Champion Revealed: Roman, The Hybrid Berserker
Roman is a melee AD bruiser who has been awaken from the dead as a hybrid after having all of his cells regenerated by scientists of the Nitherian Institute. His body is mostly robotic armor that has increased his strength, defense, mobility, and agility greatly. Roman relies on these heightened feats to take control of the battlefield, taking out opponents with brutal attacks while sustaining some of the damage he receives as well. The only thing that hasn’t cleared into perfection is Roman’s mind. After so many years in the afterlife, he is now here in this new world far advanced from anything he’s ever seen. The only two things that can help him get through this unfamiliar era are his head and his fists.
Lore
Confusion. Pain. Fear.
That’s what was racing in Roman’s mind as he awoke from his hundred year slumber, brought back from the dead into a world that was so advanced. What used to be bulky city structure was now lean and pointy, as if the plates of the earth twisted into some needle-like formation. Means of transportation now relied on aerial routes as the machines conducted air and water to force their massive bodies up from the ground. Civilians walked about the streets with robots adjacent to them no matter where they went, dressed in unusual dark clothing. He remembered those streets, the very ones he grew up on, a small city called Calthera, named after the woman who built it from scratch. Roman wasn’t sure whether or not it was Calthera he was gazing at from his hospital room, a white prison with weightless operation utensils, a surprisingly comfy bed, and a television that was air thin, yet displayed such miraculous detail and definition. Judging from the slope of the height reaching his hospital room to the city, he was about six thousand feet away.
Wait. Six thousand? No, his calculations must have been off. There’s no way his sight could reach six thousand feet and be that define. From so far away, he was able to see Calthera as if it were only a few yards away from him. Roman went to rub his eyes to see if it was some sort of drug that had a lingering effect. But when he raised the back of his hand to his eye, he gasped and nearly fell back in terror. His hands weren’t human, nor his arms! They were hard like an impenetrable stone with blue veins that curled around his fingers. From his wrists to his forearms, gauntlet-like equipment weighed them down. Or it least they should have. They appear to weigh tons upon tons, but to Roman he could hardly feel them.
Roman cursed and darted into the bathroom on his left, looking his body up and down. He couldn’t believe it. The majority of his body was covered in robotic armor, each screwed in tight into his skin. But how did he not notice it? Roman should’ve been drowned in pain the moment he shifted his body, however that wasn’t the case. Did he still have skin? What the hell was he?
After staring at his reflection for a good thirty minutes or so he ran out and escaped by driving his foot through the metal door, causing the entire frame to shoot through multiple walls before coming at an abrupt stop. The hallways were empty, as so the counters and other patient rooms. Everything was left in ruins. Walls had holes smashed into them and electrically charged wires hung from the ceiling like exposed intestines, their multi colored tips sparking and zapping anything that came in contact with it. Soot was smeared against everything, letting Roman know that a source of fire had swept through the place. From the way it looked, how come his room survived? What was different about his conditions? Why were they different to begin with?
Roman noticed a half torn document drift through the air. When he saw the words “Roman Striker” on it, he snatched it from its liberty as if it were instinct and began to read. As his eyes slid across the words like ice on a hot plate, a skittering sound was imminent a few floors up, though Roman didn’t respond to it:
The Great Roman Striker, a man of attitude, law, confidence, compassion, leadership, and strength, fell in the outskirts of Calthera. He was a proud man who fought for Calthera’s freedoms and rights, ridding away all of the evil that targeted him or his beloved. However, a war initiated between Calthera and a major capital of the world unbeknownst to the most of Man, Abanath. Roman led his army well, but they all were killed out of mere numbers. Calthera was destroyed and Perespolis grew from its ashes. Hundreds of years later, a pair of scientists, identities unknown, claim that they discovered the remains of Roman Striker and placed him in a cell-regeneration chamber, where he regenerated all of his proteins, carbohydrates, and (deoxy)ribonucleic acids. Several months later after being fed lipids through a small tube and watched periodically, he was freed from the chamber and placed in a hospital room where he rested from then on. However, an alien race of humanoid creatures emerged from unknown regions and began to destroy Perespolis. Their reason for doing so…to capture Roman Striker and bring him back to their homeland. In denial another war started, one which was luckily able to be carried far away from the perimeters of Perespolis. During the battle a lot of agriculture, technology, and architecture was sacrificed, one of them being the Nitherian Institute. The battle still rages on, and as of now, there is no foresight on when it’s going to come even close to concluding.
Everything started coming back to him, his past, his friends, his family, his love, everything. Though he never recalled wearing armor that numbed the nerves so well. He started putting the pieces together and stuck with the thought that after the cell regeneration, those scientists used some unorthodox method to place the robotic plates on his body. In the process of doing so, they had to remove his skin and a portion of his nerves. But then that could mean only one thing…
Roman, the great and powerful man, has now become a humanoid. A human-robot hybrid. But why? Why bring him back from the dead? Of course there were great men besides him who accomplished many more important things, so why not them? What did Roman do so well that it made scientists hundreds of years in the future want to bring him back?
There was a crash just a floor above Roman. He looked up and noticed two grasshopper-like creatures looking down at him through a hole they created. Their fangs oozed a thick black liquid and their backs were solid purple like shells to a nut. At first it was a staring contest between the three, but when Roman shifted his leg, the two monsters leaped down and immediately charged him, stabbing him in the chest and stomach multiple times. Roman grunted but regained posture. His body looked as if it were a victim of a violent shootout. He buried his left foot into the ground and dashed forward. Roman followed up with a powerful left jab, but missed by a finger’s hair. The creature to his left leaped over him and struck him again. When the other creature’s arms were near him, Roman shouted out of frustration and grabbed them both by the head. The blue veins had phased red and his armor began to overheat. Roman slammed them into the ground and proceeded to lash into their skulls like a mindless predator, blood splashing everywhere in response. By the time he realized what he was doing, there was nothing left of the faces of the grasshoppers, and his arms were caked in what remained of them.
After two days of constant traveling, sprinting on a body that never gave out, Roman had finally made it to Perespolis. The city was attacked. Not everything was destroyed, but it seemed as if the aliens quickly steered clear of his direction. It was either a diversion or a set-up to lure him here. When he reached the middle of Perespolis, an area decorated in rubble and half destroyed buildings, a loud sound emerged. Multiple earthquakes happening at once, or was it some sort of underground thunder? Whatever it was, it was heavy. Extremely heavy. Roman balled up his fists and prepared himself as a colossal figure slowly approached him, a robot. Not a humanoid like he was, but an actual robot that was nearly twenty times his size. The human side of Roman would’ve immediately succumbed to the forces of something that gigantic. But this was different. Roman had acquired new abilities and new features due to this change, and he was going to find out why. He wanted answers, and he was going to get them. The two behemoths bolted at each other at blinding speeds, thus starting the time of Roman’s new quest.
Base Statistics
Health: 400 (+80) (1760 at level 18) Health Regen: 6.46 (+0.75) (19.21 at level 18) Range: 120 (Melee) Attack Damage: 58.0 (+4.15) (129 at level 18) Attack Speed: 0.615 (+2.3%) Armor: 25 (+2.95) (75 at level 18) Magic Resistance: 30 (+1.25) (51 at level 18) Movement Speed: 330
Passive (Innate) – Overheat: Instead of using mana as a resource, Roman’s resource is the temperature of his own body. Each time he uses an ability, he gains 1 heat spike. Each spike increases Roman’s critical strike chance slightly for as long as it is there. Once he reaches 6/7/8/9/10 heat spikes, his next ability will deal bonus damage and/or grant more effects. This will be indicated by how Roman’s armor changes from a cool and relaxed blue to a hot and steaming red. However, due to the amount of strength needed for that ability, his heat spikes will immediately deplete and his abilities will go under a 5 second cooldown simultaneously. All critical strike chance stacks caused by Overheat are depleted as well. This does not effect Raining War's cooldown. Dying does not reset the heat spike count.
Q – Devastating Blow [Cooldown: 3.3 seconds]: Roman’s next basic attack will deal 80/100/120/140/160 (+60% bonus AD) damage. Q - Devastating Blow + Heat Spike boost: Roman’s next basic attack will deal 100/140/180/220/260 (+80% bonus AD) damage.
W – Pulse Shot [Range: 850] [Cooldown: 2.5 seconds]: Roman raises his arm and releases a blast of pure arcane energy in a straight line (skillshot), dealing 90/100/110/120/130 (+55% bonus AD) to enemy units and large monsters. If Pulse Shot hits an enemy champion, it deals 50/70/90/110/130 (+70% bonus AD) damage. **W – Pulse Shot + Heat Spike boost: **Roman raises his arm and releases a blast of pure arcane energy in a straight line (skillshot), dealing 90/100/110/120/130 (+65% bonus AD) to enemy units and large monsters. If Pulse Shot hits an enemy champion, it deals 70/90/110/130/150 (+80% bonus AD) damage and leaves an excruciating burn that deals an extra 30/40/50/60/70 (+10% bonus AD) damage over 2 seconds.
E- Olympic Charge [Range: 1100] [Cooldown: 4 seconds]: Roman shoots out a clone of himself in a straight line (skillshot), dealing damage and knocking back enemy champions based on how far the clone traveled. Roman’s target takes extra damage and is slowed by 98% for 1 second if he/she hits a wall. E – Olympic Charge + Heat Spike boost: Roman shoots out a clone of himself in a straight line (skillshot), dealing damage and teleporting to his clone the moment it makes contact with an enemy champion. Once teleported, the enemy champion is stunned for 0.75 seconds and Roman gains a temporary attack speed boost.
R - Raining War [Radius: 2000/3200/4400] [Cooldown: 100 seconds]: Roman chooses a target area and calls forth an aerial strike of pure arcane energy. Within the radius of the area (think of Xerath's ultimate), energy blasts will continuously strike at random places for 5/6/7 seconds, and anyone who is hit by an energy blast will be dealt 200/250/300 (+80% bonus AD) damage. The blasts are indicated by a shrinking icon (similar to Kog' Maw's ultimate). This ability functions off of chance, which means that these are not guided attacks. If an enemy champion is located **in the same spot **where the icon is, the energy blast cannot be dodged. R – Raining War + Heat Spike boost: Roman chooses a target area and calls forth an aerial strike of pure arcane energy. Within the radius of the area, energy blasts will continuously strike at random places for 6/7/8/ seconds, and anyone who is hit by an energy blast will be dealt 350/400/450 (+95% bonus AD) damage and will be stunned for 1.15 seconds. 20% of the damage done by Raining War will be siphoned back to Roman as health gain.
Cursor Interactions
“Wherever the path guides me.” “As you wish.” “I need answers, and I’ll get them. Even if that means by murder!” “They will regret raising me.” “They created a monster out of a warrior. Now they will feel my claws and my spear!”
Taunt
“You’re a hard-headed one. Here’s a tip: try not to hit in the obvious places. Got it?”
Joke
“Man, the only thing that I’ve ever had that was harder than this armor was my personality. Ah yes, good memories of confidence, alongside a bit of arrogance, I’ll say that much.”
Laugh
A hearty laugh with a robot voice mixed in.
Dance
The robot obviously.
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