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[CHAMPION CONCEPT] Negritch, the Plague's Prophet

Meep Man··8 votes·3,299 views

Negritch is an extremely heavy damage over time Mage, being a rat similar to Twitch Twitch. He came to be from Twitch messing around with experiments near his less intelligent friends. However, unlike Twitch, this rat gained a higher degree of intelligence. HOWEVER, still being insane, he can only truly use this intelligence for extremely chaotic uses. Born from failed experiments dumped into the sewers and being a rat of Zaun, Negritch hopes to spread the plague of the sewers across Runeterra, working with Twitch to achieve this goal, promising food and fame in return. He believes the plague is a living being and almighty being at that, wanting it to grow. Negritch has also learned how to combine chemicals effectively like the scientists above the ground, with lesser effects of course. Able to recreate the rat mutation formula that effects him and Twitch to a lesser degree, Negritch can control an army of lesser rats to help him and Twitch achieve their goals. After a couple months of planning, Negritch has risen from the sewers, starting with Zaun to infect the plague with.

LORE

TO "H.I.V.E. Incident Report" Code Violation: Chemical Homicide, Industrial Homicide Casefile Status: Unsolved Investigation Agent: Rol, P.

Team responded to failed check in after eighteen hours: proceeded to Sump Works, Sector 43TZ. Sector 43TZ appeared abandoned. Upon further investigation, notables include: rat infestation, noxious fumes, chemical spill, high quarantine level disease readings. Further investigation needed due to lack of survivors.

Sector 43TZ entered by search team. Half of search team was, surprisingly, eaten by rats halfway. No survivors found, mysterious figure spotted. Mysterious figure appeared to be similar to reports from Sector 90TZ. Continued searching. Parts of diseased found, none identifiable. Few whole bodies were found, some unreadable due to strange body infecting disease. Second figure seen, this time with a large tank attached to it's head. Appeared to be carrying chemical spraying machine. Contact with specimen was avoided for the last reason. These two specimens disappeared for the rest of the investigation, a notable amount of rats disappearing with them. Cause of death for most of the victims seem to be being eaten by rats, disease, crossbow bolts, and caustic liquidation.

Recovered items include: 9 dead rats in jars 94 opened jars (identical in look to the jars containing dead rats) 33 bottles of water (untainted) 579 bottles of water (tainted) 1 pair of boots Some crumbs of cheese 22 unlabeled bottles (smell and appear to be chemicals) 1 sign reading "Negritch does not allow experiments of his brothers" 1 note reading "Slather fungi on Plague Tank later"

Considering the only experiments going on in Sector 43TZ involved the experimentation of rats and all of what has happened and has been seen here, it is easy to conclude that the "giant rat" known as Twitch is still very much active and at large and has a new ally known as Negritch, very likely another "giant rat". Believed that the duo came here to obtain dead rats in jars, unknown reasoning. Continued investigation of sewers is now mandatory to H.I.V.E. due to recent events.

H.I.V.E. - "Enforcing Progress!"

KIT

Negritch, the Plague's Prophet Mage Secondary: Support Health- 405 (+75 per level) (1755 at Level 18) Health Regen- 9.7 (+0.5 per level) (18.7 per 5 seconds at Level 18) Mana- 240 (+45 per level) (1050 at Level 18) Mana Regen- 5.3 (+0.75 per level) (18.8 per 5 seconds at Level 18) Armor- 14.8 (+3.2 per level) (72.4 at Level 18) Magic Resist- 30 (+0 per level) (30 at Level 18) Movement Speed- 330 Attack Damage- 54 (+3 per level) (108 at Level 18) Attack Speed- 0.635 (+1.9% per level) (~0.84 at Level 18) Attack Range- 125 (Melee)

Passive- The Plague Innate: Enemy units that are damaged by Negritch are applied an anti-healing shield for 1.5/2/2.5 seconds, negating 5/10/15 (+1.5% AP) points of healing per tick of damage. This stacks up to 10/11/12 times, up to a 50/110/180 (+15/16.5/18% AP) heal shield. Damage refreshes the duration. Enemy champions are weakened by the plague while the shield is up, causing them to lose 10% (+1% per 100 AP) of their attack damage and ability power. Level Up Levels: 1/8/16

Ability 1- Rat Infestation Passive: Rats are naturally attracted to the smell of chemicals from the tank on top of Negritch's head, causing rats to follow him where he goes. Enemy champions that step into the horde of rats are damaged by 1/1.35/1.7/2.05/2.4% (+1% per 100 AP) of their missing health per second and are slowed by 10/12.5/15/17.5/20%. Active: Negritch tosses the tank on top of his head to the target location, silencing himself for the cool down due to his lack of the Plague Tank, disabling this ability's passive, and causing him to automatically become melee if he is currently ranged from Plague Tank. Once it hits the ground, it explodes minimally due to not being processed, dealing 20/30/40/50/60 (+10% AP) magic damage and slowing the target by 10/15/20/25/30% for 2 seconds. The rats around Negritch rush to the target area, becoming ravenous. The rats now deal 20/35/50/65/80 (+20% AP) magic damage plus 2.5/2.75/3/3.25/3.5% (+1% per 100 AP) of their missing health in magic damage per second. Enemies inside the rats are also slowed by 15/20/25/30/35%. The rats last at the location for 3 seconds. Cost: 70 mana Cool Down: 16/15/14/13/12 sec. Range: 775 AoE Radius: 300 Passive Range: 375 Projectile Speed: 950 Rat Travel Speed: 525

Ability 2- Plague Tank Passive: The Plague now also causes enemies affected to take 5/8/11/14/17 (+2/2.5/3/3.5/4% AP) magic damage every 0.5 seconds while infected. Damage from The Plague cannot refresh The Plague. Toggle- Off: Negritch's basic attacks deal 10/15/20/25/30 (+5% AP) bonus magic damage and causes the anti-shield amount per attack for his melee basic attacks to be increased by 6/7/8/9/10 (+3% AP). The maximum anti-heal shield stays the same. Toggle- On: Negritch's basic attacks deal 15/20/25/30/35% normal damage and lose the bonus instant magic damage, but become ranged, giving him 225/250/275/300/325 extra range and 60/70/80/90/100% increased attack speed. These attacks are a continuous spread, affecting all enemy units in a line of where Negritch sprays. Cost: 8/10/12/14/16 mana per basic attack Cool Down: 1 sec. Total Range: 350/375/400/425/450

Ability 3- Projectile Vomit Active: Negritch channels for 1 second, drinking from the Plague Tank. After a 0.25 second delay, he then vomits in the direction he is facing, silencing the first enemy unit hit for 1 second. The vomit explodes in an area around the target, causing all enemy units hit to take 30/60/90/120/150 (+25% AP) magic damage over 4 seconds. Damage from multiple Projectile Vomits do stack. Cost: 55/60/65/70/75 mana Cool Down: 11/10/9/8/7 sec. Range: 600 AoE Radius: 200 Projectile Speed: 650 Total Max Damage with Max Rank Plague Tank (excluding MR): 251/281/311/341/371 (+77% AP)

Ultimate- Epidemic Active: Negritch releases a processed batch of the plague from the Plague Tank, causing enemy units around him to take 300/400/500 (+110% AP) magic damage over 6 seconds. After 10 seconds, rats will appear and return to Negritch, healing him by 5/7.5/10% (+1% per 100 AP) of each unit's maximum health that was killed by the Epidemic. Cost: 150/175/200 mana Cool Down: 140/125/110 sec. Range: 750 Spread Speed: 250 Rat Speed: 650 Total Max Damage with Max Rank Plague Tank (excluding MR): 589/689/789 (+178% AP)

QUOTES

Selection- "Yes, we thank you kindly for choosing our cause!"

Walking- "What do you mean the Black Death?" "Ugh, so much green of the wrong shade." "All these forests should just burned down!" "We believe that way is correct." "sniffs around We smell flesh!" "We march onward!" "If it's war they want, they will get war." "cackles" "DO NOT, touch the tank." "The feel of grass disgusts me." "Where are we going? I hope it is towards the smell." "I DEMAND A BISCUIT!" "The plague seems to want to go this way." "Do not question our cause!" "It spoke to me and I responded!" "YACK! This place smells like... oh wait, that is me." "Good thing we brought some snacks for the road... ugh..." "Excuse me, fleas, this is not a RESTAURANT!" "Taste of the plague." "But I don't like to feel good, I like to feel evil..."

Attacking "SCRATCH!" "Take this!" "Why do they resist?" "YOU CANNOT OUTRUN... huff... my back..." "I just want some snacks!" "Stop the plague huh? Not today!" "Don't forget we are your death!" "Cure? Only death..." "Do you not have the biscuit I smell?" "Taste it! YES! ITS TERRIBLE RIGHT!" "Do not forget that this is where it all ends. The past, the present, even the future, it has all lead up to this moment, heheheheh..." "Toxification time!" "Nyeheheheheheheheheheh..." "And suddenly, Negritch!" "A failure to see, smell, hear, taste, move, smell, feel, and live are all common symptoms... HAHAAAAAH!" "I'll see you buried." "Only I can control Runeterra! Us I mean..." "All of Valoran belongs to us!" "Do not question our methods!" "Oh look... lunch."

Joke with Plague Tank- Negritch tumbles over and can't get up due to the tank on his head. After a bit, he stands back up "HELP! I HAVE FALLEN AND... oh wait, there is no key for that." "HELP! OOF! This thing is too heavy and... oh wait, it's a video game."

Joke without Plague Tank- Negritch burps and then sends the gas created away "For you." "This one came from somewhere special." "Oh, now I'm hungry." "I think that emptied the stomach." "Hey! IM HUNGRY!"

Taunt- Negritch claws in front of him and then screams at the sky If interacting with a champion he points and then does a choking motion "HNYA! HNYA! FOR THE PLAGUE!" "HAH! HAH! If only you were closer!" "HOO! YEAH! Wanna overextend?!" "NYAH! HOOHA! BRING IT!" "Oh, Twitch, why are you over there on their side?" Twitch "My fellow rat, you need some discipline!" Twitch "No more 360 no scopes today, sorry." Caitlyn "If only I could actually do this to you!"Zac "STAY OUT OF MY SLIME!"Zac "Robots, it always has to be robots..."Viktor "HEAL THIS!"DrMundo "You shall not go anywhere now!"DrMundo "Thank you for the potions Singed, they are going to a great cause!"Singed "Agh, what is this demonic aura I feel... ow..."Teemo "BARFING CONTEST, GO!"KogMaw "I could use whatever that green stuff is inside of ya there pal."Urgot "Do not judge my work! I am a scientist too!"Heimerdinger "Strange, you don't seem to scream in horror like others... is this why Twitch hates you?"Rammus "Spin till ya barf!"Garen "Leaving Zaun does not protect you from me, Janna."Janna "Strange, weren't you human before?"Warwick "These are my sewers croc!"Renekton "What is it? Can't handle a little bit of DISEASE!?"Soraka "No one can hear you scream in the sewers, literally."Sona "Come back after the job is done warden."Thresh

Buying Certain Items "Just add ice and BOOM!"item 3303 "BOOM!"item 3092 "Why do I need shoes? I heard trench foot gives a nice soft exterior."item 1001 "Ah, what my enemies will look like when I am done with them."item 3151 "A scepter of my taste."item 3001 "Now we both are untouchable!"item 3157 "Needs more corruption... and less blue... and then... BANG! THE PLAGUE HAS EVOLVED!"item 3116 "I'd love a taste of this... mmmmmmmmhh..."item 3174

Using Rat Infestation "GO MY CHILDREN GO!" "BECOME FOOD!" "FEEDING TIME!"

Using Projectile Vomit "Guguguguh... BLAG!" "Hhhmmm, guhguh... AMAZING!" "Guhguguhguhguh... TASTES AMAZING!"

Using Epidemic "Do you fear death?" "And so it begins..." "IT BEGINS!" "Now release, infect them my master!" "The plague will always come back."

TIPS

When Playing as Negritch

  • Remember to build some defenses into your items since you will often need to get into the thick of the fight to make use of your ultimate, Epidemic, due to its slow traveling speed.
  • It is often a good idea to use Rat Infestation last due to it making all of your other abilities ineffective and the rats dealing a percentage of the enemy's missing health.
  • Building cool down reduction on Negritch is a smart idea to be able to use Epidemic in as many fights as you can and making the silence on Rat Infestation last a shorter amount of time. It also allows him to dish out damage with Projectile Vomit much faster.
  • A item 3151 Liandry's Torment can seriously benefit your damage, especially when combined with a item 3116 Rylai's Crystal Scepter.

When Playing Against Negritch

  • Building magic resistance to decrease his magic damage is a very smart idea, especially item 3102 Banshee's Veil since it can entirely block his ultimate, which is his most common opening move since Rat Infestation will silence him and Projectile Vomit has a noticeable delay to both allies and enemies. On the other hand, building some armor will decrease the damage from Plague Tank. Health can also help as well depending on Negritch's item build.
  • Negritch's ultimate is easy to dodge if he is not close to you. If you see him using it, move away from him since you can outrun the wave of plague if you are not under the effects of crowd control.
  • Negritch is squishy. If he is near you and has not built any defenses, it can be a good idea for your team to focus him to due to his high sustained damage and rather low health.
  • It is a smart idea to stay away from Negritch while low on health due to the combination of Rat Infestation's missing health damage and his ultimate, Epidemic.
  • Projectile Vomit and Epidemic can be cleansed by item 3140 Quicksilver Sash. It can help a lot when going against him in the laning phase AND during teamfights.

COUNTERS AND GOOD COMBINATIONS

Negritch counters...

Soraka Soraka Negritch's anti-heal shield will make both Soraka's Wish and Astral Healing reduced or rendered useless.

DrMundo Dr. Mundo Negritch's anti-heal shield reduces Dr. Mundo' passive regeneration from Adrenaline Rush and reduces the effects of Sadism. It also causes Dr. Mundo to potentially not be healed by an effective hit of Infected Cleaver.

Braum Braum Due to Plague Tank's ranged form effecting the entire area instantly, Negritch can shoot past Braum's shield. Projectile Vomit also deals damage around the target, not the point of impact, meaning enemies behind Braum will still be affected.

Negritch is countered by...

Leona Leona Leona can effectively lock down Negritch and burst him down or set him up for an easy kill for her lane partner. Her bonus defenses also weaken the effects of his damage.

Caitlyn Caitlyn Caitlyn can very effectively poke Negritch down due to her extremely long range abilities and range. Since all of Negritch's long range damage either punishes him or is unreliable, he cannot respond very well to her poke.

Lulu Lulu Lulu can not only effectively poke Negritch down, but can also shield herself or her carry from his high damage over time. Her ultimate's health boost is also unaffected by The Plague's anti-heal shield, leaving Negritch with little to do but attempt to reduce her and her lane partner's AD/AP.

Negritch plays well with...

Twitch Twitch Negritch's anti-heal shield combined with Twitch's true damage makes for a nasty combination of all forms of damage over time. Their combined AoE damage over time also nearly marks groups of targets for death in extended fights.

Ashe Ashe Ashe's slows and crowd control allow Negritch to not have to walk into the middle of the enemies to effectively use his ultimate, Epidemic. It also allows for very effective use of Rat Infestation and Projectile Vomit.

Jinx Jinx Jinx's combined missing health damage on her ultimate plus Negritch's high damage over time combine for a deadly combination. They also both have AoE basic attacks with one of their abilities, complementing each other on that as well. Her root also helps a lot with using Rat Infestation and Projectile Vomit.

RECOMMENDED BUILD

Starting Items item 3303 item 2003 x3 item 3341 Core Items item 3158 item 3092 item 3151 AP Scaling/Offensive Items item 3174 item 3135 item 3089 item 3001 item 3128 Defensive Items item 3157 item 3116 item 3143 item 3110 item 3065 Consumables item 2003 item 2004 item 2044 item 2043 item 2039

FRIENDS AND ENEMIES

FRIENDS Twitch Twitch

Explanation: Twitch supports Negritch's cause due to the promise of food and fame once The Plague takes over. Therefore, Negritch is allies with Twitch and works with him. Due to their species similarity, Twitch is immune to the plague unless directly inserted into Twitch's vital organs, similar to Negritch.

Singed Singed

Explanation: This is more of a one sided relationship. Negritch loves Singed since he develops chemicals that can combine with The Plague to make for extremely corrosive results, but Singed hates Negritch since those chemicals aren't exactly borrowed or payed for. This relationship may change if Singed invests in mouse traps.

ENEMIES Zac Zac

Explanation: Zac works day and night to protect the citizens of Zaun. Negritch is an obvious enemy to Zaun, making Zac and Negritch constantly go head to head whenever Negritch surfaces to infect the population. Negritch is also annoyed that Zac is harder to infect with the plague. Due to Zac and Negritch's rivalry, Twitch is occasionally conflicted with who to consider his friend, most of the time ending with Negritch using chemicals to forcefully bring Twitch back to his "senses".

Viktor Viktor

Explanation: Being part machine, in a similar vain to Zac, Negritch is annoyed that another citizen of Zaun who would gladly defend against Negritch is harder to infect than a normal human.

DrMundo Dr. Mundo

Explanation: Negritch hates Dr. Mundo due to his study. They are scientists of opposite fields of science, leading Negritch to hate him simply due to this.

MUSIC I FIND FITTING FOR HIM (POSSIBLE LOG IN SCREEN THEME)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubiq5mjU86M For the Dark Gods- Warhammer Soundtrack (the music I played while creating his kit and lore)

POST UPDATES

Update 1- Nerfed the damage on Projectile Vomit/Epidemic upon realization of the amount of damage Projectile Vomit/Epidemic + Plague Tank passive would be doing. Also nerfed Plague Tank passive damage as well and added a little clarification.

Update 2- Reduced the range on Projectile Vomit and reduced Plague Tank's range buff.

Update 3- Reduced the percentage AD/AP reduction by 3% down to 10% from 13%

Update 4- Updated the post to look a little better and increased the mana cost of Plague Tank, mainly at early ranks. Also increased the cool down of Rat Infestation, to better represent it as the main reason he cannot make his passive be up 100% of the time and the high power of it

Update 5- Added Level 18 totals to his base stats next to the per level indicators and removed magic resist per level to further fit his stats into a melee who can become ranged. Slightly increased the range on Projectile Vomit (from 575 to 600) and added projectile speed to its information. Decreased the AP ratio on Epidemic to 110% to 120%. Added fitting music for Negritch, possible log in screen, to further get you to know his character as an aggressive, chemically created Rat Prophet/General.

Update 6- Added Recommended Build and decreased the duration of Projectile Vomit to 4 seconds from 5 seconds as well as decreasing the base damage and the AP ratio significantly. Decreased the slow on the active rat part of Rat Infestation slightly (20/25/30/35/40% to 15/20/25/30/35%) and increased the range on the passive part slightly (300 to 375)

Update 7- Changed passive healing reduction to 35% from 50%

Update 8- Reworked passive to an anti-heal shield from Grievous Wounds. Credit to Dereet for the idea!

Update 9- Increased the cool down of Rat Infestation by 1 second. Added quotes.

Update 10- Added Counters and Good Combinations section and added a bit of quality improvement. Added Elixir of Brilliance to Consumables in Recommended Build.

Update 11- Fixed Plague Tank still reading increasing Grievous Wounds. It now increases the amount of anti-heal applied by 6/7/8/9/10 (+3% AP)

INSPIRATION

Negritch's lore was based off Twitch's lore http://gameinfo.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/game-info/champions/twitch/

Negritch's design (appearance in my head) is based off of Warhammer's Skaven Warlord Engineer (see picture, could not find official source/link to use)

31 Comments

Noctis Lunaris2 votes

I imagined a laning phase of Twitch/Negritch combo.

Dear god is it a horrifying thing to think about.

Meep Man2 votes

The DoT combo too stronk... but I still imagine it being manageable due to their extremely low defenses. Any bottom lane that has a tank like Leona or Thresh should wreck them pretty bad since they can just crowd control one of them (probs Twitch) and Negritch would have no way to stop any burst that comes Twitch's way besides straight up body blocking skillshots. The same would work vise versa. Yes, if you are Sona, Soraka, or even Taric, may god have mercy on you, but if you aren't the lane becomes a good bit less scary since both of them are so squishy.

I also don't think it would be played much since the only ways their kits complement each other is the Grievous Wounds from The Plague helping Twitch's true damage. Their DoTs stack, but then again, so would a Teemo and Twitch combo, not to mention having free wards with Teemo.

Noctis Lunaris2 votes

I understand fully that the combo has it's upsides as well as it's downsides. Still the very idea of fighting both at the same time is absolutely terrifying.

The DoT, alongside grevious wounds, the AoE of both, and dealing all 3 damage types (True, Physical, andd Magic) makes the two work better than you realize. Twitch's in-lane damage is nothing to scoff at either, with both, you'll find yourself running dangerously low unless they're out of Mana or you're durable enough to facetank their damage. Yes, both are squishy, and have the odds stacked against them against some lane opponents, but the same can be said of any combos. I just find this one Nightmarish to lane against if both are competent.

Thresh God have mercy on your soul indeed if a Negritch main supports a Twitch main..

Meep Man2 votes

HAHA! Yes I agree with you. Any combo that has to do with all three damage types is hell to deal with, especially with AoE. A competent Twitch and Negritch would be a devastating combo. Similar to the difference between a skilled Zed and new Zed, a skilled rat combo and a new rat combo are like night and day for many reasons, mainly on the Negritch's part. Due to Negritch's way of dealing damage, he can unintentially or intentially steal a lot of farm from Twitch simply by the enemy standing near minions when he uses Projectile Vomit, Negritch would have to get decently out of position to harass with Plague Tank, and his ultimate would undoubtedly steal some minions. On the other side, Negritch could wait to max Projectile Vomit until teamfight start despite it is his only form of nonpunishing harass and he can sacrafise damage for tankiness to actually be able to gain some neck room to move around for Plague Tank.

As far as the DoT, remember it is Damage Over Time, being naturally weaker than all damage at once. The enemy has time to react to it by shielding themselves, healing (even 50% can save you), and getting out of the fight since they know how much damage they will take if they stay if they know who they are facing.

I find it more of god have mercy on you if a Vayne and Sona combo are bottom since Sona gives Vayne a crap ton of room through sustain, shields, and counter poke to get to her UBER hyper carry late game. A competent Caitlyn and Lulu combo is also hell to go against since the poke is real.

SO, yes I 100% agree with you that a Twitch and Negritch would be so aggrevating to go against, but, like all other super combos, they have their super weaknesses. Sorry for my rants! I talk about things WAY too much sometimes.

Noctis Lunaris2 votes

Oh not at all, It was just an amusing observation I made.

As for the champion itself, I really enjoy how well he meshes his kit with his theme, and what really got me interested is how you made him stick out and not just be a "Talking rat person #2".

It's also nice how he helps add a bit more to a "Group", in the same way Lucian added a bit more to Vayne 's "Group" despite not being directly tied to her the same way you tied Twitch to Negritch.

Also, I really love that name. Negritch and Twitch. It's like they have a flea problem.......wait

Meep Man2 votes

Thank you! I love to hear that someone likes what I post. I try my hardest to make a defined character, especially with Negritch here. While with some concepts I simply want to explore a form of ability combined with another ability and see how the others react to it, I wanted to test and see this time if others wanted to see another rat scampering the fields. To try and make them others like it, I didn't make him, as you said, "Talking Rat Person #2". I made him as a unique figure that has his own personality and brings something new, in this case a Plague Worshiping Rat.

As far as tying them directly together, while there is a little more room with humans to be the same yet separate, I found that Zaun would be the only place any mutated rat would fit into being made there. Therefore, I thought to myself and thought it would be pretty strange if the only two mutated rats in Runeterra weren't connected to each other directly in anyway. Besides, I think I myself would find it disappointing if say, there was a second monkey in the League and Wukong wasn't related or had nothing to do with them at all.

Name wise, I thought up of other names like Negrocoon, Flitzick, and Writhick, I found that none of the names I thought of sounded "ratty". SO, I actually went into some fantasy world games, books, and movies that involved rats and looked into what some of their names were. Some of the rat names I found didn't sound vile enough, so I looked more at the evil rats of modern fantasy, looking into some book series I know such as The Mistmantle Chronicles, Warhammer, and other sources. I found that Warhammer rat names were best fitting so I mixed up some random names from there, added some letters, removed some, and then finally found a name that I felt fit the character. Negritch. And yes, I would believe someone if they told me that rats weren't the only things swarming around Twitch and Negritch as they passed by. As Twitch would say probably, fleas are a rat's best friend.

Salty Waifu2 votes

Isnt his passive a bit too op?

Meep Man1 votes

Ah, I expected this to show up. Well, let us look into this.

Passive- The Plague Innate: Enemy units that are damaged by Negritch are applied Grievous Wounds for 1.5/2/2.5 seconds. Enemy champions are weakened by the plague, causing them to lose 13% (+1% per 100 AP) of their attack damage and ability power for the duration. Level Up Levels: 1/8/16

Grievous Wounds on every tick of damage and AD/AP loss on champions. While maybe the base percentage could be tuned down a bit by about 3-4%, I find it to be needed. Allow me to explain. Negritch is a rat with little to no armor, meaning he has to be squishy or else that would just look, feel, and be weird especially with how he is. HOWEVER, I found that his ultimate was a part of his kit I did not want to change nor did I want to give him any form of invisibility or mobility since invisibility is Twitch's thing and mobility just doesn't feel right on a Mage unless it is something like Lissandra's mobility. So, how can he get into the middle of the enemy, which is where he wants to be, without getting blown to bits? Well, he reduces their damage of course. Fitting for a plague as well since no one hits their hardest when they are sick. However, we can't just have point and click without some down side right? So, I made his other abilities either be unreliable or force him to get in a little close, BUT NOT TOO CLOSE OR HE'LL BE USELESS AND INSTANTLY DIE! Also, he is a melee mage, meaning he needs some form of tankiness. And even when he becomes ranged, he still isn't incredibly long range and that crap consumes mana like it is it's job being about 17 or mana per second at max rank which stacks up over time.

As far as the Grievous Wounds part, its a disease and he focuses on damage over time, I don't see how he would function without it when all of his damage could just be negated by just getting some lifesteal and healing back up as it is dealt. That makes for a too easily countered character.

So, in the end, the passive is necessary to do what it does since he is a Melee Damage Over Time Mage that is squishy, meaning everything on him is the weaker end of the chain without item modification. I hope this helped.

Noctis Lunaris2 votes

It would be if he had a way to safely apply it with 100% uptime (AKA, AA damage), and such in a way that he isn't compromising his build. Being AP, Squishy, and Melee (W effect only giving him range at a cost. Even then, 450 range is pretty low), He doesn't really have room for AS,

and AS options for APs boil down to item 3115 anyway. Something I don't think Negritch would find useful.

The fact that his skills apply it is hardly an issue since CDs and Mana costs gate that, and once again not having room to stack AP like other mages (Squishy and Melee). He also has a self silence, if I recall.

Noctis Lunaris2 votes

I'm amazed that someone remembers item 3001 exists

Meep Man1 votes

Indeed. It synergizes pretty well with his ultimate and Rat Infestation passive so it was worth the slot.

Decrit2 votes

Just dropping here for a thing: griveous wounds it' s going to be removed sooner or later and it' s not going to be well-supported, if they do not have ulterior plans. Plus care with the balls of stat, either increase or decrease, few ones likes them

so far, loving the barf skill and the insect swarm one ^_^

Meep Man1 votes

If Grievous Wounds is removed then I'll just have to come up with something else to help him since DoT is countered by healing highly and I don't want him countered that easily for the enemy to just have some lifesteal and heal back all his damage as it is dealt. While this does make him just destroy some champions (Soraka, Mundo), I am not entirely worried about this since Mundo and Negritch are located in opposite lanes and Soraka is getting reworked soon so I can't truly say he counters her new kit or not.

Decrit1 votes

still, that destroyes them. Plus you are taqlking about lane, but are you sure he would be played only in a lane? what about teamfights, where you actually neglify an ult or some key heals with just a non-interactive passive?

Meep Man1 votes

As far as teamfights go, the item Quicksilver Dash can remove The Plague similar to other debuffs and DoTs. Also, the case of noninteractable passives negating other's abilities is nothing new. Characters such as Fizz, MF, Tristana, and even some items apply Grievous Wounds by simply hitting them. Negritch just simply brings that to the extreme due to his AoE (yet hard to hit) abilities. It his what makes him who he is. While it is a good idea to avoid hard counters, it is inevitable eventually while still making unique characters.

Decrit1 votes

so, first of all, do you really want an aspect of your champion compleately negated by an item? I agree that the situation is as you say, this does not mean it is good: exectuoner and morello are looked down, while griveous wounds are applied to the most recent champions only on key abilities or for trading purposes, as such negating enemy life steal and being cautious about the champions that rely on health gain: there it is nothing more than anti-fun having a champion based on healing and seeing that negated only by the mere existence of a champion in the enemy team. If you want to do it please be more cautious, give to it up and low times so the enemy has a window in which he can heal, and give to him a timing so you can distrupt his healing when it' s needed. and don' t empower more compared to how it is now. Same thing applies fro griveous, plus quicksilver has a gread cooldown and you apply it with way too much ease. Just say' n, you are free to think what you prefer and still now i belive you are partly right.

Meep Man1 votes

Truly, it is impossible to see how the Grievous Wounds would be on paper here. So we are both right in some aspects. So, for now, Id say itd be safe to leave as is while it stays on paper.

Decrit1 votes

Agree, needs further developement from higher floors too now, where' s my martini with top plague rat?

EDIT: i spat my martini and i give you this idea: do an anti-shield. Instead of griveous wounds, make it instead apply a "shield" that absorbs heals before currently healing the champion. It' s more visible, easier to counter by the enemy healer and it' s way les sinvasive that % reduction

Meep Man2 votes

That idea is very good! I might just borrow that and use it! Counterable yet does its job! It also makes it curable from healing like a real disease!

Decrit1 votes

I am using that for a tabletop roleplay game i am developing, hope it will be useful :D

EDIT: plague tank still lists griveous wounds!

Meep Man1 votes

Thanks for the heads up! Fixed too now! I hope your RPG does well too! I'll be glad to buy it once/if it comes out! :D

Snush2 votes

Lot of effort put into this. Looks awesome, 10/10 would play. Let's get a Red in here to green light it!

Meep Man1 votes

THANKS! I hope I can improve it further by maybe adding some ability icons or an actual picture of him and not what he is inspired off of. If a Red green lighted this, I think I would just die. I would fall out of my chair and die. Maybe twitch on the floor a bit, but I would die.

Hummingdeer1 votes

i would so play this. I dont like rats but i would love this mad one!!! You did amazing job with this concept!!! if you only get this guy with rp I would so pay to play him. I like the detail and those jokes lolz!!! I hope to see more of this champ idea!!! I will be watching Twitch "sneaky sneaky"

I wish the best of lucky to this idea!!!

Meep Man1 votes

Thank you friend. Your words sustain why I make these concepts.

Bouffon dAnglais1 votes

Great concept! If this ever going to be released, I'm going to spam these Negritch+Twitch bot lanes...

Meep Man1 votes

Yeah, I noticed fully how good of a support he would be for Twitch (Twitch only?) upon noticing their reduced healing DoT combo AND his gold gain from the Frost Queen line of items. Considering he also has decent base damage as well with subpar scaling for damage over time, it also makes him not dependent on items, meaning he doesn't need as much gold. I would love someone at least like him bottom lane for a LoL recreation of the Bubonic Plague in Bottom Lane or something of the sorts.

Warrior Panda1 votes

Did you draw that picture yourself it looks great! Also, if you have a skype can you add me (The.cow87)? I'd like to talk to you about some things.

Shamont1 votes

this is cool, twitch needs a rat buddy, i like bump

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