William, the Broken Veteran

Description: I'm taking a dark approach with this particular concept and I don't mean a character with dark powers. This character is based on soldiers from both World War I and II who suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. His abilities' effectiveness are all based on how he deals with this disorder.

Stats: Attack - 100% Health - 30% Magic - 90% Difficulty - 100%

Attributes: Primary - Marksman Secondary - Mage

Abilities: Passive - Panic Attack

Primary As William loses health, his attack damage, ability power, and attack speed increases. But gaining back health will reverse the effects. Secondary Upon death, William makes a 1 second rapid fire with his rifle in a cone in front of him, dealing physical damage to enemies within the cone. Panic attack also has different effects on other abilities except his ultimate.

First Ability - Frag Grenade

William tosses a frag grenade that bounces once then lays in place for 1 second and detonates. This deals magic damage to enemies within radius of the explosion. If the grenade lands on an enemy on the first bounce, it will deal physical damage and blind the target for 1 second. Panic Attack If William has 50% or less health left, the throwing range and projectile speed is increased by 10%

Second Ability - Get out of Harm's Way!

William dives or rolls over to dodge attacks. If this ability is used at a direction in front or behind William, he dives and lands his body on the ground. This however forces William to crawl afterwards for 2 seconds, losing movement speed. If William uses this ability on the side of him, he rolls out instead, instantly making him resume running after the roll. This ability does not stop William's attack patterns so he can still use basic attacks and abilities while this is in effect. Panic Attack When below 50% health, William gets a 2 second 5% movement speed buff after using this ability

Third Ability - Bayonet Attack

William swings his rifle in front of him with the bayonet that's attacked to the tip. He attacks in a small cone in front of him, dealing physical damage to enemies within the cone. Enemies who are hit by the bayonet on the edge of the cone will take additional physical damage and bleeds afterwards for 2 seconds. Panic Attack When below 50% health, enemies within the cone of the attack will be pushed back a little bit and is stunned for 1 second.

Ultimate - Gas Artillery Strike

William calls in an Artillery Strike, and a very forbidden one in an indicated 600-radius area. This artillery strike fires a bomb that spreads poisonous gas that lasts for 7 seconds. Enemies who remain within the detonation area take magic damage overtime. The damage stacks the longer they remain inside the gas. Gas also effects vision of everyone, including allies and William. Anyone outside of the gas cannot see anyone inside. Anyone inside the gas will lose vision and will only see themselves and the gas area. If allies or enemies are under the effects of overtime damage blocking, their vision will not be affected by the gas.

Synergy: Works well with -

• Combined fire power is how you dominate the competition. Gas Artillery Strike and Cannon Barrage would cause major damage to the enemies inside the explosions. It's like a storm of death all around.

• To keep your foes sick inside the gas, you have to make sure they stay inside. Viktor's Gravity Field can pull all the targets within the center, making them suck up all the gas William has spreaded.

• William wants to stay alive but to make him even more effective, he has to get hurt. But to prevent him from dying in the process, Zillean can use Chronoshift to revive William to continue attacking his foes or just survive an ambush.

Struggles against -

• Dealing with poison mushrooms is like walking through a minefield. William can't escape if he keeps constantly stepping onto those mushrooms. Not only that, but his blind fire will make him really blind just by getting hit by Teemo's Blinding Dart.

• You can't sicken people with gas if they have been protected by golden stasis. Bard's Tempered Fate will not only stop William's enemies from breathing in smoke, but will give everyone restored vision until the effects wear off.

• Kayle's Intervention gives her allies the perfect escape maneuver for running out of the gas strike. Not only that, but William's constant firing will do nothing to the target and he will have no choice but to let the target get away or accept his fate if he is the target.

• Logically speaking, gas does not effect pure machines. Heimerdinger's Turrets can see through the smoke and will not take damage from it. They were not built like living beings.

Tips:

• Playing as William

Take as much damage as you can but make sure you balance it with returning fire. Use Gas Artillery Strike to initiate fights. But stand clear of the radius if you want to have vision of the outside fields. Do not run from fights if you are getting weakened. You can still fight your chaser as long as they cannot resist the damage you deal back.

• Playing against William

William gets stronger as his health gets weaker. Kill William as quickly as you can once he's down to 50% health. If you are within the smoke, run out of the smoke as quickly as possible. You want to keep sight of your enemies, especially William Try using crowd control to trap William and prevent him from fighting back. This is how people try to keep William under control if his disorder gets out of hand.

Lore: William was born to live his entire life as a soldier. His time of birth took place in a medical camp in the middle of a war zone. His birth parents died from an explosion which left him abandoned while the war was still taking place. He was soon found by a group of survivors who took him home as an adoptive child.

He lived with his adoptive parents back at home in Noxus. They were still at times of war and Noxus needed all the soldiers they can get. William was sent to training at the age of 6. Since he's still young, he was given training with more advanced weapons that were given from Zuan. Rifles, explosives, learning how to make use of artillery, particularly gas bombs which were eventually banned due to the dangers of spreading toxic gas to everyone, including fellow Noxian soldiers. Still, they've made use of William training to be one of the best soldiers ever to set foot in the battlefield.

William has proven to be one of the most talented soldiers ever trained. He had a very keen sense, excellent marksmanship, and became very tireless. The key to his skills is to continuously stress him out, making him think he's in danger where ever he goes. Once he was deployed into the battlefield, he has manage to take on an entire squad of Demacian soldiers all by himself without even a scratch. He was the most unstoppable soldier ever trained despite actually being fragile.

He's spent his entire life as a soldier. He never gets peace time. By the time he was the age of 50, the Institute of War started the League of Legends which led to wars being settled in a more controllable way. This forces William in retirement and he was sent to live in Ionia where he's finally going to have peace time.

William however was not just there to live in peace. William was acting very aggressive towards civilians during his retirement. When he was hospitalized for inspection, doctors have learned that William had Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Anything loud or sudden could alert William to attack anyone or anything he sees. They send him to Ionia to learn how to gain inner peace.

It was hopeless however. William's constant flashbacks of his entire life in War has prevented William from gaining even a second of inner peace. He was a danger to society and was sent to an Insane Asylum. His flashbacks of war are too powerful for even the Asylum to handle. So he was sent back to Noxus for execution.

The Noxian government had a better plan to keep people safe and this soldier alive. They wanted to demonstrate his skills even further so they sent him to the Institute of War where he joined the League of Legends where his rivals are soon given as much fear as he's experienced.

War can change a man forever. It's all up to the man to learn how to live with those changes.

Appearance: He looks like an old man since he's in his fifties. Give him a beard and mustache with scars on his face. He wears a worn out Noxian armor. You can see that his shoulder cape is torn apart.

He is equipped with a steam punk bolt-action rifle with a bayonet attached to the tip end of the barrel.

Skins:

• Hired Guns William

• Survivalist William

• Special Forces William

Relationship:

• Allies , , , , ,

• Enemies , , , ,

Quotes:

• Upon Selection "The War has just begun."

• Attacking "To Arms!" "Fire! Fire!" "You'll never take me alive!" "Eat led you glorified killers!" "Die, die, die!" "Suppression fire!"

• Movement "Marching." "To the battlefield." "Peace is a myth." "The War is calling me." "I don't have any parents." "Where are they? Is someone there?"

• Taunting "There's more to come. Send them to me! I'll burn everyone of you alive myself!"

• Joking "Huh? Is someone there? Who said that? Show yourself! *gasp My fly's untied! No one saw that? I hope not. Come out and fight!"

• Taunting , , ,and "Demacians! To arms!"

• Hit by traps "I'm standing in a mind field!" "Ambush!"

• Hit by rapid attacks "Machine Gun Fire!" "Take cover!"

• Within radius of AOE attacks "Incoming!" "Look out!" "Take cover!"

• Seeing 's Bouncing Bomb, or 's Sappling Toss "Grenade!" "Get clear!" "Enemy fire!"

• Using Frag Grenade "Throwing a frag!" "Frag out!" "Fire in the Hole!"

• Using Get out of Harms Way! "Out of the way!" "Take cover!" "Move it!"

• Using Bayonet Attack "Back off!" "Stay back!" "Out of my way!"

• Using Gas Artillery Strike "Smoke'em. . ." "Suck on this. . ." "Bring it in. . ."

Well, that's all I can do for now. Give me a feed back on this champion. I hope it's not too disturbing. Don't forget to check out my other champions down below:

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Davis, the Combat Medic http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/skin-champion-concepts/uG9r2uHE-davis-the-combat-medic

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