5 man darkin team

ZaneShadow·5/31/2018, 9:12:43 PM·2 votes·1,577 views

TLDR:
I’d love to see a Mid and support Darkin, and throw out some ideas. I want to hear your ideas since I like other posts like this one. Let me know in the comments your own ideas on what you want to see from Darkins in the far future!

I’ve always wanted to see it possible for a 5 man darkin team. There are 5 weapons in existence, which either by design or chance perfectly matches the 5 roles needed in Summoners Rift. Right now we have

Aatrox: Top Rhaast: Jungle Varus: ADC

With the remaining roles of support and mid. So the following are my ideas for how the champions could work, while staying true to Darkin lore. It’s going to be a while before this becomes relevant, but I wanted to throw some ideas around to the community and hear about your own. I’ve seen similar posts and really enjoyed them, so please share your thoughts!

Support: Staff of a blood mage. Blood magic was introduced to Runeterra by the Darkin. So it’s not that hard to imagine a darkin sealed within a staff being a powerful blood mage. As a support, they could be a healer, using damage dealt to empower their heals. This isn’t entirely important, but could be a mechanic that goes well with the blood magic theme.
To make sure he is distinguished from Vladimir, Darker reds should be used in visuals as well as avoiding self healing. A good idea would be to also make him more line skill shot based so that his kit isn’t the same circular or point and click feel Vlad’s kit has.

Mid: This one is interesting to me. Odds are it is a mage of some sort. I came to that conclusion from a design perspective. There are currently an Assassin, Fighter, and ranged AD, so to avoid overlapping design spaces, this is likely an Ap mage of some form. The specifics I’m not able to create much. You wouldn’t want to use the blood magic concept, as Vlad is a viable mid lane pick, which is why earlier I gave that to the Support. I came up with the concept of a whip, which is a good ranged weapon that is not currently being used by anyone else. How that would translate into a kit is more than I want to get into, so I’ll leave that there.

Sorry if that was long, I wrote more than I meant to. Please let me know what you think, and more importantly, what you want to see from the remaining darkin!

4 Comments

Norksmeine6/1/2018, 6:18:38 AM1 votes

Morgana to be Support.