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Can we have a new character with a sword and a shield with classical gameplay

MOuHahaHAhahaaaa··15 votes·2,094 views

Hello,

i think Riot made a lot of new characters and new concepts but i miss the classical approach of creating a champ.

Why not making a knight with a sword and a shield. Leona is the only one that uses a sword and a shield.

A new toplaner using an armor style like kayle.

here in an exemple of what could be done :

Q - Sword thrust (3 activations kinda like riven but each activation deals more damage) : -First activation Conic. moderate damage -second activation a lengthway attack which hits max 3 in line units. higher damage -third activation a Piercing blow the first ennemy caught in the hitbox looses -10% armor and is slowed during 2 sec. Each time the third blow will be a critical damage.

w - Fighting Posture instant 3 sec cd to reactivate choice between :

  • offensive (gains +10% damage 5% mvt speed but takes +10% damage)
  • Defensive ( Takes -10% damage but looses 10% damage)
  • Balanced posture just click longer on your w to disable the postures

This is something that could be interesting. Using your offensive posture to go back more quickly in lane. Ganking faster. Using the offensive posture for an ambush. Altering between your offensive and defensive posture in lane could be great too. For example if you know the opponents cooldowns on his abilities you could take less damage knowing when you have to use your defensive posture. During teamfights you could tank a lot of damage. And if you want to go back to normal you can.

E - Charge, a long dash knocking back everying in the way but doesn't deal any damage and doesn't apply any slow. (you can choose the lenght to reach your opponent and not hit him)

R - During 3 sec you recieve -50% damage. during this time every damage the opponents made to you is stocked in your shield. you have 1min to release the energy in the shield. if after one min it isnt used the ult is reset.

When releasing the shield ennergy : it deals all the damage made to you to all enemies around you. If opponents made you like 2000 damage in teamfight.

if you release and you fight close to 3 opponents you will deal (2000/3 = 663 damage to each opponent). If there is only one opponent it will deal 2000 damage directly to him.

Well that's just an idea but I think we lack of classical medieval armored themed swordsman we have leona, riven, kayle, garen and it's all...

Why don't they make more swordsman ?

14 Comments

Pierce The Veal12 votes

Did someone say

HELMET BRO?

Tails90161 votes

https://youtu.be/yJQkK50u2sk?t=23s

That would have to be an ability though

Also his face at 0:44 would have to be put in the game.

Marshbouy4 votes

Why don't they make more swordsman ?

because this kit is incredibly generic and is basically already in the game on a variety of different champions.

MOuHahaHAhahaaaa1 votes

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because this kit is incredibly generic and is basically already in the game on a variety of different champions.

they could make new things

Marshbouy1 votes

They could, but the game already has a good number of "swordsman" or at least melee weapon users.

When designing a champion you need to think about how closely they resemble other champions. That means you can't have a ton of people who are a "swordsman." We already have a bunch of "swordsmen"

MOuHahaHAhahaaaa2 votes

{quoted}

They could, but the game already has a good number of "swordsman" or at least melee weapon users.

When designing a champion you need to think about how closely they resemble other champions. That means you can't have a ton of people who are a "swordsman." We already have a bunch of "swordsmen"

That's still better than releasing tard champs that are horrible to play against...

Arakadia3 votes

Not a super interesting character. You can have simple characters who are interesting and unique.

TengenToppaGnar1 votes

Ehhhhh, that R. That's pretty OP if it sits in there for a minute. Nah, but lets make their shield the infamous "SpellBreaker meets Auriel's Shield"(if you know Elder Scrolls).

Passive - Mirror Shield: Upon taking damage from a basic attack or ability, for X seconds, reflect all melee damage directly to the attacker and all projectile type damage back in the form of an auto-activating skillshot. (Eg. Zoe Paddlestar will not reflect directly at her, but it will be flung in the exact opposite direction it was fired from.) They will still take partial damage from melee attacks, and ranged/projectiles will do none during the duration.

As for your R: The damage stacks like it would in Galio's old ulti, and you have a small opening after your Shield absorbs all it can during the charge, to either direct the damage in all its glory in a cone, or it'll automatically activate for far less damage in an AOE that explodes after they thrust their shield skyward. We can allow it to have a rather large range, and even reflect hard CCs should anyone have tried to drop one on you.

Mordepool1 votes

Perhaps play some Darksouls. Sword & Board is alive and kicking

AirKingNeo1 votes

why don't we have someone who uses two swords yet

Kurjao1 votes

Riot avoids making characters with similar designs in order to give more variety and make champions more identifiable, thats why there's so many champions with odd-ball abilities and weapons like Urgot with his shotgun knees and grinder belly button or Bard with his horn

AdeBug1 votes

Aatrox, Fiora, Garen, Kayle, Master Yi, Riven, Shen, Tryndamere, Yasuo and Leona. Maybe Irelia too https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/2vydsy/there_are_9_swordwielding_champions_in_the_league/

pretty sure that's enough, there's also knives/daggers in the game. If anything, we don't have machine gun wielders except twitch skin, or riflers except cait. Now what I would really like to see would be an rpg instead of them cannons...

TheDevice1 votes

Riot is alwasy so focused on making new and out-of the box ideas they kinda zoom right other the thought of introducing some more archetypal/classical characters. Some staples like a knight with as sword a shield, a ninja with a single sword, a more traditional paladin type of support champ (taric and leona nearly hit that mark but still dont capture it completely). I agree lol can use more.

ModJikker1 votes

It is for threads like these that I really, really wish I had a move button. We have a great thread here, but it is, sadly, in the wrong section of the Boards. Gameplay is for discussing champs that already exist, balance, items, etc... If you're making a suggestion for a new champ, that belongs over in Concepts & Creations. I am going to have to lock this thread, but I strongly recommend you recreate this thread over there and that everyone that has posted on this thread head over to continue discussing.

I personally would love to see more champions with swords and shields. Maybe even a two sword fighter? Swords don't get enough love imo

If you guys have questions about this lock, just come on over to the Discord and we'll be glad to talk with you.

Thanks

[poppy-wink]

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