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Champion Idea: Anthophila The Void Swarm

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Anthophila The Void Swarm is a Sentient Hive from the void. It consists of its Queen and her Drones

AP Mid/Jungle

P: Hive Body Anthophila is made up of the individuals of the hive. Anthophila health is that of the hive 6 Warrior Drones 10% HP each 3 Worker Drones 10% Hp each 1 Queen 40% HP

When the queen is out of combat for 15s she can hatch a Drone and replenish one that was killed. Cooldown 20/15/10/5s at 1/6/11/16 (not affected by CDR) The Queen can only be attacked once all the Drones are killed.

Anthophila Drones only take 15% damage from AOE and Milti target attacks

As a Swarm Anthophila does not have unit collision.

Q: Warrior Swarm CD: 2s Stacks(Number of Current Warrior Drones) One of Anthophila Warrior Drones attacks dealing magic damage and poisons the target over 2s Each Warrior Drone takes time to return to the swarm after attacking. (Drones returning speed is affected by CDR)

W: Drone Swarm CD: 2s (Stacks = Number of Current Drones)(CD is lowered based on the number of Current Worker Drones) Passive: Anthophila's drones are always on guard attacking anything that gets too close. Melee Aura dealing magic damage per/s to all around it. Active: area increases by 100% for 3s and poisons those damaged for 4s dealing % current HP damage

E: Swarm Rush Anthophila swarm gains a burst of energy and can rushes forward twice. This can pass over walls and blocking terrain.

R: Enrage the Hive When Anthophila takes X damage from champions or when a Drone is killed the swarm gets Enraged (Like Gnar's ult it becomes available) gaining 20% movement speed and lowers P, Q,W,E CDs by 20% for 5s

7 Comments

dogehkiin1 votes

need more details

5050BS1 votes

Well I dont want to put numbers to powers, that would be for riot to use their point system.

I guess to describe it more is that Anthophila is made up of 5 pets, each with a % of Anthophila max HPs (and they are Anthophila's HPs)

So When you attack with Q: Warrior Drones, it sends out one of the pets. The enemy can attack the pet and it will do damage to Anthophila. You can kill the Drone and now it will have one less Q that can be used to attack but a new Drone will be hatched if the enemy does not keep attacking Anthophila.

If all Warrior Drones are killed then Anthophila's Q is disabled until it hatches a new one.

If you leave Anthophila alone it will heal up by hatching new Drones which are 10% of Anthophila's HP each. its kind of like Kled in that if you dont get rid of skaarl, you cant damage Kled and then when he gets Skaarl back he heals up.

InfamousDagger1 votes

The ult makes sense and would be good but I think its the boring part in the kit imo, regardless Anthophila is a champion I'd like to see [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Ðeath XIII1 votes

As is, the kit is very boring. Q is a targeted spell, W is a Sunfire Cape, E is purely a dash, and R just speeds those cool downs up.

You have an interesting idea with the passive but you failed to explore it. You have to look at what you want the passive to do and try to build the character around that. Some things I don't think you considered;

  1. Since Warrior/Worker drones have so little individual HP, heals are largely ineffective.
  2. Having no way to generate drones in combat means you can't regain HP in combat. Kled at least can do that.
  3. She only has her escape at 40% HP
  4. How does a void swarm function differently from Malz Voidlings thematically?
  5. How do Worker drones factor into this? They aren't "workers" if they only defend.
5050BS1 votes

True on most parts. I thought of this in about 20 minutes after thinking it would be cool to have a champ whos HP is spread out over a swarm. Something we have not seen in the game.

Few things on your comments.

  1. yes heals dont really work on it, that was why I put the passive where the Queen hatches new Drones. Now heals would be good if the Queen has taken damage but didnt get killed. You could be in a state where you have 6 Drones (100% hps) and a Queen at 20% hps

  2. The Queen is out of combat until you can damage her (where all Drones are dead) So even when you are fighting the Swarm it is hatching new Drones. Slow at early levels and faster at later levels. The idea was yes Drones can be killed maybe even fast but until you kill them all the champ is spawning new ones (every 5s at lvl 16, every 4s if the Hive is Enraged) so its like healing 10% of your max HPs every time the Passive ticks. I

  3. Not sure what you are getting at with this. What escape?

  4. The Difference is that they are the champ so damaging a Drone is the same as damaging the champ.

  5. Ya I was trying to separate out the abilities from each other but they could be the same. 6 Drones and the Q and W use a Drone to activate and then that Drone is on CD. So you have 6 Drones, you Attack with Q and that Drone is sent out, now you have 5 Drones until that Q Drone returns (a 5-10s). The CD on Q and W are low like 2s but if you use all your Drones fast you are left with nothing until they return to the swarm. They are also vulnerable to attack because they are not with the Swarm.

Ðeath XIII1 votes

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True on most parts. I thought of this in about 20 minutes after thinking it would be cool to have a champ whos HP is spread out over a swarm. Something we have not seen in the game.

Few things on your comments.

  1. yes heals dont really work on it, that was why I put the passive where the Queen hatches new Drones. Now heals would be good if the Queen has taken damage but didnt get killed. You could be in a state where you have 6 Drones (100% hps) and a Queen at 20% hps

Since it functions similar to Kleds passive, I can't imagine 60% being a big chunk of health, since it would be more Queen->20%+60% Drones for 80% Max HP.

  1. The Queen is out of combat until you can damage her (where all Drones are dead) So even when you are fighting the Swarm it is hatching new Drones. Slow at early levels and faster at later levels. The idea was yes Drones can be killed maybe even fast but until you kill them all the champ is spawning new ones (every 5s at lvl 16, every 4s if the Hive is Enraged) so its like healing 10% of your max HPs every time the Passive ticks.

You need to change it so it says that instead of Out of Combat. Out of Combat is a specific thing and it's counterintuitive to use that term.

So basically your new problem is that she is passively too tanky with that much health regen and at the same time too squishy because she turns off once the drones die. If she's fighting a tank she regens faster than a Warmogs and if it's against an ADC they clear the drones with Shiv almost instantly leaving the Queen to do nothing :/ having a passive to regain drones is fine, but for in-combat replacements she needs to do something.

  1. Not sure what you are getting at with this. What escape?

How does q or w function without drones? If all the drones are dead, leaving the Queen, she can only use her dash ability on E to escape.

  1. The Difference is that they are the champ so damaging a Drone is the same as damaging the champ.

I was talking about thematically. Kog'Maw and Rek'sai are both void creatures but different thematically. How are drones going to differ from a Voidlings swarm?

  1. Ya I was trying to separate out the abilities from each other but they could be the same. 6 Drones and the Q and W use a Drone to activate and then that Drone is on CD. So you have 6 Drones, you Attack with Q and that Drone is sent out, now you have 5 Drones until that Q Drone returns (a 5-10s). The CD on Q and W are low like 2s but if you use all your Drones fast you are left with nothing until they return to the swarm. They are also vulnerable to attack because they are not with the Swarm.

So if theoritically she used all the drones the Queen is vulnerable?

5050BS1 votes

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Since it functions similar to Kleds passive, I can't imagine 60% being a big chunk of health, since it would be more Queen->20%+60% Drones for 80% Max HP.

The example was that say you fight your laner. They kill all of your drones and attack the Queen but only get her to 20%. You dont leave lane and hatch new Drones. This is where the Queen is at 20% HPs and you have full 6 Drones.

You need to change it so it says that instead of Out of Combat. Out of Combat is a specific thing and it's counterintuitive to use that term.

Noted

So basically your new problem is that she is passively too tanky with that much health regen and at the same time too squishy because she turns off once the drones die. If she's fighting a tank she regens faster than a Warmogs and if it's against an ADC they clear the drones with Shiv almost instantly leaving the Queen to do nothing :/ having a passive to regain drones is fine, but for in-combat replacements she needs to do something.

Well yes and no. She does regen fast but also the Drone can be killed (tho Shiv would only do 15% damage to the Drones as it is Multi-target attack)

How does q or w function without drones? If all the drones are dead, leaving the Queen, she can only use her dash ability on E to escape.

I see what you mean tho with once she is out of Drones she has nothing to do but run. Not sure if that is really a bad thing. There are a lot of champs that Run when losing and a lot that have nothing to do when things are on CD.

I was talking about thematically. Kog'Maw and Rek'sai are both void creatures but different thematically. How are drones going to differ from a Voidlings swarm?

Was seeing them as Flying Bug like things, Bigger in size by a bit.

So if theoritically she used all the drones the Queen is vulnerable?

Yes you have to kill all the Drones to damage the Queen.

It could even be that the Queen is Invisible until all the drones are dead, then she becomes visible to other players.

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