[Champion Concept] Ylva - The Scarlet Avenger
##Lore
"When monsters come alive, I am the scarlet avenger of this world" - Ylva, the Scarlet Avenger.
"Ylva hails from a world far, far away where the people in its realm live in peaceful coexistence with animals and its environment. Nonetheless the peace that the boundary brings, there are also those who disbelieves of the need of an coexistence, thus treats the animals and their surroundings with no respect and with no responsibility.
Ylva's homeland does not only live with animals, but also fights with them as their companions. As an old tradition, every warrior who wants to ascend as a protector of the land, has to first find its Spirit Animal. A Spirit Animal can not be easily found, as one person can only have one Spirit Animal in his life because the special Spirit Animal has been decided to everyone when born.
Unfortunately, Ylva's Spirit Animal was an ancient, spectral Wolf which extinction has been declared long ago. In her dreams, Ylva saw her Spirit Animal which indicated that he still was alive, and so she finally, after months of search, found her partner Okami.
Years passed by and Ylva became a proudful protector of her land and a hero - that was atleast said due to her and Okami's success against a horde of bandits who tried to burn down a village. In fact, her heroic deeds brought her to Valoran, to the Institute of War. She and Okami was summoned to help Runeterra and its conflicts.
First she refused, but as she travelled through Valoran, she experienced a side of a unpleasant land who abuses animals and declares justified war. On top of that, Ylva and Okami shed their tears for our world and eventually joined the Institute of War."
###Champion Explanation
- Ylva means "she-wolf", a derivative of Old Norse úlfr "wolf". The name Okami (from the PS2 game) is a pun. Okami means god ('kami' meaning god, and 'O' being a respectful prefix) Ookami means wolf.
- Ylva, though the former protector of her homeland, is still somewhat a dark character. She doesn't dislike violence itself for punishment, but still fights for a good cause. When people become cruel and humiliate animals, Ylva is the Scarlet Avenger for those who cannot avenge themselves.
- Okami is a very proudful female animal and itself is a very rare creature in Ylva's world. Okami's backstory isn't really worth telling, but overall Okami was always alone and an outsider as most of the other animals were afraid of her and her appearance - they feared the unknown. Ylva was the only one who treated Okami with respect and with empathy.
- It is nowhere stated, but Ylva holds a huge grudge against people who treats animals and the environment bad. This is due to a traumatic event in her childhood when once her village has been invaded by a rival kingdom - the kingdom who does not share the same ideals and rather abuses and disrespects animals and its surroundings. She had to face many cruelty, which ended up creating her personality so that she punishes those criminals - unfortunately, the punishment she plans is beyond humane.
##Appearance
Ylva is a pretty young female warrior, her size is a bit under the average (1.63cm), her hair is white as snow and her face is veiled by a black mask. She has sloppy wolf ears and wears a red Kimono. She has a three edged scythe, that looks like a claw, but the space between the edges is pretty tight. And she has a small wolf tail that is pretty non-recognizeable, but still existant (looks more of a rabbit tail).
There are some pictures which looks similiar to her.
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http://gehenna-angel.deviantart.com/art/Red-Riding-Hood-311553589
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kRW3kN2JJa0/S99dLkw7IlI/AAAAAAAAAio/KAyeD2drMko/s1600/%5BNekomimi%5D+Ookami+Kakushi+-+08+%5B4004AFA3%5D.mkv_snapshot_13.37_%5B2010.05.04_07.11.23%5D.jpg http://www.deviantart.com/art/Daly-for-AnimeNae455-146916824
There is no three edged scythe on the internet, probably was never imagined ever. However, here's a picture of claw blades - imagine it bigger and attached to a scythe.
http://www.medievalcollectibles.com/images/Product/large/MC-TA-57SE.png
Okami, the wolf, looks like a real legendary and ancient wolf, similiar to - down below.
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http://corey-h.deviantart.com/art/Spirit-Wolf-136994073
http://wolfroad.deviantart.com/art/Spirit-of-Harmony-258517515
Possible skins at the end.
###Stats
Damage 54 (+3.3 per level)
Attackspeed 0.711 (3%)
Health 445 (+75 per level)
Movement Speed 325
Armor 24 (+2 per level)
Magic Resist 24 (+1.6 per level)
Health Regen 8 (+0.6 per level)
Attack Range 145
###Abilities
*SK = Skillshot
BA = Basic Attack
ATR = Attack Timer Reset
LO = Lock-On
MC = Mouse Cursor
AU = Aura
P = Passive
AoE = Area of Effect
DoT = Damage over Time
D = Dash
T = Teleport
M = Movement Speed *
| Ability | Name | Effect | Type | Range | Cooldown |- | Innate Passive | Soul Dwell | Whenever Ylva's health drops down to 25% health, Okami switches with Ylva the place for 3.5 seconds. Okami's health is equal to 15%/25%/35%% of Ylva's max health. However, Okami can't activate basic abilities or summoner spells. If Okami dies or after 3.5 seconds, Ylva returns. (Static Cooldown: 350/300/250)
| Ability | Name | Effect | Type | Range | Cooldown |- | Q | Pursuit / Evil Roots | Upon activation: Ylva charges her scythe while gaining bonus movement speed for 3.5 seconds. While charging, she can recast. Ylva receives +25/+35/+45/+55/+65 movement speed initially, increasing by 10% each second when moving towards a visible enemy champion.Recast - "Evil Roots": Ylva slams her scythe claws into the ground 230 range nearby, dealing 85/95/110/125/145 (+50% bonus AD) physical damage in a 350 AoE around the location. Every enemy unit who has movement-impaired effects receives additional damage equal to 5%/10%/15% (1/3/5 skill level) of their missing health as magic damage. |MC + AoE | | 15.5 / 14.5 / 13.5 / 12.5 / 11
| Ability | Name | Effect | Type | Range | Cooldown |- | W | Bloody Howl | Passive: Whenever Ylva does basic attacks against enemy Champions, she marks the targets for 3.5 seconds. If the targets are marked and is hit by "Bloody Howl" active, the marks are consumed and the targets get rooted by .7/.9/1/1.3/1.5 seconds instead of slowed. Active: From Ylva's body emerges three clones of Okami (spectral wolves) in a 600 width cone, which walks up to 600 range and hunt nearby enemy Champions up to 1000 range max. On hit: Slows the enemy Champion by 25% (+% [Ylva's Champion Level]) for 0.5/1/1.5/2/2.5 seconds. **Note:**If there is no enemy Champion, the wolves start looking for allied Champions and heal them by 5%/8%/10%/12%/15% of Ylva's max health. One ally Champion can't be healed by more than one wolf. |P + AoE + CC| | 18.5 / 17 / 15.5 / 14 / 12.5|
| Ability | Name | Effect | Type | Range | Cooldown |- | E | Scarlet Sting |Upon Activation: Ylva's next two/three/four/five/six basic attacks have +25%/+35%/+45%/+55%/+65% Attack Speed and +150 range for 2.5/3.5/4.5/5.5/6.5 seconds. |BA| | 15.5 / 14.5 / 13.5 / 12.5 / 11.5
| Ability | Name | Effect | Type | Range | Cooldown |- | Ultimate | Final Moon | On Enemy Target: Ylva's body immediately divides into 3/4/5 clones of Okami and hunts down the target. All clones of Okami are untargetable and chase the given target. Each Okami clone deals 65/85/105(+75% AP) magic damage. However, the Okami clones can be stopped by standing between them and their target. Only one Okami clone can't be stopped - Ylva disguised as Okami itself. If Ylva disguised as Okami reaches its target, she deals damage and appears behind the target. The Okami clones chase the target max 1500 range and when reaching threshold Ylva comes back.|| | 90 / 80 / 70
###Champion Explanation & Personal Opinion
Though Ylva's kit seems to be concentrating on the role of an ADCarry, she can be also be played as an Tank or Offtank, meaning that her abilities deal also good damage without full AD itemization. Still, her abilities profits from raw AD amounts. Her passive and Ultimate are great for 1v2/1v3/1v4/1v5 situations, as she can assassinate her target without the need of huge amounts of tankyness. There is also a possibility to play Ylva as an AP nuker, but I like the idea to play her on a different way. It would suit her playstyle of not being too much overpowered, as the counter-measures of her Ultimate is to protect the vulnerable target by standing between.
I would use Ylva's abilities in the following order: Activate Q - run closer to the target and attack it or - Activate W, enemy is slowed or rooted - Use Q Recast and activate E to deal constant damage. If the targets tries to run away - Activate Ultimate.
From there on there are two points - The target escapes the 1500 range - Or the target lures you into a trap.
This is the negative aspect of Ylva's Ultimate. While it's a very frightening ability, it can also be used against you, especially as Ylva appears at the back of the target, which makes harder to react faster.
Overall Ylva is strong against other Assassins like Yasuo, Talon, ecetera, as she's able to burst and CC other Assassins who are really dependable on mobility. However, Ylva has a strong kit but can be destroyed by CC based tanky Champions as Renekton, Riven, Malphite, Jax, ecetera, as Ylva has not the kit to bring havoc on tanks - However, she is able to deal moderate to average damage against vulnerable/weakened tanks, as her Q alone deals great damage based due to missing health based damage.
Her Ultimate is for the purpose to deflect and become untargetable in a teamfight, to escape hard engages by tanks and appear on vulnerable targets as APCarry or Marksman.
###Emote
Ylva creates immediately a harp similiar to down below. She plays on it and makes some chilling sounds.
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs12/i/2006/287/9/7/Dante__s_Stringed_Scythe_by_EmperorJustin.jpg
Special Quotes:
If Ahri is near Ylva, Ahri says "My my, your origin is truly special"
If Warwick is near Ylva, Warwick says "Okami; You smell nice"
###Possible skins:
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Various skins
http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/6329/holyassassinconc03es9.jpg
Okami-Okami (From the PS2 Game)
http://santafung.deviantart.com/art/Okami-84326619
Nighthunter Okami
http://xxnamaste.deviantart.com/art/less-rose-407244258
Void Okami
http://dragonka.deviantart.com/art/Volken-83808252
Warring Kingdoms Ylva & Okami
http://sheltiewolf.deviantart.com/art/Warrior-Wolf-101888203
http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121219040744/dynastywarriors/images/5/53/Orochi_Concept_%28WO%29.png
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb378/FloppyBawlz/AQWOfficialWikiFireClawScytheSpecialAnimation.png?t=1336552017
Swampgod Okami
http://alectorfencer.deviantart.com/art/The-Plant-Spirit-80289033
