[Champion Concept] Hex - The Soul Stealer

Aellianna·6/19/2015, 11:57:30 PM·2 votes·1,162 views

This is my first post and to be honest this is a little intimidating, but here I go. So I came up with this character one day when I was bored and just kept adding on to it.

First thing is that she's a support tank, but the way she is i guess she could also be a bruiser depending on the build. My hopes are that she could be the crazy sister that Jinx keeps mentioning, but if Riot already has ideas for Jinx's sister I don't mind just making her a friend of Jinx, but this post will be in the context that they're sisters. Feel free to make any constructive criticisms that would make this champion more balanced, any skill or anything with a number means that I made multiple options for that particular area and you guys can say which one seems the best, coolest, fairest, etc. Sorry if there are any grammatical errors or phrasings that make my writing confusing.

Description

Medium height, about 5'5” or 5'6”, pale skin, long midnight black hair with a single, small red streak in the front of her hair on the right side. In the front of her hair, where the part in her hair is located, is a black hair antennae. Black eyes with red irises and silver pupils, canine teeth long and sharp like a wolf. Crimson red eye shadow, black eyeliner, lip gloss that gives her shiny, nearly glowing, soft pink lips. Petite figure, flat chested like Jinx.

Half armor, half robe-like clothing, left arm has large gauntlet covering her forearm like a shield. Her gauntlet holds unusual symbols that lights up every time she uses her powers to split souls from bodies. Her right arm holds a simple black wristband. Dark red knee socks that reach to the top of her knee. Tall dark brown leather boots that raise to just below the knee with two straps on each and a metal plating covering the toes. Short light grey open robe that only reaches to the middle of her back with the hood down, and thick armored pauldrons shaped to Hex's shoulder. Metal vest-like chest armor that stops short to reveal her midriff and black spats/biking shorts with a large brown leather belt holding her weapon's sheath on the back and a couple of pouches and small bags all around.

Fantasy dagger-like weapon in right hand, slightly bigger than a knife, but smaller than a sword.

Personality

Quiet and calm with a look of eagerness to fight. When she speaks you can sense that she is well educated but would rather chose to speak bluntly and somewhat childishly to bond/match her sister Jinx. She's almost always smiling and her smile seems as if it reaches from ear to ear. Whenever she's standing in one spot she steps side to side in a wide stance like she wants to box, but doesn't know how.

Lore

Some think she traveled to the Shadow Isles to learn about necromancy from the denizens that reside there, others think her powers are a twisted type of time magic stolen from Zilean or that her gauntlet holds the same powers that Ekko manipulates. All we know is Jinx is on the loose and that's exactly what she wanted.

Kit

*All names for skills aren't official, they're more made up on the spot, so feel free to write better names for these skills.

Passive 1 - Soul Drain: Every time an enemy champion has their soul removed from their body it activates an effect that does damage every 1.5 seconds for 6 seconds, damage scale based on Hex's health/armor/magic resist. 2 - Spirit Guard: When Hex takes too much damage a small legion of souls surround and shield her protecting her from further damage based off health.

Q – Soul Grab/Acquisition: The symbols on Hex's gauntlet lights up. Hex dashes forward and if she makes contact with an enemy champion she goes through the first enemy she touches and, as she exits through the other side of the enemy champion, grabs the enemies' soul and drags it along, as she walks with their soul in her hand she also slowly drags their body behind her. If she doesn't make contact with anyone the skill acts as a dash.

W – Soul Blast: Cone shaped wall of dark energy wave that pushes on enemy champion's soul knocking them back with their body following after it. If knocked into a wall it activates a stun effect.

E – Spirit Wall: Sphere shaped barrier that increases armor and magic resist and explodes/shatters upon contact with enemy champion that touches it. Damage dealt is based off health/armor/magic resist on Hex.

Ult 1 – Soul Splitter: Single enemy chosen has soul slowed causing body to also slow and when enemy champion moves too far away from soul it activates a stun effect. 2 – Body Swap: After using Q and grabbing enemy champion's soul, activate Ult on separate enemy to dash into them and start a body switch effect. 3 – Possession: Hex gains health, armor, and magic resist and leaves her body, as soon as she selects a enemy champion in spirit form, by clicking on a enemy champion, she dashes and forces her way into enemy champion controlling the enemy. Hex can cancel her Ult and be instantly drawn back to her body by clicking the Ult button again. If Hex's body is killed, before or during the possession, her soul is also destroyed and possession is cancelled. Possessed champion is treated like jungle monster that can deal damage to both sides and be damaged by both teams. If Hex kills a enemy champion while possessing someone score and gold go directly to Hex, unless she kills a ally champion, in which all benefits go to original host of body. 4 – Soul Well: Large circle shaped area is created where enemy champions within or who enter in have their souls slowly separated slowing enemy champions as well and when gone too far from souls enemy champion gets snared. 5 – Soul Seeker: Two spirits are sent out as a skill shot to grab and latch on to enemy champions and stunning them, spirits that don't grab enemies at the end of the skill shot violently explode causing slow effect on nearby champions. Spirits that latched onto enemies also explode, while holding down enemies, dealing damage and a soul drain effect that does damage every 1.5 seconds for 8 seconds.

Random Quotes

*Some of these are just jokes I made during my breaks at work.

"What's the name of the big guy? You know, the one always screaming 'DEMACIA!' His sister is kinda cute."

"My sister is like kinda the goofball of the family."

"You'll know when I'm serious when you're looking at your own body."

"Who's that little girl? Why's she all alone? Why does she have a pet bear? Imma pick her up."

"If I had to choose a side I'd pick Demacia, there are more cute girls there."

"I don't know what it is but I can't help looking at her armor, even THAT curves."

"You know, thinking about it now, I should have made some better life decisions; finished school, got a job, get mar-pffft, sorry, I couldn't get through that without laughing."

"You know what they say about the quiet ones... So Sona..."

"Draven's always boasting about himself, you think he's compensating?"

"You know they say Katarina plays for both sides. No, I don't mean as in Demacia... You know what just forget it, never mind."

"My sister Jinx? Yeah I think she has a crush on Vi. Is it the hands?"

"I have pictures if you wanna buy; Nidalee, Miss Fortune, Karma, Evelyn. Just don't ask how I got them."

For those of you who liked this champion or who have continued reading due to sheer boredom, I have also made an idea for a cinematic video. Don't think me as presumptuous, I merely did this out of boredom, and I couldn't get the idea out of my head. I by no means am a script writer, or writer of any kind, and the writing may seem rather basic, but please enjoy.

The Breakout

Location: Inside a Piltover jailhouse

Jinx is tossed into a jail cell by Vi as Caitlyn uses her keys to lock the cell door.

Moved to a side view showing Jinx sitting in her cell while Vi and Caitlyn look at her from the outside.

Vi: “Finally, tomorrow is the day you pay for all the little 'pranks' you've pulled since we met.” Jinx: “You have to admit it was a little fun while it lasted.” Caitlyn: “Gosh she's crazy.” Jinx: “You think I'm crazy? You should see my sister.” Vi: “Oh? And what's so special about your sister?” Jinx: (With a wicked smile) “She plays with people's souls.” Caitlyn: (In a worried and slightly curious voice) “And who exactly is your sister?”

Scene moves to show a front view of Jinx's dimly lit cell with Vi and Caitlyn standing in front and a dark cell to the right of it with a barely visible Hex sitting forward on a bench within, head down, looking at the floor, arms resting on her knees.

Hex: “I believe...”

Close up of Jinx smiling widely as soon as she hears the voice. Then back to previous view with Hex's head slowly lifting up to look forward, eyes glowing red as Hex continues speaking.

Hex: “...the honor of that title is mine.”

As soon as Vi and Caitlyn start to turn to see who it may be the door to Hex's cell explodes open throwing the door across the room.

Hex steps out of the cell into the clearing dust, a large smile across her face. Hex looks at Jinx's smiling face and then to the two girls standing in front of her.

Caitlyn lifts up her sniper rifle and points her gun at Hex to shoot off three bullets.

Close up of Hex as she throws up her gauntlet and blocks off the bullets from making contact with her face.

The mysterious symbols on Hex's gauntlet start to glow, she throws down her arm as she makes a quick dash to Caitlyn, running at intense speeds.

Hex smashes into Caitlyn, phasing through her. As Hex exits Caitlyn's body she holds up the shadowy ethereal image of Caitlyn's soul as she lifts it by the neck in her left arm

Caitlyn's body lifelessly falls to the ground.

Vi charges up getting ready for an assault, but Hex quickly turns her body to face her and with her right hand she makes a quick forceful looking open palm push, letting out a dark, nearly invisible rushing wall of energy.

Upon contact with the blast Vi's soul is sent flying to the wall, her body sent chasing after it seconds later.

As Vi gets knocked unconscious Hex returns her gaze upon Caitlyn's soul. Caitlyn's soul lets out a shriek that cuts through the air as the scene goes to black.

Hex walks down a hallway, towards the exit to the jailhouse, while effortlessly carrying Jinx as she piggybacks on her, both of them smiling and laughing like a family of lunatics.

4 Comments

Ballton6/21/2015, 1:33:44 AM1 votes

I really like the idea of the passive allows for some damage to come out of a potentially interesting cc heavy kit. I recommend having it scale with only HP, though.

I suggest for the Q, not having the champion be pulled. Just rip the soul out stunning them while it returns to them and increasing the damage the passive does to them. A Scarner ult for a q just sounds a bit silly.

I don't like that the W is literally just Syndra and Vayne's E's combined. There's nothing actually too bad about it IMO but I would replace it with something else for the sake of not making it feel samey. The AOE wall stun is also very reminiscent of Gnar.

The idea I have in mind is a remix of the "Soul Well" ultimate you came up with: You choose an area of the ground and enemies caught in it have their souls and bodies separated, though the soul still controls its respective body. The soul moves more slowly than the body which is also slowed some and they remain separate for at least a minimum duration of a few seconds(something like 2 to 3), after which, when a soul catches up to its body, the slow ends. If a body goes too far from its soul, that champion is stunned, Hex's passive is reapplied, and the soul returns to them immediately.

I like the E(though, again, I prefer scaling off just health) and the "Possession" ult and I feel like they synergize(is that spelled right?) with each other well.

One thing I don't get is, why link a character like this to Jinx. What part of interacting directly with people's soul fits into the whole Zaun/Piltover thing?

Sturmgeschüt7/16/2015, 8:02:58 AM1 votes

Not sure about the lore and quotes. Riot generally likes to do stuff with the lore themselves.

Also the explanations for moves may need to be trimmed to make them quick and easy to understand in game.