[Contest Concept] Kokoro, the Ionian Skeleton
Name: Kokoro Role: Tank Secondary Role: Fighter Resource: Unique Resource
Stats: Health 406 (+103) | Attack Damage 53 (+2.5) Health Regen. 8.25 (+0.95) | Attack Speed 0.639 (+2.45%) Mana 200 (+37.5) | Armor 28 (+1.5) Mana Regen. 7.25 (+0.31) | Magic Res. 30 (+1.25) Range 150 (Melee) | Mov. Speed 340
**Lore ** Many know of the Orders within the monasteries of Ionia. Many also know of how the most well known Order was brought down by a single man who was shrouded in shadow. With the Order of the Shadow now firmly in control of the ninja schools, many fear to disobey the master's wishes. However a woman who has hidden the shadows of forbidden arts far longer than Zed has brought forth the next evolution of Ionian styles. That evolution is in the form of her daughter Kokoro. Using her very bones, Kokoro has perfected a new art that has been an experiment throughout 200 years. By extending the infrastructure of her skeleton, she is able to form weapons, armor, and even augment her body to be lighter and faster than that of any normal human. She has named this new and revolutionary style, the Order of the Bones.
The shadow ninja first learned of this new Order through one of his disciples having the unfortunate thought of engaging in combat with Kokoro. Creating a katana made of super dense bone and twice as sharp as even the most well-forged steel, the poor student barely returned with his life, let alone his limbs. He warned of the power this new one possessed before fainting due to a lack blood. Zed sought out to offer this new force a place in his school of shadows, or otherwise be destroyed. Upon finding her he immediately saw a bit of himself in her. She was determined and hungry to prove herself, unfortunately it was not directed towards joining the Order of Shadows. Settling to defeat her then there, Zed used every ability he could to bring her down, but no matter how many times he slashed her or stabbed her, he couldn't get her to submit. In fact her wounds would just heal up completely like it was no problem. Suddenly Kokoro stabbed the ground with her katana and split the ground with giant bone spurs. Zed had no other option than to flee from the impregnable woman.
It was at that moment that he realized that this woman was not able to be beaten alone. However he didn't wish to sacrifice his students to kill one person. However Kokoro had a different plan. She took the fight to the monastery itself, killing any in her path via impalement. Zed and his disciples managed to push her back but not without substantial losses in the temple. Before leaving with the only one wound on her leg, she yelled out, "Only more death will come if you follow the shadows. If you want real strength, follow the spikes." Within the night a few of the remaining shadow ninjas left the temple, seeking out Kokoro and her power. One day Zed and Kokoro will meet again, and that time will determine who the most powerful Order there is.
"Strength comes from within the body, but so does weakness." - Kokoro
Unique Resource - Density Kokoro's bones passively grow denser and larger while in combat, causing her to both be harder to kill and to also lose movement speed in the process due to her increased weight. This resource is only used with Exoskeleton.
Abilities
Passive - Marrow Thorns As Kokoro's health depletes her cooldown reduction on all of her abilities increase.
Max Cooldown Reduction - 8% / 12% / 16% / 20% Minimum Cooldown Reduction - 4% / 6% / 8% / 10% Percent Missing Health Needed for Minimum Reduction - 10% Percent Missing Health Needed for Max Reduction - 50%
Visual Deterioration - As Kokoro takes more and more damage, her exoskeletal armor starts to chip more and more away to the point that she is forced to rip off the broken armor piece.
Q - Bone Saw Kokoro creates a large spiky bone shuriken and throws it in a line damaging the first enemy struck and dealing 80 / 120 / 150 / 180 / 210 (+ .8 Attack Damage) physical damage. The Saw breaks off into Bone Spurs, which embed themselves into all enemies in the vicinity of where the Saw broke apart.
Cooldown: 12s / 11s / 10s / 9s / 8s Range: 900 Bone Spur Break Range: 500 Mana Cost: None
W - Exoskeleton Passive: Kokoro creates very thick bone plates on top of her skin while she is in combat which increases her armor by 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 and transforms her Marrow Katana into a Marrow Hammer once reaching 50% thickness, giving her basic attacks bonus damage based off **10% 15% / 20% / 25% / 30% of her current Attack damage and 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60% of her armor **. However she loses up to 20% of her movement speed at max thickness. Her Marrow Hammer is also capable of breaking Bone Shards.
Active: At 100% thickness, Kokoro can cast Dermal Missiles which turns all of the hardened plates into spikes and shoots off into all directions within a 500 radius, dealing 100 / 120 / 140 / 160 / 180 (+ 50% of Armor) physical damage. Her Katana returns from being a hammer and the Density resource resets.
E - Bone Deep Passive: Bone Spurs When Kokoro attacks an enemy, they are inflicted with a stack of Bone Spurs. Upon 4 stacks of Bone Spurs they join into a Bone Shard. This, when broken by either spell or basic attack from her Marrow Hammer, deals 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 / 110 (+ 3% of missing health) bonus true damage.
Kokoro uses either the Bone Shards or Bone Spurs inside her enemies to cripple them by applying grievous wounds and slowing them by 30% / 40% / 50% / 60% / 70% of their movement speed for 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 / 2.25 seconds. This ability also breaks the Bone Shard.
Cooldown: 14s Range: 1000 Mana Cost: None
R - Graveyard Kokoro creates gigantic bone spikes from the ground, impaling and rooting all enemies within range dealing while 150 / 300 / 450 (+ 1.0 of Attack Damage) Physical Damage and breaking all Bone Spurs or Shards in the process. Enemies with Bone Spurs take reduced damage than if they had Bone Shards.
Cooldown: 120s / 100s / 80s Size of Graveyard: 700 / 800 / 900 Mana Cost: None
Appearance Kokoro has a white hair and golden eyes. Her armor is comprised of an exoskeleton like design, with her arms and legs outlined with spiky bone plates and a chest plate that are made up of what look like a second pair of ribs. She is relatively shorter than most champions, only standing at about 5'4". Her clothes underneath are form fitting grey scaled pants and a sleeveless twin tailed jacket over top bandages on her chest.
Quotes Selection - "I shall lead the strong"
Movement - "Who shall we debone next?" "With purpose." "I will bring change to Ionia." "Every strength lies just below the surface."
Attacking - "They can never break me." "Your bones are brittle." "I feel you cracking." "Weaklings."
Joke - "I find the word of encouragement "Break a leg" a bit redundant. "I have super dense bones, but why can i break a nail?"
Taunt - "First I'll break your spirit. Then your bones." "My style is unbreakable. You are however."
Character Interactions
Zed - "We meet again shadow man." "Let's finish this once and for all. Zed.
Special Buff - "The Order of..." Whenever Zed and Kokoro are in the same game and on opposite teams this buff will appear on each of them. If Kokoro kills Zed first, the buff transforms into "The Order of Bones" and she receives an extra 1% Cooldown reduction. If Zed kills Kokoro first, he gains "The Order of Shadow" and receives an extra 3% AD buff for the remainder of the game.
Gameplay Style - Kokoro is a special type of Top Lane Champion in a sense that she is a tanky dps champion. Her smash-mouth play style is similar to others such as Darius and Vi while still retaining her own unique charm. The goal i have for Kokoro is to have her be a really effective peeling champion while still being a dangerous target if left unchecked.
