[Champion concepts] Rector, The Regulator of Zaun. New mechanic: re-direction and holographic

Firewood Kit·2/4/2016, 10:42:32 PM·3 votes·1,551 views

Rector is a tech-side (heavily computer tech) champion. His abilities build around the concept of digitizing and re-directing. His name came from both Corrector and Director. Both his lore and abilities are built around regulating the direction of his enemy. He is highly associated with Zaun I imagine him as a friend of Ekko ('coz I main him and I love him), and a rival of Viktor (mysterious past with Viktor maybe, as their names are similar) . Rector aimed at correcting the wrongs in Zaun, similar to Ekko. He should be good with Ekko, in both game and lore (hopefully).

I build him as a support/tank champion, who gives up damage in trade of multiple weird CCs. Base Health: 512 - 2048 (Regen: 6-15) Base Mana: 384 - 1024 (Regen: 5-15) Base Attack Damage: 64-128 Attack Speed: 0.625 Range: 475 Movement Speed: 325 Armor & Magic Resist: 32 (fixed, will not scale) ** Passive: Analyzed Malware** Once an enemy champion has re-directed (caused by his W and R only) by Rector, he or she will do 5% less damage to Rector, until death.

Q - Formatting (The only damaging ability) Cost: 80/85/90/95/100 mana Cooldown: 15/13/11/9/7 seconds Range: 375 Rector empowers an ally champion (can be himself) and digitize the surrounding enemy units of that ally champion and repair the champion using the data absorbed for 4 seconds, dealing 20-100 (+0.4 AP/+0.2 Maximum Health) magic damage per second to all enemies within his reach, and heal himself for 20% of all damage dealt by. Within the duration of Q, the spell vamp, life steal and movement speed of the empowered champion is increased by 10%.

(TL;DR: a mobile but weaker and smaller version of Hecarim's Spirit of Dread)

W - New Protocol Cost: 40/45/50/55/60 Cooldown: 10 seconds Range: 800 (shorter than Anivia's Crystallize and Karthus's wall of pain) Length: 550 Rector creates a filtering wall at the target location for 4 seconds that causes ALL champions (both ally and enemy) who dash from the outer side to the inner side to be re-directed/reflected (like a mirror, the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection, and the total path of the dash remains unchanged). If the redirected champion is an enemy champion, he or she will take one third of the damage from his or her dashing ability (This will only apply damage on champion like Vi & Renekton, will not apply on champion like Lucian or Kalista. The wall will also increase the dash distance of ALL the champions who dash from the inner side to the outer side by 20%. Inside side is the side close to Rector when casted, will not change afterward if Rector have reposition himself.

(TL;DR: a mix of Poppy's Steadfast Presence and Jayce's Acceleration Gate)

E - Holography Cost: 80/85/90/95/100 mana Cooldown 19/18/17/16/15 Seconds Cast range: 950 (a little bit larger than Soraka's Equinox) Zone radius: 250 (Same size as Malzahar's Null Zone) Create a holographic field at the target location, turning all champions inside into holographic projection, causing them to lose the ability to interact with other units (whether the target is inside the field or not). The champions inside can still cast their ability, while losing the ability to damage, heal, and CC other, (they can only use the ability on their own, like healing themselves).

(TL;DR: brand new ability, please read the full version XD)

R - Re-routing Cost: 200 mana Cooldown: 140/120/100 Range: 750 (slightly larger than Veigar's Event Horizon) Zone radius: 375 (same as Veigar's Event Horizon) Summons 6 digital doors around the target area after a 0.5 second delay, redirecting the enemy champions who reach the edge of wall from in side. If the champions surrounded by the wall reach one of the digital walls from inside, the champion will exit at the wall in the exact opposite direction. The direction will also change if the champion is dashing out from the wall. This can only happen once per enemy champion. The wall will not disappear after use.

Lets imagine the graphy below as a perfect hexagon, and the evil Viktor has been trapped inside.  / \  [ V ]  \ / When Viktor reach the left-most wall like this (drawing the middle row only because of lazy and better demonstration]: [V  ] He will come up at the exact opposite side like this: [    ]V

Lets replace the evil Viktor with a plit like Vi, who can dash. [ V ] If Vi is dashing to the left, like this: [<<V ] She will get out like this: [    ]>>V But NOT like this (cause poor Vi will never get out if it works this way) [ V<<]

(TL;DR: portal style ability, with six doors arranged in circle)

Design behind (who will read this part tho?) Background I was aimed to make a best troll champion like Bard and Tahm, who are also useful when skilled. MOREOVER, I LOVE EKKO, AND HATE VIKTOR (because he transformed my lovely Vel'Koz into war machine!!). Ability Holography is the first ability I come with, brand new mechanic. It is the first thing come in my mind when I think about future technology. New Protocol is the second ability that I have. It is evolve from Poppy's Steadfast Presence. I was thinking an ability which could help the Ekko in the ally team and punish the Ekko in the opposite team. And, yes, Poppy's Steadfast Presence is something annoyed me A LOT while play Ekko. (It also help and punish Vi in the same way, which may also hint his lore. Re-routing is highly referencing the Qi Men Dun Jia, a strategy used by Zhuge Liang in the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. (Hello from Hong Kong) It was used to confuse the enemy, make them popping into disadvantaged direction. I originally come up with 8 doors, but thinking that the average width of the doors will be to small, thus making it into 6 only.

If you are making this champion real. Let me know, 'causes I have his Chinese name and ability in mind. And if you are making a skin for him, please make him a mage who uses magic about mirror, cause his ability fits in the theme of mirror. Personally I enjoy the computer tech more, because otherwise, he cannot make friend with beloved Ekko, and I really enjoy the idea of hologram. Consider you can put tons of easter egg on the holographic image of each champion (like revealing Zed/Jax/Jarvin identity)!!

Feel free to comment and give ideas in this thread. Try may best to make it reader-friendly, and sorry if I am not 100% right on grammar. Hope riot can adapt this idea, or at least the mechanic. I will be very happy if I successfully made a friend for Ekko.

4 Comments

Malhammers2/4/2016, 10:47:28 PM2 votes

Reminds me of Monsters, Inc. when they are running through the door factory at the end/climax of the movie haha. Cool concept, though.

Firewood Kit2/6/2016, 11:54:22 PM1 votes

Should people inside his E able to fight each other? In order to allow the attacker chasing the people inside for more damage (or execution). i.e., If Ekko and Viktor are both inside his E, Ekko can do damage on Viktor and vise versa, while the outside Vi can do nothing on them and they cannot do anything about Vi.

Considering that people inside Rector's E cannot receive any buff either, meaning that the effects of Sona's W, Soraka's R, and even Thresh's Lantern will not perform inside the Holographic field. Will he be completely trolling his allies if people inside can also do damage to the protecting target?

What do you think on his spells? Is it too OP or not? Should champions inside his E able to interact (including healing, damaging, shielding) with each other?