[Champion Concept] Avery Moppett, Queen of the Wilds

SSmotzer·8/18/2018, 8:38:39 AM·3 votes·821 views

Not one for the hustle and bustling life of Piltover, Avery took her rifle and headed up Piltover's Manifest division to tame the wild lands to the south, which saw the scorching Shuriman desert to the west, and harbored pirates from Bilgewater from the east. It was a wild, untamed land, sparse with mystical jungles, which sprouted up as a result of the Rune War. This is where Avery hoped to make a name for herself. This is where Avery felt was home, where she was free.

It wasn't long until Avery's men started getting picked off, one by one. Spears and traps took many many lives as they ventured deeper and deeper into the jungles. Avery, alone, but not deterred forwards ahead, eventually coming face to face with her pursuer, a native hunter of the jungles, calling herself Nidalee.

Avery and Nidalee batted each other to a stand still, until Nidalee, unexpectedly, gives up. Nidalee offers Avery a chance to rule these jungles as her queen, as she knew the people of Piltover would sooner burn the ground into a barren wasteland than give up their self imposed destiny to rule the wilds.

Avery, at first taken back by the offer, accepted but to Nidalee's surprise, Avery promised her and her people could keep the land. With that promise, a pride of panthers crept from the shadows of the jungle and surrounded the two. Nidalee laughed, and introduced her people to their new queen, before escorting Avery out of the jungle and back to Piltover. Unfortunately for Avery, now she spends most of her time in Piltover as the ambassador of the wilds.


https://s.hdnux.com/photos/72/05/13/15225598/3/rawImage.jpg

Melee

Passive - Use E'ery Part of 'Em: Killing large minions, and large and epic monsters grants Avery a stack of Pelts which gives her a physical shield, which blocks physical damage, and provides bonus armor, for each stack. The shield will stack, so long as it does not break.

Q - Ol' Jack- First Cast: Avery fires a round from her rifle in a target direction, dealing physical damage to the first enemy struck.

  • Cracker Jack - Second Cast: After a second Avery fires a second round from her rifle in a target direction, dealing physical damage to the first enemy struck. If she struck the enemy hit by the first cast, they explode, dealing magic damage over a few seconds to the enemy, and all enemies around them.

W - Manifest Destiny - Passive: Avery gains a burst of bonus movement speed and attack speed, after killing an enemy side jungle camp.

  • Stake my Claim - Active: Avery channels for a few seconds and plants a flag, revealing an area around it. While the flag is up, while Avery is beneath it, she gains bonus movement speed and attack speed. Enemies can attack the flag to destroy it.

E - Tame the Wilds: Avery readies her knife and rolls in a target direction, cleaving the area around her, at the end of her roll, dealing physical damage and temporarily destroying all bushes around her. Enemies damaged become grievously wounded.

R - Diplomatic Immunity: Avery converts all of her current shields into a magic shield, which lasts until it is broken, negating spell effects, as long as the shield remains active.

4 Comments

Senteth8/18/2018, 4:05:06 PM1 votes

The R is completely uninteresting. I like the E. Q is cool too. W could be interesting but I'm not sure. P it gives her jungle sustain in an interesting way.

Kamiroo Wolf8/18/2018, 7:45:39 PM1 votes

Not usually sound to judge a concept's quality by the downvotes or upvotes. Lot of bad things get love and a lot of good things are swept under the rug.

I think it's fine as a concept, but I agree with Senteth in the sense that it feels very dull in some areas. Perhaps, her ultimate could become her W and briefly negate damage based on the overall health of her sacrificed shield (More shield=Longer duration/greater damage reduction). I do think that the ultimate should be something that ties into her thematic a bit more and really brings the whole kit together.

As far as her thematic is concerned... I think she is ok at best. Not really sure she fits into Runeterra, but I'm not going to nitpick on lore too much since I'm not very well-versed in the new stuff myself (I'm just lazy, don't judge me).