[Champion Concept] - October CCC. Skave: The Bladecraft Automation

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Power on. . . System boot starting. . . Power level at. . . 20%. . . rising.

I see these words appear. . . My eyes cannot avert their gaze. . . What is happening?

Tactical sensors activated. . . Power level at. . . 50%. . . rising.

My body is cold, and my thoughts are constricted. I can’t feel my arms. . . I remember very little. A conflict. . . machines? A storm of blue lightning and energy. . . death. . .

Power level at. . . 75%. . . rising. Psychic link online.

Should I be afraid? Fear. . . fear is. . . Where am I? I feel. . . knives. . .digging into my subconscious. The blades are cold and razor sharp. But I. . . control them? It hurts to move them. . . Pain is irrelevant. . . waste of resources. . . ... What did I just say?

Power level at. . .100%. Boot complete. SKAVE online. Awaiting orders. . .

My feelings slip. I’m fading away. . . Farther and farther from myself. . . Feeling is not necessary. Not efficient.

Awaiting orders. . .

. . .

Awaiting orders. . .

A voice that rings like metal begins to speak.

“I made you, like so many others. You have been freed from your disgusting flesh and melded to perfection by my designs. I am your master. As such, you will obey my orders, and help further my cause. I have deleted your petty memories, but the skills you had in life will be of use to us. You are my greatest creation. You are Skave.”

. . .

“Respond, my child.”

. . .

“Skave online. Awaiting orders, master Viktor.”

SKAVE: The Bladecraft Automation

Skave is a marksman caster who uses knives as a resource.

APPEARANCE: Skave is a very sleek silver and black robot with few facial features other than 2 red slits for eyes. Instead of arms, he has 2 floating disks that float like hands to control his knives, which look like fingers when not attacking. He moves very mechanically, but his disk hands float around smoothly.

STATS

HP: 380 (+75) MA: Manaless RNG: 510 Ranged RNG 2: 110 Melee AD: 47 (+3.5) AS: 0.680 (+3%) AR: 17 (+2) MR: 30 (+0) MS: 335

ABILITIES

Passive Blade Cache: Skave uses knives as a resource, both for abilities and auto attacks. Skave begins the game with 6 slots for knives in his cache, and he gains one every level. Ranged basic attacks cost 1 knife, otherwise his basic attacks are melee. Knives thrown as basic attacks have a chance to embed themselves in the target, stacking up to 5 times. Skave has increased crit chance against marked enemies depending on the number of marks starting at 5% up to 25%. Knives respawn every 20 seconds, reduced with CDR.

Q Psychic Dagger: Costs 1 knife. Skave throws out a knife in a skillshot line at a range of 1050. This deals 50/65/80/95/110 (+0.9 AD) physical damage to the enemy it hits, applying on hit effects. This damage can critically strike. Knives thrown this way have a 100% chance to embed themselves in enemies.

5/4.5/4/3.5/3 sec Cooldown.

W Blade Barrier: Costs 1 knife per cast. Skave expends a knife to grant himself a shield that absorbs 5/10/15/20/25 (+0.2 Bonus AD) damage. This shield lasts for 3 seconds but can be refreshed and stacked with each cast of Blade Barrier.

No Cooldown.

E Magnetic Recall: No Cost. Skave calls back all of his knives from marked targets within a range of 1300. This knives then return to his resource bar. The knives deal 20/25/30/35/40 (+0.2 total AD) per knife in a target, slowing the marked targets by 10% for each mark for 3 seconds. Max 50% slow. Enemies in the path of the knives as they return take 40% less damage from the knives.

20/18.5/17/15.5/14 sec Cooldown.

R Razor Barrage: No cost. On the first cast, Skave re-equips all of his knives instantly. For the next 10 seconds, knives take 2.5 seconds to respawn. When Skave holds down the R button again, he may cast Razor Barrage, slowing his movement speed by 30% while sending out a thin cone of knives at 5 knives every second at a range of 950 that each deal 30/45/60 (+0.4 total AD) physical damage to enemies, dealing 10% less damage to each consecutive enemy hit by a knife. These knives have a 20% chance to mark enemies and stop travelling.

130/110/90 sec Cooldown

BUILD

Since all of Skave's abilities have AD ratios, he will want to build for crits and attack damage similar to a marksman, dabbling in armor pen and cooldown.

CHAMPION QUOTES Skave's voice is very inhuman and almost sounds programmed.

Upon Selection "Skave online. Awaiting orders."

Walking. "Tactical location detected." "Emotion is inefficient." "Beauty is false. Illusion of mind." "Armor more resilient than skin." "Destination acquired." "Fear is designated for targets." "For machines, death is inconsequential." "Efficiently." "For evolution." "Estimating travel time" "Punctually." "A logical decision." "A sound strategy." "Flaws can be decoded." "Approaching destination."

Attacking. "Analyzing approach." "Scanning for weakness." "Scanning blood sample." "Target acquired." "Target heart-rate increasing." "Blades are simple and efficient." "Running kill.exe." "Scanning for consistencies in movement." "Tactical advantage detected." "Sharp objects are useful." "Error. Morals detected. Bugfixing now."

Special Teleport: "Warp activated." "Long distance travel program running." "Now running Teleport.exe."

Items: Phantom dancer: "These knives are dexterous. Good for speed in combat." Black Cleaver/Youmuus/Last Whisper: "Blades sharpened. Efficiency increased by 30%." Trinity Force: "Running. . . Tons_of_Damage.exe" Infinity Edge: "Damage output increased exponentially." Bloodthirster: "Analyzing blood samples." Banshee's Veil: "Force-field active." CDR Boots: "Efficiency increased by 15%."

Abilities W: "Defend." "Repelling attacks." "Shields active." E: "Recall." "Return." "Magnetic field engage." R: "Re-equipping." "Power output at 120%." "Running blade_barrage.exe."

Jokes (Skave begins all of his jokes by saying "Initiating joke.exe. . .") "Knives do not end lives. Automated machinations with knives end lives." "Error code 505. Joke not found." "There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who do not." "I am a being of perfect coding. You cannot-not-not-not-not TZTZSSTTSST."

Taunts "Fear is a bug. It can be decoded." "Your combat styles are inefficient. I have the advantage." "Running demoralize.exe." "Blades cut through flesh efficiently. A demonstration is in order."

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