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New Champion Ideas

Olivia Harckness·9/23/2016, 8:01:19 PM·2 votes·1,113 views

I had a thought on a new champion idea. It came to me when i saw your link on the game home page. The one about creating a champion that reflected the needs of your area and the values you believe in! I don't know if this measures up but here is what I came up with:

Champion Name: Anna Yaga (around 30 or so)

Lore: Anna is a young witch who was just coming into her abilities and as kind as she is beautiful, who wanted nothing more than to heal the wounded and punish the wicked. How-ever some people are too fearful, too foolish to see the good in someone so powerful. After being persecuted by her people for being different and shunned from her village, she left her home in search of those who would not spurn her gifts. She soon came upon a strange Broom with an unsettling Serpent coiled around the end. It whispered to her, her eyes widened. This was a fearsome thing she thought but as she listened she grew calmer more bold trying to make out what the whispers where saying, as she grew closer she made out one sentence. "Take me, take me and you can do great things... or terrible things.." "take me" it continued. When she grabbed the broom a surge ran through her body as if struck by lightning and a cold expression washed over her face. Anna was now blessed with divine clarity, she knew who she was and what she could do! Fear became alien to her she knew only her goals. To protect the weak from the wicked and with broom in hand she left to go to a foreign land that would allow her to do just that! [img]http://i.imgur.com/d37eCL3.png[/img]

Passive: item 2050 Grim Whispers - Anna has no need for wards when the shadows whisper to her of hidden enemies - The Serpent on her brrom staff warns her of enemies hiding in brush by revealing them and letting her know their there! >.> "Curse you" Q : Hex bolt - a bolt of negative energy that harms and slows up to 3 enemies doing damage over time. (10 sec. cool down) [img]http://i.imgur.com/ftnwR9I.png[/img] "Defend" W : Evil eye - a barrier that protects and heals allies while deflecting up to 3 enemy projectiles. (20 sec. cool down) [img]http://i.imgur.com/zLoOUrY.png[/img]

"bubble, bubble" E : Brew - (passive) while out of combat Anna passively creates up to 3 potions that restore health and mana over time. (Active) Drink a potion and restore some health and mana. (5 sec. cool down out of combat) item 2003

"Do my bidding" R : Bewitch - take control of an enemy champion while they loose health, for 5 seconds the champion will attack there allies if they die you get the kill as well as any champion they kill. (130 sec. cool down) [zombie-brand-mindblown]

/laugh - a cackling sound like an old hag /Dance - skips around her broom while it floats /Joke -_ I don't bite... much._ /taunt - Only idiots fool with witches

when moving fast she glides on her broom!

14 Comments

CobaltTheMadMage9/23/2016, 8:27:08 PM1 votes

Name may be an issue as we already have Ann_ie_.

Lore is a little bland, though I think it would be an interesting twist if her magic still had an unsettling appearance and/or came from an unsavory source even if she did insist on using it for the benefit of those around her. Whether or not there would still be some price to pay for this power would remain to be seen...

Also just FYI the League of Legends as an in-universe organization is no longer canon pending a global lore revision.

As for the kit:

Passive: ...you appear to have forgotten to add one.

Q: Relatively spammable mass slow sounds like it could be annoying, unless maybe it's a short-ranged skillshot.

W: Shields are nice, but what do you mean by "deflecting up to three projectiles"? Do those three projectiles not count towards the shield's damage, do they redirect or reflect three projectiles, or does the shield just work like a warding trinket in that they will only absorb three hits before they expire regardless of the damage said individual hits deal? If the latter it could be rather interesting to see play out.

E: Self-made potions... considering Refillable Potion is a thing, I could actually see this being an interesting ability to use, though i personally think it would work better as her passive similar to Gangplank or Viktor in that she always starts the game with her own type of Refillable Potion with effects that scale with level and/or come with purchaseable upgrades in the Market unique to this champion. I understand the motive of making it a kit ability so it doesn't take up an item slot, though (that said this champ still needs a Passive).

R: Yeah... turning another champ into an allied bot ordered to kill its teammates is going to make a lot of players mad. Especially if it lasts for 10 seconds, which is a really long time in terms of the average League of Legends game.

All in all this champ seems a bit underwhelming and/or imbalanced at the moment, but I see a few interesting bits of potential that could make it into something much more interesting with a little more work. I personally think making the recyclable potion passive a keystone of the kit would make it very unique to the League, perhaps even letting their E throw one of their potions to an ally to confer full benefits to a single target or reduced benefits to a radius...

CobaltTheMadMage9/24/2016, 4:41:56 AM1 votes

Oh, and possible lore idea you can use or ignore at your own discretion:

For some reason I can picture her having some kind of shadowy familiar that follows her around and provides her with the secrets to all her brews and forbidden spells, spoken to her in ominous whispers only she can understand. Whatever this foul creature is, it is supposed to be trying to manipulate her for its own sinister ends in exchange for its services, but its efforts so far have proven ineffectual as she constantly brushes it off or scolds it outright whenever it tries to suggest anything she deems too evil or creepy.