Champion idea: Ailial, the strings of fate.

Ailial is a support mage that sacrifices it's champion presence in exchange for massive buffs to a single ally.

Backstory

Ailial's story starts in the streets of Zaun, as one of the vagrants that didn't make it anywhere. Ailial began as a young girl, like any other woman, but unlike plenty of other women Ailial was not fortunate enough to be gifted with strength, potential or even magic, atleast, not in life. Ailial died before hitting the age of 15 and to most, they'd think that was where her story ended, but Ailial held regrets, she held conviction, she held hatred for the life she died in. Her emotions were so great that they bound her spirit to the world of the living, they bound her to the city of Zaun where she haunted the streets tormenting those who would look down upon the vagrants and mistreat them. As for the vagrants? She spent her efforts enabling them in ways that as regular people, they could never achieve on their own. One such case was a wind sorceress, Ailial pulled strings and enabled her body to attune to magic. As time rolled on her presence was eventually discovered and through the very magic she had granted one of the vagrants she was summoned back to the world of the living by using that vagrant's body as a vessel. Then, with her rediscovered physical connection with the world of the living she took it upon herself to learn more magic, enhancing both her ability and that of the vagrant she possessed. Once she had finished her studies she designated strings as her medium for channeling her magic, leading to her eventual mastery over puppetry.

The vagrant died after being possessed so many times and his body began to rot, but this vagrant's body was important to her as it was perfectly attuned to house her spirit, the league took note of this and offered a deal she couldn't refuse. They give the body the means of preventing it from decomposing, and in turn, she would use the body and her skills in the fields of justice. She never did define whether she'd be passed off as he, for her possessed body, or a she, for her original sex.

"It's likely I'm a better puppetear than you are, Summoner." -Ailial

BASE STATS

LVL 1

Health: 390 (+50 per lvl) (lvl 18= 1240) Mana: 470 (+62 per lvl) (lvl 18= 1524) Health Regen: 1.9 (+.3 per lvl) (lvl 18= 5.1) Mana Regen: 6 (+.9 per lvl) (lvl 18= 15.3) Armor: 14.7 (+2.9 per lvl) (lvl 18= 49.3) Magic Resistance: 25 (+4 per lvl) (lvl 18= 68) Attack Damage: 48 (+2 per lvl) (lvl 18= 82) Attack Speed: .725 Movement Speed: 335 Attack Range: 450

KIT

Passive: Strung soul. Basic attacks and String sting apply string counters (max 10) to enemy champions and increase their damage. Stacks can be applied to allied champs during puppetear mode by casting spells, upon reaching 10 stacks Ailial can exit Puppetear mode without having to spend mana.

Damage mod: Champion level + (5% of ap x amount of string counters on target)

Q: String sting/Make it dance

String sting is a medium range skill shot that applies a stack of strung soul to the target, when this attack hits a target with 5 string stacks, the target is pulled towards Ailial and Ailial gains damage resistance against the target for a few seconds. When this attack hits a target with 10 string stacks Ailial enters puppetear mode for 3 seconds causing the victim to run towards Ailial. After the 3 seconds are up Ailial gains damage resistance to the target.

While in puppetear mode on an ally, Make it dance becomes available, allowing Ailial to pull the ally in whichever direction Ailial designates. Pulling away from the caster yields less distance than pulling to the sides or towards.

Range: 800 Cost: 20/40/60/80/100 Cooldown: 4 seconds Magic damage: 60/95/130/165/200 +50% AP

W: Make some puppets/Follow your master

Make some puppets is an on-target spell that allows Ailial to steal pets and wards. (Sight and vision wards stolen count towards the player's ward limits. Stolen wards and pets do not have their durations refreshed. Stolen wards and pets grant gold as if they were killed.)

While in puppetear mode, the ally Ailial is connected to gains bonus movement speed when moving towards Ailial.

Ally bonus movement speed: 10/20/30/40/50

E: Sow the cuts/Siphon the pain

Sow the cuts is an on target heal for allied champions, the less health they have remaining, the more damage is healed. It also removes all damage over time effects and if it does, it heals 1.5x the original heal value.

While in puppetear mode, Siphon the pain becomes active, passively converting a percentage of the damage the ally Ailial is connected to into damage towards Ailial's mana/health pool and when activated, the passive converts a much larger portion of the damage received for 10 seconds.

Range: 900 Cost: 70/85/100/115/130 Cooldown (heal): 15 seconds Cooldown (Absorption active): 20 seconds Heal amount: 50/87/125/163/200 +50% AP, +10% of the target's missing health, x1.5 if it removes a DoT effect. Passive damage absorption: 5% Active damage absorption: 20%

R: Puppetear mode

Ailial enters a state where it is immune to all forms of damage and cannot be targeted. Ailial links itself to an allied champion granting the ally bonus armor, magic resistance, attack damage, ability power, health and mana regeneration related to Ailial's values and has her movement speed set to 550 or 10% faster than the allied champion she links to, whichever is higher. If Ailial runs out of mana it is returned to normal state as soon as the linked ally is out of combat. While still in combat, Ailial's health is siphoned instead and can be killed this way. Ailial can cast Puppetear mode again to exit the state so long as Ailial has enough mana to cast it. While in Puppetear mode, Ailial has it's health and mana regeneration disabled during combat. Spell cannot be leveled without Sow the cuts/Siphon the pain leveled. Ailial cannot see champions her linked ally cannot see and cannot move more than 1000 units away from her linked ally.

Mana cost: 10% of max mana + 10% of current mana Bonus armor: 50/75/100% of Ailial's armor Bonus magic resistance: 50/75/100% of Ailial's magic resistance Bonus attack damage: 10/20/30% of Ailial's base AD +50/75/100% of Ailial's bonus AD Bonus ability power: 30/50/70% of Ailial's AP Health and mana regen: 100% at all levels

Thank you for reading and to be honest, I'm looking for some input far as balance goes because although I used numbers similar to those I've experienced already with actual already existing champs, I did change them a little and Ailial's kit MAY allow for abusing. I did my best to try to tie up loose ends. If this idea seems well received I'll even contribute artwork for it, as I already have ideas for an appearance that would look amazing.