[CHAMPION CONCEPT] Enoch "Gaeth" Nocella, Insane Knowledge's Shadow
LORE
Also known simply as Gaeth now, Enoch Nocella was summoner in the Institute of War who studied the connection between several dimensions, being extremely knowledgeable of the Void, Glade, and several other dimensions locked away from mere human eyes. Enoch was known for being extremely private about his work and life, making him a huge loner and unacknowledged person. As time slipped by, it seemed as though he was always locked away in the various libraries in the Institute, connecting the dots between dimensions. After many years, people simply forgot about him, carrying on their normal daily routine and trying to stay away from him as much as they could due to his secretive and cryptic nature. Then one day, he vanished.
Years went on without anyone caring where he had went since he had not contributed to the progress of summoning and peace at all. However, one day, the same day Fiddlesticks was summoned into this world by Istvaan, several books in the libraries suddenly vanished without a trace and a shadow seemed to have found it's way into the library. After several investigations by summoners, it became apparent that the books were being stolen, but not by any simple thief, but a creature of not this world. After several months of failed investigations, the institute summoned Kayle to help find their demon.
After a week of planning and training, the mystery was uncovered of what was taking the books of great knowledge. However, how it went down was not as planned, despite the extensive training. You couldn't blame them either, the entity was nothing any of them had seen before. A black, glob-like creature that did not seem to have any skeleton or organs was what they found, able to hide itself in even the smallest of cracks in the wall. When they found it, they found inanimate objects weren't the only things it could hide in. Flinging itself into one of the trainees sent to assist Kayle, it took over the beings body, hiding from the others. However, no one can hide from someone of Kayle's stature, and eventually, they realized what had happened. After a long chase and many cuts and bruises later, the creature was contained in prison of magic.
It remained imprisoned for many weeks until they eventually were able find out what it was. A doorway to a dimension simply known as Mal was accidently opened when Nocella and Istvaan's studies collided in the atmosphere, causing this creature to escape into this world. In an attempt to close the doorway, Necella unintentionally bonded with the creature, gaining it's body but keeping his mind, pushing the mind of the creature out. He had hided from his colleges in fear of being exiled from this world using his own studies against him. However, after many years, he realized what power he had gained and slowly began to realize what he could do. Opening dimensional portals at whim, the ability to hide anywhere, and the ability to possess human beings into doing what he said. He had finally found his perfect form, but he knew others would disapprove. He continued his research until Kayle showed up and was able to finally prison him.
Once they found out the full story, which was hard since Nocella could not speak normally anymore, they punished his actions by forcing him to fight in the Fields of Justice. To his own disliking, he had to accept his punishment. Now known as one of the creepiest members of the league of Legends, he fights for himself with a red mask attached to him, cursing him so that he cannot slip out of the fields. However, there is still a bit of the monster left inside the body, occasionally forcing thoughts into Nocella's mind to strain his sanity. It is only a matter of time before he slips.
STATS AND KIT/ABILITIES
Gaeth Health- 300 (+65 per level) Health Regen- 2.3 (+0.45 per level) Mana- 225 (+50 per level) Mana Regen- 6.7 (+0.75 per level) Armor- 15 (+3 per level) Magic Resist- 30 (+0 per level) Movement Speed- 355 Attack Damage- 53 (+3 per level) Attack Speed- 0.6655 (+3.33% per level) Attack Range- 175 (Melee)
Passive- Forced Possessing Innate: Gaeth ignores unit collision, but once he moves through an allied unit, he enters their body, causing him to take 35% of the damage dealt to the unit, shielding the unit from a third of the absorbed damage. Besides that, he is completely immune to damage while inside the unit, excluding damage over time damage that is already applied to him. It takes him 0.25 seconds to enter a body and he can leave the body at any time by clicking to move, gaining 15/20/25% movement speed for 0.5/0.75/1 second upon leaving a body and being unable to possess another unit for 4 seconds. While inside a unit, he can cast spells freely and his basic attack range is increased to equal the possessed unit's range, plus 10 extra range. However, his basic attacks deal 50% damage and travel 15% slower than the unit's basic attacks. If the unit is a minion, while he cannot directly control it, the minion will prioritize the enemy unit Gaeth is damaging, going for champions over other units. The Speed Boost levels up at levels 6 and 11.
Ability 1- Mal Portal Active: After a 1 second delay, Gaeth opens a portal to Mal directly in front of him, shooting a burst of energy out of it in the direction he is facing for 1 second, dealing 7/11/15/19/23 (+5% bonus AD) true damage every 0.1 seconds. While being hit by the beam, enemies are silenced. Enemy units who touch the laser are rooted for 0.25 seconds. After the 1 second has ended, the portal remains for 2 seconds, allowing Gaeth to enter it. If he passes through the portal, he becomes invisible for up to 2/2.25/2.5/2.75/3 seconds. If he is inside a minion when he passes through the portal, the minion itself and Gaeth become invisible and transforms into a Mal creature, increasing all of it's stats by 5/7.5/10/12.5/15% for as long as it lives. If he inside a champion, when he goes through the portal, he becomes invisible so the enemy does not know he is inside the champion. However the invisible duration is halved while inside a unit. Mal Portal also deals 5/8/11/14/17 (+2.5% bonus AD) physical damage while inside a unit, being reduced and being converted to physical damage. Cost: 80/85/90/95/100 mana Cool Down: 18/16.5/15/13.5/12 sec. Range: 600
Ability 2- Shadow Containment Active: Gaeth forms into a giant black ball and bounces in the target direction, consuming enemies he hits sand carrying them with him. Once the bounce ends, Gaeth transforms back into his normal form, dealing 55/95/135/175/215 (+60% bonus AD) physical damage to every enemy unit he carried with him. If Gaeth is inside a unit during this time, he exits the unit, becoming able to take full damage, but returns back inside the unit after the bounce is complete. Cost: 85 mana Cool Down: 19/18/17/16/15 sec. Range: 400 Dash Speed: 600
Ability 3- Dark Dance Active: Gaeth expands his body, enlarging his hitbox to fit the area it deals damage in, dealing 30/55/80/105/130 (+35% bonus AD) physical damage per second for 2 seconds around him. At the end of this, all enemy units in the affected area around Gaeth are cursed, causing them to be unable to regenerate their casting resource and applying Grievous Wounds to them for 1/1.25/1.5/1.75/2 seconds. While inside a unit, the damage is reduced to 25/45/65/85/105 (+25% bonus AD) physical damage. Cost: 55/60/65/70/75 mana Cool Down: 11/10.5/10/9.5/9 sec. Range: 350
Ultimate- Mal Horror Active: Gaeth dashes to the target enemy champion, dealing 200/275/350 (+60% bonus AD) physical damage and remaining inside their body for 0.75 seconds, being untargetable. During that short time, he can recast this ability to dash into another enemy champion, dealing 10% reduced damage from the last each time he does this. Each enemy champion can only be affected by this each cast. While dashing during this, Gaeth is vulnerable and isn't untargetable. Stuns, roots, suppresses, silences, polymorphs, fears, taunts, knockups, and knockbacks can interrupt this spell while he is dashing, causing the ability to immediately stop and go on cool down. While dashing in between units, Gaeth can use Dark Dance, but the damage is only active while he is outside of a unit. Besides Dark Dance, he cannot basic attack or use any spells during Mal Horror. Cost: 100/125/150 mana Cool Down: 95/85/75 sec. Range: 500 Dash Speed: 50/75/100 + Current Movement Speed
COMBOS
Combo 1. Gaeth can very effectively move enemy units to where he wants them to be. Using Mal Portal, he can root and silence the enemy and then become invisible giving him a bit of time to attempt to move behind the enemy, where he can use Shadow Containment to push them back into his domain and then follow up with a Dark Dance to deal damage to them and prevent them from attempting to heal themselves from the encounter.
Combo 2. Gaeth can use Mal Horror to throw himself into the enemy team where he can then use Dark Dance while dashing to cause hard to avoid damage and put a curse on majority of the enemy team. Once he is finished with this, he can use Shadow Containment to push the enemy team back into his own team and then follow up with a Mal Portal to keep them there for an extra second. He can then use the invisibility from the portal to make an escape if he was damaged to near fatality during this.
Combo 3. During the laning phase, the enemy will often try and target the unit Gaeth is in since, since it will usually be a minion, they will not only damage him, but also gain farm from this. To attempt to prevent this, Gaeth can use either Dark Dance or Mal Portal followed with a Shadow Containment to punish them for trying to do so and then knock them away from his to push them away from him. If they still come back to him after the full combo, Gaeth can make a quick escape by using a Mal Portal to gain invisibility and using the short speed boost from exiting a unit to get away from his pursuer.
Combo 4. A simple combo for Gaeth is to simply use Mal Portal followed by a Dark Dance to damage the enemy unit and then slip into invisibility to get away from when the enemy becomes fully active again.
INSPIRATION FOR GAETH
The way I attempted to describe how is and the move Dark Dance is largely inspired by Arakune in BlazBlue http://www.blazbluegame.com/characters.php?c=8
The concept of how he was summoned was inspired by Fiddlesticks in League of Legends, even as far as putting him as part of the lore http://gameinfo.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/game-info/champions/fiddlesticks/
While this character does not have much to do with the concept of Gaeth, I began to think about making a champion like Gaeth when I was shown this card from Yugioh http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Thousand-Eyes_Restrict
THANK YOU FOR THOSE WHO TOOK THE TIME TO READ MY IDEA! IF YOU THINK SOMETHING IS OVERPOWERED/UNDERPOWERED OR SOMETHING ABOUT THE LORE COULD BE BETTER, FEEL FREE TO SAY SO BELOW, BUT I WILL IGNORE NEGATIVE COMMENTS.
Edits: 08/17/14 1:33 PM EST- Added dash speeds for Shadow Containment and Mal Horror as well as shortening the range on Mal Portal slightly. Added in a delay to him entering an allied body for Forced Possessing (0.25 seconds). Decreased the early numbers on Mal Portal and increased the later numbers for the damage component.
08/17/14 3:20 PM- Added further information and clarity. Decreased base health to 365 from 375 and reduced health per level to 65 from 70. Reduced his health per level to 0.45 from 0.6. Clarified it so that he can only use Dark Dance during Mal Horror. Decreased the root duration on Mal Portal so it only affects units for 0.25 seconds from whenever they were in the laser, decreased the invisibility duration to 0.75/1/1.25/1.5/1.75 seconds from 2/2.25/2.5/2.75/3 seconds, and increased the delay. Reduced the range on Shadow Containment slightly, increased the mana cost to 85 from 75, and decreased the ratio on it to 60% bonus AD from 70% bonus AD. Increased the damage he takes while inside a unit to 35% from 20%, made it to where he only shields them from a third of the damage, caused his basic attacks while inside the unit to only deal 50% damage and travel 15% slower, reduced the speed boost to 15/20/25% from 20/25/30%, and made it to where Mal Portal and Dark Dance deal reduced damage while inside a unit. Slightly increased the mana cost of Dark Dance. Increased the mana cost on Mal Horror to 100/125/150 from 100 at all ranks and decreased the damage to 200/250/300 (+55% bonus AD) from 200/275/350 (+60% bonus AD) as well as slightly decreasing the range and dash speed.
