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[Champion Concept] Midas, the Ruined King

Rubitonabuilding·4/22/2014, 12:56:51 PM·3 votes·1,217 views

Hi all,

I've been working on this Lore (Titled The Dawn of the Shadow Isles) for the past week or so, and it introduced some cool new Champion Concepts. Midas is the first of 4 Champ Concepts I'll be rolling out this week.

I'm sure most of you are familiar with the traditional Midas story, but if you want a League of Legends twist on it, go ahead and read that lore. Midas is a gold-based fighter/tank who uses his golden touch in various ways to create a nice shiny kit.

Without further ado, I present Midas, the Ruined King:

Passive: Untold Wealth

  • Midas has increased gold per 5, but his abilities cost gold. His current gold is displayed where the mana bar would be, with divisions similar to the health bar to indicate exactly how much gold he has.

Q: Midas' Touch

  • (Passive) Midas' basic attacks increase the bounty on his target by 1% for (Midas' level) seconds. (This means whoever kills the target gets more gold)

  • (Active) Midas' next basic attack briefly turns his target to gold, stunning them for (0.5/0.75/1/1.25/1.5) seconds.

W: Transmute (toggle)

  • Midas sacrifices HP per second to increase his movement and attack speed.

E: Gilded Armor

  • Midas gold-plates his armor, momentarily blinding nearby enemies who are facing toward him. This also increases his armor and magic resist for the duration.

R: Curse of the Ruined King

  • For (10/15/20) seconds, any enemy champion who spills Midas' golden blood (through basic attacks or spells/abilities) is overcome by greed and taunted for (0.5/1/1.5) seconds. This effect cannot occur more than once every 5 seconds on the same enemy.

Additional Notes:

  • Midas is intended as a melee/tank top laner, but he can also be played as a jungle or support.
  • The passive on his Q (as well as Transmute) are intended as an incentive for Midas players to buy Blade of the Ruined King (which increases life steal and attack speed, recouping HP lost from Transmute and increasing the bonus bounty from Q), but BOTRK is not an absolute requirement when playing Midas.
  • I will shamelessly plug my idea that Riot needs to include a gold-based champion in the League of Legends roster. Rikur + Raena are two others I've created in the past.
  • If you enjoyed Midas, check out some of my other Champion Concepts here.
  • As always, questions and feedback are welcome as long as they're constructive.

3 Comments

Keikomatsui 4/22/2014, 6:44:22 PM1 votes

So...

His passive: This has the severe opportunity to be really polarized. If you can afford to just farm in lane with minimal fighting, he can snowball really quickly due to the increased gold gain. But if you're getting wrecked and have to use abilities to just stay alive a lot without being able to farm well, this is gonna suck.

Q: Can the passive stack? Like, if he autos 9 times in 18 seconds (0.5 attack speed is pretty damn easy to have) is it a 9% increase? If so, thats terrifying. Get a lotta attackspeed mid/late game and just tag a dude a bunch of times, then give a lot of bonus gold to your adc? No thank you.1 The active is pretty standard and solid (gold). Obviously, cooldowns matter. Consider giving it some minor damage buff also.

W: Depending on the scaling and duration, this is either pretty good or pretty darn bad. Cant really make a judgement without specifics.

E: Again, specifics. Blind duration and mr/armor buff make this skill pretty decent or pretty darn bad.

R: Holy mother of underwhelming! I really think that this is rather weak and needs either some re-tuning or a different idea. Sure, an AoE taunt is good but his damage potential is so low (since he seems to have no skills that do any damage) that people really can just ignore him. Would pet damage proc this? (malz voidling, heimer turrets, zyra plants) Either increase the duration, decrease the time lapse, or something.

Overall: Decent enough. He has basically no damage, which I think needs to be remedied. The dude turns people to gold for gods sake. Surely that hurts. Has to potential to be kited like Jesus only knows. Ashe wrecks him, as does Fiora. Id say make his q stun a skillshot single target (like elise) because otherwise anyone with a dash or slow will just be untouchable.

Paraxis4/23/2014, 6:11:23 PM1 votes

Gold instead mana is interesting idea. I have champion with The Ruined king too :D