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Champion concept art - Feng , the blade dancer

tonychopper23·9/22/2014, 8:04:41 PM·15 votes·4,641 views

http://tonychopper23.deviantart.com/art/Feng-the-blade-dancer-LoL-fan-ceoncept-art-483994233

Hello everyone, my name is Tony.

I'm in the process of preparing for the Riot internship application. I will be designing a bunch of original characters for LoL. I thought who else could give me better feedback than Leaguers? haha so here I am, looking to get critiques on my work.

The first piece I have so far is Feng (Temporary name), the blade dancer.

Still WIP. Any name suggestion/design suggestion is welcome!

I intend for her to be a melee fighter. She has blades on her sleeves as her primary weapon. Feng has mastered the art of Blade Dance. It is a beautiful dance form itself. In the ancient days, Blade Dance were used for assassination. As the dancers would hide blades in their sleeves, and when they are performing for the emperor, that's when the assassination would take place.

Feng's auto attack are dance-move like. She would swing her arm beautifully to attack the enemy. Think Riven's AA combo. Feng has AA combo all the time, but just animation wise. So when she attacks, she is literally dancing. Each AA flows nicely to the next one so her movement will be like water.

I intend for one of her ability (maybe ult?) to be Toggled on/off. When switched on, she will have dramatically change in her foot movement and some increased AA speed. Each step she take is almost like a little dash (1/4 of Lucian dash distance), and she will be dancing around the battle field. Imagine every step she takes its like a dash, but the animation of her upper body still flows like water. Image a Zed that's slashing everyone while each time he moves, it's a little dash. This creates an beautiful yet terrifying attacking move. Or It's kinda like Fiora's ult, but she is visible, controllable, and she is not dashing that far of a distance.

Here are what I have so far. I want to focus on her ability to dance through battles, because I think that will be beautiful to look at. Please, if you have any more idea for her abilities, comment away! :D

And just FYI She doesn't have magic power that float her blades. The image on the right is a disassemble of her weapons. Sorry if that was confusing.

All feedback are welcome! Thanks everyone!

39 Comments

Sachi San9/23/2014, 5:38:28 PM3 votes

this kinda looks like an irelia visual upgrade o-o but i do like it

Flintfall9/22/2014, 8:29:03 PM2 votes

Ooh, we should do some collabs!

Irelia has her place in 'blade mistress' along with Katarina, so it'd be hard to work around these archetypes and still come out with a unique kit. That said, I have some ideas:

  • She could be from Ionia, born into a posh family whilst leading a double life in the generally hidden crime circle of Ionia.

  • Her kit could be reminiscent of lots of spins (in order to utilize arm blades)

    • Q: Guard attack, then counters

  • W: Blades on the string that rotate inwards (dodgable if you can time it right)

  • E: Blades flare outward for a stab, possibly ejection

  • R: Bunch of blades weave around her, dealing damage to select targets (channeled, you can change prioritization by clicking on new targets)

That's a rough sketch, I'd prob need to think longer about a good passive to integrate into the kit, but I'm also currently working on a top laner that works similarly (he uses weapons as armor practically).

Art is nice and clean, which really goes a long way in my book!

The Neverworld9/22/2014, 8:39:05 PM1 votes

I'm playing since season 2, I create Champion Concepts since last year march and I think I can give some critique or atleast give some tips.

First, you're really good. The idea of those "claw" blades on her arms is really good. I suppose she's an Ionian, using a similiar technique as Irelia. Unfortunately, I think there's none mentioned who uses this technique except Irelia and her brother Zelos, who disappeared without a trace shortly after Noxus invaded Ionia.

But I guess it's just about the appearance.

There are some nice details on her head, but I miss more detail below at her half-skirt or legs. Maybe she should wear some armor, as she's supposed to be dance through bodies and blood. Maybe similiar blades like those on her arms, but on her ankle?
She needs more traits. Like Akali uses kamas as weapons, but she's a ninja, using special techniques like instant dash or clouds of invisibility - that's what makes Akali be what she is.

About the name. I probably would call her "Kaori" (From Japanese 香 "smell, perfume, fragrance". It can also come from 香 (ka) "smell, perfume" and 織 (ori) "weaving". It is often written かおり using the hiragana writing system.)

Linna Excel9/22/2014, 8:57:11 PM1 votes

She'd could be a good ionian champ who could thematically fit with someone like irelia or karma. Wouldn't need the cords keeping the blades together because she's ionian. I'd probably ditch the blades as a part of her sleeves and have them just float by her arms in the same area.

XwArqXuNyY9/22/2014, 9:27:40 PM1 votes

I really like this it fits extremely well into League's style and looks like a believable creation from riot. Obviously lacking a little texture depth but WIP is WIP. The only thing I would say is that I personally prefer the character outfit the way you have it but I think if Riot made the design she would have a couple layers of clothes instead of the character stripe on the skirt. For example Fiora has a pretty complex outfit that could be simplified by just a couple color shifts.

As others have mentioned its way too hard to work a character like this into a game that has Fiora, Katarina, and irelia. That said I think you could work in a similar concept in the vain of Chang'e as designed in SMITE. Chang'e in SMITE dances around and does sweeping attacks with an etheral slice. I think a similar idea would be cool with large sweeping attacks that are relatively low damage and/or apply light cc almost like a more mid-styled sona.

Entheos Geon9/22/2014, 10:26:10 PM1 votes

This concept is phenomenal. I nominate this for post of the day. :D

Kyte Highflyer9/22/2014, 10:44:58 PM1 votes

so as I get it, she would be a pure physical champion, she has no magic to manipulate her rather stealthily hidden weapons, and I think that is pretty awesome if that is what you are going for! my question is if that really is the case, would you use mana, or perhaps another resource that goes with her lore and kit? Maybe she could have energy like the ninja's and lee sin, or perhaps a filling meter like gnar, tryndamere, renekton and aatrox? She could also have none at all... but that just seems bland X3.

Am I on the ball at all with this?

Season 9 Amumu9/22/2014, 11:16:41 PM1 votes

mind if i think of a kit for her? (or at least thematic abilities)

how about:

Passive ideas

  • Dervish

after an ability is cast, Feng's next auto attack cleaves nearby enemies for bonus scaling magic damage, critical strikes do not apply to the magic damage dealt.

  • Grace

every time Feng uses an ability, her she gains a temporary bonus to crit chance and crit damage, on the next critical strike this passive is reset. fades over time if no critical strike is achieved

  • Dance with Fate

Feng marks an enemy she hits with an auto attack or ability, damage she deals to this target will scale up (1% per auto attack, 5% per ability, 3% per critical strike) to a maximum of 50% bonus damage. this mark expires if she leaves combat or the target moves too far away form her. at level 1 of her ult, getting the mark to 25% bonus damage will cause any reapplication of the mark to the same target to start at 10%

Ability ideas (for q,w or e)

  • Pirouette

feng swings her arm in front of her, damaging enemy units in a cone and dealing damage (either ap or ad, whichever you feel fits her more). if used again in the next 2 seconds, feng spins forward and deals damage in a radius around her

  • Piecing Step

feng lashes out at a target (skill shot) the target can be pierced and will hit enemies in a line behind it. this can deal critical damage but only to the first enemy hit. ( or ignores 20-30% of first targets armor)

  • Blood Timing

feng dashes forward and empowers her next auto attack to cause bleeding, if no enemy is attacked, the cooldown is reduced.

  • Speed Dance (maybe ultimate)

toggle: siphons off 50% of feng's mana/energy pool and causes her to have increased movement speed and attack speed. this amount is based on total mana/health/ energy/ etc

  • Divine Momentum

passive: half of fengs ad (+ x% ap) is dealt as magic damage instead of attack damage on auto attacks

  • Fatal dance

feng throws an orb of magic at an enemy which causes a slow, the next auto attack on this target causes additional magic damage but cancels the slow

  • balance dance

toggle: siphons off 50% of feng's mana/energy pool and causes her to regen health much faster but at the cost of having 20% more damage dealt to her

Ultimate ideas

-Odori-Gatana

Feng spins around (similar to garen's judgement) and extends her blades outward all enemies hit will be dealt (x) damage. the radius of this extends outwards during its duration

  • Duet

on ally cast: feng throws a life line to an ally, they both a gain a portion of each others attack speed, movement speed, and receive full effects from each others healing

on enemy cast: feng attaches a life line to her target. a portion of damage dealt to her is dealt to the target over time. any healing affects on her target partially heal her as well.

Sternbery9/22/2014, 11:50:46 PM1 votes

I find it interesting. How would you picture her in the game? What would her stance be? Riot likes to give their champions distinct silhouettes to make each of them pop out more. It seems that her blades could be really useful for making that happen.

Voidzilla9/22/2014, 11:55:25 PM1 votes

Wicked awesome artwork.

I can't help but see this as a fusion of Irelia and Azir. Perhaps there's a deeper meaning to that lore-wise? Having the concept of an Ionian with Shuriman influence may yield some interesting results.

Love this, and I hope to see more from you in the future.

Kyte Highflyer9/23/2014, 12:14:49 AM1 votes

That sounds pretty awesome ^^ honestly you can take this concept a lot of directions to make it work, and even more so with either of those resource systems! I'm kinda excited to see if this does get somewhere, that would just be amazing!

If you ever need people to bounce ideas off of you know that there are people here that would be more than happy to lend a creative ear, myself included! :)

Inbred Incel9/23/2014, 3:02:36 AM1 votes

Looks a lot like Irelia

prime1049/23/2014, 5:41:14 AM1 votes

I really like the idea. It feels like that Irelia could have become this.

dialMARK4acti0n9/23/2014, 9:38:14 AM1 votes

I like it but honestly Tony, at first she looks like a Lunar Revel skin for Irelia... THAT I WOULD TOTALLY BUY!!! ... but that's not the point. Cough cough

I like the concept and a kit would certainly help her distinguish herself! But, as it stands she looks too similar to Irelia, thematically even, to actually be considered as being a new champion that adds something to the 120+ champion roster, theme and gameplay-wise alike.

But, the art is REALLY GOOD!!! YOU HAVE UBER TALENT TONY!! And as I mentioned, as a skin for Irelia example, I'd INSTABUY it!!!!

Good luck on the internship Tony!

Teddie9/23/2014, 10:01:31 PM1 votes

Irelia

Alurry9/24/2014, 5:00:34 AM1 votes

Akali, Irelia hybrid just by judging, based on how shes dressed she looks more of an assassin type. I noticed the strings attached to her blades, you could have an ability that travels like a serpent weaving in and out of enemies. She also reminds me of Riven. In my personal opinion, you should set her up as a wombo combo type of champion, one that relies on timing and execution of abilities to the highest degree. Maybe have her blades juggle where one auto does AD, one does AP and the last does True damage. I really do think she looks interesting I'm highly curious to see the kit you design.

SirTezla9/22/2014, 8:35:21 PM1 votes

From reading this I believe she is a lot like Irelia since she controls blades with her mind. Through this art the blades look a lot alike too, but otherwise she looks amazing. If you'd like to brainstorm some time about some other ideas for her, hit me up on League we can play some games and chat about Feng.