[Champion Concept] Alexandria Athulama, the Mad Ascended

SSmotzer·7/21/2016, 10:23:20 PM·6 votes·1,351 views

Before the fall of Shurima, Alexandria was chosen to become an Ascended, with the eternal goal to preserve knowledge and defend the ancient Shuriman library, the Library of the Sun. She spent her immortal life in the library, with her new found powers, she archived every word on every page of every book on every wall. She took a bright young Nasus under her wing, guiding him through the massive library. She felt his hunger for knowledge rivaled her own and she believed a mind like his had gone to waste on the fields of battle.

Then one day she watched as the Sun Disc became eclipsed and her city begin to be devoured by the sands. Unwilling or unable to break her sworn duty, she could only watch as the library she was in, slowly became entombed deep beneath the sand.

In complete darkness, she could only wait. countless ages passed, the voices in her mind began to overpower her. The fantasy worlds she memorized began to become more real than the tomb she sat in.

Now with Azir resurrecting the Sun Disc and the city rising from the sands, one building remains locked, the library. Azir, determined to learn the wisdom of his people spent upwards of a year, but he eventually cracked the seal and knocked down the walls of the library, believing some knowledge is worth more than nothing.

To his dismay, the only thing in the rubble of the library was Alexandria, who had, over the year, destroyed every stone tablet and shredded every parchment. Alexandria, exposed to the world for the first time in ages, with no library remaining to keep her bound to her duty, took to the sky, her mind a knotted ball of words and stories, with Azir, determined to learn what she knows, taking chase.

"Too....too many words... too many in my head... I - I have to get them out!"

http://orig11.deviantart.net/c252/f/2009/274/0/9/demon_owl_by_joeslucher.jpg She would be part owl with frayed and missing feathers and move like a Bloodborne beast.

http://giant.gfycat.com/ArtisticCorruptBlackbear.gif http://i.imgur.com/FEDuUMT.gif

Ranged Mage/Support

Passive - Hallucinations of Time: Whenever Alexandria enters sight range of an enemy, they can see up to 3 copies of Alexandria coming from random directions from the Fog of War, or if Alexandria emerges or is seen in a bush, up 3 copies can be seen exiting the bush or standing in it.

Q - Echos of the Ancients: Alexandria screeches in a target directions, filling enemy's minds with words and voices, all enemy units hit are dealt X plus X% her ap in magic damage and all positive buffs on the enemies hit are removed and they are unaffected by positive effects for a few seconds.

W - Destroy the Words: Alexandria flies in a target direction, dealing X plus X% her ap in physical damage and silencing for a few seconds all enemy units in her path.

E - Toll of the Mind: Alexandria exhausts a target area for several seconds, draining the thoughts from enemies within the area, slowing them and depleting the mana, energy or health if the enemy has neither, of enemies in the area. Once the enemies leave the area, the mana, energy or health drained is slowly replenished.

R - Maddening Wisdom: Alexandria manifests a ball of ancient Shuriman text and throws it in a target direction, the first enemy champion hit is stunned for 3 seconds and dealt X plus X% her ap in magic damage while striking those nearby the target with a maddening bombardment of voices, for the next 3 seconds enemies and allies who walk into range of the stunned enemy are taunted to the stunned enemy and taunted units gain bonus attack speed while taunted. The stunned target and those taunted are immune to all damage from champions outside of this effect.


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17 Comments

Arakadia7/22/2016, 5:07:46 AM1 votes

W feels strange on a mage\support as their squishy and don't want to get in the middle of the frey. Sick concept btw. Her E is pretty cool. +1

redfeenix7/22/2016, 5:25:57 AM1 votes

Love the theme and back story but I feel like her skills don't really maych they are pretty general.

I think you should embrace the idea of a cursed banshee thematic.

Passive seems really overpowered, plus his does it work when you get spotted by wards ? Do the clones appear for you as well ? Or can the enemy still surprise you.

Perhaps : forgotten shadow: when enemies lose sight of you, all information is erased in the tab screen (Cs items, summoners etc). This information is updated when vision returns. Makes sense the enemies forget about her completely almost like s curse.

I like the mechanic on her q, very unique. Same with e. Great mechanics

I'm hesitant to give her a dash and a silence in one skill for w. A silsnce will be good in her kit, but not here I think.

Her ult seems really strong. I'd I'm reading it right, you can force the enemy team to attack each other ? That's hella OP and broken.

Not sure which way you're leaning thematically but maybe something like:

Cursed cry of the banshee: she screams loud as fuck. After 1.5 seconds, all enemy champions are stunned for 1 second.

If a global stun sounds too much, we can change it to a global silence ( good for countering smites or cross map plays) or a semi large radius instead of global.

Maybe I'm misrepresenting this champ snd you wanna go right more of a knowledge/ lexical theme rather than focusing on her cursed immortality.

Cheers gl

Artificial Human7/22/2016, 11:54:36 AM1 votes

A more Shuriman name would be good.

Friendly Ram7/22/2016, 12:31:17 PM1 votes

Just my 2 cents Passive: are the clones targetable? What is their duration? Also this ability really should have a cd so it doesn't lag the game. Q: really nice but might need some rewording unless you intend for it to remove potions. W: riot generally doesn't like silences on mages but i see no problem with this one. E: nice idea and seems really thematic. My belief is it seems a little underpowered though as it has no lasting effect. R: i like the idea and would love to see this in game. Might want to make it a supress though if you don't want merc treads reducing it.

Makharya7/25/2016, 7:41:38 AM1 votes

Nice suggestion, there is really good idea.

My only problem with a lore is that it's too close to other lore. Guardian of knowledge is already nasus lore (and is also shurimian), even if you explain it it's still very close. Moreover the madness part look too similar to renekton (i'm trap for the same time and i became mad).

I don't think that the passive will work really well even if the idea is really good. Maybe just give her clone every X second up to Y, a clone is destroyed when damage (so an area ability would make a good clean). It will still be usefull outside of gank and create less problem (like with vision reduction).

The Q seems OP. The effect is so powerfull and as the spell is her only waweclear it would need decent damage to be play in a lane (and even in jungle). I think that you need to precise which effect would be suppress (because if it suppress nasus stack it would be a little bit frustrating :D): enhanced AA? temprorary stacking? (like jax ult or guinso), healing?, CC cleanse? Stats bonuses? What for things that are linked to a bad/neutral effect like taunt damage reduction?

Why W has physical damage?

R is so OP. First it can temporyse an all team, you can create a lock zone for 3 seconds which is more than galio. With range, without need to channel. Ennemy team try to engage you: you stun their tank for 3 second!! and you create a taunt zone for the same duration. But it's not only disengage its also engage: you can use it offensively as 3 seconds is enough to go in position and destroy them at the end of the spell.

And it deal so much damage: someone who is taunted will be attacked by a lot of people: even if he gets 50% damage reduction which usually go with taunted he will take heavy damage (adc of both team maybe). If he is a tank that's good he can take it, but if he is a squishy he will just die.

SSmotzer7/28/2016, 9:55:01 AM1 votes

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