Champion Concept - Khayn, The Illusionist

Poet35·3/3/2016, 1:06:50 AM·4 votes·867 views

This idea would need quite a bit of fleshing out and playtesting and is just a general concept that could easily be modified. The inital idea was the invisibility. I thought about putting in on one of the basic abilities but it just felt to powerful, if scaled down it could easily be swapped with copy and allow it to copy ults, but I feel that without control over what ability you get that would severly weaken Khayn's ult, or with Duplicate, which would do more damage and effectively allow for 3 of any copied ability, which might be too op. Please feel free to comment, edit, or flesh out anything you deem fit. I'm curious how this might work in gameplay. I also haven't worked out what he might be using for his basic attacks and what kind of range he might get. Thanks!

Khayn, The Illusionist Primary Role: Ranged Support Secondary Role: Ranged Mid

Khayn was a professional illusionist who had a bit of a gambling problem. He lost an ancient family heirloom, his deck of magic cards, to Twisted Fate in a game. Twisted Fate refused to give Khayn a chance to win back his deck and left. Months passed and all Khayn could think about was how Twisted Fate had ‘stolen’ from him, so he traveled town to town and made sure to ask about the gambler everywhere he went. Years passed and Khayn finally heard tales of the swindler fighting in the League, using ‘his’ deck nonetheless. Khayn trained hard and used his skills at magic to make his way through the trials and join the League, hoping to defeat Twisted Fate and regain the lost heirloom.

Q: Duplicate – Khayn has the ability to make two duplicates, each a certain distance away of himself which target the same target as Khayn, dealing ¼ Khayn’s damage. Upon getting hit with an attack or ability, one of the two duplicates disappears with no effect on Khayn. (Possibility of starting with one duplicate and adding more as he puts points in and have it deal no damage)

W: Mirrored Shield – Casts a shield, similar to Yasou’s , that reflects the first ability to hit it back at the caster. If the attack would normally auto-follow the rebound does the same back to the original target. (Maybe have it be a percent returned damage but still applying cc, and increasing the percent as points are put in)

E: Copy – Initial cast is applied to target friendly or opposing champion. As long as that champion is in range, the next Q, W, or E cast by that champion replaces this ability for the next cast, if cast within a certain time limit or the ability resets . (Khayn has no control over what ability he gets from the champion, but it might make them think twice about casting)

R: Khayn has the ability to turn self or allies invisible for a few seconds (This would effectively give a character the ability to move while invisible, like talon or shaco; duration timing would take a lot of playtesting).

5 Comments

MantraMercenary3/3/2016, 3:49:21 AM1 votes

Interesting concept. After much testing I would love to play it!

SamSchoolsU3/3/2016, 3:56:08 AM1 votes

What a coincidence! I just posted an illusionist/magician concept a little bit ago, maybe just an hour before this. If you came up with this on your own, then that's great. However, if you did draw any inspiration from my post I would appreciate a small amount of credit. Just know that I am NOT accusing you of stealing this idea. In fact, this is way more developed than my post, and, now that I think about it, mine is pretty pathetic. If this whole thing is merely a coincidence, then that's awesome. If not, then I am glad that I could help inspire you. Anyway I think this would make for some pretty unique gameplay and am sincerely intrigued by Khayn's abilities.

Provokist3/3/2016, 3:42:53 PM1 votes

need to toss in a passive m8 to give us a full toolkit, aside from that, im finding quite an interesting deal in this gameplay style, but cant give you a Real review of it without the numbers and such. Though if i can ask i got 3 champs that need reviewing, review them and ill help you a great deal in making this champ :D http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/skin-champion-concepts/qzRGMH2E-ishrai-the-embodiment-of-fear (Ish'rai, The Tyrannical Hungerer) http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/skin-champion-concepts/tYaU8vZN-dex-origin-of-the-law (Dex, Origin of the Law) http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/skin-champion-concepts/UuXoUPpp-rey-arbiter-of-the-elements (Rey, Arbiter of the Elements)

Hope you enjoy them :D

RisenDarkKnight3/3/2016, 10:44:01 PM1 votes

Sounds super fun! Would probably be pretty hard to balance though, since his E is so versatile.

He also lacks a farming/waveclear ability unless he steals it from an opponent, so he would be hard to solo lane.

Interesting concept!