[Champion Concept] Levis, the Demon of Battle.

Author's Note: This is in fact my first concept that I have posted, all thoughts and ideas are welcome. Thank you for taking the time to read this!

Lore: Sometimes people are born with great powers, others prove themselves, and yet still some gain power at great cost to themselves. In a small village isolated from the large towns and cities a young boy spent his days quietly learning the sword from his father, they were the town's guard to protect and defend from bandits and other attackers. The boy's whole life had been spent in this village, around it's people and wandering it's small streets and to the boy these things would never change, they would always be there.

The boy grew over the years and his strength grew with him, in his head nothing would be able to stand in his way and nothing would ever harm his home but his pride would fail him in due time. Stories of a demon plaguing the countryside had been heard, and sightings around the village had the people frightened, but the boy knew no fear and in his own arrogance marched to challenge it. The battle was long and tiring but in time the boy drew the demon's life short, spilling it's blood and cutting it's body. Unbeknownst to the boy the demon would not be taken by death so easily and in its dying throes it lunged its soul at the boy.

All was black.

The boy awoke to the smoke and flame of his own home burning around him, the people's screams echoed in his head, and he watched as he was powerless to control his own body. His last sight before falling unconscious once more was his father taking up his sword. Waking once more the boy saw no town, no smoke, no people, all he saw next to him was his father's sword, glowing with the fire of the demon. Gingerly picking it up he felt a voice from the inside, "A foolish meal, and an even more foolish boy who led them to me. Come now, lead me to more meals boy, my soul hungers." "And why would I give in to your whims?" The boy's voice came out more as a whimper. "For until you do I will be right here, by your side, and you can hear their screams forever." It's voice echoed through his head, he and the demon were one now.

"To forgive is to forget, and one can never forget."- Levis

Stats:

• Health: 558 (+87)
• Health Regen: 5.75 (+.5)
• Range: 150 (Melee)
• Attack Damage: 58.2 (+3.3)
• Attack Speed: .65 (+2.6%)
• Armor: 25.45 (+3.5)
• Magic Resist: 32.1 (+1.25)
• Movespeed: 345

-Base stats at level 0 -Parenthesis is gains by level -All numbers are subject to change to balance him out, I don't claim to be a number expert here.

Abilities:

Passive - Soul Resonance: Levis' soul resonates with the demon's over time, giving his abilities an added effect. Levis' charge builds up by 2.5 points every second up to 25 max. Using a fully charged ability will reset the charge and ignite a part of his body. -The meter takes 10 seconds to fully charge and is reset upon use -The charge replaces a resource

Q - Demon Lash: (Target Cast) Levis lashes out with his hand and sends a flaming demon claw at the opponent, dealing 50/65/80/95/110 (+50% AP) physical damage and slowing the target for 10% for 1 second, the claw will deal 50% of the damage to each unit it passes through. If the ability is fully charged then it will stun the target instead of slowing them and igniting his hands. Range: 550 Cooldown: 12/11/10/9/8 Cast time: .75 seconds -Levis stops moving while casting the ability

W - Flame of Battle: (Steroid) **Passive:**Levis gains back 50% of the damage he deals with his auto attacks every 3 attacks. Active: Levis lights his blade on fire, giving him 20/30/40/50/60 (+15% AD)(+15% AP) bonus physical damage on each attack for 5 seconds. If the ability is fully charged he gains 20/25/30/35/40% attack speed and ignites his arms. Cooldown: 16/15/14/13/12 Cast time: Instant

E - Raging Charge: (Skillshot) Levis dashes forward and stops at the first target hit dealing 70/100/130/160/190 (+40% AD) physical damage. If the ability is fully charged Levis will throw the first enemy hit to the dash's starting point and ignite his legs. Cooldown: 15/14/13/12/11 Range: 600 -Levis will stop at the first target, regardless of if it is a minion, jungle monster, or champion and will not complete the full dash length. -The first target hit by a fully charged dash will be thrown to where Levis began the dash from it's current position and takes .5 seconds to move there.

R - Demon's Hunger: (Self Buff) Levi's plunges his father's sword into his stomach and beckons the demon's form, gaining 20% armor and magic resist and a bonus effect from the last part of his body ignited. Levis remains in the demon's form until he is killed or leaves combat for 5 seconds and can use abilities. Hands: Levis' auto attacks will hit in a cone. Arms: Levis' attacks will burn targets for (50% AD) over 2.5 seconds. Legs: Levis gains 30/40/50% movespeed. Cooldown: 110/95/80

Author's note: The goal here was to create a system around this charging mechanic that would reward players for locking an enemy down and prolonging a fight, the charge replaces a resource and Levis has to keep a fight going to use multiple charged abilities and each one gives his ultimate a different effect depending on what he needs. Feel free to give some criticism on how to better achieve this because I'm still not 100% on this iteration.

Visual details/Animations: Passive: Levis looks normal for most of the charge but once reaching the max of it he begins to smolder as if he is about to be aflame, since you know...he is. Demon Lash: Levis' left hand forms a fiery red claw over it and he flings it forward, the projectile itself is claw shaped and made of fire. When fully charged the projectile is slightly larger (not enough to affect how it looks like it should hit things.), is blue, and leaves fire mote effects behind it. Flame of Battle: The sword is set aflame with red fire, for the passive effect it looks like a healing effect flows from the target to Levis, fully charged uses make the fire blue. Raging Charge: Levis' legs light with red flames and he launches himself forward, when it is fully charged his legs alight with blue fire. When he tosses the enemy back he grabs them by where their collar should be and throws them while turning around to face them. Demon's Hunger: Levis shoves the sword into his stomach in a mock seppuku and a small explosion of flaming wind happens around him, the demon form is surrounded in blue fire and it's abilities don't cover the area with fire. Additionally when using a fully charged ability the part of the body it would ignite is set partially aflame when he is targeting and fully aflame when he has cast it.

Appearance: Age: 22 Eye color: His eyes are brown and his right eye has black sclera. Hair: His hair is neck length and unkempt, the front is cut haphazardly and is in no way straight. Hair color: Similar to the color of ash but a bit darker Clothing: Levis wears small pieces of armor around his body but not a full set; one pauldron on his left shoulder, an arm guard on his right arm, a set of shin guards, and a light breastplate; The armor is all bronze colored and in a state of disrepair. Underneath the armor he wears a leather jerkin that is colored in light browns and greens, underneath a set of chainmail and beneath that a shirt with long tattered sleeves. Weapon: Levis wields a large 2 handed double edged sword, the hilt is two whole hands with a small pommel and the blade starts wider at the base near the hand guard and tapers toward the point.

Strategy: Levis is strong up close and offers a means to push his opponents down to his side of the lane or to stun, his most limiting factor is that he has to choose which spell to engage with as the stun leaves them where they are and the dash doesn't stop them from escaping once they have been moved. Players can choose to build him with a tank role in mind or a bruiser role, which would be preferable since his disruption is mainly single target focused.

Playing as Levis: -The charge mechanic will make one ability more powerful when you engage but you have to wait 10 seconds in between before another empowered ability can be used.

-Demon Lash is a useful poke in the lane if you can line it up with the minions in between, but it only slows when uncharged. The slow and stun can be used for self peel but be aware that you stop moving for a split second to cast it.

-Flame of Battle can be cast instantly so you can surprise the opponent with a burst of damage before you trade with them.

-Raging Charge cannot pass through enemy or neutral units even when uncharged so keep that in mind, it can be used to initiate or escape and using it in clever manners could save your life, if the enemy is chasing you toward their team you can turn around and throw them back, trading places with them to save yourself.

-Demon's Hunger changes effects based on your last ignited body part so keep that in mind, it also won't consume a charge so you can wait to use it till you have another charge up for a big initiation, the demon form will only last in combat so you have to commit to using it.

Playing against Levis -Levis will not last long against strong burst as he has to prolong a fight to use his abilities at their strongest, at most he can have one charged ability to use against you.

-Levis' sustain is tied to hitting minions, champions, and neutral monsters and if he cannot hit any of those he cannot sustain, pressuring him away from minions will keep him from topping his health off and you can poke him out.

-The Ultimate will only last for 5 seconds outside of combat, so if you can get away from him for long enough he won't have any bonus from it.

Item Suggestions: I am going to be honest I am not the best at building, so I'll leave suggestions for this to anyone who wants to put some forward.

Feel free to leave ideas for anything below: how to make Levis better, skins, item builds, interactions with characters that would be cool, go for it.