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New Champion Concept: Cardiux the Mad Harvester

Dotrix·3/15/2016, 11:34:43 PM·1 votes·641 views

Overview:

The general theme of Cardiux is that of an escaped insane serial killer. He is a mage who uses blood magic, similar to Vladimir's. He killed people with his magic in order to study their blood so he can bring someone back from the dead, but he was caught and put into prison. He eventually broke out and joined the League of Legends to study the blood of other warriors in stead.

Abilities:

Passive: Siphon

  • Siphon: Every a minion dies near the heart, the heart gains a stack of "Bloated". Once within a close distance from his heart he can siphon life from it to heal a small percentage of his maximum health and mana per stack consumed. Taking damage from a champion removes all "Bloated" stacks, and the heart moves 20% slower the more stacks it has, and grows larger. At 5 stacks it can only be moved with Bloodrush, but further stacks can be accumulated.

Q: Vascular Entanglement

  • Cardiux and the heart whip out blood vessels like whips in a circular motion, knocking enemies near him and his heart back about 350 units. If the enemy is hit by both the shockwave from himself and the heart, they are stunned and take magic damage from both hits. This can be cast while stunned or airborne, but only the heart will produce a shockwave. If an enemy is stunned, the cooldown of Necrotic Bile is refreshed and can be cast for free. It will deal 70/85/100/115/130 plus a 0.25 AP ratio for each shockwave hit. It will cost 100 mana at all levels. This ability will have a 15/13/11/9/7 second cooldown.

W: Bloodrush

  • Cardiux commands the heart to quickly dash towards a location within 500 units of the heart's original position. When the heart lands, it will deal 90/110/130/150/170 damage plus a 0.4 AP ratio to all enemies hit. The heart grows bigger for each "Bloated" stack, thereby affecting the area of effect. The speed of the dash is unaffected by "Bloated" stacks. This ability will cost 40 mana at all levels. The heavier an object, the more energy it takes to move, so it will cost 10 additional mana per "Bloated" stack. This ability will have a 10 second cooldown, lowered by 0.5 seconds for each "Bloated" stack consumed with Siphon.

E: Necrotic Bile

  • Cardiux fires necrotic bile from his chest and from the heart, dealing damage in a line to all enemy champions hit with a 700 unit range. It will deal 120/150/175/195/210 damage plus a 0.7 AP ratio, and preventing them from using dash abilities for 3 seconds. Minions take half damage, but take double damage from Bloodrush for 3 seconds after being hit. Enemies will only take damage from one squirt. This ability will cost 70/80/90/100/110 mana. This ability will have a 10/9/8/7/6 second cooldown.

R: Heart of the Harvest

  • He can move his heart around using R, or by alt clicking, similar to moving Annie's Tibbers or Viktor's Ultimate. His heart remains an entity indefinitely, however and his various abilities interact with it. He begins with his R at level 1.

Basic Gameplay

He is a medium-long ranged poking AP midlaner with powerful waveclear and sustain. His autoattack range will be about 550, pretty standard for a ranged champion. His heart is the focus of his kit, and he has to move to it however in order to collect stacks of his passive, meaning that he can't always farm from a distance. With more stacks, the slower the heart, and it will eventually be unable to move at all, forcing Cardiux to move to the heart, instead of the heart being moved to Cardiux. As a result, people who can poke him back will give him trouble, especially because that will mean that he can't make use of the sustain in his passive if he takes damage. Additionally, with a fully bloated heart, he has to move further from safety to pick it up, making it easier to land poke on him. Although his waveclear is incredibly strong, mana will be another issue if he has to move his heart with Bloodrush to collect Siphon stacks. Although he will be fine on health, his mana will be very lacking. He will also be forced to take his R at level 1, so his aggression is delayed, but he will become powerful after he has all of his abilities, if he can survive the first few levels without being poked too low. The same applies to people who have to go all-in on him, but he will become very powerful as he can prevent dashes with Necrotic Bile and he can W>Q to stun people that make the mistake of getting between him and his heart. His Vascular Entanglement can also be used to prevent escapes by putting the heart in such a way that it will knock them back into the fight, and he will also be able to prevent tower dives very well. Teamfighting will consist of poking with his Necrotic Bile, but as Bloodrush moves very quickly, he can setup a defensive W>Q to prevent a dive and attempt to kill his opponents before they kill him but only with fast reflexes.

Appearance:

He is a skinny, jittery, middle-aged man with a hole in his chest. Although he escaped prison, his hands are still shackled behind his back as his control of his blood vessels replaced his need for limbs. His heart is severed from his body and he moves it around telekenetically. He talks to his heart and calls it Honey Pumpkin.

1 Comments

MrXonte3/16/2016, 9:26:17 AM1 votes

Doesnt look all that bad, but the way you write is kinda confusing. In the passive you talk about a heart getting stacks without even saying that he has a heart that moves around. His e says you fire a necrotic bite and then says enemies can only be hit by 1 squirt (i assume you mean 1 bite skillshot?). The way you write mana cost and cooldown is also a bit weird. You can just write Cost: 10/20/30/40/50/60 mana and Cooldown: 6/5/4/3/2/1s. Another important part you overlooked is that if you have an inate r that cant be leveled all other abilities gain 1 level. so not 5 ranks but 6 for q, w and e. The way you wrote it is even weirder since he has to put a point in his r at lvl 1 but he doesnt really need to level it so he has either 2 levels where he cant level or only 2 abilities have 6 ranks? Another thing is that you intended to make a mid mage , but his ap scalings and his overall kit feel very much like a melee toplane or support since he has no real need for being ranged and melee would fit better with the heart interactions. even as he is right now he wont be played mid but much rather sup. Also your passive should include the heal % and its not really clear if you lose the stacks if you get attacked or if the heart can be attacked. His e is also quite weird. Why do minions take only half damage but get a damage amplifier applied for another ability? either apply it to champs to or make the ability deal normal damage to minions. Like i said generally not a bad concept, but needs some work. I recently wrote a post about champion concept design so feel free to check it out