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Samui, The Ionian Blizzard

Abel9210·12/9/2014, 6:23:03 PM·3 votes·1,566 views

tl;dr version: Melee carry, not dissimilar to Riven. Has a combo system with her passive that allows her to chain her non-ultimate skills into a 4-hit combo, with special effects depending on what skill was used to start the combo and what was used to end it. Her ult has three different versions of it depending on what button you pressed after activating it.

Tags: Fighter

Stats (Level 1) Health: 540 (+75) Health Per 5: 6.7 (+0.5) Mana: 300 (+45) Mana Per 5: 5.5 (+0.8) Attack Damage: 54 (+3.5) Attack Speed: 0.651 (+2.5%) Armor: 24 (+3) Magic Resistance: 30 (+1.75) Movement Speed: 340 Range: 175

Passive: Violent Ice Samui's non-ultimate skills can be chained with each other or into themselves to create a 4-hit combo, within 4 seconds of casting a skill. (Example: Q>Q>Q>Q, Q>W>E>Q and W>W>Q>E can be used.) At the end of a combo chain, all of Samui's non-ultimate skills go on a 10/8/6 (level 1/6/11) global cooldown, reduced by Cooldown Reduction.

Q: Snow Flower Storm Samui slashes at a single enemy unit or neutral monster. Will attack the enemy unit that her cursor is hovering over, and will attack at the closest unit in front of her if no target is given. Can be cast while moving. 1st cast - Hizangeki: Samui hops forward and executes a horizontal slash. 2nd/3rd cast: Samui slashes diagonally. 4th cast - Hishouken: Samui enchants her blade with ice and stabs the enemy unit forcefully, freezing them for 0.75 seconds and chilling them for 3 seconds afterwards, causing Samui's autoattacks to deal bonus magic damage to this target for the duration. Cost: 20/18/16/14/12 mana per cast 1st cast damage: 30/65/100/135/170 (+0.5 AD) 2nd/3rd cast damage: 15/45/75/105/135 (+0.6 AD) 4th cast damage: 60/110/160/210/260 (+0.6 AD) 1st cast range: 475 2nd-4th cast range: 275 Bonus Magic Damage: 20+(15*level) (+0.25 AD)

W: Snowstorm Samui spins in place, dealing damage in a PBAoE. Can be cast while moving. 1st cast - Fuyu: Samui spins, dealing physical damage, then creates a fog of chilling wind and hail around her that persists for 4 seconds, dealing magic damage per second. 2nd/3rd cast: Samui attacks with her sword and sheath. 4th cast - Hiyoku Getsumei: Samui plunges her sword into the ground, causing icicles to erupt from the ground in a larger PBAoE, dealing physical damage and slowing for 1.5 seconds. Cost: 20/18/16/14/12 mana per cast 1st cast damage: 40/70/100/130/160 (+0.6 AD) 1st cast DoT: 40/50/60/70/80 (+0.1 AD), 160/200/240/280/320 (+0.4 AD) 2nd/3rd cast damage: 15/45/75/105/135 (+0.6 AD) 4th cast damage: 80/130/180/230/280 (+0.8 AD) PBAoE: 275 4th cast PBAoE: 450 4th cast slow: 20/25/30/35/40%

E: Piercing Ice Samui thrusts, dealing damage in a line. Can be cast while moving. 1st cast - Musou Senshouzan: Samui's thrust hyper-freezes the air around the enemy units she hit, then shatters, dealing physical damage to the unit twice, then causing ice shards to fly out in the direction the enemy units were hit from and dealing physical damage up to 300 units past this skill's maximum range. Enemies hit by either part of this skill will give Samui bonus movespeed for 2 seconds when autoattacking or casting skills on them for 4 seconds. 2nd/3rd cast: Samui aims for the opponent's weak points with her thrusts. 4th cast - Senryou Shiden: Samui pauses for a bit, then does a Shiden thrust, dealing physical damage and knocking back enemies 400 units over 0.5 seconds. Cost: 20/18/16/14/12 mana per cast 1st cast damage: 20/40/60/80/100 (+0.35 AD), 40/80/120/160/200 (+0.7 AD) Damage: 15/45/75/105/135 (+0.6 AD) 4th cast damage: 45/95/145/195/245 (+0.4 AD) Range: 400, 700 for 1st cast 4th cast range: 600 Bonus Movespeed: 20%/25%/30%/35%/40%

R: Empty Air Array - Decision Samui readies herself for 3 seconds. During this time, she can press her Q, W or E to execute one of three skills. Pressing R again or letting the timer run out will cancel this skill, then refund the mana cost and set the cooldown to 15 seconds. Cost: 100 mana Cooldown: 120/100/80 seconds

RQ: Farewell Samui dashes forward. If she contacts an enemy champion, she stabs the target with a burst of ice and chilling wind, encasing them in ice for 0.75s and turning them untargetable while Samui executes a multitude of slashes in the blink of an eye. At the end of the CC, the target takes physical damage. Damage: 250/350/450 (+1.6 AD) Range: 650

RW: Absolute Zero Samui spins her sword and slashes the ground, creating a large vertical wave of ice that goes through units and deals physical damage. Damage: 200/275/350 (+1.4 AD) Range: 1400 Width: 300

RE: Howling Gale Samui lunges at a target point. If she contacts an enemy champion, she slashes through them and the cooldown on this skill is reset. If Samui casts this skill on an enemy champion that was already hit by it, the enemy champion takes half damage from this skill and it goes on cooldown. If Samui does not contact an enemy champion with this skill, it goes on cooldown. Lasts for 5 seconds or until it goes on cooldown, and other skills are disabled while Howling Gale is active. Damage: 150/200/250 (+0.8 AD) Halved Damage: 75/100/125 (+0.4 AD) Range: 650

15 Comments

Foruka12/9/2014, 8:51:38 PM1 votes

Very, very nice concept, the passive is a pretty creative limiting factor for abilities that there would be a lot of room for variation and creativity from. However, I have a couple of questions and criticisms.

First question is do the individual abilities have any cooldowns so that you can't just hit q four times in less then a second for huge instant burst.

Second question is are the second and third casts, regardless of if you hit q, w, or e almost the same? Because reading what you have, the damage seems to always be the same or unlisted, and the only differance is q is 275 range, w is 275 range PBAoE (why ever q over w?), and e is 400 range.

Third question is what happens if you hit multiple champions with r-e?

Fourth question is is the "Lasts for 5 seconds or until it goes on cooldown, and other skills are disabled while Howling Gale is active" a stipulation for what happens after you get a reset?

Fifth question is does building cooldown reduction reduce her passive's cooldown, or is the only thing that cooldown reduction effect her ult?

And the final question is can r be used while still in the middle of a combo, for instance could you cast q>q>rq>q>q?

My criticisms are that first, the champion concept while cool seems somewhat flawed. Samui is a melee carry, but she has no form of defensive steroid, which is pretty much essential on melee carries to prevent unhealthy gameplay patterns of either instantly killing opponents or instantly dying. So maybe think of some way to fix that?

Second is that with the way her skills appear to be set up, the number of of choices a player has actually seem very limited compared to what she could have. It seems like the only choice a player actually has is which of q, w, or e do they want to start with, finish with, and use their ult with, which, compared to what a concept like this could potentially have in terms of decision making, seems like a waste. Basically, due to the nature of only being able to choose one, you only have two things to decide, three once you get your ult, and since all options deal damage, the choice essentially come down to just how do you want to deal damage. Your first choice is between gap closer>least damage, aoe dot>most damage, or aoe>middle damage, your second choice is cc+damage on auto>middle damage, aoe+slow>most damage, or knockback+range>last damage, and your third choice is cc for allies>most damage, aoe+range>least damage, reseting if multiple enemies>middle damage. I'm not necessarily saying that this is a bad design, but I'm just unsure why you would choose it since it seems to at the same time complicate the combos while also limiting your options.

My third complaint, somewhat petty since this is a concept, is that damage is pretty insane. At level 1 with only w, you could deal 472 damage without any items or auto attacks. For comparison, a riven at level 1 with q and three passive enhanced auto attacks only deals 298 damage. Even if we don't assume optimal conditions, then at level 1 with q Samui would deal 266 damage on top of stunning the enemy for 0.75 seconds and making auto attacks deal 102 damage. At level 2, Samui could use w>q>q>q with a longsword to deal 1075 damage, with about 550 of that damage being unavoidable. Cast times between spells and animations would help this a little, but as long as though cast times/animations aren't extremely long, most of it still goes through. Basically, w first cast and q fourth cast are OP, and in general all skills are OP due to having high AD% scaling and decent bases. Due to the nature of Samui's passive, shes guaranteed to have strong early levels, but this is still a little much. I would suggest either gutting base damages down to all 5/10 and making the AD ratio scale with levels, or buffing the second/third base damage and making her abilities scale with bonus AD instead of total AD to keep damage more in line.

In conclusion, cool idea, but the implementation has some flaws. I'm not sure what you would think of this idea, but as a suggestion make her ult some form of defensive ability that also increases the number of skills she can use in one passive combo based on rank? For instance, so start she can only use 2/3 skills, at rank one ult 3/4, rank two ult 4/5, rank three ult 5/6? That would help tone down early game while keeping the passive relevant, solve the problem of being a defenseless melee carry, keep a damage increase based on leveling ult, and keep the theme of the first and last ability in a combo having a special effect.

On a final note, I'd love to hear what kind of lore would be attached to Samui.

Rito Jericho12/10/2014, 1:20:54 AM1 votes

This really is a nice concept. My biggest problem is that I'm having difficulty understanding something, despite it being addressed by you and Foruka. That is that the abilities list a 2nd and 3rd casts. Do they come from casting the ONE ability several times, or do they still trigger as long as they're used in the combo?

LilStacey8712/10/2014, 4:21:39 AM1 votes

Hey man, the combo system you made up is pretty cool. Did you think of that yourself?

not a starburst12/10/2014, 5:18:47 AM1 votes

Samui is simply Japanese for "cold". My Japanese is, admittedly, not the greatest, so I admit it might sound more poetic as a lone kanji, but it's underwhelming when your champion's name just translates to 'cold'. Equally, the names are simply taken straight from Japanese, and Ionia is really a blend of several East Asian cultures, not just Japanese, so it's a good idea to represent that cultural diversity. As for the abilities, I like the combo ideas a lot, but I think they're pretty easy to abuse, the global CD on them is too short, and the ult ranges are really long (650 is longer than almost any marksman range). Combos have to be carefully managed while making the champion, otherwise you wind up with a champion that does too much with no drawback. Doubly so for AD combo champions, because they can do damage without their combo with their autoattacks. Combos are cool, but she's basically Riven, except better, more mobile, with lower CDs, and with way more damage. And Riven's already pretty scary. She has too many options that do too much for her. Where's the counterplay potential? She seems to have an answer for, well, everything.

LaserLoserJr12/10/2014, 10:42:05 PM1 votes

Instead of mana give him energy or something so that way no one can build some cdr and mana regen to do devastaing combos in seconds. Also make it so her combos isn't just a perosn button mashing.

CommanderComment12/11/2014, 6:10:31 AM1 votes

i understand the numbers aren't important but RQ is obviously broken: 0.75s stun, 450 (+1.6 AD) damage, 650 range