[Champion suggestion] Marinda, the Blade of Noxus

Hello and thanks for checking out Marinda, the Blade of Noxus.

Role: Marinda is a duelist who excels in bullying her lane and in 1 v 1s and is a great splitpusher. In teamfights, she has a harder time, but if she did well in lane, she should be able to dive in the backline after the engage and cause a lot of trouble in the enemy backline.

Skills:

Ambidextrous (Passive): Marinda can make both ranged and melee attacks at any given time. If his target is within 125 units, she will make a melee attack, otherwise, if the target is within 450 units, she makes a ranged attack. Whenever Marinda makes a melee attack, she enters melee stance. While in melee stance, she gains 1 armor and 1.25 magic resistance per level and 10 movement speed. After making a ranged attack, she enters ranged stance, losing the benefits.

Clarifications:

• Ranged attacks are made with throwing daggers, melee attacks with a shortsword.

Vicious Strike (Q): Marinda throws her dagger to target enemy, slowing it and dealing physical damage. If the target is within 125 units, the attack slows more and deals additional physical damage. Vicious Strike applies a stack of Rend.

Hit and Run (W): Passive: Marinda’s auto attacks and Vicious Strike apply stacks of Rend to its target. The stacks are consumed if Marinda hits the target with an auto attack or Vicious Strike in the opposite stance. For every stack consumed, the target takes additional physical damage. Stacks last for 5 seconds. Any unit cannot have more than 3 stacks of Rend. Active: Marinda gains movement speed for a short duration. If she consumes stacks of Rend before the end of the duration, the duration is reset.

Fade (E): Marinda fades for a few seconds, ignoring unit collision and granting her crowd control reduction. Consuming stacks of Rend on enemy champions reduces the cooldown of Fade by 1 second.

Go for the Throat (R): Passive: After two consecutive auto attacks, Marinda's next basic attack has an additional effect. If she makes a melee attack, the attack pierces through her first target, dealing damage in a 250-units line, applying on-hit effects against all targets hit. If she makes a ranged attack, she gains 10% attack speed, stacking up to 2/3/4 times. Active: Marinda throws a dagger in a line, marking the first enemy champion hit. While the target is marked, Marinda can reactivate the ability to dash to the target, followed by a devastating attack with her sword, which deals damage based on the target's missing health.

Story: Marinda was born as the 4th child and only daughter of a high Noxian general. He loved his sons deeply and saw to it that they learned to handle a sword like their father could. And Marinda, she was just a girl. Girls weren't supposed to fight. But Marinda got her father's genes just as much as her three brothers had and wanted to learn how to fight as well. However, her father forbade this. So when her father was out working and her brothers out training, she disguised herself as a boy and attended fighting classes whenever she could. Although she wasn't able to attend that many classes, she quickly became one of the most talented fighters in all of Noxus. One day, her father visited the fighting school to look for new potential war commanders. "Bring me your most potent fighters", he ordered the instructor. Knowing the man would get angry if he didn't bring him his sons, he told the three boys to step forward. Looking at his three sons, his eyes filled with pride. "I am the best in all of Noxus", Marinda said, still disguised. Her father laughed. "Really? Did you really think you could beat MY sons?!" Marinda responded: "What part of 'all of Noxus' did you not understand? I could beat even you, father." and she removed her disguise. Everyone was stunned. "What is it gonna be father, girls can't fight, isn't it? What are you waiting for?", she taunted him. Her father had no choice but accept the duel, to prevent public humiliation, by his own daughter, a woman, nonetheless. The duel started, Marinda with a shortsword and a dagger, her father with his beloved broadsword, outranging his daughter. But Marinda was much quicker and forced her father to his knees in no-time. After being wounded for the third time, he begged for mercy, as his daughter was about to end his life. Marinda got what she wanted and went home, leaving everyone breathless. Even though she had beat her father, she would never get his respect. Now Noxus knew who she was, but she didn't care for war. She wanted to become the best duelist in Runeterra. She had heard rumors of an unbeaten Demacian duelist who had joined the Institute of War. Her next goal was set. She packed her things and left to become a Champion and to fight on the Fields of Justice. "Honor isn't gained through the blood of your army's men. Honor is gained from drawing blood with your own sword." -Marinda, the Blade of Noxus

Appearance: The image added to this discussion gets very close to what I imagined she would look like, just a bit more noxus-like (read: angry). The image is drawn by fantasy artist Larry Elmore.

Final notes: If you liked my champion and/or have any feedback, feel free to comment. In case you're interested in my other creations, they're on the boards as well: Morgius, the Spirit of the Betrayed Madred, the Ruined King