[Champion Concept] Kato, The Vengeful Mastermind

Lore “For years I have been manipulated, used for people’s own benefits, blinded from the truth. Driven by my affection and friendship to her, I helped in every way possible, but it was all for nothing. She abandoned me and the underground empire we once fashioned. We had all the gold and Hextech technology we could dream of and our names would roam the sub urbans and frighten people. She had everything she ever desired, thanks to me! The two things I ever desired was taken away from me! Her love and her loyalty. Vi, you’ve changed and so have I. Your decision created a monster, you know my capabilities and you can’t stop me unless you make an end to my life.”

As a child, born and raised in a deprived area under control of a vicious gang known by every citizen of Piltover calling themselves “The Wild Knuckles” because where ever they go, they get what they want by only using their knuckles and despite the risks and effort they would cling to it like a blood leech. One day, my father approached me with a gift for my birthday that completely changed my life. It was an advanced Hextech Assemble Kit. Knowing that my father had a low income and the kit costed a fortune, I understood why I didn’t get the gift before. My dad discovered my passion for electronics and I started playing happily with it, but I wasn’t satisfied enough. I looked at my environment and at my parents who just spent their months of income for this present. The neighborhood I lived in was a total mess, not a place one would dream to live in. I wanted out of this life and live a life of wealth, for me and my family and I had no clue how.

On a random day, I finished my first project, a hextech drone that could float in the air and I was overwhelmed by the results. I started tweaking the drone until the shadow of a man darkened my view, I looked up and saw a man staring into my eyes. I was frightened when I noticed the emblem of the Wild Knuckles on his coat, both of us looking at each other in silence. He then smiles at me and holds my drone and stores it into his pocket and walked away without saying anything. Knowing that my father has worked months to afford that kit and this man simply takes it away from me, I could not resist opening my mouth: “Hey, come back and give me my drone back, or else!” I yelled at him. He turned around and looked at me, starting to chuckle and moved on with no response. Then something happened that I never thought would happen. I grabbed a rock and threw it at him as hard as I could, landing on his back. He turned around, looking at me with a furious face and started cracking his knuckles. I stood still looking at the man, afraid and frozen but I held my ground. He slowly approached me and grabbed me by the collar, lifting me up. That’s when I thought it was over for me, but I refused to give up and so I digged my hands in my pockets and controlling the drone inside his pocket. The drone started furiously moving around in his pockets, starting to heaten up his coat to a very hot temperature which caused him to drop me and put off his coat. I looked the man deep into his eyes and started bluffing about my powers.

Then in all of a sudden, I was grabbed by three men, dragging me into their car. I got gagged and blindfolded and sedated after. I woke up in a room sitting on a chair, the blindfold was taken off me and the first thing I saw, was the same man that took the drone away from me, and placed the drone in front of me on the table. “You have quite some guts to attack me like that young man” he said in a calm manner. “Let me go! Leave me alone! Where am I!?” I started shouting across the room. “My name is Cong, I’m the leader of the Wild Knuckles and you… have drawn my attention.” He says. “What are you going to do with me?” I asked in fear. “Don’t be afraid young man, out there I was testing your capabilities. I have been watching you over the past months. You have a skill that exceeds many. I have an offer for you, would you like to join us and excel your skills to a greater level and live the life of a king?” he asked me with a smile and slowly gave me a mean look after I gave him the disappointing answer “I will never join you, I know who you are and what you do!”. “Take him away from here” he ordered his guards. I grabbed my drone and got escorted into the car blindfolded and gagged and once again I got sedated.

I ended up home back where I started, back to the life of ruin. When I saw how my parents work from morning to evening for the lowest possible income I could not handle it. I didn’t tell my parents anything about the offer Cong gave me. I thought about the offer for a very long time and I decided to join them, but I needed to find them again. I went to the same place Cong found me started shouting ”Come out wherever you are, you knuckle thugs! You think you own the place!? Guess what!? This is my territory!” I shouted as a young kid and it drew one of Cong’s henchman’s attention and he grabbed me by the collar. “Take me to Cong or The Wild Knuckles will suffer from consenquences” said that with a bluffing face as I withdrew the hextech drone controller. I was taken with them, sedated, blindfolded and gagged again back to Cong. I took the position and started working for Cong in a team of dedicated hackers.

That’s when I met Vi, my new partner in crime. We grew up together as friends and as a team in a life of crime. The best team that Piltover has ever seen. Our teamwork was in every way superior. No gold was safe in people’s possession. The older we became, the bigger the prize. We pulled heists like it was stealing candy from a baby. I was the brain and she was the power and together we were a deadly combo. She was so amazing on the field and her attitude not long did it take for me to be attracted to her, I started to fall in love for her. I wanted to be more than just friends, but I did not dare to ask her until the day we decided to pull our biggest heist. We lived the life of a king and we had it all good, until she broke my heart. Without remorse, she left the entire crew and some hurtful words after years of history. On top of that, she attempts to break my network all across Piltover. The pain inside me has made her my biggest enemy, no technology could ever soothe the pain. She seeks battle? She’ll get that, but she’ll have to accept everything that comes with it. I will have my revenge and she will remember my name the day I put her down. Kato, The Vengeful Mastermind.”

Mechanics Kato is a mage caster/support, best played in support. He’s the most effective when it comes to utility if he’s distanced from his enemies giving him the ability to manipulate his surroundings. Kato has a new resource bar called power. The more power he has, the better effect and damage his abilities will be. Kato gains power from active beacons all across the map. The more beacons, the faster his power regenerates. There is a maximum amount of beacons he can place. Kato is a very vulnerable champion but his damage and CC potential makes up for it. He is best played in the backline where he can do his job best.

Abilities Passive – Hackable Unit– Kato puts a mark on an enemy unit for 5 seconds and gains vision over marked units, additionally he earns 10%(AP scaling%) extra gold from killed marked units and splits half of the income with his closest ally. Kato can mark multiple enemies by using his auto attack or one of his abilities. This works also on destroyed towers and inhibitors.

_Q “Hextech Drone” _– Kato sends out a drone towards a direction, once the drone is casted, the drone slowly (in such a speed that enemies have a good chance of dodging it) starts swirling left and right scanning it’s environment and marking them. Once the enemy unit got scanned, it will infect them with a virus and will deal damage over time until the mark stops.

W “Beacon” – Kato sets up a beacon that gives the team vision over the area and acts as a source of power for Kato to utilize. Beacons can only be set-up on beacon locations that are spread across the map and can be destroyed and if they stay alive they can last for a maximum time of 10 minutes. The longer the beacon stays alive, the bigger the vision radius will be for the ally team. Once destroyed the beacon emits a small shockwave that deals damage to nearby enemies (small radius).

E “Vicious Bug” – Kato uses his hextech device to shoot a small bullet that bounces through every nearby marked unit. Once hit on an enemy unit, it silences them for brief amount of time and deals damage over time. Additionally, Kato can shoot the turret to stop attacking for 1 second. These bullets can also be blocked by minions or any other enemy obstacle.

R “Mind Control” Kato starts channeling using his hextech device shooting a small lightning beam through the ground control towards and starts controlling enemy unit for 3 seconds after. Kato can only mind control marked units. After 3 seconds, a shockwave emits that deals area of effect damage and 40% of the damage to the controlled enemy unit. Kato’s mind control can be interrupted by any source of damage.

Recommended Items

• General items

• Talisman of Ascension – Kato already gains extra gold from marked units and it would increase his gold income even more If this item was purchased. The Active also gives Kato enough speed to quickly mark his enemies.

• Boots of Mobility – Kato needs the speed to mark his enemy units faster.

• Sightstone – More vision means better coordination.   Offensive Items

• Liandry’s Torment – Kato’s abilities deal damage over time and Liandry’s Torment’s passive is just what he needs to deal enough damage. Additionally, he becomes more tanky and gains AP from this item which eliminates his squishiness partly.

• Zhonya’s Hourglass – Kato benefits from the time given to him for “Mind Control” so if Zhonya’s active buys him that time to manipulate his target for the time he needs, he’ll have great outplay potential. Plus he also benefits from the AP and Armor.

• Liandry’s Torment – Kato’s abilities deal damage over time and Liandry’s Torment’s passive is just what he needs to deal enough damage. Additionally, he becomes more tanky and gains AP from this item which eliminates his squishiness partly.

• Rabadon’s Deathcap – Kato’s abilities need as much damage as possible because in the early game he will be weak and squishy.

• Morellonomicon – Kato’s damage need to burn through healing items and/or healing abilities so Morello’s passive does just that.   Defensive Items

• Zz’Rot Portal – Kato is squishy so the stats of this item compensates for that, the passive gives him the speed he needs to mark units and the active could be useful for objective control.

• Ohmwrecker – Kato’s “Vicious Bug” can already deactivate a turret for 1 second and if that time can be extended for a good team dive, then this item is a must-have. It also gives him the speed he needs to mark units.

• Randuin’s Omen – Kato needs to remain mobile so this item’s passive gives him just that and makes him tanky enough to avoid enemy contact.

Counter/Weaknesses

Good against:

• Tahm Kench – Tahm Kench relies on his basic attack to get an acquired state and if Tahm constantly gets silenced by Kato, it will be very hard for him to stack. Kato also deals percentage damage over time that makes it hard for Tahm Kench to regenerate his health back.

• Braum – Braum relies on his skillshots and basic attacks to apply CC and since Kato scales on mobility it makes it very hard for Braum to hit skillshots. With Kato’s percentage damage over time, Braum will have a hard time staying near Kato.

• Sona – Sona has sustain and poke, but is hard to sustain when Kato hits his abilities on Sona, it will be hard for her to regenerate health because of the damage over time and if Kato buys the right items against her, she will be obliterated.

Bad against:

• Janna – Janna’s CC makes Kato a slower support and she has a good kit to stop Kato from using his abilities. Janna is also far more mobile Kato.

• Lulu – Lulu’s abilities all pretty much counter Kato’s abilities. She has poke potential with both her auto attacks and her Q that also slows making it hard for Kato to react fast and a good shield against the damage over time.

• Morgana – Morgana deals a lot of damage and can easily avoid Kato’s abilities with her spell shield. Morgana can see the Mind Control beam coming and quickly spell shield her ally.

Good with:

• Lucian – Lucian can deal a lot damage in a short span of time. He will have a good chance to burst when enemies are silenced.

• Kalista – Kalista is very mobile because of her passive and she scales on attack speed, dealing fast and a lot of damage when enemies gets silenced and if Kato remains mobile he can quickly confuse enemies with all the skillshots coming their direction.

• Ezreal – Ezreal and Kato both have a lot of skillshots which makes it harder for enemies to dodge. They both can dodge attacks fast because of Arcane shift and Kato’s mobility.

Tips against Kato:

• Remain mobile. Allmost all of Kato’s abilities are skillshots and it makes it very hard for Kato to deal damage or apply CC if he does not mark you.

• Kato benefits mainly from his beacons so if you deny him the power from the beacons, Kato’s abilities will be a lot weaker.

• Kato works better when he’s fast, so if you manage to slow him, he’ll be an easier target to hit and he will have a hard time marking you or land one of his abilities.

** Tips when playing Kato:**

• Kato has short cooldowns but deals less damage when your power is low. if you’re mobile enough you can quickly use your abilities from multiple directions on a fast pace making it hard for your enemies to focus on getting hit from one attack while the other is still being casted.

• Kato needs space to utilize his ulti, so it is wise to position yourself at a safe location so that you won’t get interrupted when you channel

• It is best to follow up your Vicious bug immediately right after you cast out your drone. Your drone marks units fast enough for the Vicious Bug to bounce between marked units

• Kato can use the beacon locations as a good spot to bait enemies if done right, because enemies will most likely want to weaken Kato as much as possible.

Quotes/Special Taunts

“Everything has a loophole, you just need to find it.” While moving “You may be strong, but you’re not as smart.” - Taunt “Why did the hextech spy quit? He couldn’t hack it anymore….I’m bad at this. ” - /joke “What does a computer eat when they’re hungry? Chips… Wow, I need to stop.” - /joke “What does a computer eat for lunch? An Apple…. This is getting ridiculous” - /joke Dance “The robot dance” - /dance “When there’s a will, there’s a way.” While moving “You wanna face me? Try and come near me.” – Taunt “Don’t bother trying, you can’t even comprehend what I say.” - Taunt “I’m not who I was before, I have become your greatest nightmare.” - Taunt “They will all feel my revenge…” While moving “Everything is connected” – While moving Laugh ‘Laugh like a psychopath” - /laugh

** Special taunts ** Vi - “You will regret what you’ve done, Vi, there’s no way out!” Vi (when killed) – “You brought this on yourself…” Jinx – “You may cause mayhem but I cause confusion and that makes me a better criminal.” Caitlyn – “You folks disgust me, you’ll never catch me.” Blitzcrank – “Your system is full of flaws, Blitzcrank” Viktor – “Even Wukong could make a better system than you.”

Images I’m not good at drawing so I’ll try to describe how I picture him. It would be nice if somebody came up with a drawing with the following description:

“Kato is a skinny man with a tattoo on half of his face looking like the lines on a circuit board. He has a cap that covers his eyes. He has long hair that end at his shoulders. He wears a punk long coat like the picture described below with stubbles on his shoulder and wears soldier boots. He holds a device that looks like a phone with a big display, kinda like an iPhone or Samsung. He also has a small backpack and a utility belt on his waistline looking like the pictures below. He also has a logo on the back of his coat. His drone is octagon shaped with small antenna above it. Has two holes representing the eyes and a octagon shaped gap beneath it that represents as the scanner. The scanning looks like the hologram type of scanning. Similar or the same as the sweeper we have in-game.”

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