Nicodemus, The Dark Puppeteer

Aegis Angel·1/7/2014, 5:47:48 PM·4 votes·3,247 views

Lore: Centuries ago a small ship landed on the shores of the great continent. Out of the ship walked a single man, Nicodemus. Nicodemus spent years wandering the land manipulating events to his advantage. He wiped out races that he deemed to dangerous to exist and caused the rise of several nations. After starting two Rune Wars many people became wise to the existence of Nicodemus. Three summoners of considerable power sealed Nicodemus in stone thus forming the first Nuxus. Even with Nicodemus sealed his power still leaked out and allowed him to create chaos throughout the land. The Nexus that appeared throughout the land are an extension of his power Which is why the League has champions destroy the Nexus in each area.

An unfortunate mistake for the league was not ensuring that every nexus was destroyed every time. One of the Nexus in the Summoners Rift survived for longer than it should have thus allowing it to mature and release something. What came from the Nexus was just a puppet. Nicodemus took this puppet and made it into his avatar. Unsure how to break the bonds that held him Nicodemus offered his puppet up to the Summoners of the League of Legends hoping to bring it down from the inside.

"I am the leader you are all just the puppets..."

Nicodemus, the Dark Puppeteer (Class: Support, Mage. Resource: Mana) (Edit: Class: Assassin, Resource: Mana)

Basic attack: Nicodemus uses the wires attached to his hands to slash at the enemy giving him a ranged melee attack like Thresh

Passive Ability: Puppet Master

Every fifth attack gains a bonus length on any effect that is applied

First Ability: Introduction

Sends out an illusion of a random ally champion to investigate a zone. If attacked it will respond and deal 1/2 of the damage dealt to it back. Then it will vanish. If it is not attacked it will just vanish.

(this is meant to be a fun little trick to trick people into wasting their powerful attacks early or allow for an escape)

Second Ability: Rising Action/Falling Action

First Cast: Wires knock target enemy into the air damaging them.

Second cast: Slams enemy back into the ground slowing them and damaging them.

Third Ability: In Medias Res

First cast: Places a doll on the ground the doll lasts for 1 minute and only one doll may exist

Second Cast: Teleports a short distance to the doll and spins his wires around him pushing back every enemy and allies back. Damaging enemies and granting allies a shield.

(Note: the name means in the midst of things and is used as a plot hook in many stories. This puts Nicodemus in the Midst of battle. Or can be used as an escape route. The doll can be seen by everyone and is just a simple wooden puppet. NOTE 2: If Nicodemus is around the doll and is not in battle the doll will get up and dance as controlled by Nicodemus.)

Ultimate Ability: Grand Finale

Sends the wires out and grabs hold of a single enemy champion. Nicodemus becomes rooted, invisible and cannot use any of his other abilities. The enemy can then be manipulated for a short amount of time. If the Champion leaves a large radius then the technique is canceled. reactivate the ability to cancel early.

(Note: Minions cannot be attacked. If a neutral monster is killed the kill goes to the Manipulated champion and not the manipulator. Ally's of Nicodemus cannot damage the manipulated champion. Any damage done to the Manipulated champion causes the invisibility to flicker and the time of control to lessen. Nicodemus gains control of both their basic attacks and their technique but may not access a persons summoner spells, items or ultimate ability. This technique would drain a massive amount of mana and have an extremely long cool down)

Character Description: Nicodemus wares a black stylized trench coat and has a "Phantom of the Opera" mask on. He has white gloves and silver wires. While he is facing the screen you can see small marionettes that he has in his coat. if left alone long enough he will pull them out and make them dance or fight each other. His voice would be deep and calm but would echo giving it a creepy sound.

Thank you for Reading. Please give me feedback and suggestions!

10 Comments

RiotRiot Girl1/8/2014, 7:20:17 PM3 votes

Sooo cool - I like that you changed him to an assassin from support. I'd like to see him work off energy and not mana, but that might be too OP. I really like the way you used story mapping in the names of abilitiest then I'm a writer, so of course I do). This is super well thought out and ridiculously hot. ARTWORK PLS!

JackAqua1/7/2014, 7:50:02 PM1 votes

I like his Q, but more for Shaco.
Shaco should get a rework someday, I hope, and I think this would be perfect for him.

Spankplank421/7/2014, 10:32:05 PM1 votes

Don't think this guy should be a support champ or a mage I would think he would be an assassin. Also this guy sounds very hard to control. Other than that great Idea and hope Riot thinks so too.

TheLordIndigo1/11/2014, 6:27:30 AM1 votes

Do we get Riot Points if we create a champion?

Hoffmisc1/17/2014, 9:40:42 PM1 votes

Hello, I hope you don't mind but I expanded on your idea of making Annie Alice's rival and I used Nicodemus to do so.

http://community.na.leagueoflegends.com/c/fancreations/e8LrBqta-alice-the-demonic-doll-maker

Enjoy! Any feedback on her kit would be nice as well. :)