Champion Challenge: Post 1: Variel: The Soulkeeper

First things first: Champion Challenge? What's that? Well, I enjoy goofing around with champion concepts and making whatever I can and trying to make things work, so I decided to make it a challenge for myself. Every 2 weeks I am going to try to post a complete champion concept here, from lore to kit to numbers... EVERYTHING. Every champion must be unique and interesting... and reasonably balanced in my head. Feel free to comment and give me your thoughts, I may revisit some concepts if they are popular or get any traction, and feel free to give me any ideas down in the comment section. Anyway enough rambling, to begin, here is a concept I have been working on for a while, Variel: The Soulkeeper.

LORE

I saw him as a corpse or half of one at least. Wandering this tainted ground wreathed in shadow, clambering over the bloodstained rocks, desperate only to survive another day. He ran from something and he followed something, something even a being as ethereal as I now live could see, he did not chase death, so I gave him my life. If he could take it.

The man fought like the devil possessed, like few men of this age, a true descendant of the Iceborn if I ever I did see. Courage and bravery are in no short supply and make me wish for the warmth once again of blood and flesh. That look in his eyes, even though staring into damnation he fights, as any true Iceborn should. So I took it if he could handle the wrath of the north.

Frail one… oh so frail. Twig on the breeze of the remains of an oak, steel cannot protect withering bones oh no, only lock them up. No air no air. Can’t breathe can’t eat the dead, oh no, oh no. The dead live here make their homes and their fires, make more dead, you are just the appetizer, not for you for them, will you survive without your meal? Will they make a meal of you? Oh yes, oh yes! Will you flee? Run to your home of steel and hide? Suffocate yourself? That won’t help , they eat the dead. Can you take this any longer?

He had come for a noble, yet ill-guided ideal. To cleanse this place, to rid the worlds of this land of death incarnate, as I once sought to do, before his very own kinsmen ripped me down on the fields of war. But he had his stay; his horrors of comrades cut down before his eyes, and knew the folly of his plight, because as they stained the ground, they learned the blood of man cannot cleanse this place. But through that look in his eyes… mishaps this one can be redeemed as a last gift to the world.

Primary Fighter

Secondary Support

Base Stats

HP: 450(+95) HP5: 7.45(+0.8) Mana: 190(+50) MP5: 6.45(+.65) AD: 51(+3.35) AS: 0.67(+3.0%) AR: 21(+3.6) MR: 30(+0) MS: 345 Range: 125

Appearance

Variel appears as almost a hybrid of the Shadow Isles. He appears ghostly in appearance but still mostly human. He he wears a mishmash of clothing, having an Ionian Gi for a shirt, with his right arm hanging out outside the sleeve, showing many scars from his past life, now eminating a faint greenish glow of the shadow isles. His left sleeve drapes down covering most of his arm, but cuts off at his wrist showing a gauntlet covering nothing but a stronger greenish glow a-la . As for the rest of his outfit he has loose fitting pants that end abruptly into greaves that cover the top of leather boots.

His voice also echoes this idea of a Shadow Isles hybrid. It has the echo and twinges of the typical ghastly Shadow Isles voice, but is much clearer, revealing a single overpowering deep male voice.

As for weaponry he carries a massive Kartika knife. (Wielded almost in the style of Renekton's weapon, but a one handed weapon which the blade would extend from the tip of his fingers down to his elbows, and the blade extending out about half as far from his shoulder to elbow) He also carries a square knife which he does not use as a melee attack, but throws as his Q.

Abilities

Passive: Reopened Wounds

Variel's abilities and Basic Attacks add stacks of Reopened Wounds up to a max of 7. Upon attacking a target with Reopened Wounds Variel's basic attacks deal 17(+2 per lv) on hit. Stacks dissapear after 3 seconds without being applied.

Q: Severing Knife:

Mana: 60/65/70/75 CD: 8/7/6/5/4 Range: 950 Variel throws out his knife in a straight line, dealing (85/120/155/190/225 +0.8 AP) magic damage to the first enemy it encounters, and slows them by 20% for 1 second.

W: Soul Merge:

Mana: 80 CD: 8 sec from end of effect Variel shields a target ally, causing them to take (20/22.5.25/27.5/30)% reduced damage for 6 seconds. Variel takes damage equal to 30% of the damage dealt after the damage reduction is applied (This is further reduced by Variel's armor and MR). This effect can be cancelled early by reactivating the ability.

Champions under the effect of Soul Merge will add Reopened Wounds stacks with their basic attacks.

E: Last Charge:

Mana: 75 CD: 22 sec Range 750 Variel leaps to target location cleaving the ground on arrival, dealing (80/120/160/200/240 +1.0 AD) to targets within 250 range of the landing site. Last Charge's cooldown is reduced by .5 sec every time Variel is damaged by an enemy Basic Attack or spell.

R: En Memoriam:

Mana 100/125/150 CD 150/135/110 Variel stabs his knife into the ground, sending out a pulse of spectral energy. Allied champions are given the effects of Soul Merge for 3 seconds, and enemies take (10/12.5/15 +1per 100 AP)% of their max health in magic damage and slowed by 40%. Variel is healed for the damage dealt by this spell over 3 seconds.

BONUSES

Champion Select Quote: We live on!

Movement Quotes:

We walk in 1000 footfalls Ruins and Rises follow in our path What will we leave behind Where do we travel now The past must never repeat

Attacking Quotes:

We fight death once more No more glory Courage shall not falter We will not die again We will prevail

Unique Interactions:

Aatrox

Butcher... We will avenge ourselves! You have caused enough death already Aatrox!

Thresh

Their souls deserve to be Free! You cannot keep them trapped forever Jailer!

Lucien

Prevail where we did not Lucien We cannot let you kill us yet Lucien

Karthus

Your chorus ends here Karthus You have sung your last Karthus

Mordekaiser

We will restore the Shadow Isles Mordekaiser You have enslaved us for the last Mordekaiser

Riven

You still have a long way to go for redemption exile You walk a hard road Riven, walk it well

Yasuo:

You cannot outrun death Yasuo Only so long can you escape yourself Yasuo