Champion Concept “Isobu”

Lacidarmi··1 votes·1,720 views

Alright here me out, Riots most popular champions are from Ionia without a shred of doubt. I’d like to propose a Sumo wrestling champion. Being that Ionia is vey heavily influenced from Asian culture. Why hasn’t there been a champion with one of Japan’s most popular sporting events; Sumo. To me I see it as a missed opportunity. Imagine we get a top lane juggernaut champion that no matter how big you think you are this guy will stop you in your tracks.

Abilities:

Passive: Yokuzuna After every kill Isobu gains a stacking armor and magic resist buff (passive stacks infinitely)

Q: “Harite” Isobu throws a flurry of palms at his opponent while making a short dash forward (damage is based opponents max health %)

W: “Uwate-Nage” Isobu becomes stationary(cannot be cc’d) and flips the first champion that hits him in his stance stunning them once they land. If Isobu uses Smelling salts after his opponent is stunned he does true damage but also the opponent is freed from the cc(stun duration 1.5 sec)

E: Soto-Gake isobu sweeps the opponents leg making them unable to use any movement ability(duration 1.25 sec)

R: “Shiko Isobu” Isobu raises his leg and stomps the ground once causing all enemies with in a 1050 range to get knocked up (knock up duration 1.5 sec)

This is my first every champion suggestion I’ve ever made I don’t have numbers thought out it’s just a thought I had and a champion concept of love to see put into the game riot comes up with crazy cool designs for their Ionian champs but it was always odd that they didn’t have a sumo champion in the game yet. Idk tell me what you think guys

6 Comments

Mr Voidling2 votes

Ionia has the most champs, so it only makes sense for most of the popular ones to be from there. But that also makes it very full, so adding more champs can get kind of bland. And Gragas is known as the fat man. Not sure how the concept would do. Or which champ it would be good to play against. I guess figure out who he can counter and who can counter him. Like, why he'd get picked or not.

Lacidarmi1 votes

He’s not a sumo that’s the point. All he is is a drunk guy

Mr Voidling1 votes

Ahem, drunk fat guy, there is a difference... And he has good CC paired with zoning, This champ has... basically 1 form of hard cc? As his W wouldn't make sense to flip attacks from projectiles, only melee. And Sumo is a sport, not practical for actual fighting, so unless Riot wants the League Universe to have a Sport like that Idk if it'd ever happen mostly due to Lore reasons.

ChaosReyn1 votes

Sumo is technically a martial art. But in terms of practicality for the League universe, if there was a group of people likely to use sumo, it'd probably be one of the main warring nations...probably Noxus. Sumo is very much about being unmovable, and about overpowering your opponent, and that flavor screams Noxian. Ionia, despite being heavily influenced by Japanese art styles and such, doesn't really fit that bill.

Now...as for the actual concept, couple things:

-Passive in its current form is too weak if it's just for champions. However, if you meant it to give stacks as you farm like some other champions have, then it'll be far too strong. Either way, passive, "free" defensive stats that infinitely stack are something riot typically tries to avoid. It's like with Nasus or Veigar , but worse, as instead of being able to focus them down with team effort, this makes even a 1v5 into a wet noodle fight later in the game since he wont die, and he probably wont have the damage to kill you either. Or, in a different scenario, it could work like Ekko , but in reverse. Remember they had to massively change Ekko because he could build basically straight tank and 1v5 you at one point. This guy would be the reverse of that, where he could build straight damage and still have far too much defense from this passive. || Easy fix: Give him a larger bonus, for a limited window of time. i.e. "When you get a takedown, gain 50% bonus armor and MR for the next 5s" or "Gain 50% bonus Armor and MR, but lose the bonus 5s after taking damage from an enemy champion (refreshes when you leave combat)" Something like that still gives you plenty of stats, it'll start off weaker at the start to allow people to try and shut you down early, but will scale well over the course of the same as you get loads of armor/MR, and it wont break the game by going infinite and giving you godmode.

-With your W, I agree with Voidling. How are you going to flip a ranged champion when they hit you with a projectile? And while I'm on this, where are you getting Smelling Salts? You didn't even put them in your kit. || Easy fix: "For 2s, root yourself, take heavily reduced damage (say...40/45/50/55/60%?), and give yourself immunity to other cc effects. Your basic attacks while rooted stun enemies for 1s, but cant stun the same enemy more than once every 3s. If Leg Sweep hits an enemy champion during this channel, it's cooldown resets." Strong...sturdy...solid. and can be used with your other abilities. In combination with your E, this makes it really annoying for people trying to get past you to your backline, cause it can stop Yas dashing, yi's alpha, etc from running past you for your marksman's sweet arse.

-Put just a little delay on your ult: making it an immediate effect for 1050 units is a bit op.

Mr Voidling1 votes

Just imagine the Yasuo fan boys with that R... Given, I have a universal R that knocks up :P But that's a 3s channel you can interrupt.

P.S. Why isn't it "AN universe"? Wtf English? Or is it??? I'm so confused...

NotAPurpleFrog1 votes

NO MORE GOD DAMN TRUE DAMAGE, ESPECIALLY ON A TANK,

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