Champion concept : Lyra
Soooo around 1 or 2 months ago, I came up with a champion concept that I felt like would be kinda fun but I did overloaded her and made her a bit too powerful. And since, today, for actually no reason I was checking my older post, I saw my old concept of Lyra (which is really similar btw) and thought about changing some stuff on Lyra to make her decent and not too op
Btw I still have no good story for her lore, I mean I kinda imagined one but it's not something amazing and I'm too lazy to write it today anyway Buuuut I didn't wanted to make her a dark champ or someone with a really sad story because this is pretty much lol champs in a nutshell actually like they're all orphans or people with dark secrets To still make a brief summary, still she is a middle-age (like 30/35) woman that inherited a really chaotic and unstable magic, dangerous for others but before all towards herself, so she came in the League to learn how to control her magic (a lil late because she didn't found out about her magic earlier, that is something i'll explain in her lore if I ever make it)
And I think she is a control mage and she is kinda between taliyah, anivia, cassio and caitlyn (not that Caitlyn is a control mage of course)
Stats :
> Damage : 53.2 + 2.6/lvl HP : 425 + 83/lvl Mana : 290 + 60/lvl MS : 335 Armor : 19 + 3.8/lvl MR : 30 HP regen : 7 + 0.75/lvl Mana regen : 7 + 0.8/lvl
Abilities :
> Passive : Lyra can cast multiple spells at the same time
Since her magic is chaotic, the fact that you can cast Q, W, R and E at the same time fits pretty well I think. I really wanted to give her this impression of unpredictability (since you don't expect to see that) inherent to chaos. I know it sounds weird but I mean all champions have some cast times right ? Well she does too, but during her E cast time, for example, she can totally use her Q and W without loosing more time casting abilities, since their casts time are erased by E cast time
> Q : Range : 750, Radius : 250, Speed : 1300, Cd : 16/14/12/10/8, Mana cost : 75/85/95/105/115 Lyra shoots an orb that land on the targeted location, dealing 65/110/155/200/245(+0,55AP) magic damage and slowing ennemies for 100% for 1,1/1,2/1,3/1,4/1,5s
You might actually ask yourself why making her q a 100% slow instead of a root Well actually you can flash/dash/blink being slow, but you can't when you're rooted. And since with her W, you have a CC-rotation, i didn't wanted her to have that perma-cc feeling when you can't do anything, i mean i wanted her to be fun to play against and champs nowadays don't have any counterplay so i gave her some
> W: Active : Range : 750, Radius : 100/115/130/145/160, Cd : 35/31/27/23/19s, Mana Cost : 60/55/50/45/40 After one second, Lyra makes appear at the targeted location a square rock. If an enemy unit is standing where the rock should appear, the enemy is knocked towards Lyra for 300 units and is briefly stun after (1s duration the whole knock+stun) while suffering for 30/60/90/120/150(+0,25-0,45AP) magic damage and the rock appear normally. If the same unit is again where a rock should appear in the following 4 seconds, the rock then just does not appear. Rocks last for 2/2/2/2/3 seconds and are uncrossable as regular terrain. Lyra stacks up to 3/3/4/4/5 rocks and can place one every 0,4/0,3/0,2/0,1/0s
And for the active well i really like walls-like abilities but i also like damage so i wanted both. Since the enemy have 1s to react to it i think it's not too strong. And it synergize well with the passive since you can just press 5 times w while moving the mouse to create really quick some patterns that might be interesting.
> E: Range : 750, Skill width : 150, Cd : 3/2,75/2,5/2,25/2s, Mana Cost : 50 Lyra create an explosion under her feets, causing debris to be thrown in a straight line in front of her, dealing 40/65/90/115/140(+0,4AP) magic damage in a small area around the first enemy hit. Lyra also dashes in the opposite direction for 200 units and then slow herself 0,75s for 30% of her movespeed If Lyra cast her E in the next 8s, its mana cost is increased by 50, up to 150
So this is where we start to see that Lyra's magic can be dangerous to herself since if you use this ability badly it's easier for the ennemy to hit you with skillshots. This slow is essential since if it wasn't there, the escape potential given by this spammable ability would be too strong. I see more E as a way to dodge skillshot and harass a bit thx to his cd, but without being able to abuse it early because of its mana cost
Just to warn ya her ult is perhaps hard to understand
> R : Range : 750, Cd : 160/145/130s, Mana Cost : 100/125/150 Lyra create a path of 3/4/5 slabs aside, each slab mesuring 200 units x 200, that stays for 4/5/6 seconds, and blinks at the center of it. Enemies inside the path are grounded. When she is in the path, Lyra is unable to move except from her E. E's cooldown is divided by 6 and its damage by 4. When Lyra is on a slab, it turns red for 0,5s. 0,5s later, the slab activate itself and deal 60/90/120 (+0,1/0,15/0,2AP) magic damage to Lyra and her enemies. If multiple slabs turned red at the same time, the damage dealt is divided by the number of slabs dealing it. If Lyra dies or leave the path, the path disappear.
So this idea came up thanks to GW2, where there is a fractal where you need to dodge a lot of things (here the activation of the red slabs) and i thought this was really fun to do. But on lol, only dodging it wouldn't be so rewarding, so I added a way to fight back. Cuz if you manage to hard cc Lyra in her ult, it is deadly for her (except if she plays tank but she probably won't) since she got a self-destructive magic that deals damage to her if she stays on the same slab. And since I wanted this ult to feel cool, flashy and everything but slow without making it way too strong, i decided to "root" her but making her E extremely frequent (without gaining too much dps).
And yes I know her name is really close to Zyra but she's mah creation :c So I wanted to give her my name c:
