[Champion and Skin Concepts] Apex, The Sinister Psychic
Apex is a ranged Mage champion that uses mind altering techniques to gain control over the battlefield. With mental disorientation, trickery, and powerful spells on his side, your greatest worry is not trying to find a way to kill him, but to land a finger on him.
-Lore-
Apex was born on Noxian grounds, raised and mentored by multiple cultists and mad scientists. In his time of growth, he learned how to conjure spells impossible to other witches and sorcerers, how to destroy the minds of others without tapping into any source of magic, and how to brew elixirs that could end someone's life in a single heartbeat. His real parents, identities unknown, were murdered by his mentors. He never cared to learn why they did it, nor did he care about the mages who raised him. The only thing Apex craved was knowledge.
Once Apex began to realize that their teachings were becoming repetitive, he used all of his gathered knowledge against them, murdering the cults and sorcerers and destroying their underground hideout. He set out far and wide to distant lands, capturing innocents and using their minds and bodies as subjects for dark and explicit experiments. It wasn't long before Apex wasted enough lives to discover and create a deadly spell that could offer him complete mind control over anyone he chose. In honor for his accomplishment, he named the spell after himself. Upon the discovery of Apex, Apex's sanity vanished as he began to crave more and more knowledge, desperately hunting for more victims. Body piles after body piles, Apex's spell grew more and more powerful until it could not be fueled by any mortal soul. It needed a stronger, more highly concentrated life force to help maintain and circulate the amount of energy it needed to use.
That's when Apex discovered the existence of the League, Demacians and Noxians fighting to the death for reasons he never cared for. He slowly observed them, secretly analyzing their battle tactics and concluded whether or not their life forces were deemed worthy enough to help refuel his mind control spell. When his data came out surprisingly positive, he joined the League without hesitation, excitingly waiting for those very life forces to stumble his way.
"Knowledge is the key to supremacy. But how far are you willing to go, how much are you willing to sacrifice in order to obtain such authority? Me…I'd give everything I could, and a lot more beyond that." -Apex, The Sinister Psychic
-Starting Stats-
Hit Points: 520 Knowledge: 0 Attack Damage: 20 Ability Power: 70 Movement Speed: 410 Armor Rating: 35 Magic Resist: 10 Attack Speed: .737 Attack Range: 600
Cursor response: "Do not waste my time, Summoner!" or "They will know the true power of Knowledge!" or "There are life forces nearby. Strong ones at that."
Taunt: "It must hurt to be that stupid, doesn't it?"
Joke: "Over my years of living, I have discovered cures to even the most vile of poisons and diseases. Yet, I still haven't discovered the behavioral patters of women. Such enigmatic specimen."
Laugh: An insane screech, followed by a few giggles.
Dance: Apex drinks a brew and pretends it's an alcoholic beverage, bouncing around sloppily and waving the drink in the air.
-Abilities-
**Passive - Quite The Shocker: **Whenever Apex kills a unit, he gains 1 Knowledge. If he kills an enemy champion, he gains 3 Knowledge and a temporary Movement Speed boost. When he reaches 5 Knowledge (Maximum), his next ability against an enemy champion will blind and snare them for 2 seconds.
**Q - Capture (1/1/1/1 Knowledge) / Smite (1/1/1/1 Knowledge): **Apex uses dark magic and orders the dead to rise from their graves at a target location, dealing 40/50/60/70 magic damage over 4 seconds and snaring any enemy that comes in contact with it. If his Q is casted again, Apex will send a beam of white fire down upon the dead, erasing the dark magic and dealing 40/50/60/70 magic damage to anyone who is caught by the snare (10 second cooldown).
W - Confusion (1/1/1/1 Knowledge): Apex shoots his opponent with a blast of highly concentrated white fire and dark magic, dealing 10/20/30/40 magic damage over 3 seconds and reversing their movement (Clicking up causes the champion to move down, clicking left causes the champion to move right, etc.) for 2 seconds (20 second cooldown).
**E - Ignorance is Bliss (1/1/1/1 Knowledge): **Apex forms a weaker doppelganger of himself, which is able to be controlled by holding down the Alt button and clicking to a target location. The clone has half the health of the original, and deals only basic attack damage, which is also halved as well. The doppleganger disappears after 5 seconds. However, if it is targeted and slain by an enemy champion, all of the damage it recieved is transported back to the original Apex and is fused into life gain (12 second cooldown).
R - Apex (5/5/5/5 Knowledge + 5 killstreak): Due to the amount of life force needed to activate this spell, this can ONLY be used if Apex has a killstreak of 5 or higher. When enabled, Apex charges up a special "tunnel" that can only be directed in a straight line for 5 seconds. If an enemy champion is caught by the tunnel, he/she and Apex are stunned for the remaining duration unless another nearby champion interrupts it by either hitting Apex or his victim. If not, Apex transfers his spirit inside of the enemy champion, overpowering him/her and taking complete control of his/her body and mind. While controlling his victim, he gains access to all of their abilities and summoner spells. The enemy champion controlled is indicated by a glowing red ring around their feet. While taking control of his victim, Apex's original body is frozen in time, immune to all attacks and spells. The only way Apex can return to his body is by having his victim die in battle (300 second cooldown).
Apperance: Apex is a tall and slender man with hardly any muscle on him at all. He has no eyebrows, pale eyes, tattoos all across his body, all of them resembling transmutation circles and multiple foreign languages, and mold infested skin that's been stretched back in order to tie up, giving him an eternal stare. Veins travel from his temples to the sides of his neck and shoulders, pulsating violently as blood frantically rushes to their destinations. He's dressed in the skin of his past victims and on his left arm, dark magic swirls around his slender fingertips like black dust, while the other one has white fire twirling around them.