[Character Concept] Zane, the Void Tamer

Of Mirrors Dark·10/18/2015, 8:12:30 AM·1 votes·861 views

This is a character CONCEPT, not a fully operational character. As I am not a game developer, I will not attempt to create the statistics, as any I did create would likely end up unbalanced.

Name & Title: Zane, the Void Tamer. Role: Support.

Passive & Abilities: Passive - Indirect Combatant: Zane cannot target enemies with auto attacks but can instead target allies with them, Zane's basic attacks heal his targeted ally rather than doing damage. Q - Lending Power: Infuses an allied champion with dark power, granting them bonus true damage on their next two basic attacks, the bonus on second attack is greater if used against the same target as the first. Cannot be self-cast. W - Spawn Hellion: Spawns flying, fast moving, player-controlled attack minions called Hellions that are directed using Alt+W. They have an infinite range on how far from Zane they can be. They remain until killed. Any minions killed by a Hellion give minion kill gold to the nearest allied Champion within range. E - Eyes of the Void: Reveals and disables nearby invisible traps and invisible wards in target area, grants detection of nearby invisible units. R - Dark Swarm: Passively increases the stats of all Hellions spawned. Activate to release a swarm of specialized Hellions that seek out and attach to nearby champions, friend or foe. For the duration of the ability, all allies attached with one gain bonus life steal + spell vamp and all enemies attached with one get reduced armor and magic resist. Hellion minion kills grant minion kill gold to any and all allied Champions affected by Dark Swarm's buff.


Meh, not too satisfied with this, very lacking in details, lore, or anything along those lines and definitely missing numbers, but it was a random idea I had and I felt like typing it up. So, might as well see what others think, though I highly doubt it will ever become a real champion nor do I think it should. It was just a concept I thought of.

5 Comments

DrugsForRobots10/20/2015, 4:24:25 AM2 votes

So, there are some problems with this.

One, as cool as having a champion who, rather that traditional damage dealing AAs, heals his comrades might be, I think it poses serious problems balance-wise. Your E is also rather uninspired as it's just a red trinket...

Thematically, you have some good ideas in there, but I don't think League needs another 'human with Void powers'-type champion. What is cool, that you touch on that I've seen others touch on elsewhere, is the theme of a swarm / hive-mind / mass of writhing insectile tenticle things who is also a Support. Such a concept, as of now, has yet to be seen in the League, and I think has enough flavor and resonance to warrant exploring.

As for your design, I'm not terribly excited or impressed, though I would like to be. Keep thinking on it.