Vinsoux, the Versatile Vigilante
This idea came to me today when I was thinking about smash bros and what if I made a character that could absorb a type of attack and then adapt based on his foe, I figured this would be more prevalent as a league character
Vinsoux, the Versatile Vigilante (vince-swa)
Role: Assassin/Marksman
Introduction & Appearance
Vinsoux is a french assassin who dawns a red cape, a mouth mask and a loud crazed cackling mentality for bloodshed. He has an arsenal of knives that he uses for tossing, stabbing and impaling as well as delivering instant death. Vinsoux is practically 2 champions, and the only way to swap between them is to spell block an ability of the proper damage type. If you're fighting a mage, be prepared to fight in Knife Stance and if you're fighting an AD caster, be ready to get in there and deal some gritty damage only the way an assassin can
Lore
Vinsoux is a french accented assassin who's skill with knives in hand and throwing is legendary throughout the Black Rose (Leblancs guild in Noxus) he, and his rival Fiora were trained by the same master, but eventually needed to part ways when they're morals started butting heads. After some time the only thing they could agree on was that precision was an warrior's greatest weapon, not their blades.
Disowning his own master, the skilled knife wielder found himself in Noxus and encountered a rather charismatic woman known as LeBlanc who introduced him and inducted him into her secret cult, The Black Rose. After the intensive training and countless merciless slaughter of soldiers, animals, men, women, and children alike he steadily grew mad. His insatiable lust for blood led him to the bloodiest part of Runeterra, the League of Legends
Allies
Enemies
Quotes Taunt: "You must be insane to fight me" loud ironic insane laugh
Joke: "Watch your health bar closely, kid"
Taunting Katarina or Talon: "Let's see who throws knives better"
Taunting Fiora: "Calm versus Crazed, how fun" "Sword versus Daggers, how thrilling" "Demacia versus Noxus, how boring"
After killing an enemy Katarina or Talon: "I win, nah nah nah!" (childish teasing)
After killing an enemy Fiora: "You can't Reposte Fate, girl"
Stats
Stats ---------------------------- Health: 571 – 2101 Mana: 307-987 Attack Damage: 61 – 116 Attack Speed: 0.621 (0% – 51%) Movement Speed: 350 Health Regen: 7.4 – 19.3 Mana Regen: 6 -- 19.6 Armor: 24.2 – 87.1 Magic Resist: 32.1 – 53.4 Attack Range: 125 (550 in Knife Stance)
Abilities
Passive- Adapt or Die
Blocking an ability with Learn will swap stances between Dagger Stance and Knife Stance. When in Knife Stance, Vinsoux becomes a ranged character and converts his basic attacks into a different format dealing magic damage instead.
Dagger Stance: Your attack range becomes 125, you gain +5/15/25/35 Move Speed and 10/20/30/40% Attack Speed
Knife Stance: Your attack range becomes 550, you attack damage is now considered magic damage, but can still critically strike
Q - Explosive Knife - 60/65/70/75/80 Mana - 10/9.5/9/8.5/8 Second Cooldown - 175/ 650 range (straight line skill shot)
Dagger Stance: Jab a knife into a target minion, monster, ally or enemy champion. After 3 seconds or when you reactivate the ability it explodes in a radius of 200 (300 if on a champion) dealing 70/100/130/160/190/220 (+80% AD) as physical damage to all non-friendly units
Knife Stance: Toss a knife to stab into the first minion, monster, ally or enemy champion. After 3 seconds of when you reactivate the ability it explodes in a radius of 150 (250 if on a champion) dealing 50/70/110/130/150 (+100% AD) as magical damage to all non-friendly units and stuns the impaled target if they were not an ally champion for 1 second
W - Blur - 40 Mana - 9/8.5/8/7.5/7 Second Cooldown - 500 Dash
Dagger Stance: Dash and deal 30/50/70/90/110 (+40% AD) physical damage, applies on-hit effects and can critically strike. If this hits an enemy champion, the cooldown is reset and cannot reset from the same champion in the same 6.5/6/5.5/5/4.5 seconds
Knife Stance: Dash in a direction and inflict a 35/40/45/50/55% Slow for 1.5 seconds to any enemy champions in the dash. If you do hit an enemy champion, you also gain a 10/15/20/25/30% Move Speed Bonus for 1 second
E - Learn - 0 Mana - 16/14.5/13/11.5/10 Second Cooldown- Self
Gain a spell shield for 1.5 seconds. If you block a magical ability, you swap into Knife Stance, if you block a physical ability you swap to Dagger Stance, if the damage is mixed, you swap to Knife Stance, and if the damage is True Damage, you switch to Dagger Stance and gain a buff of True Strike that does not stack
True Strike: Your next basic attack deals True Damage and consumes the True Strike buff
R - Coup De Grace - 100 mana - 140/120/100 Second Cooldown - within Radius 700 only able to activate when an enemy champion is below 15/20/25% HP
Dagger Stance: After a 1.5 second immobile channel, dash to all enemy champions in the range who are below or equal to the threshold HP and inflict instant death ending in the position of the final body. If they leave the range while you channel this ability goes on cooldown and does nothing
Knife Stance: After a 1.5 second immobile channel toss a black knife to all enemy champions in the range who are below or equal to the threshold HP and inflict instant death. If they leave the range while you channel this ability goes on cooldown and does nothing
Explanations
So here I will explain the abilities further, just remember that numbers and ratios can all be changed easily, so try focus more on the abilities themselves. If anything needs balance though, please do tell me and I will fix it.
Passive- This allows Vinsoux to get accommodated for his sacrifice of attack range by giving him movement speed and attack speed while in Dagger Stance. Because of the Versitile Vigilante's ability to swap between physical and magical damage while only building AD items, this makes him difficult to counter build against. Though more deadly initially in Dagger Stance, his magic auto attacks in Knife Stance will also widdle his foes HP down to the threshold for him to instant kill them.
Q - Allowing Vinsoux to get some harass abilities is important, combine this while in Dagger Stance with Blur to dash in, knife a target directly and dash out for a safe and unavoidable damage output. While in Knife Stance, it's a great way to stop your foes from fleeing or dealing damage in teamfights
W - A very effective way to either get in as Dagger or out as Knife. While in Dagger Stance this can be cast up to 6 times before it goes on cooldown by dashing to each member of their team, then through another target with the final reset dash. This is also a great way to get to the back line of a team
E - Knowing what to block and when to block is core to Vinsoux's kit, certain stances are far more viable in certain situations that others
R - I know what you're thinking, "Unavoidable instant death! That's OP!" Let me explain, during the 1.5 second channel, you can leave the radius via flash, ghost, dash effects, save abilities, hell even just healing so you're out of the threshold. Sky's the limit on countering this ability, but if Vinsoux is mid dash/throw with his dagger/knives, you are already dead as it won't deal damage to you, but rather bring you're HP straight to 0. 15-25% is such a low amount that most ultimates would kill you from there anyways, the only diff with this one is that its extra effective against tanks as it works of % max not a set value.
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