As a community, let's bring Kadarin to life to honor Sam :)

Hey guys, Way back in the day the Riot team rewarded total bisquit with the ability to collab on a champion, being the man that he is Totalbisquit donated this reward to the Make a Wish foundation where it landed with a young man with C.F.

Now the concept of this champion was a heat system based marksman, who in his story was a gladiator, downed by draven, and rebuilt as a cybernetic marksman,

The info on him is a bit sparse but since that information was released, and in the time since kadarin was initially designed we have seen many MMO's put in varying resource systems that happen to function with a similar effect to the heat system.

Before I post my concept please understand that this isn't my goal here, My goal is to just put forth a starter idea, and to have a total community collaboration with creating this, hopefully getting some riot looks. I fully would love to see this be a high skill cap champion with a unique identity, as such I've taken personal liberties but obviously do not want this to my champion because this is Sam's Champion

Below is my current first draft with no outside input, everything could be disected So I have a vision for him based on what I've seen in league, WoW, HotS, DnD, and Dota as some points of mechanical inspiration, along with some injection from being a historian and my own personal childhood 'superhero' creation "Igneus". Being that I main multiform champs in all of these games (Troll warlord/jayce/greymane/berserker) or switch hit champions in board games (DnD rangers/Pathfinder magus/ etc) this will be the style that I will start with due to my inherent comfortability with them.

So vision: Kadarin was spoken to be as a Gladiator, In my mind when first reading this I had envisioned the iconic style of the Ancient Roman Gladiatorsalongside a hextech-cyberpunk infused scifi atlantis theme as his combat style but at the same time, assuming the cyber-punk marksmanship style is his trademark, I'm using a bit of combat inspiration from Tracer and of course Jayce So here are a few things I have in mind

1. Two fighting styles to reflect his old identity and his new Identity
2. While in melee form he will use a Spear or Trident with a net
3. While in ranged form he will have the ability to kite and dodge easier. his Melee weapon will somehow break apart into a ranged weapon, such as a laser shooting trident
4. I'm thinking of changing his name a little, Such as Kadarin Samson, or just Sam Bisquit as his name in lore, jokes, 0and emotes to honor his designer and Totalbisquit
5. I think him being rebuilt is a pretty big deal, so lore rewriting should include him recovering and becoming stronger
6. Las but not least, He should have a joke or ability that says "Make a Wish"

In order to balance these two forms out,

1. In ranged form he will have a portion defensive stats replaced by damage or mobility
2. in Melee form he will gain a dodge chance (As the old dodge mechanic) based on his attack speed
3. His ranged form will be able to shoot rapidly while reloading, he will have multiple dashes in his ranged form.
4. His kit will be centered around a middle-of-the road build in between a bruiser and an adc, with items such as Black Cleaver, Death's Dance, and Phantom Dancer
5. His Melee form will have an Engage ability which applies Crown control, and an execute
6. His Ranged capacity will be based around sustaining a consistent amount of damage, taking down a tank and an ad carry in similar timeframes, while making up the difference in burst through mobility.
7. His ranged and melee forms will have separate cooldowns but will function off of an overheat mechanic

Ok I'm going to go brainstorm on some kits, personas, and motivations. I'd love some input, maybe some other kits, even criticism.