[Champion Concept] Annes, Liberator of Souls

Squeekems·Apr 12, 2015·2 votes·1,084 views

Lore: This is connected to in-game lore.

Once tormented and brutalized by a sadistic creature, Annes' soul escaped ensnarement. Annes now seeks to rescue all trapped souls. "All souls are trapped until they leave their initial vessel." -Annes

Statistics: Bare with me. I know my stats are all over the place. I am not good at balancing a game I have never worked on.

Health: 578 - 2023 Health Regeneration: 6.8 - 20.4 Mana: 326 – 1091 Mana Regeneration: 6.0 - 19.6 Range(Melee): 175 Attack Damage: 58 - 114 Attack Speed: 0.625 (+0% - 38.3%) Armor: 24.4 - 78.8 Magic Resistance: 32.1 - 53.4 Movement Speed: 345

Cold Touch (Passive): This is a sheen-like effect that applies a slow.

After using an ability, Annes' next basic attack slows her target's movement speed.

• Cooldown: 1.5 seconds • Duration: 1.5 seconds • Levels: 1/6/11/16 • Slow: 25/30/35/40%

Reaper Dash (Q): This is like Yasuo's Sweeping Blade (E).

Annes dashes through target enemy, dealing magic damage. The speed of the dash scales with Annes' bonus movement speed.

• Cooldown: 10/9/8/7/6 seconds • Cost: 50/55/60/65/70 mana • Damage: 70/90/110/130/150(+60% ability power) • Range: 475

Quick Parry (W): This is Fiora's Riposte (W) active.

Annes parries the next basic attack within 1.5 seconds and deals magic damage to the attacker. Works against champions, large monsters, and large minions.

• Cooldown: 10/9/8/7/6 seconds • Cost: 45 mana • Damage: 60/110/160/210/260(+100% ability power)

Grim Flay (E): This is Thresh's Flay (E) active.

Annes drags her scythe in a broad line towards a target direction. Enemies hit take magic damage, are knocked in the same direction as the scythe, and are slowed afterwards for 1 second.

• Cooldown: 9 seconds • Cost: 60/65/70/75/80 mana • Damage: 65/95/125/155/185(+40% ability power) • Range: 400 (800 total) • Slow: 20/25/30/35/40%

Possession (R): This ability is rather unique. I copied stats from Malzahar's Nether Grasp (R).

Annes blinks to an enemy champion, suppresses the target and becomes untargetable for 2.5 seconds. Annes can still cast abilities, but she cannot move and takes the same amount of damage as the target during this time.

• Cooldown: 120/100/80 • Cost: 100 mana • Range: 700

http://imgur.com/nw1IL3p

I want a scythe wielding badass to join the fight on the Fields of Justice. As she is right now, I do not think Annes is the scythe wielding badass I want. For her E, my original thought was that she would swing her scythe around in a circle and drag enemies, in range, behind her original facing direction.

Give me some feedback. How can I improve this concept? Can you think of more unique abilities to give a scythe wielder? Can you guess which champions or characters Annes has ties to? I often make mistakes. Feel free to embarrass me. :P

Change Log:

13/4/2015: • Added Art • Updated Ultimate from: Annes suppresses her target and becomes untargetable for 2.5 seconds. Annes takes the same amount of damage as her target does and she controls her target while Possession persists. Using E ends this effect early. to: Annes blinks to an enemy champion, suppresses the target and becomes untargetable for 2.5 seconds. Annes can still cast abilities, but she cannot move and takes the same amount of damage as the target during this time.

4 Comments

Squeaky101Apr 12, 20151 votes

Not bad of a concept, someone like this could definitely fit in with league's other champs.

But the abilities seem... random for what she is. A "scythe wielding badass" as you put it, yet she has an ability where she parries an attack...? It's just so random. Why does she need this? She isn't Fiora. So I'll have a try at the abilities:

Passive could be more interesting. She's a tormented soul liberator, you'd think she'd have some kind of cool passive that ties in with her background. Perhaps a Thresh-like passive? Like an opposite to his, where she frees souls from slain champions (maybe allies?) and it empowers her or one of her abilities (like nasus Q). Something to make her like a late game hyper-scaling carry, she's a scythe wielding badass, remember.

Her Q is alright. But does she dash to the enemy, or through them like fizz's Q (always travels a set distance)? If it's a set distance then it might cause problems with her positioning, so maybe applying the current passive's slow to this could help her reach her target after dashing.

W... unnecessary, you should remake this ability entirely. Perhaps a stun ability? Or a self heal, which makes sense for a scythe wielder as they are usually portrayed as someone who drains the life force of others.

E is interesting, I think having it circular would be better like you mentioned. You don't wanna have a lame Thresh E rip-off.

R is what defines your champion, and I think it's just perfect, aside from being able to control the target. You never mentioned her being a mind-controller or anything, besides it would make this ultimate OP. I think this ability would go well with a healing ability like I mentioned before (W), so she could heal up after ulting someone. This ability would encourage people to build HP on her however, so keep that in mind when developing her abilities. Maybe have the HP drain percentage based so then people won't feel obliged to build HP.

Overall she captures the essence of a champion we could (or might eventually) see joining the league. For champion ties, Thresh seems like the only candidate. Maybe she could be Lucian's wife, forever changed by having her soul captured? Hold on a minute... Her name is Senna... and your champ's name is Annes...

I see what you did there.

SqueekemsApr 12, 20151 votes

Haha. Thanks for commenting.

Annes apparently means "satisfaction." I like to look up name-meanings before using them for champion concepts. I was thinking I could repurpose her name to mean "closure."

I was thinking that her dash would be homing. I think of Maokai's Twisted Advance (W), but I do not want it to be that. I want her to just slash though the opponent and always get positioned on the opposite side of them. Not necessarily behind them. (They could turn to run away) If you have ever played Tekken, it would be like Yoshimitsu's dash.

I thought she could use a parry. I remember seeing a scythe-wielder and their defense was impeccable. They used their weapon better as a shield and counter-attacked often. I thought that was neat. Do you think a spell-shield would be a good idea instead of the parry? A successful block would cause her to heal.

The difficult thing about making her flay ability circular is how will it be controlled? Will it be like Diana's Cresent Strike (Q) and only go in one direction? Does the summoner have to worry about her original facing direction and have it swing towards the side of her that the mouse is on? Do walls stop her from completing the drag or does it become this awkward looking animation that always completes?

As far as the ultimate goes; it does not do any damage. I thought being able to tell the target where to move would be cool way to compensate for that. Maybe instead, she can still cast her abilities during their suppression? I want her to be able to cast her abilities while the opponent is suppressed. You know what? I agree. Being able to command the opponent would be over powered. Being able to engage a fight with this ability, she could essentially blink in and then flay the rest of her enemies into her team.