Shifting Neeko's Playstale Away From Burst/Ult-Reliance and More Towards Her Uniqueness
When I first heard about Neeko, I thought she seemed pretty interesting. I thought her playstyle would be unique and niche. I thought you could really try to play with your opponents' minds and show champion knowledge by being able to cast ally champion's abilities. Turns out, all you want to do on Neeko the whole game is to find a way to ult the enemy team and burst them. To me, it really doesn't seem like that was the idea when creating Neeko. Playing as Neeko, it's also pretty linear, and frankly boring.
I would push her playstyle away from a burst pattern with ult-reliance and more towards the unique parts of her theme.
**Changes: ** Passive:
- When copying a champion's appearance, you now also copy their base AD, base AS and base MS.
- When copying a champion's appearance, you can now cast one of their basic abilities. ------> You can only use champion's basic abilities (no ultimate). You can only use one ability before being forced back to your own abilities. ------> There is now a toggle on the passive bar letting you switch from casting your abilities or the champion you copied's abilities (to keep the ability to make a clone of your copied champion). ------> Damage: works the same way as Sylas. Base damage is based on your own ability's rank up/ratio damage is based on your AP with conversion. ------> For clarity, when choosing your copied champion's abilities via the toggle, the basic abilities on your ability bar will be your available choices, so you know with side of the toggle you're on.
Preventing abuse cases: ------> Using a champion's ability will put your according ability on it's basic cooldown, but not your other basic abilities (ex: using Lux's E will put your E on it's basic cooldown, but your Q and W will still be available). This is to prevent dumping too many abilities at once on the opponent. ------> Using an enemy ability will automatically remove the champion camouflage, just like using one of your own abilities. ------> To prevent abuse cases like Camille's E into instant Neeko's R, using a copied champion's ability locks your ultimate for 3 seconds.
Q:
- Base damage of 1rst hit: 70/115/160/205/250 --> 70/110/150/190/230
- Cooldown: 7 seconds --> 7/6.75/6.5/6.25/6 seconds
W:
- Damage: 50/80/110/140/170 (+0.6 AP) --> 20/45/70/95/120 (+0.4 AP)
- Every 3rd auto-attack --> every 2nd auto-attack
R:
- Damage: 200/425/650 (+ 1.3 AP) --> 200/400/600 (+ 1.1 AP)
I think being able to cast an ally's basic ability when transofmed would create really unique situations and making Neeko less reliant on her ultimate would be nice. The opponent would have to pay attention that what's going on while being less susceptible to 100-0 burst.
