[Champion Concept] Leilani - a New Wave in Bilgewater
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Champion Type
Marksman, Skirmisher subclass
Champion Concept
A chain-blade wielding ranged carry, Leilani's versatile weapons allow her to be a variable threat depending on her distance to her enemy. She's got tools to both go in and strike from a distance, but minding your distance to the enemy is important to get the most out of her. Unlike others of her class, she has a good reason to want to get in the faces of some champions, even melee ones on occasion, but she also has to abuse her range at other times as her crowd control is unreliable and her mobility is good only for short bursts.
Short Lore
"I tried cynicism and it didn't work. I figured I'd go for optimism this time."
Leilani, not unlike others growing up in Bilgewater, was formally introduced to the cruelties of the world at a young age, when her parents were mugged in the streets and killed in front of her. And not unlike others in her position, she opted for vengeance, fashioning her father's fishing tools into instruments of murder and practicing with them daily. When her final revenge against her parents' killers left her empty inside, she turned to a life of bounty hunting, hoping that she could fix Bilgewater by cleaning it up, "one life at a time."
When even that failed to give her a spark of meaning in her life, she began to despair, but a chance encounter and a random act of kindness would show her the value of a positive outlook. After being taken to a special place and experiencing a moment of insight into the nature of the ocean and her place in the world, Leilani returned to Bilgewater to show what she had seen to as many as she could.
She would clean the city up, but in a very different way.
Gender: Female Birthplace: Bilgewater Residence: Bilgewater Occupation: Visionary Faction: Bilgewater
Friends: Fizz, Nami Enemies: Gangplank, Miss Fortune
Appearance
A dark-skinned short-haired woman with a lean figure and in her late twenties, dressed more for comfort and practicality in water-worn sea clothes, with a pair of (somewhat crude and mis-matching) blades in hand that are linked to chains that originated from her back, under her longcoat. The chains are tired to her elbow and wrists by bands, tight enough to keep them from slipping but not so tight that careful arm movements won't give her slack. Her movements while swinging the chain blades are fluid, slow, and wide, emulating ocean waves in a way. While fast running she runs with her arms directly behind her, her chainblades held tightly.
When her W is active she starts twirling her chainblades loosely by their chains in circles whether while moving, standing still, or attacking.
Statistics
Health: 539 (+ 85) Health regen: 5.72 (+ 0.6) Mana: 309.3 (+ 32) Mana regen: 7.42 (+ 0.6) Ranged: 500
Attack damage: 57.46 (+ 2.41) Attack speed: 0.638 (+ 3.5%) Armor: 23.78 (+ 3.5) Magic Resist: 30 (+ 0) Mov. Speed: 340
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Abilities
Innate: Hook Change
Leilani's basic attack properties change depending on her distance to her target:
500-251 - Outer Range: Leilani's basic attacks are treated as ranged attacks. 250-0: Inner Range: Leilani's basic attacks gain bonus attack speed, are treated as melee attacks, and do not utilize projectiles.
The border between the Outer Range and Inner Range is visible to Leilani's controller at all times.
The distance is calculated between Leilani and her target at the moment Leilani begins her attack animation.
Bonus attack speed: 25% + 50% of Leilani's Bonus attack speed.
Q: Line Toss
Range: 900 Speed: 1600 Cost: 60/70/80/90/100 mana Cooldown: 8 seconds
Active: Leilani throws one of her chainblades in the target direction and then pulls it back after it reaches its max distance, dealing physical damage to enemies it passes through once on the way out and then once again on the way back.
The damage dealt reduces by 17% per 100 units traveled after traveling an initial 150 units, down to a minimum of 40% damage. The damage dealt resets when the chainblade changes direction.
Physical damage: 15/35/55/75/95 + 60/70/80/90/100% AD
W: Reel In
Cost: 50 mana Cooldown: 20/18.5/17/15.5/14 seconds
Active: Leilani gains bonus movement speed that decays rapidly over 1.5 seconds. Additionally, for 3 seconds, she can move while performing basic attacks, but she cannot cancel her basic attack wind-up except by selecting a new target within range. Leilani's basic attacks on enemy champions extend the duration of this effect by 1 second on-hit, up to a maximum duration.
Max duration: 4/4.5/5/5.5/6 seconds Movement speed: 20/25/30/35/40%
E: Cleaning Wheel
Cost: 30/35/40/45/50 mana + 1 charge of Cleaning Wheel Static Cooldown: 1.5 seconds Range: 350 dash range, 325 damage radius
Passive: Leilani periodically stores a charge of Cleaning Wheel, up to a maximum amount.
Active: Leilani dashes to the target location while flourishing her blades, dealing physical damage to nearby enemies.
Cleaning Wheel cannot cross terrain.
Recharge Time: 20/18/16/14/12 seconds Maximum stack count: 2/2/3/3/4 stacks Physical Damage: 60/80/100/120/140 + 80% Bonus AD
R: Iron Net
Cost: 100 mana Cooldown: 120/100/80 seconds Minimum Cast Range: 425 Maximum Cast Range: 675 Damage Radius: 175
Active: Leilani faces the target location and readies a 90 degree cone in that direction. Within that cone, an inner line and outer line appear, the first 250 units before the target location and the second 250 units after it.
Then, after a brief delay, Leilani swings her chainblades in separate directions across the cone, each traveling quickly along the inner and outer line and dealing physical damage to enemies they cross, slowing them by 40% for 1 second, and knocking them a short distance toward the middle point between them. Enemies can only be damaged by Iron Net once during this step.
Afterward, she swings both chainblades together across the arc lying directly between the inner and outer line, dealing the same physical damage again to enemies they cross.
Leilani can move during this time, but cannot attack or cast other abilities.
Physical Damage: 150/225/300 + 100% Bonus AD
Recommended builds:
Summoner's Rift:
-Starting: Doran's Blade, Health Potion, Warding Totem
-Early: Serrated Dirk, Caufield's Warhammer, Boots of Speed
-Essential: Youmuu's Ghostblade, Blade of the Ruined King, Berserker's Greaves
-Offensive: Infinity Edge, Statikk Shiv, The Bloodthirster, Lord Dominik's Regards
-Situational: Black Cleaver, Mercurial Scimitar, Guardian Angel, Phantom Dancer
-Consumables: Elixir of Wrath, Control Ward, Farsight Alteration
Twisted Treeline:
-Starting: Doran's Blade, Boots of Speed, Health Potions
-Early: Serrated Dirk, Caufield's Warhammer
-Essential: Youmuu's Ghostblade, Blade of the Ruined King, Berserker's Greaves
-Offensive: Infinity Edge, Statikk Shiv, The Bloodthirster, Lord Dominik's Regards
-Situational: Black Cleaver, Mercurial Scimitar, Guardian Angel, Phantom Dancer
Consumables: Elixir of Wrath
*Howling Abyss *:
-Starting: Guardian's Hammer, Boots of Speed, Refillable Potion
-Essential: Youmuu's Ghostblade, Blade of the Ruined King, Berserker's Greaves
-Offensive: Infinity Edge, Statikk Shiv, The Bloodthirster, Lord Dominik's Regards
-Situational: Black Cleaver, Mercurial Scimitar, Guardian Angel, Phantom Dancer
-Consumables: Oracle's Extract, Elixir of Wrath
Long Lore:
Folk "wash ashore" in Bilgewater for all manner of reason. Some come looking for opportunity, others for a place to lay low and be left alone by authorities. Leilani's ancestors (at least on her father's side), came for the latter reason.
Leilani's family lived amongst a small community on a bear near the outskirts of the city, where they eked out a (somewhat) calm and (relatively) safe livelihood fishing, both for themselves and to keep the local crime lords from paying too much attention to them. Evidently, non-lethal food could be hard at times to come by in the city proper.
Though her parents urged her to keep her head down and live quietly, Leilani's natural energy wasn't something that was easily bridled. Playing on the shores and with her father's fishing gear entertained her as a young child for only so long, and climbing and exploring the natural cliffs held her attention for only a while after that. It was in urban exploration of the city that she found the excitement her young heart craved. Scaling and leaping between buildings, lurking out of sight to watch those who were trying to go unseen, and occasionally managing a little petty theft. It was all well-meaning fun to her.
But one day she went too far and earned the wrath of the head of the Salty Chains gang. It was a simple thing, she was doing her usual antics of cheating certain demise by being a little too interested in high criminal activity, but a moment of carelessness saw her finally caught and pursued by very angry and very armed men through the streets. Her heart raced and panic flooded her young mind as she used every trick in her arsenal to keep ahead of the grown men. Without thinking about it she led her pursuers back to her home, where she managed to give them the slip hiding under one of the small fishing boats.
Unable to find her, they contented themselves by calling in their ill backup and demanding her parents surrender her. When her parents refused to turn over their daughter, the thugs put them and their homes to the torch. Leilani sat, shivering and sobbing, under the boat, the golden light, smoke, and heat from the flames seeping into it. When finally she emerged, she was blackened by soot, and her attackers had gone home.
She was alone, in every sense of the word. Alone with nothing but the metal fishing gear that survived the fire, and her anger at what she and the thugs had done.
Left with nothing else, she fashioned the hooks, large and small, into two hardly-matching blades, and attached them by the chains once used to hold both net and anchor from the fishing ships. As she grew, she practiced both with her strange weapons, and with her city skulduggery that had once been a source of fun for her. Guided determinedly by purpose, she paused for little else.
And then, as if at random, she began making her moves.
The Salty Chains began turning up dead in the streets. The first few didn't know what hit them. The later ones often found their last moments signaled by the rattling of chains, followed by crude metal swinging in from above, below, behind, the sides, or multiple directions at once. The few who managed to see Leilani's attacks coming drew cutlasses and charged, only to find her just as lethal close up as she was from a distance.
Their leader wasn't even the last to fall, nor did Leilani save any special treatment for him. After all, there was no way that he would possibly remember the impertinent little girl that once ruined a crucial business deal by blundering in from nowhere and startling the person with whom he was meeting. In any case, it wasn't really about revenge for Leilani, it was about ensuring that no others would die the way her parents had. She'd correct her mistake by ensuring it would never happen again.
And the Salty Hooks weren't the last to die. Once she'd run out of Hooks to kill, Leilani turned to the bounty boards, marking off names one after another. Clad in a nondescript weather-beaten longcoat, under which she concealed her weapons, Leilani didn't stand out in the slightest during the day, and her victims rarely had any notice before she struck.
A person could be killed, but a shadow that cleaned up the city one head at a time was immortal.
When she was younger, Leilani was naive enough to believe that eventually she would kill enough criminals that the city would start to correct its behavior, but as she neared her thirtieth birthday, she stopped and observed the city, realizing only then that a decade of vigilante killing had done nothing to change it. People who didn't deserve it still died meaningless deaths every day.
Her life needed a new direction, and, fateful as it was, she found it that very night.
As she passed by the fishing lanes on her way back to her safehouse, she spied a strange watery creature caught in a net. Her initial thought was that it was strange that the beast went ignored, but it was only when it began talking and begging for help that she stopped and turned. Thinking nothing of it, she let fly with one of her blades, cutting the net and releasing the creature. It launched itself from the water, landed on the stone next to her, and gave what nod it could with its prodigious gut.
As she turned to leave, it continued speaking, asking what it could do to repay the debt it owed her. Leilani replied that she needed no reward, but the creature insisted, claiming that he could show her anything or take her anywhere. Rhetorically, she asked if the creature could show her the means to create a new Bilgewater, but he gave her a wide toothy grin and told her he could.
She hesitated for a moment, but upon deciding that she had little else to lose with the position she was in in her life, she agreed, and found herself pulled suddenly beneath the ocean. The darkness and ocean waves rushed by her frighteningly fast, and Leilani gasped, water filling her lungs. Just as she though she was about to drown, she found herself on her hands and knees on muddied sand. Once she trusted her legs enough to bear her weight, she stood up, and found herself looking at what was left of her home.
Confused and angry, she circled around, searching for the creature, but found herself alone. Alone again, in the same place.
Alone again, with the nothing but the calm waves and the reflection of the moon on the still ocean.
Looking back, she could never pin down how long she sat there, watching the waves as her anger ebbed away. The sky had turned pink when the creature surfaced on the distant horizon, asking if she'd cleared her head. She replied yes, and the beast said just one thing to her, "Child, a new Bilgewater is yours for the making!"
Criminals would still live in fear of the shadow striking them with blade and chain, but Leilani's life took a new course after that day. With a new vision before her eyes, she continued hunting crime in the city, not to cut down the perpetrators, but to gathers its victims. One by one she took those that were willing to follow her to her back to the secluded shoreline where she spent that night, and inspired many to join her in her cause.
She wasn't entirely sure what exactly it was that took hold in her heart during that time, but she came to believe that she could see Bilgewater united into a glorious city state that would one day rival the likes of Demacia and Noxus. Bilgewater could be cleaned, and it could become something more than a haven for those wanting to get lost. Leilani just needed the allies and the will to see it done.
And she had the will.
Quotes:
Selection "A new day is right around the corner."
Banned "Looks like my tide's going out for now."
Match Start "The way's long and broad, let's go together." "A good day to further the cause." "Bilgewater's future moves on." "New allies are just waiting to be discovered."
Attacking "Swing!" "A strike from Bilgewater!" "I've got a reason to keep moving." "I learned how to do this the hard way." "Bilgewater's much scarier than you" "The seas hardened me." "They're not as unwieldy as they look!" "Sorry, but I have to keep going." "You won't be the one to end my dream!" "I've got a lot left to live for!" "Another loser!" "Have a taste of what home's like." "Carelessness gets you killed back home!" "Which gang sent you after me?"
Attacking a melee champion within the Inner Range "On your terms, then!" "Then I'll just swing them!" "I can get them back faster this way!" "Thought I was harmless up close?" "Surprise, I'm versatile!" "I'm not helpless up close!" "I'm scary when cornered!" "Plenty of people in Bilgewater wanna get close too!" "I know how to use these babies up close!"
Attacking a ranged champion (other than Leilani herself) within the Inner Range "No time to aim!" "What good is that weapon up close?" "Gotcha now!" "Start running!" "Ranged weapons aren't much good up close!" "I'll just run you down!" "I'm at my best up close!"
Casting
Casting Line Toss "In and out!" "Toss and reel!" "Watch your back!" "Here, fishy!"
Casting Iron Net "Mind your feet!" "I'll trip you up!" "I'm going fishing!" "My chains go everywere!" "These is my fishing grounds!"
Damaging an enemy champion twice with Iron Net "Caught you!" "Hook, line, and sinker!" "Looks like dinner's on the hook!" "To the slaughter docks!" "That's a Bilgewater reception for you!" "Gutting time!"
Moving
Ally champion approaching while she's in battle and outnumbered by enemy champions "Praise the seas, help's here!" "Reinforcements, thank you!" "We can turn this around now!"
Taunting (Spins her chainblades around, unpredictably and randomly letting one go wide, as if to threaten enemies with suddenly hitting them) "I may have left me bounty hunting days behind me, but my edge is still sharp." "Bilgewater was all the preparation I needed to handle you." "Watch out, my blades can be anywhere." "I'm dangerous at all ranges!"
Taunting an ally Tahm Kench "Don't worry, I'll make sure you're left a place in Bilgewater." "I won't forget my part of the pact!" "Even if I'm gone, I'll make sure to tell them to leave a place for you."
Taunting an enemy Bilgewater Champion "We should be on the same side!" "Bilgewater could be so much more than it is right now!" "Nothing will ever change if we just kill each other forever!" "We don't need Reaver Kings and Queens anymore!" "I'll lead Bilgewater to a new age!" "You don't have to follow me, but I do ask that you stand aside!"
Taunting an enemy Demacian "The only thing I like about you Demacians is you don't bother us." "Go hide behind your white walls, there's monsters where I'm from." "Bilgewater doesn't need magic walls to keep out invaders."
Taunting an enemy Fizz "Stay still for two seconds, would you?" "I'll play later, Fizz!"
Taunting an enemy Gangplank "Now that you've been torn down, I can't let you claw your way back up!" "Her revenge has already cost too much, I won't let it be in vain!" "You're already a dead man, now it's up to me to make sure it sticks!" "Your useless to Bilgewater now!" "You've been dethroned, old king!"
Taunting an enemy Graves "So I heard you're a man with 'true grit'?" "Don't shoot that thing at me!"
Taunting an enemy Illaoi "I could handle your test, try me!" "I know exactly what I'm swimming for!" "I am paylangi!" "My blood means nothing, Bilgewater is my home!"
Taunting an enemy Ionian "If you wanna go meditate somewhere, don't let me stop you." "Imagine if our ancestors swapped islands to settle? Could you handle Bilgewater?"
Taunting an enemy Miss Fortune "You're going to turn out just like him in the end." "Don't forget what happens to those who hunt monsterfish, Fortune!" "Gangplank was a monster, but what makes you better?" "I won't let you turn Bilgewater inside-out anymore!" "I won't trade one tyrant for another, Fortune!"
Taunting an enemy Nami "Dad taught me all about handling fish." "Woah... wish I had those..."
Taunting an enemy Noxian "Stick to the mainland, Bilgewater's too much for you!" "Bilgewater won't ever bow to Noxus!" "You have to go foreign for your bloodshed? In Bilgewater we just kill each other!"
Taunting an enemy Rakan "You think the Ionians were cruel? You wouldn't shine in Bilgewater." "You're just an instrument for Xayah's murder!" "Flashy idiots like you die in Bilgewater."
Taunting an enemy Shadow Isles Champion "The Black Mist came early this year?" "Oh, the undead are back. Let's get this over with."
Taunting an enemy Twisted Fate "Deal 'em up, card master!" "I don't need any luck to handle you, Fate!"
Taunting an enemy Xayah "Bilgewater doesn't need any more chaos!" "Have whatever you like to call 'freedom', but don't drag the rest of us into it!" "It's like looking at a younger, dumber, more feathered me..." "I doubt you'll listen, but you can't kill your way to a solution to your problems. I tried."
Responding to an enemy taunt "Oh, cute, somebody thinks they're sharp!" "I heard that sort of thing a lot when I was bounty hunting, but they always shut up at the end." "Weak, try being more creative." "Aww, you're really hurting my feelings."
Responding to an enemy Gangplank's taunts "Fire? I know of fire." "Fire took your arm. It took my family."
Responding to an enemy Twisted Fate's taunts "Oh yeah? Well I'm holding all the cards, and they're all full houses! ...That's good, right?"
Responding to an enemy Xayah's taunts "I remember talking like that when I was younger. I wish I couldn't." "Give it a few years and you, too, might actually learn some decent banter." "Oh, an edgy teen thinking she's original and witty."
Joke
Killing an enemy champion "I'm sorry it had to be this way." "I'll remember your name." "My cause is too important to stop here." "Someday, I'll make amends."
Killing an enemy Bilgewater champion "You forced my hand..." "I gave you a chance..."
Killing an enemy Gangplank "And it's done." "This time, don't come back."
Killing an enemy Shadow Isles champion "That's how we deal with the undead back home." "I know all about killing you monsters."
Killing an enemy Xayah "I wonder if I should make something from all these feathers?" "To think I used to be that stupid." "Finally shut her up."
Killing an enemy champion that had recently taunted her "Anything else to say?" "And you were saying?" "Done talking yet?" "Any other smart words?"
Killing the same enemy champion twice in a row "Please stay down this time."
Killing the same enemy champion three times in a row "Please learn your lesson..."
Drawing First Blood "Let's put an end to this shortly." "All the quicker to end this fight."
"Scoring a doublekill* "Two reeled in."
"Scoring a triplekill* "Three reeled in."
Scoring a quadrakill "Four..." "Only one left..."
Scoring a pentakill "Too many eager to die." "Don't they understand yet?"
Scoring an ace "Finally that's over." "The killing can stop for a while."
Scoring an assist "Glad to be of help." "We did it together!" "Thanks for your help." "More for us all."
Destroying an enemy tower "Rip their structures down!" "The ocean wears down the stone!"
Destroying an enemy inhibitor "This is our chance!" "We're almost there, don't give up!"
Purchasing an item "Supplies for the cause!" "Better be sure to stash this somewhere." "The movement has to be well-stocked." "Store it away for later!"
Purchasing a Longsword "Can't ever get enough swords in Bilgewater." "I'll stick it on my weapon later."
Purchasing a Dagger "The old blades feel just a bit lighter." "I'll wedge it into my blades somewhere."
Purchasing a Brawler's Gloves "A little punch for my blades!" "Good thing I can stick the knuckles onto my weapons!"
Purchasing a Pickaxe "This... isn't the most wieldy of weapons..."
Purchasing a BFS "How do people swing these around so easily?
Purchasing a Cloak of Agility "My old one was a bit soaked."
Purchasing a Serrated Dirk "Look sharp!"
Purchasing a Zeal "I know a thing or two about 'zeal', heh."
Purchasing a Bilgewater Cutlass "A little something from back home!"
Purchasing a Caulfield's Warhammer "So now I'm dropping the hammer, got it."
Purchasing a Recurve Bow "Hmm, I don't think I can just put this one on the blades..."
Purchasing a Vampiric Scepter "Their pain, my gain."
Purchasing a Last Whisper "Let's hear theirs!"
Purchasing an Infinity Edge "Now THIS is a weapon!"
Purchasing an Essence Reaver "Feels kinda like magic."
Purchasing a Statikk Shiv "Some may call me shocking."
Purchasing a Rapid Firecannon "I went this long without a gun in Bilgewater?"
Purchasing Ruunan's Hurricane "Bilgewater diplomacy all around!"
Purchasing a Phantom Dancer "You don't last long in Bilgewater if you don't keep moving."
Purchasing The Bloodthirster "It'll drink deep before this is all done."
Purchasing a Blade of the Ruined King "Someday, Bilgewater will have a true king."
Purchasing a Youmuu's Ghostblade "I can feel it itching for a fight."
Purchasing a Last Whisper upgrade "Now I'll really hear their last whispers!"
Dying "My dream... won't..." "I was... ready for..." "They'll keep... fighting..."
Nearby ally champion dying "They gave their all for us..." "I won't let your death be in vain!" "You will be avenged, I promise!"
Respawning "My dream isn't dead yet!" "Ideals can never die!" "My cause is too great for death to stop me!" "I won't stop until Bilgewater is reborn!"
Recalling
Completing Recall
Pinging
Pinging retreat "Fall back!" "It's too dangerous!" "It's a trap!" "They're setting us up!"
Pinging danger "Watch out!" "I've got a bad feeling about this..." "Something's not right!" "Be careful everyone!"
Pinging on my way "I'm coming!" "Hang on!" "I'm on my way!" "I'm coming to help!"
Pinging help "Help me out!" "I'm in trouble!" "This isn't looking good!" "They've got me!"
Pinging missing in action "I lost sight of them!" "An enemy's missing!" "They've gone missing!" "I don't see the enemy!"
Pinging her own health when it's 20% or lower "I'm pretty beat up here..." "I can't take much more..." "I need some first aid..."
Pinging her own mana when it's 20% or lower "I'm low on mana!" "I don't have much energy left!" "I gotta conserve my abilities!"
Pinging Iron Net when it's off cooldown "My ultimate is ready!" "I've got my ultimate at the ready!" "I can ult at any time!"
Pinging Iron Net when it's on cooldown or not learned "I can't cast my ultimate!" "I don't have my ultimate!" "I can't ult!"
Pinging her own Flash when it's off cooldown "Flash is ready!"
Pinging her own Flash when it's on cooldown "My flash is down!"
Pinging her own Heal when it's off cooldown "Heal's up!"
Pinging her own Heal when it's on cooldown "I can't cast heal!"
Pinging her own Teleport when it's off cooldown "I can use Teleport whenever I need to!"
Pinging her own Heal when it's on cooldown "I can't Teleport right now!"
*Pinging an enemy's Exhaust within 10 seconds of them using it. "Exhaust was used!"
*Pinging an enemy's Flash within 10 seconds of them using it. "Enemy Flash is down!"
*Pinging an enemy's Heal within 10 seconds of them using it. "They just cast Heal!"
*Pinging an enemy's Ignite within 10 seconds of them using it. "The enemy used up Ignite!"
*Pinging an enemy's Teleport within 10 seconds of them using it. "The enemy just used Teleport!"
Revision History
4/11
Duration of Reel-in changed to 4 to 6 seconds from 5 to 8. Mana cost reduced by 10.
Reset mechanic on Cleaning Wheel removed, base damage reduced to 60 to 140 damage from 60 to 160.
4/2
Innate and Ultimate abilities adjusted. Bonus physical damage on-hit removed, Middle Range removed.
4/1
(Re)created.
