of increased damage. Since Ariel is constantly handing her ally poro-snax, she must stay close to them or this ability will cancel. Like Anivia's ult, when the ability cancels (or is turned off), it goes on cooldown, during which time there is neither a buff nor debuff.

###R: Exporosion

Ariel throws a bag of poro-snax to an area, where it falls open coating anything in the area with poro snax. This zone persists for 3/4/5 seconds. Any enemy champion hit gets Ariel's W applied to them, and any allied champion hit gets Ariel's E effect applied. These affects stay applied even if the champs leave the zone. Additionally, any enemy or allied champs who enter the zone get the affect applied. However, the affect does not continue to apply to them if they leave the zone. All effects end once the zone ends. Effects do not stack if ariel uses w or e while her ult is active.

It is important to note here that the W and E effects are applied at the level of w and e, so if Ariel prioritizes e, her ult will give more damage reduction; if she prioritizes her w, it will reduce enemy stats by more.

RiotRiot Girl5/1/2014, 4:48:01 PM5 votes

OMG I didn't vote for my own!!!!

TheInferno1235/1/2014, 7:40:10 AM5 votes

Got noticed by a Riot Employee, GGWP, Poromancer confirmed

Flintfall4/30/2014, 10:12:41 PM3 votes

Haha, I love this!

Rhyto5/1/2014, 1:52:53 PM2 votes

This is pretty hilarious as well as the abilities, the cuteness overload would certainly be something to see. We need more drawings >.< Ironstylus!

XxTSwiftxX4/30/2014, 11:52:19 PM2 votes

PLZ RITO PLZ

Rubitonabuilding5/2/2014, 4:35:33 PM1 votes

Wow, so much Red activity on my post it got a rundown.

(I didn't even know that was a thing.)

http://24.media.tumblr.com/861e9b28a3b38f9ab8222d988d6f6869/tumblr_mmejacJ0El1rojf9co1_500.png

The Soulforged5/1/2014, 5:26:27 AM1 votes

Considering how the way P.S. works, you would want to lower the poro snax needed for each point in the ability instead of making it much harder to get the recources to use it. The same is used on energy champs.

OblongOtter5/1/2014, 4:37:09 PM1 votes

So it would take 3 minutes to use her W?

UNST3RBLICH5/2/2014, 2:47:08 AM1 votes

This is an interesting concept, but it kinda goes against everything behind the lore of the poros and what they stand for (love, peace, happiness). They're invincible by nature, and their underbellies are shaped like hearts. Maybe think up a concept for a counter-part of poros from the Shadow Isles or something to be used towards this effect instead. Otherwise, it completely contradicts what poros are and stand for.