[Champion Concept] Nikolai the Northern Trapper

KingCanada·3/20/2015, 3:00:09 AM·1 votes·954 views

This is my first champion concept so forgive me if there are errors and is not thorough enough.

Nikolai the Northern Trapper

Play style: Focuses on placing traps to have fights happen on his own terms and set up the battlefield in advance

Roles: Support, Tank

Kit: Passive-Trappers Awareness: For every trap he has in a set range, he gains 2% movement speed

Q-Lure: Nikolai places a Cherry Bomb the size of a Teemo Mushroom which can be activated within a set time of 5 seconds, if activated it Charm/Taunts enemies withing a certain range to the center of the bomb which then goes off and does some damage. However if the Bomb is not activated within the first 5 seconds Nikolai will no longer be able to activate it but enemies who walk over will activate it.

  • Can be used as initiation or trap to lure unsuspecting enemies into the palm of your ADC

W-Net Trap: Nikolai places a net on the ground, if walked over by an enemy champion it activates and knocks opponent into the air for a time (Tried to mimic enemy being suspended in the air by those classic net traps). Can hold 2 charges at a time

E-Tripwire: A tripwire is placed upon the ground with a changeable size, the bigger the tripwire, the easier to see. The tripwire can be place between two pieces of terrain (max length is around width of river) or it can be placed out in the open, but as will be easier to see. If hit by an enemy champion, they are slowed and you are granted vision of them for a short time. Can hold 2 charges at a time

  • Used as an alarm system for ganks

R-The Cage: Nikolai activates his most powerful trap, The Cage. (Look it as a larger square version of Jarvans ult, but there is a twist) Nikolai has imbued his cage with arcane runes preventing dashes, shifts, blinks, and teleports out of the cage, the only means of escape is killing Nikolai, flashing out or fighting your way through the enemy team.

I am sorry that there are no actual numbers of damage, time, and CD. Like i said this is my first champion concept and I dont have everything written in stone, hopefully ill get those numbers down and update. So what do you think of Nikolai the Northern Trapper?

3 Comments

SheikaRei3/20/2015, 3:05:50 AM1 votes

I personally think its a cool idea. Although, some art and lore may help with the visualization of his abilities. Again, I think its a cool concept and think you should continue with it until you've got everything figured out.

DorkunedAuras3/20/2015, 4:16:45 AM1 votes

I agree with what sheika said. This seems like a cool concept, but I'm not sure it'd work in league. The trap master just doesn't do anything outside of setting of some picks, or laning. He just doesn't have anything that can be used quickly (outside of ult). If anything happens, he is the least reactive champion in the game. Along with this, he has extremely strict limits on his traps, meaning he can't set up too much (granted too much would make him hell to exist against), but his kit just seems lacking.

I'm not going to lie, I don't have any great ideas on how to fix him. I just don't think Trap God will work in this game. Amumu

Xillarius3/20/2015, 7:18:13 PM1 votes

Passive is a little underwhelming, maybe make it like 4% per trap, or even like 8% if the set range is pretty low.