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[CHAMPION CONCEPT] Dul'Sal, the Laughter in the Dark

Meep Man·5/27/2016, 3:23:24 AM·7 votes·833 views

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LORE The Void is what it is named. Gaze into it and it will look right back at you with full force. You feel like you cannot look away, but you know you should. It grips you with all it's strength, transforming you into something else. It eats you alive and spits you back out as something entirely different. Something that not even you, yourself, recognize. However, you do not care. A voice whispers, no, laughs in your mind. It beckons you to sacrifice those of this world for a greater purpose. It cackles in your mind. Yes, that is what that sound is correct. A laugh of a mighty beast within that which you stared into. You draw your weapon and turn to those you once called friends, maybe even family. It's clear what needs to be done. The voice in your mind says so. What else could you trust more? Yes. Yes... You snap out of it. The voice is wrong, yet you can see what you have done is wrong! The Void has consumed you! You have fallen! The Void, an incredibly evil and malicious dimension, is full of incredibly dreadful, yet powerful beings that wish to destroy all dimensions it could possibly touch. Since the birth of creation, the Void has existed. It has been the fabric between worlds that only creatures that which were once lost have found shelter. The races who ventured too far into the darkness and were swallowed whole. In the mind of many of the creatures, but not all, who call the Void their home, there is a voice. Almost like a hive mind, much of the Void receives orders from a being which haunts them all. It is the reason those fallen races have become corrupt, evil, and wicked. It is the origin of all things corrupt. It is the oldest being within the Void. It is the origin of it all. The origin of the end of all existence. In the beginning, when all of creation came to be, many beings also came into existence. Some were flung into the universe as whole beings that would be the first speck of life to travel the universe. Others were not so. When all of creation came into existence, dimensions were fabricated and worlds came to be. With this, there were gaps in between which, in the modern age, came to be known as the Void. An unfortunate creature was born within this space yet not entirely. It was born on the edge of a universe and, like a slice of a sword, was sliced and almost killed by all of creation flowing past it to form the universes and dimensions that currently exist. It screamed in pain as creation itself killed it. To it, this was betrayal. It saw all of creation as it's parent. It's deformed body crawled throughout the nothingness of the Void, it's lost third of it;s body slowly decaying away in another dimension. However, where there is nothing, nothing can save a dying being. So, with all of it's might, it lashed out at nothing. It gripped at everything and nothing at the same time until it tore a hole straight through reality, breaking creation. All around it, reality was destroyed and the Void expanded. It had broken the wall to another dimension and the Void now was spreading into it. The deformed being evolved at an incredible rate and grew tentacles to fling into this dimension. It grabbed at energy within the dimension and began to sustain itself. However, it's wound was only temporarily healed for such a wound could never be healed. This was a scar that could never stop bleeding, for all of creation had sliced through this being. As time drew on, it grew to have more complex feelings on it's creation. Creation had tried to kill it so, therefore, creation had to pay back what it had taken from the deformed being. It's freedom. Creation itself had doomed the being to an eternity of killing and destruction in order to sustain itself, so it would do the same to creation. It grew as time passed and, eventually, begun to destroy entire dimensions. Celestial beings from each dimension attempted to destroy it, but this scarred, angered, and now insane being was beyond them. It was beyond the point of just being some other celestial being formed in the beginning of time. It was more. It was so much more. It was... the mirror... the reflection... the clone of creation. With each dimension it had eaten, it had grown slowly and now, it was equal to creation. It was equal to all of the remaining dimensions. it was anti-creation. It was destruction itself. Eventually, it reached a very special dimension guarded by many celestial beings, some who had come there to flee from destruction. This dimension's wall was extremely thick and, even to a being equal to the remaining power of all of creation itself, very dangerous to cross through. The wall itself had to be slowly weakened before the being even dreamed of passing through it. It lashed out to strike for the first time at the wall, but the wall was almost completely healed from it's attack. Aurelion Sol, a mighty being from this dimension, had blasted the fissure of the wall shut. It was almost as if nothing had happened to the wall. This had never happened before. The deformed being became insane from this sudden resistance to it's anger. It began to do something it had never done: laugh. All of the Void, filled with the races of lost worlds now corrupted from the Void itself, began to vibrated from it's laughter. The beings inside had their minds filled with the laughter. They were under it's control. The deformed being began to send these corrupted races through the holes in the dimension's wall it created in an attempt to kill whoever was healing the wall. It began it's invasion. Runeterra, a planet within this dimension, would eventually become a victim of this invasion. From humans to yordles, any sentient race on Runterra with members weak enough to succumb to insanity that looked into the Void would see the energies of the Void and have it fill their mind. The first beings to do so were inhabitants of Icathia, a city within Shurima. From there, the mightiest members of the Void poured into Runeterra and begun their conquest to kill every being possibly powerful enough to be healing the wall. Anyone they came into contact with along the way would suffer was well. Those within Icathia welcomed these creatures and harbored them. They could hear the laughter of the deformed being and, for the first time in a very, very long time, the deformed being was given a name. Worshiped as a god within Icathia, this god of destruction told those it deemed worthy of it's tale. How creation had betrayed it and forsaken it to die. Now, it would lash back at creation. It would see to it that creation ended. Creation was it's enemy. Creation did this to it. Creation tried to kill it. Creation was nearing it's end at the hand Dul'Sal, the god of Icathia. The Void had consumed half of all of creation. Now, once the dimension Runeterra called home was destroyed, it could reap it of it's energy and destroy the rest of creation. Then, Dul'Sal could rest easy knowing that it could die from it's eternal scar knowing that what had inflicted the scar upon Dul'Sal would also be dying with it.

KIT Dul'Sal, the Laughter in the Dark Tank (Warden) Secondary: Controller (Disruptor) Health- 573 (+102 per level) Health Regen.- 9.5 (+0.5 per level) Mana- 415 (+45 per level) Mana Regen.- 7 (+0.7 per level) Armor- 28 (+3.5 per level) Magic Resist- 32.1 (+1.25 per level) Movement Speed- 325 Attack Damage- 55 (+3 per level) Attack Speed- 0.6 (+1.75% per level) Attack Range- 225 (Melee)

Passive- Avatar of Dul'Sal Innate: The current creature currently on the battlefield is the apex creature of the Void that Dul'Sal has taken control of to more directly interact with this world. http://i.imgur.com/VlYVmk3.jpg?1 This creature has a portion of Dul'Sal's being inside of it, allowing it to eat enemy minions, monsters, and champions it assist in killing or kills by opening a portal underneath their dead bodies so that Dul'Sal himself can suck their bodies into the void to eat them personally. Enemy minions eaten will increase Dul'Sal's max mana by 1 and enemy monsters eaten will increase Dul'Sal's max mana by 2. Whenever Dul'Sal eats an enemy champion, not only will his max mana increase by 5, but he will also be able to see what the enemy champion that he ate had seen within the last moments before he ate them. Over the next 6 seconds, all of the area on the battlefield that the enemy champion Dul'Sal just ate had seen within the last 6/10/14 seconds will be revealed to Dul'Sal and his team. Levels: 1/7/13

Ability 1- Echo of the Void Active: Dul'Sal sends a wave of dark energy in the target direction, dealing 85/130/175/220/265 (+45% AP) magic damage to all enemy units it touches. Enemy champions hit will release a pulse, causing enemy minions near them to become infected with the energies of Dul'Sal. After a 2.5 second delay, enemy minions infected with the energies of Dul'Sal will begin to attack their own team's champions for the next 3/3.5/4/4.5/5 seconds. Cost: 75/80/85/90/95 mana Cool Down: 16/14.5/13/11.5/10 seconds Range: 850

Ability 2- Reality Collapse Active: After a 1.25 second delay, Dul'Sal rips open reality at the target area for the next 0.6/0.75/0.9/1.05/1.2 seconds. During this time, enemy units within the area will be suspended in the air and slowly sucked towards the center of the area. Enemy minions and monsters inside this area also take 6/7.5/9/10.5/12% (+1% per 100 AP) of their max health as true damage every 0.3 seconds. (Max 125/150/175/200/225 damage per second vs. large minions and monsters) Cost: 100/105/110/115/120 mana Cool Down: 26/24/22/20/18 seconds Range: 475 AoE Radius: 300

Ability 3- Whispers of Dul'Sal Toggle Off: Dul'Sal's basic attacks deal 13/19/25/31/37 (+7% AP) extra magic damage and briefly slow his target by 30/35/40/45/50% for 0.25 seconds. Toggle On: The last enemy champion that Dul'Sal has basic attacked will have link between Dul'Sal and their mind created, causing them to hear it's chaotic laughter. This causes them to take 13/16/19/22/25 (+5% AP) true damage per second and slowly have their vision radius reduced by 10/12.5/15/17.5/20% until only 10% of their vision radius remains. No matter how small their vision radius is, however, they will always be able to see Dul'Sal. Once less than half of their vision radius remains, they also lose all shared vision from allied units. If the enemy unit who Dul'Sal last basic attacked is a certain distance away from Dul'Sal, then this ability is immediately toggled off and cannot be activated. Once this is toggled off, all vision lost from the linked enemy champion will return to them after a 1 second delay. Cost: 7/9/11/13/15 mana per second Cool Down: 3 seconds Max Tether Range: 550/600/650/700/750

Ultimate- Destruction's Insanity Passive: Whenever Dul'Sal damages an enemy champion with it's basic attacks or an ability, they gain a stack of Insanity. If an enemy champion reaches 7 stacks of Insanity, they will be afflicted with Destruction's Insanity for the next 1.5/1.75/2 seconds. During this time, the afflicted enemy champion will be forced to basic attack the nearest unit to them, even if that unit is an allied unit. Their attacks deal 75% damage during this time. Active: At Rank 1, Dul'Sal tries to breach into this world at the target location, causing one of it's tentacles to burst into this world at the target location. After a 3 second delay, if an enemy unit is within a certain distance from the tentacle, the tentacle will lash out at the nearest enemy unit to deal 80/120/160 (+25% AP) (+75% bonus AD) physical damage to them and pull them 100 units closer to the tentacle. The hole into this world will then be healed, causing the tentacle to sink back into the Void. At Rank 2, this tentacle will also apply the bonus magic damage and slow on-hit from Whispers of Dul'Sal. At Rank 3, this tentacle will no longer sink back into the Void after the delay. Instead, the tentacle will remain in this world and lash out at any enemy unit who comes close to it. A tentacle can only lash out once every 12 seconds after the initial 3 second delay and enemies who have been attacked by a tentacle cannot be attacked by another tentacle for the next 12 seconds. These tentacles cannot be killed and last indefinitely, but only a max of 5 tentacles can be active at once. Tentacles will radiate purple energy when they are ready to lash out at anything that comes close to them. Cost: 75 mana Cool Down: 30/27.5/25 seconds Range: 550 Tentacle Max Lash Distance: 350

RECOMMENDED ITEMS Starter Items item 1056 item 2003 item 3340 Early Game Items item 1001 item 2033 item 3070 Standard Items item 3158 item 3003 item 3116 Offensive Items item 3001 item 3157 item 3151 Defensive Items item 3512 item 3026 item 3742 Consumables item 2003 item 2043 item 2138

Thanks for reading! Feedback is appreciated and I hope you liked it! It's lore is very overwhelming at first, seeing as it is as powerful as all of what currently exists, but lore power creep seems to be heading that way anyway.

Update: Balance Changes V1.01 Stats

  • Base Health reduced to 573 from 693
  • Health per Level reduced to 102 from 107
  • Base Health Regen. reduced to 9.5 from 11.5 Ultimate
  • Tentacle scaling changed from (+100% AD) to (+25% AP) (+75% bonus AD)
  • Number of Insanity stacks needed to proc ultimate passive reduced to 7 from 10

11 Comments

Schàdenfreude5/27/2016, 3:30:59 AM1 votes

Looks cool, but there are some thing you can do to improve.

Make the tentacle in the ult do damage scaling with ap. If you have it scaling with ad it would be like the old ad Malzahar. Also, 10 stacks seems quite a lot of stacks, it seems kinda impossible to utilize the passive on his ult. Decrease it to about 6 or 7. Also, 693 health at level 1 seems a bit much, and make his w also deal damage to enemy champions.

code42405/27/2016, 3:31:51 AM1 votes

I love the concept although I feel it would take a lot of design work to make the abilities balanced.

Pierce The Veal5/27/2016, 3:43:16 AM1 votes

Sounds awesome. Maybe a little less true damage though. That, and perhaps 13 seconds is too short of a cooldown for his ult? Put it up to say 25, but give it a stack mechanic at max rank.

pasta zugotini5/27/2016, 10:58:24 PM1 votes

you seem to have a thing for over-the-top characters(and I asume dul sal is the laughing warden hears?) again, very creative. good job

sneezing slug5/28/2016, 3:24:06 AM1 votes

First off, can I just say that the lore made my bones shiver.

I knew just from the title "Laughter in the Dark" that this was going to be one hell of a concept.

Love it dude. Keep it up.

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Emerald Fang5/28/2016, 4:31:04 AM1 votes

I'm going to help you balance numbers. Don't take anything personally.

  1. 2307 HP at Level 18? He would have the 2nd highest in the game, so I would lower this considering his abilities are powerful.

  2. Reduce range to 175.

  3. Passive is pretty underpowered. Increase to 3/6/25 mana.

Q- Reduce base damage to 70/100/130/160/190 (+50% AP) and reduce minion attacking to 1.5/2/2.5/3/3.5 (+1% AP). Reduce cooldown to 20/18/16/14/12 sec.

W: Time: Increase to 1/1.25/1.5/1.75/2 sec. True damage: 2/3.5/5/6.5/8% (+2.25% bonus AD) + 100 (+30% AP) over the duration. I think it would be cool to add something like "After the channel, it slows enemies by 30% for 2 sec."

E: Passive: I think it would be better as:

  • Your basic attacks against CC'ed units (inc. slows) will deal a bonus 1.25% of their max HP as true damage and has a [8.00% AP] percent chance of increasing the CC duration by 30/35/40/45/50%.

Toggle: Way too confusing. WHAT? Suggestion (use what you want): Dul'Sal creates a dark link between him and a random enemy champion within 1000 units. The target will have their vision reduced to 30/26/22/18/14% of regular vision over 3 seconds; they will always see Dul'Sal and the area 300 units around him. After this reduction they will be vulnerable, reducing armor and magic resist by 70/75/80/85/90% which will regenerate over 3.5 seconds.

If there are no enemy champions around, Dul'Sal will use his dark energy to his advantage, healing for 2/3/4/5/6% (+2.5% AP) of his current HP per second, reduced by 1% for every 225 bonus HP Dul'Sal has. This will use up triple the mana for each consecutive second channeled, for a max of 5 seconds. [Mana cost: 10>30>90>270>810, total of 1210 mana]

^ This is also complicated now that I think of it. Lol.

Ult: I don't recommend 2 passives in abilities. Remove this or the other or players will end up just relying on passives to win. No fun.

IDK what you're getting at with the ult. It looks like a good ability though.