Howling Banshee Champion Concept

APPEARANCE:

https://i.imgur.com/WYjxEEJ.jpg (Screenshot from Dawn of War III's trailer)

What is the Howling Banshee?

In Warhammer 40000 (usually abbreviated to W40k) the Howling Banshees are the Eldar race's main melee unit. They are all-female, fast and precise Aspect Warriors who excel at locking down opponents in melee combat and killing them. They wear only Light Armor and are armed with Power Swords capable of cutting through the heaviest of infantry armor, as well as Shuriken Pistols. In addition they wear special masks, which amplify their signature shrieks to the point where they paralyze their enemies in fear.

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The Howling Banshee in League of Legends

As a champion, the Banshee would very likely be either a Shadow Isles champion or an Ionian one. The basic characteristics of a banshee would fit very well with the dark, undead and bloodthirsty realm of the former, especially knowing that the original design drew a lot of inspiration from the old irish myth about "fairy women" (which is the rough translation of "banshee") who signal the death of a person by wailing and can predict it.

On the other hand the characteristics of the Eldar's Howling Banshees fit right in with Ionia - it is the "land of magic" and many of its champions use that magic in some form; we have the Vastaya (even though they're present elsewhere on Runeterra too) who are basically half-human, half-animal; Ionians worship a spirit-god and since the war against Noxus who's to tell how many warriors have gone rogue? In comparison, the Howling Banshees use a psychosonic shriek to terrify their opponents and signal their deaths, which can be interpreted as some magical ability, aren't human even though they're very similar in appearance, and worship the Eldar god of war - Khaine.

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Base stats

Health: 520 (+ 71) = 1727 Attack Damage: 54 (+ 3) = 105 Attack Speed: 0.72 (+ 3%) = 1.08 Basic Attack Range: 125 Armor: 25 (+ 2) = 59 Magic Resistance: 30 (+ 0) = 30 Movement Speed: 345 Resource: None

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Abilities

PASSIVE: Entering a brush while out of combat makes the Banshee invisible for 3/6/9 seconds and can only be revealed by True Sight and suffering enemy damage. Killing an enemy champion within 2.5 seconds of leaving stealth allows the Banshee to re-enter stealth immediately (even in combat).

Q: Exploiting Strike The Banshee dashes to the nearest airbourne/dashing/otherwise impaired enemy champion within 450 units and slams them into the ground, dealing (50% AD) bonus physical damage. If the enemy is dashing and not airborne she simply interupts the dash and does the same damage. Never interrupts abilities which make champions "unstoppable".

Cooldown: 16/14/12/10/8 seconds

W: Deathly Howl The Banshee lets out a psychosonic shriek, terrifying all enemy champions within 450 units for 0.5 seconds. If used while invisible its duration is tripled.

Cooldown: 15 seconds

E: Initiative The Banshee charges in the target direction, knocking up all enemies she passes through for 0.5/0.75/1/1.25/1.5 seconds. Casting it while invisible without affecting enemies and monsters does not reveal her. Hitting at least one enemy champion allows her to recast the ability, once, within 3 seconds at halved range.

Cooldown: 16/15/14/13/12 seconds Dash range: 500/525/550/575/600 units

R: Finishing Touch After a 0.5 second delay the Banshee attempts to execute her target, dealing (60% AD) + 16/24/32% of target's missing Health in physical damage (casting it while invisible converts the damage to True instead). If the target dies the Banshee lets out a global shriek, which stuns every enemy within 850 units for 2 seconds. Suffering any ability/basic attack interrupting CC or if the target leaves basic attack range results in interruption of the ability and puts it on full cooldown.

Cooldown: 180/120/60 seconds