[Champion Concept] Bat themed ranged AD + Item idea
Intro So I was thinking of Urgot and his role as an anti-carry carry, and wanted to come up with a champion with the same role. This champion might not be an anti-carry carry, but I like what I've come up with.
While
is a vampire who controls blood, this champion will be a vampire who controls bats. He/she will be focused on stealing stats from targets, and will be pure auto attack based.
Skills
Auto attack - There will be a bat that orbits around and gets shot out to attack an enemy. Each basic ability bat will follow the original bat to attack the target. Since auto attacks are the only option and bats die when you get hit, a long range like
would be fair.
Passive - Gains a small amount of life steal and spell vamp. Each bat does a small amount of extra damage with every auto attack. Each bat (except original one) gives a small shield. When the shield is destroyed, the bat will also be destroyed. Can have a limited amount of bats at one time (1 passive + 3 max of each basic ability? for 10 maximum bats). Basic abilities cooldowns are reduced by one second each time you kill an enemy, 5 seconds (maybe a whole reset) when you kill a champion.
Q - Summons a bat that enhances basic attacks to steal a small portion of target's AD and AP, based on the damage dealt to the target (rather than just a percentage).
W - Summons a bat that enhances basic attacks to steal a small portion of target's armor and magic resist, based on the damage dealt to the target.
E - Summons a bat the enhances basic attacks to steal a small potion of target's movement speed. Target loses a small percentage of movement speed, and you gain that exact amount (instead of a gaining a percent of your own).
R - Snares you and a target (a little less range than your auto attacks) and summons one of each bat (maybe resets basic ability cooldowns?).
All basic abilities will have somewhat long cooldowns (10-15 sec?). As each bat does bonus damage with every attack, they will steal more stats the more you have alive. Being someone who can control bats, the bats could circle around you and seek out your target when you attack, falling to their deaths when they are destroyed. Bats should be coloured (Q - red, W - Blue, E - yellow?).
Playstyle and Strategy So, being a champion who can only auto attack, he/she will be noob friendly but also require some skill to master. Since bats die when your shield is destroyed, spamming all your bats out won't be the best option most of the time. As a basic scenario, you can summon your Q and E bat and attack a tank, and switch targets to a carry with a W bat, using your ult on either if you have some sort of cleanse.
With the ult being the only skill in the game that CCs yourself (as far as I recall),
and
will be core, not as a first item though, as you will likely want to bring
and a better damage item will help more. The ult can be used defensively, using cleanse to escape the snare and run away, or offensively to lock someone in place while you and your team start pounding away at them (can also use cleanse to get a better offensive position on them), a lot like Urgot.
Item idea
Making this champion got me thinking of all the defensive AD items in the game. There are a few choices for health and even less for MR, but none for armor. So I was thinking of a mid game item like
and
. Building from
and
, it will give some armor and AD with a special effect. It could be something like: 'Every time you are struck by an enemy champion basic attack, reduce all incoming physical damage by a small amount (2? 3?) that can stack (up to 4?), for some time (5 sec?). It would reduce all basic attack damage, physical damage spells, and minion/monster attack damage. It would build into a late game item that would probably be situational, like the other mid game defensive AD items. Possibly reducing all damage, instead of just physical, or maybe giving an AD boost based on the damage reduced. Unless it's the latter, it probably won't be used by ranged ADs like this champion, but I think it's an interesting item that I would like to see in-game.