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Lao, The Woodlands Shade

sneezing slug·4/28/2016, 10:10:33 PM·8 votes·1,398 views

Lao, The Woodlands Shade

Primary Role: Support Secondary Role: Tank

http://orig04.deviantart.net/777b/f/2012/125/8/4/tree_spirit_by_hdy9108-d4ynpqy.jpg

Although the Shadow Isle are no longer the beautiful, welcoming forests it once was, there is one who seeks to protect them from the spreading darkness. Deep within the forest lies a grove untouched by the taints of evil. It is a sanctuary for what the island once was, and hopefully, what it will be once again. It is kept guarded by a spirit who once roamed the woods as a mortal in life, and is now it's caretaker in death. One day, it hopes to renew the land to the prideful place it was once before.

Lao is a lockdown support who makes sure their ADC is suited for a fight even when they aren't completely present. His Q allows him to constantly harass the enemy and keep them at bay, while his W and passive make for frequent sustain and protection. His E ensures that he's never far from his lane partner, and making sure they he can still contribue even if he's low health underneath the turret. His E is also great for facechecking the brush and scouting ahead. His R makes sure the enemy are always on their toes, pushing them back or forcing them to take considerable damage and a stun, or even burn their flash to get around it. Playing Lao correctly will allow him to be a very big lane bully late game and make sure his ADC is always protected.

Lao uses health for his abilities.

Base Stats--------------------------------------Growth per/level-------------------------------Stats @ 18 Health: 510---------------------------------------------------(+70.5--------------------------------------1708.5 Mana: 0---------------------------------------------------------------(+0------------------------------------------------0 AD: 55------------------------------------------------------------------(+3--------------------------------------------106 AP: 0---------------------------------------------------------------------(+3----------------------------------------------51 HP/5: 8.55-----------------------------------------------------(+0.76----------------------------------------21.47 MP/5: 0----------------------------------------------------------------(+0------------------------------------------------0 Range: 450 (Ranged)---------------------------------------(+0-------------------------------------------450 AS: 0.5---------------------------------------------------------------(+2%-----------------------------------------0.67 Armor: 25---------------------------------------------------------(+4.5----------------------------------------101.5 Magic Resist: 30------------------------------------------------(+3---------------------------------------------81 Movement Speed: 335------------------------------------(+0-------------------------------------------335

Items

Starting Items: item 3097 item 2003 item 3340

Essential Items: item 3302 item 1011 item 3067 item 3111

Defensive Items: item 3083 item 2303 item 3065 item 3190 item 3143

Rune and masteries will be added at a later date.

Passive: Sylvan Legacy

http://i.imgur.com/tddEgYR.jpg Whenever Lao dies, he grants 30% of his max health to a nearby allied champion. Overflowing health converts into a shield that decays over 10 seconds.

Additionally, Lao can autoattack allied champions, healing them for 65% of Lao's attack damage.

Q: Earthly Reckoning

http://i.imgur.com/DibYbfF.jpg Cost: 2% of Lao's max health. Cooldown: 4/3.75/3.5/3.25/3 seconds Casting Range: 600 units Skillshot Width: 50 units

Fires a skillshot that passes through all units it strikes, dealing 60 (+15% of Lao's Max Health) magic damage to each enemy hit. Enemy champions gain a stack of Nature's Grip which fades after 8 seconds. If an enemy champion has 3 stacks of Nature's Grip the enemy champion takes an additional 10% of Lao's max health as magic damage over 3 seconds and are silenced for 1.5 seconds.

W: Heavenly Sanctuary

http://i.imgur.com/Vtch2Vd.jpg Cost: 7% of Lao's max health Cooldown: 16/15.5/15/15.5/14 Casting Range: 1100 units AOE Diameter: 750 units

Lao launches an AOE at the target area, dealing 85 (+15% of Lao's Max Health) initial magic damage after a 1.5 second delay and healing allied champions in the AOE for 5% of their max health. The AOE lasts for 8 seconds, dealing no continuous damage but slowing enemies inside the AOE by 15%. Enemies in the circle struck by Q: Earthly Reckoning are snared for 1 second.

Allied champions that recall within the AOE have the duration of the recall channel reduced by 1/1.25/1.5/1.75/2 seconds.

Allies within the AOE have +10% tenacity and take 20% reduced damage from sources outside the AOE.

E: Skyward Projection

http://i.imgur.com/jtqiYgS.jpg Cost: 5% of Lao's Max Health Cooldown: 30 seconds Casting Range: 800 units

Lao releases his spirit from his physical vessel into the target area, allowing Lao to move around his spirit form up to 2200 units away from his physical body. Lao can cast spells from his spirit form, but damage is reduced by 50% and healing is reduced by 25%. The spirit form has 45% of Lao's max health, and lasts for 8 seconds. Ability costs are reduced by 30% and take from the spirit form's health instead of his physical form. When the spirit form dies, the duration is up, or E: Skyward Projection is reactivated, his spirit returns to his physical form, and a copy of W: Heavenly Sanctuary is cast on the area of where his spirit form was last.

If E: Skyward Projection is cast while inside Heavenly Sanctuary, the spirit form's speed is increased by 30% and the duration is increased by 2 seconds.

R: Renewal

http://i.imgur.com/1HrT16k.jpg Cost: 10% of Lao's max health Cooldown: 75/65/55 seconds Shockwave range: 3000 units

After a 2.5 second delay, Lao releases a VERY slow moving surge of spirit energy from his body in all directions. If an enemy champion is hit by the wave, they take 200 (+30% of Lao's Max Health) magic damage and are stunned for 1 second. The damage dealt is increased by 5% for every 150 units the shockwave has spread. Allied champions inside the spreading of the shockwave are healed for 2% of their maximum health per second. The shockwave takes 16 seconds to reach it's full size before disappearing.

Quotes will be added at a later date.

21 Comments

sneezing slug4/28/2016, 10:11:14 PM1 votes

This is a work in progress, feedback is very appreciated!

75324/29/2016, 12:19:19 AM1 votes

???? woodland's shade? what does this mean??? pls give clarity how can someone be a shade?

'>Passive: Sylvan Legacy

Whenever Lao dies, he grants 30% of his max health to a nearby allied champion. Overflowing health converts into a shield that decays over 10 seconds.

Additionally, Lao can autoattack allied champions, healing them for 65% of Lao's attack damage.'

my input: ok this isnt about his abilities but what is a sylvan. there's nothing about a sylvan in his lore??/??

W: Heavenly Sanctuary

Cost: 7% of Lao's max health Cooldown: 16/15.5/15/15.5/14 Casting Range: 1100 units AOE Diameter: 750 units

Lao launches an AOE at the target area, dealing 85 (+15% of Lao's Max Health) initial magic damage after a 1.5 second delay and healing allied champions in the AOE for 5% of their max health. The AOE lasts for 8 seconds, dealing no continuous damage but slowing enemies inside the AOE by 15%. Enemies in the circle struck by Earthly Reckoning are snared for 1 second.

Allied champions that recall within the AOE have the duration of the recall channel reduced by 1/1.25/1.5/1.75/2 seconds. After recalling, they get a 45% speed boost that decays over 12 seconds.

Allies within the AOE have +10% tenacity and take 20% reduced damage from sources outside the AOE.'

input: pls nerf nonononono!11 this passive recall reduction and speed boost is too strong imo.

'>E: Skyward Projection

Cost: 5% of Lao's Max Health Cooldown: 30 seconds Casting Range: 800 units

Lao releases his spirit from his physical vessel into the target area, allowing Lao to move around his spirit form up to 1600 units away from his physical body. Lao can cast spells from his spirit form, but damage is reduced by 50% and healing is reduced by 25%. The spirit form has 45% of Lao's max health, and lasts for 8 seconds. Ability costs are reduced by 30% and take from the spirit form's health instead of his physical form. When the spirit form dies, the duration is up, or Skyward Projection is reactivated, his spirit returns to his physical form, and a copy of Heavenly Sanctuary is cast on the area of where his spirit form was last.

If Skyward Projection is cast while inside Heavenly Sanctuary, the spirit form's speed is increased by 30% and the duration is increased by 2 seconds.'

input: tbh isnt 1600 units a little underwhelming? maybe a little more (((:

ok so lets get a bit of juice from maokiki's lore 'Maokai had preserved the last vital spark remaining in the Shadow Isles, and with it, the hope of returning life to the land.'

ok here is lao's 'Deep within the forest lies a grove untouched by the taints of evil.'

??????? butbutbutbut mao has the last vital spark remaining in shadow isles??/

i like ur concept

sneezing slug4/29/2016, 12:55:17 AM1 votes

Fixed formatting errors, added item builds and an image ref.

sneezing slug5/2/2016, 2:18:05 AM1 votes

Le signal boost.

Cookiepear5/2/2016, 2:23:41 AM1 votes

This tree/woods based stuff kind-of reminds me of Groot. :3

Neku215/6/2016, 6:04:25 PM1 votes

He spends so much % health :l try doing actual number values so if you build full health then the cost doesn't seem that much.

Sniper 05/6/2016, 6:10:50 PM1 votes

I like him purely on based on the backstory. xD I'm not one for looking at kit balance though. The ulti seems very Taric inspired though. :P

sneezing slug5/8/2016, 3:12:25 AM1 votes

It's a bird, it's a plane.

ITS A SIGNAL BOOST

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

sneezing slug5/17/2016, 4:19:13 PM1 votes

Buuuuump!

sneezing slug6/3/2016, 5:56:13 PM1 votes

Going to bump this up, because downvoted concepts with little to no feedback as to why grinds my gears.

sneezing slug6/22/2016, 8:26:26 PM1 votes

This kit needs to be updated but nevertheless I think it needs to be bumped up ever so slightly.

Will rework it soon