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A'Xia - The Embroiderer's Daughter (Global Mage)

altarui·11/8/2014, 9:41:02 AM·3 votes·815 views

My last of 3 Champion Designs - with Kun and Veluriyam. Cheers!

A'Xia - Ionia

Passive: Embroidery - Each of A'Xia's needles leaves a Thread attached to enemy champions for 7 seconds.

**Q: Swift Sleeve: **A'Xia sends forth 2 needles that travels in a line across the whole map. It will deal 10% less damage for each subsequent target hit, down to a minimum of 30% damage dealt.

MAGIC DAMAGE per needle: 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 / 110 (+ 30% AP)

W: Suspension: A'Xia kicks the ground below her and takes flight backwards (~200 units). If an enemy champion nearby has three Threads, A'Xia pulls the enemy champion towards her the same distance and deals magic damage.

MAGIC DAMAGE: 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240 (+ 70% AP)

**E: Contortion: **A'Xia targets an enemy champion with four Threads, dealing magic damage and turning the enemy champion as well as any incoming enemy projectiles (including ranged auto-attacks) 180 degrees. Enemy champions are locked in the new direction for 2 seconds.

MAGIC DAMAGE: 70 / 115 / 160 / 205 / 250 (+ 40% AP)

**R: Memories of Pain: **A'Xia channels for 0.5 seconds, throwing 24 needles around her which travel in a line across the whole map.

MAGIC DAMAGE PER NEEDLE: 40 / 57.5 / 75 (+ 25% AP) MAXIMUM DAMAGE TO EACH ENEMY: 400 / 575 / 750 (+ 250% AP)

Notes: AA: ranged Q: break-and-butter skill, yet different from Syndra/Karthus' Q with its global movement. High assassinating potential, especially tower-huggers. Low damage though without AP W: escape mechanism - not too effective in preventing ganks as enemies are pulled towards her, but can take enemies under tower. Early game can serve enemy laners with a dose of "minions OP" E: Unique CC in locking enemy champions as if they were doing the Culling as Lucian. Adc's worst nightmare - similar to Fiddle's fear in which they are forced to turn the opposite direction R: Similar to Katarina's ult, but needles are fired at once. Applies stacks of Thread, which can allow A'Xia to quickly combo with Suspension or Contortion

Image Credit: XiaoAoJiangHu-Online. Art too good, my concept would be useless

3 Comments

Booleans11/9/2014, 7:28:57 AM1 votes

I'm not too fond of global abilities, but I could see the Q working as a really long range skillshot provided the hitbox was reasonably thin. I honestly don't like the E because I don't see any counterplay in a 1v1 situation. It seems to me like a targeted auto-win because all of a sudden the enemy can't hit you with skillshots or autoattacks. The ult is basic, but solid. It works for her passive, which is fine. Her W is my favorite part about this kit, and it immediately stood out to me. It's actually a really creative pick tool during any 5v5 situation.

My biggest gripe about this kit, however, is that her passive does literally nothing for any part of her kit other than her W. Having global abilities doesn't have any significant function (other than cross lane damage) because it doesn't mean anything to thread a target so far away. You haven't clarified a stack limit for her passive, and that doesn't even matter because you're only threshold is 3. I would add some type of secondary effect to the thread, or grant her abilities bonuses based off how many threads are in the target.