|Champion Concept| Saamsora, The Plague's Scourge

Saamsora, The Plague's Scourge

Overview

Name: Saamsora Title: The Plague's Scourge Role: Mage (battlemage) Secondary Attributes: Melee Faction: Independent (Darkin) Birthplace: Residence: Southern Wastes

Summary

Damage: 3/3 Toughness: 2/3 Control:1/3 Mobility: 1/3 Utility:1/3 Difficulty: 2/3

Abilities

[P] Plague's claim

All self generated shields that decay or expire on Saamsora heal her for 50%

Saamsora can channel her basic abilities for 1.5 seconds to gain effects (suffers a 25% slow while channeling)

Saamsora's spell casts empower her next basic attack, converting the entirety of the attack to magic damage with .3 ap ratio bonus damage (2 second cooldown) Whenever Saamsora's abilities hit an enemy, she shields herself for 4% Maximum mana for 2.5 seconds (refreshes with new application) Whenever her empowered attack hits an enemy champion, Saamsora restores 8% maximum mana

(Note: Enhanced basic attacks apply spell effects)

[Q] Corpulent Wind Saamsora unleashes a pestilent wind in a line, dealing magic damage to all units its passes over, Damage increased by .5% for every 1% enemy current health

fully channeled effect - Deals damage in a 60 degree cone with 150% range and knocks Saamsora and enemy minions back 400 units

Base Damage: 40 / 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 (+50% AP) Max Damage 60/120/180/240/300 (+75% AP) Cost: 65 / 75/ 85 / 95 / 105 Mana Cooldown: 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 Seconds Range: 750 Projectile Width: 150 Projectile Speed:1500

[W] Ill Indulgence

After a brief delay, Saamsora fires a blast of energy that stops upon colliding with an enemy unit, dealing magic damage in a small radius.

Fully Channeled effect: Saamsora expends 5% of her Current Health to deal larger Aoe and slow victim (for 2 seconds) and increases range

Base Damage: 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 / 160 (+40% AP) Cost: 70 Mana Cooldown: 5 Seconds Projectile Speed: 1600 Projectile Width: 75 Range: 950 (1175 channeled) Aoe Radius 75 (200 channeled) Slow Amount: 35% / 40% / 45% / 50% / 55%

[E] Profane Verse

Saamsora reads from her book, dealing damage to all nearby enemies

Magic Damage: 50 / 70 / 90 / 110 / 130 +7% Maximum health (+4% per 100 AP)

Fully Channeled Effect, Saamsora's message torments its victims, instead dealing 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 / 210 magic damage +10% (+5% per 100 AP) of the victims missing health over 4 seconds (ticks per .5 seconds, damage recalcs at every tick)

Cost: 80 / 85 / 90 / 95 / 100 Mana Cooldown: 20 / 18.5 / 17 / 15.5 / 14 Seconds AOE Radius: 500

[R] Moment's Release

Saamsora sacrifices 20% current health and 25% maximum mana to shield herself for the same amount for .5 seconds and empowers herself for a few seconds when empowered, Saamsora gains movespeed and all abilities are cast at fully channeled effects MoveSpeed: 30% / 35% / 40% Duration: 5 / 6 / 7 seconds Cost: 100 Mana Cooldown: 150 / 130 / 110 Seconds

Stats Health: 505 – 1831 (+78) HP Regen: 5.5 – 14.9 (+0.55) Mana: 320 – 1098.6 (+45.8) Mana Regen: 8 – 25.34 (+1.02) Range: 170 Attack Damage: 55 – 93 (+2.5) Attack Speed: 0.625 + [1.5% – 27%] Armour: 20 – 88 (+3) Magic Resistance: 30 – 38.5 (+0.5) Movement Speed: 325

Lore Quick Bio

Saamsora is one of the last surviving Darkin from an age long past. Vain, proud, and infuriated at being sealed in a book for millennia. During the downfall of the Darkin, the mage Saamsora was sealed in her personal tome and sealed in a Shuriman tomb, there she was later uncovered by a Noxian exploration group. Unfortunately for Saamsora, her host was frail and innadiquate and would crumble under her full magic, thus she was forevermore bound to a body she could barely inhabit.

"I have no patience for mercy, it is beneath my care."

Raison d'etre:

See a need fill a need, Saamsora was a foray into designing a champion in a very precarious position, She is meant to be a Juggermage, historically a very hard to balance role due to its design fantasy of being a hard to kill high damager. To top that off i wanted to make Saamsora have long ranges, this left one very large design philosophy that needed to be filled, If it is hard to kill, it needs vulnerability, and if it has range, it intrinsically has less opportunity to kill it. So this left me with a very painful problem to solve, give my champ weaknesses. To fix this, the typical balance for artillery ranges is to make the user get into melee range for damage (ziggs) or sustain (xerath), great, easy to do. But also, your Juggermages (Vladmir, Swain) have a limiting factor of either mana or scalings, well, that allows me to integrate defensive scaling via (almost) requiring mana to be built to manage costs but to also incentivice this by adding minor combat stats from mana (defense and sustain) and to tie sustain to combat to improve the counter play feel of having your damage stick more effectively but still allowing Saamsora to heal meaningfully. To give depth of play, the channeled effects of her abilities gives her both skill expression and counterplay, whenever Saamsora tries to use her range, she channels, and must fire at end of that channel, this gives expression to both parties. Also, her execute requires her to stay near her opponent for 1.5 telegraphed seconds while slowed and unable to use her other abilities. This, alongside her melee range auto's and empowered auto passive means she has to risk life and limb to deal her full kit of damage. To also enhance the feel I've tried to produce with Saamsora, giving her a high moment with ult, the ult itself deals no damage, it instead gives her a "I counter played you fairly" button, it gives a high of both insta casting channeled effects and improving ms.

Lore reasoning The Darkin are themed to be similar to the four horsemen and consist of War (aatrox) Death (Rhaast) and strife(?) (Varus's bow) so Saamsora has a lore friendly spot, and that leaves what Saamsora's theme should be, the Darkin theme is sustain and continuous presence, so I needed to cater to that. But they are also missing a mage.

Inspiration for the name comes from the Hindi/Buddhist term Samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth (it also has an easy to access to the common naming convention of to "A's" in the name

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