Champion Concept: Thomas of the Royal Guard

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Thomas of the Royal Guard is a soldier. His nerves of steel and deadly arsenal of Napoleonic-era-style weapons have served him well alongside his fellow linemen upon many a field of battle... but what sets Thomas aside from his compatriots, you ask? Why, POMP of course! All glinting steel, embroidery and a fancy Grenadier's hat, Thomas strikes a figure both dashing and intimidating. He's clearly the type to polish his boots and wax his mustache before rushing into the fray. Do you have the grit, gusto and guile to take to the Field of Justice in style?

Appearance: Tall, dark and dashing. Sporting colonial-era fancy military threads of blue and gold and a stunningly tall grenadier's hat (the black fuzzy ones that the Buckingham Palace guards wear). Wields a musket fixed with full-length bayonet and a mustache.

Attributes

Slow marching speed Melee auto-attack with bayonet Medium-tanky Low base damages and high AD ratios (You can have a lot of damage as a long-range AD caster or be a pestering nuisance of a tanky bruiser) long cast times, low cooldowns

The primary feature here is that he is a slow champion who requires patience and careful positioning in order to be useful. Despite the slower play-style, quick thinking and reflexes are required to get anything done. This champion is intended to be punishing and high-skill/high-reward.

Abilities

Resource: Morale - Starts at half, refills slowly over time, with damage dealt to champions and when gold is gained, this resource is spent in chunks to use his abilities. If ever it reaches 0 due to spamming, whiffed abilities or damage taken he receives the buff "tactical retreat", cowing his head, receiving a silence and a speed-buff boost for a considerable period of time.

Passive: Nerves of Steel/Pride and Vanity - The effects of damage on Thomas' ability casts and morale are lessened as he gains levels, while the effect that missing abilities has on his morale is increased.

Q: Load/FIRE! - Holding Q causes Thomas to load his musket. Releasing Q cancels the cast and causes you to have to start all over again. Substantial cast-time. Upon completing loading, Q fades out and your next auto-attack is replaced by a high-range musket shot. The shot travels on a random trajectory within a narrow cone, simulating the inaccuracy of musket-fire. Naturally, the closer you are to your target the better of a chance you have to hit them. This is a fast, nearly-instantaneous projectile ability. It can pass through 2 targets and hit a third before stopping. Each pass through a target reduces damage and changes the trajectory of the projectile.

Notes - this ability costs a low amount of morale which is negated completely if the shot hits. Interruption of the cast causes morale loss equal to half of a missed shot. While potentially spammable with its non-existent cooldown, the self-rooting properties of this ability and long cast-time (reduced by CDR) make this high-damage skillshot easily balanced. The width of this ability's inaccuracy cone should be the size of the average champion hitbox at medium range, with a slight chance to miss smaller champs.

W: Fire in the hole! - This lobs a grenade towards your cursor at a distance based on the amount of time you hold the ability. Additionally, the grenade (a classic round, black gunpowder-and-fuse affair) begins counting down a timer as soon as you light the fuse to throw it, meaning that it could potentially blow up in your hand, resulting in severe shame and loss of morale.

E: Hit the deck! - Thomas dives towards your cursor, landing prone. Being prone has these effects: proximity-based stealth in brush, doubles accuracy of FIRE! (Q), causes grenades (W) to be rolled on the ground (this detonates them on player's ankles, slowing them significantly), no auto-attacks, very slow movement speed (crawling). Additionally, this ability can be double-tapped to turn the dive into a medium-speed roll (dash). All bonuses apply only while Thomas is prone. E will be replaced with "On Your Feet" while prone. Guess what that does.

Ult: CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGE! - With a ferocious battle-cry, Thomas charges into the fray in a straight line, bayonet first. This is a fast charge which deals LUDICROUS single-target damage and fears/immobilizes the target. Upon connecting with an enemy, if Thomas' Musket was loaded it may be fired while enemy is impaled with Q, causing a knockback and regular Q damage. Upon initial charge, Thomas begins generating Morale... for a few seconds. After a good distance he becomes exhausted, progressively draining his morale faster and faster. Soon enough it can drain your whole bar, resulting in the ult being cancelled and triggering "Tactical Retreat". This is an execution ability, doing more damage to lower-health targets and fearing them even longer. The cast can not be cancelled manually. Additionally, if Thomas hits a wall during his charge he will be stuck to the wall until he can pull his bayonet free. I think it would be cool to add a feature where in order to pull your bayonet free you have to hit R as fast as possible. 15-20 hits to get free, kinda thing.