[Champion Concept] Lyon: The Patriarchate of Zaun

Remlap1223·7/25/2014, 4:15:46 AM·4 votes·1,577 views

Appearance: Bears a strong resemblance to Dr. Caulder from Advance Wars: Days of Ruin. There is a very simple reason behind this: .

Summary:

Lyon is a burst support assassin. He specializes in reducing the healing and defensive capabilities of other supports to better secure his own ADC's kills.

Strengths and Goodpicks

Lyon's abilities infect targets with a disease that can be detonated by his own basic attacks to do a large percentage of a target's maximum health as physical damage, allowing him to easily burst down even the tankiest of opponents. He is particularly strong against healing supports and supports and carries with on hit abilities due to his abilities' heal reductions and the ability to turn enemies against each other.

Works Well With:

Lyon and Jinx are a terrifying bot lane. Lyon's ultimate completely cancels all healing, as well as dealing true damage over time, allowing Jinx to easily execute her targets with her Super Mega Death Rocket! In addition, Lyon's neurotoxin allows Jinx to easily land her Flame Chompers! to root enemies and burst down opponents.

Miss Fortune's heal reduction on her impure shots can easily nullify almost all healing bottom lane. The stacking magic damage can easily burst down champions afflicted with Lyon's bio-weapons, and Lyon's neurotoxin can easily set up an easy hit for Miss Fortune's Bullet Time.

Excels Against:

While Braum's Unbreakable can prevent his carries from being infected with Lyon's bio-weapons, he will be infected himself, allowing Lyon to use Braum's own passive against the carry he's attempting to protect. Lyon's passive, Q, and ultimate will also remove his impressive healing and resistances, and burst him down quickly.

Soraka's heals are greatly reduced laning against Lyon, and Lyon's ultimate completely counters Soraka's on one champion.

Weaknesses and Counterpicks

Lyon has no escapes outside of his ultimate and no immobilize removal. Auto attacking Lyon while his heal is active will completely nullify it's healing, making him vulnerable to poke support mages.

Struggles against:

Morgana is Lyon's hard counter. Her Dark Binding and Black Sheild will completely nullify almost all of Lyon's abilities, preventing Lyon's Neurotoxin from forcing the carry to attack her.

Karma 's displacement abilities will allow her to easily lock down Lyon, and her shields ignore the heal reduction.

Stats:

Health: 437 (+89 per level) Attack Damage: 48 (+3.6 per level) Health Regeneration: 5.5 (+0.6 per level) Attack Speed: 0.644 (+2.9% per level) Mana: 220 (+55 per level) Mana Regeneration: 7.5 (+0.65 per level) Armor: 19 (+3.3 per level) Magic Resistance: 30 (+0 per level) Range: 475 (Ranged) Movement Speed: 335

Primary: Support Secondary: Assassin

Attack Power: 6 Defense Power: 3 Ability Power: 9 Difficulty: 7

Abilities:

Passive Fascinated by Death

Lyon's bio-weapons will be expunged immediately if Lyon autoattacks an afflicted enemy. If Lyon's target is afflicted by two or more bio-weapons, they will take an additional 10% of their maximum health as physical damage. This increases by 5% per additional bio-weapon expunged.

If a target dies with one of his bio-weapons still inside, it will mutate, permanently increasing the duration of the time it is dormant in an enemy champion by one second.

Q Autoimmune Virus: Mana Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 Cooldown: 12

Lyon's next auto-attack will gain 375 range, will penetrate all units up to that point, and deal an additional 30 / 55 / 80 / 105 / 130 (+100% bonus AD) physical damage, and reduce the afflicted targets' armor by 15 / 17.5 / 20 / 22.5 / 25% and slows them for twice the amount for 3 seconds. Subsequent enemies will take 15% reduced damage down to a minimum of 45% reduced damage, but the armor shred and slow will remain unchanged. The virus remains dormant in afflicted enemies for 4 seconds after the effects expire.

W Patient Zero: Mana Cost: 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 / 120 Cooldown: 20 Range: 175

Lyon vaccinates himself or an allied champion from his bio-weapons, granting 15 / 17.5 / 20 / 22.5 / 25% tenacity and healing for 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 (+1% per 100 AP) of a champion's maximum health over 5 seconds. Champion damage will cancel out the healing, but also apply the "unvaccinated" debuff to the champion that attacked, and all units within 200 range of the "Patient Zero", applying grievous wounds and reducing their magic resistance by 12 / 14 / 16 / 18 / 20%. The virus remains dormant within afflicted enemies for 4 seconds after the effects expire.

E Neurotoxin: Mana Cost: 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90 Cooldown: 18 Range: 650 Width: 60

After channeling for 1 second, Lyon sprays a neurotoxin that drives enemy champions insane, dealing 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150 (+25% AP) magic damage to enemies in a line and causing enemy champions to attack each other for 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 / 2.25 seconds. If there is no nearby champions, the affected champion will attack their minions or neutral monsters. If neither minions nor champions are present, they will instead run in fear of Lyon. The toxin remains dormant within afflicted enemies for 4 seconds after the effects expire.

R Pandemic Mana Cost: 100 Cooldown: 120 / 110 / 100 Range: 800 Passive: All abilities will remain dormant in enemies for an additional 2 / 4 / 6 seconds. Active: Lyon chases down an enemy champion and injects them with his most powerful bio-weapon, suppressing them for 1 second after reaching them, then vaulting off the champion, knocking Lyon and his target back Lyon's movement speed. For the next 5 seconds, the afflicted enemy will take 100 / 250 / 400 (+33% AP) true damage over 5 seconds and has 100% reduced healing. If the enemy champion dies with the bio-weapon sill active, the champion will explode, resetting the duration and spreading the disease to all enemies within 550 range of the champion. The weapon remains dormant within afflicted enemies for 4 seconds after the effects expire.

Lore:

While most see Zaun as a city of science and technology run amok to the detriment of its citizens, their Mayor, Arnaud Lyon sees it as a paradise. While his duties are to run Zaun, his true passion is his terrible scientific research. By usurping Zaun's leadership, he repealed most of the laws in place to allow him complete freedom to perform his terrible experiments for the sole reason satisfy his own curiosity.

Born with an IQ of 250, Arnaud Lyon is one of the brightest minds in Runeterra. By age 1 he had already learned how to walk and talk with a first grade vocabulary. By the time he was 3, he was already conducting scientific experiments on Zaun's household animals with his childhood friend Edumundo . While his parents were unnerved about his lax morality, they were impressed with his intellect was immediately put in elementary school, his parents hoping the teachers could teach him morality better than they could. He graduated elementary school without incedents and skipped middle school entirely. He graduated from his high school with honors at age 13, well before he hit puberty, and by the time he turned 21, he had already completed his first doctorate. While he was universally adored by his hometown, Lyon still had not sated his vast curiosity, and left for Piltover to study under the prestigious Cecil B. Heimerdinger .

Heimerdinger was extremely impressed with Lyon's massive intellect, instantly allowing him to teach at the Yordle Academy after he instantly reworked Heimerdinger's CH-2 electron battery into a stun grenade. The first and only human professor there, he was renowned for his extremely successful genetic engineering and cloning research, which had inadvertently led to the birth of his daughter . As years went on however, fellow Yordle professors grew concerned of his philosophy of progress over ethics when he had accidentally turned a student into a chicken, and instead of researching on how to change him back, he refused so that he could conduct a psychological case study on how the parents would react. He was finally expelled from the academy for ethical reasons after he accidentally killed a student by incorrectly coding her genes, and brought her back to life with necromancy, which was heavily frowned upon in the City of Progress. Furious, Lyon captured the Yordle professors responsible for his removal from the academy via Zaunite agents, and proceeded to use them for his most gruesome experiments. His plans were foiled by Ziggs, the Hexplosives Expert, who had broken into the prison Lyon owned, and freed them. The hexplosives Ziggs used in the assault had left Lyon permanently disfigured in his face. To add insult to injury, he was charged with corruption by Zaun's government, and exiled to Piltover, where Caitlyn and Vi had then promptly charged him with kidnapping, murder, and jaywalking. Lyon was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in Piltover.

Lyon had only spent one day in prison when his daughter began destroying the city. After ransacking Piltover's Treasury and plunging the city into darkness, she broke her father out; no trace of them remained but the echoes of their laughter. By the time they returned to Zaun, Lyon had already plotted his revenge upon the Zaunite government. Forming an alliance Dr. Mundo, Singed, Viktor, and Warwick, Lyon's insurgents had seized Zaun in less than a day, and Lyon installed himself as Mayor. Lyon rallied the Zaunite people under the guise of freedom and progress, and eventually turned his sights to the League of Legends, where he could have a battle of the wits and terrible weapons and conduct his horrible experiments with impunity.

"City of Progress? Bah! More like the City of Self-Righteousness and Backward Thinking."

-- Arnaud Lyon on Piltover.

Friends: Jinx, Dr. Mundo

Rivals: Ziggs, Caitlyn, Vi

Quotes:

Upon selection: "Ah, Summoner! So you wish to assist me in my research?"

Movement:

"Come now, don't dally!"

"Strength through progress."

"For great science!"

"For greater understanding!"

"For Zaun!"

"For progress!"

"Onward to enlightenment!"

"Let's go!"

"Let's go, let's go!"

"A wise decision."

"Smart choice."

"Mind the outliers."

"By calculating the movement speed per second..."

"...we should arrive at our destination on schedule."

"What exciting discoveries shall I make?"

"What else can I discover?"

Attacking:

"it's time for human trials."

"This may sting a little."

"Don't scratch!"

"No worries, the needle is clean."

"Placebo effect?"

"Hmm... Fascinating..."

"Fascinating!"

"That was unexpected."

"What an interesting reaction."

"I must get my notes!"

"You're getting pus all over my pants!"

"Stop bleeding on my notes!"

"Note to self, adjust future dosage..."

"Hmm, not quick enough."

"This requires a lethal dosage."

"Double the dosage, alright."

"Your consent is implied."

Special

On kill/assist:

"Thank you, that was very enlightening."

"What an unexpected result."

"Many thanks."

"FAAAASCINATING."

"Case study completed, onto next trial."

Jokes:

"I tried to come up with a chemistry pun, but all the good ones Argon."

"Why did the king fart neon? Because it's noble gas!"

"If a chemist says they have a mole problem, call a mathematician, not an exterminator."

"There's a reason why I'm not in the senate, scientists are terrible at making laws."

"Now now sweetheart, no more toys until the old ones break."

"Sigh, how can I deny that sweet little smile."

"Alright pumpkin, you can have a new toy, but only after we secure victory."

"Honey, I don't mind the tattoos, but isn't it a little cold to be wearing that?"

"Ah, if it isn't my favorite giant purple people eater."

"Hey Mundo... Smash."

"I'm not drinking anymore of your potions Singed. Last time I woke up next to a pineapple and a dead lion. Still don't know where the pineapple came from."