[Champion Concept] Melcher, Keeper of the Mountains
#Melcher, Keeper of the Mountains
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#Overview
##Pronunciation Mel • chur
##Role Primary: Fighter Secondary: Tank
##Resource Mana
##Generic Playstyle Aggressive Sticky Duelist
##Profile Attack Power········■■■■■■□□□□ Defense Power·····■■■■■■■□□□ Ability Power·········■□□□□□□□□□ Difficulty················■■■□□□□□□□
##Statistics Health······························565 (+94) Health Regeneration·······8.62 (+0.57) Mana································295 (+38) Mana Regeneration·········7.11 (+0.65) Attack Damage················61.50 (+3.1) Attack Speed···················0.745 (3.8%) Armor·······························30.75 (+4.11) Magic Resist····················31.1 (+1.37) Movement Speed············325 Melee·······························125
#Basic Information
Gender Male
Race Human
Attack Form Melee
Weapons Fist. Golden Shovel with Ancient Enchantments when using Boulder Smash
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Birthplace Piltover
Allegiances Former: Piltover Current: Valoran Mountains
Occupation Former: Archaeologist Current: Keeper of Valoran Mountains
Residence Former: Piltover Current: Hidden Cove In Ironspike Mountains. He simply calls it 'Home'.
##Home http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2013/143/2/a/twist_mountain_concept_art_by_zannyhyper-d66blr9.png
######Photo Credit: zannyhyper.deviantart.com
#Lore
A courageous explorer and archaeologist in search of any civilizations in the mountainscape of Runterra, hailing from Piltover. His search has led him to find a stretch of mountains that, under investigation, seems displaced. After careful break down of a stone, a golden handle with magical blue emanation was found. Careful not to damage the artifact, he tried to lift it in its encased stone. It was impossibly heavy. After many failures and great frustration, Melcher yanked the handle, and with that, lifted the entire encasement as it if was light as a feather.
With his delight, and slight shock, he dropped the handle. The new found density caused the surrounding stone to break apart, revealing the whole object; a shovel, with a golden handle and spade with ancient markings carved into the stock. Seeking to preserve the artifact, he dusted off the grime from the stock and read the carvings. Roughly translating into:
The barer of this tool bares the weight of the mountains. You are its keeper.
"Interesting" was his only word. Afterwards he felt a surge of density and heaviness contrasting in different parts of his body simultaneously. His only reaction was to grab the shovel, and the exact point of contact a sudden magical exploded happened. After the dust had settled he felt in control of his body in ways never before, able to shift mass around as needed. He tried to place the shovel down, but as soon as he did the heaviness came back. Realizing this curse was upon him, he searched for any matching artifact that may have him place it down without the afflictions.
A long search yielded no results and he once again returned to the mountains. The words resonated in him, as he began to take great connection to the mountains. He curated and protected the mountains from outside forces.
He knew of one last hope to remove the curse. The young, yet exceptional explorer named Ezeral from his home town. His stories of his adventures are well known. Particularly of his found artifact, with its carvings matching the markings on his glove. He just needed to see it. And he knew where to find him. This time he didn't need to dig it up either.
"The burden is heavy. The weight is not."
#Abilities
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##PASSIVE: Weight of the World
Persistent Point Blank Area of Effect Debuff Radius: 225
Enemy minions and champions near Melcher are slowed by 7.5%. This increases to 15% if they are marked as Crushed.
- This effect persist though stasis effects.
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##Q: Boulder Smash
Conic Area of Effect | On Spell Marked Debuff Range: 300 Conic Angle: 30 Cooldowns: 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 Cost: 35 / 45 / 55 / 70 / 85
Melcher swings a powerful overhead slam with his shovel, dealing 40 / 65 / 100 / 145 / 180 (+40% AD) in physical damage, marking enemies as Crushed, reducing their size slightly for 3.0 seconds.
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The wind up animation will not interrupt movement and take .25 seconds to complete.
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This spell resets the attack timer on cast.
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Has different sounds when hitting an enemy unit, solid ground, and water.
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##W: Peak Momentum
Self Targeted Buff Cooldowns: 17 / 16.5 / 16 / 15.5 / 15 Cost: 60 / 70 / 80 / 100 / 120
Melcher also gains 30% movement speed, armor and magic resist over 3.0 seconds. Afterwards, these benefits last 3.0 seconds. At any point when his movement speed is greater than 420, Melcher will gain 25% tenacity for the rest of the spells duration.
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Peak Momentum has no cast time and does not interrupt his previous commands.
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Additional tenacity will be noted with a ‘crushed ground with every footstep’ effect and heavier sounding footsteps while moving.
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Cooldown will begin at death or the end of the spells duration.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/1/19/Bash_%28Rampage%29.png
##E: Tectonic Blows
Self Targeted Buff | On Hit Spell Effect Range: 300 Projectile Width: 75 Projectile Speed: 1750 Cooldowns: 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 Cost: 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 / 75
Melcher adds more mass into his hands, granting him 10% / 12.5% / 15% / 17.5% / 20% increased lifesteal and attack damage lasting 6.0 seconds. During this time, his attacks will sends a linear colliding force behind the target in the direction Melcher is facing. Enemy units marked as Crushed will send the full damage behind them while non-marked units will send 40% reduced damage.
- Tectonic Blows has no cast time and does not interrupt his previous commands.
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##R: Moving Mountains
Ground Targeted Area of Effect Dash | On Spell Marked Debuff | Global Range: 400 Radius: 275 Projectile Speed: 1100 Cooldowns: 120 / 105 / 90 Cost: 100 / 100 / 100
Melcher shifts mass in his body to take a great leap, landing and sending a slow traveling shockwave across the battlefield from the epicenter, destroying generated terrain, dealing 125 / 225 / 325 (+30% AD) in physical damage and suspending enemy units for .75 seconds. Enemy champions in the epicenter are dealt 250 / 350 / 450 (+40% AD) in physical damage, suppressing champions for 1.25 seconds, marking them as Crushed for 3.0 seconds, and slaying enemy minions instantly.
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Will send a game wide audio signal upon landing that all players can hear.
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Summoner spells cannot be used during leaping and falling animations. They can be used during the recovery animation.
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Melcher will take .5 seconds for each of the launch, falling, and recovery animation which will interrupt movement.
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He will have a ‘fall on but landing’ animation.
#Recommended Summoner Spells and Items
##Summoner Spells
##Starters
##Essential
##Offensive
##Defensive
#Summary
##Weaknesses
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Very slow base movement speed.
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Weakest against hyper mobile champions.
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His need for ‘all in’ telegraphs his intentions clearly.
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Consistent poke can be a deterrent.
##Advantages
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Can strongly soak CC Chains with Peak Momentum to allow carries safety.
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Can force teams to split up further than desired when his ult available.
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Extremely sticky with passive and itemization.
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Phenomenal in AOE team compositions.
##Plays Well With
##Struggles Against
#Dialogue & Interactions
##General Dialogue
Champion Select It’s all downhill from here.
Moving "Lets go." "Another mountain to climb'" "Towards the summit!" "It's dusty over there, might be some goddies underneath." "A new adventure." "I seen something like that before..."
Attacking "Down with you!" "With all my weight!" "This is easy!" "Too heavy? Too bad."
Jokes (Spins Golden Shovel on point of spade) Hums the first two bars of “She’ll Be Coming around the Mountain” (Spins Golden Shovel on point of spade) You know… maybe Yorldes aren’t so bad… (Shovels falls and then he grunts) "Must have been a Yordle, nevermind." "You are not worthy." [Thor reference to other superheroes trying to pick up Mjölnir.]
Taunts "I Conquered these Mountains. I will conquer you!" " I'm out of your weight class."
Dying "Neewok!" "Urraaahh…" "Aous.. ugh…"
Dance Oumpa Lumpa Dance
##Interactions
All Yordles – Rivals
He is scared of Yordles. Something about thier height freaks him out.
All Yordles Taunts (Swings golden shovel from side to side.) "Keep them away from me…" "Why do you have to be so… short? Its freaky."
Temmo Taunts "There is a special place in… the mountains for you." "I hate Mushrooms."
Ziggs & Veigar Taunts "Crazy? And a Yordle? How can it get any worst!"
Rumble Taunts "All that tall machinery still makes you a Yordle."
Gnar Taunts (As Mini Gnar) "Prehistoric… and I still think they are freaky… sheesh." (As Maga Gnar) "Now why couldn’t they all stay this size… sheesh."
Vi – Crush
He really likes her.
Vi Jokes "Actually someone I can hold hands with..."(sighs) "Hey Vi, you think we could go out to… punch things together sometime?" "How do you feel about me as a new partner, Vi?"
Ezreal – Neutral
Believes he may know or have the magical item to free him of his burden.
Ezeral Jokes "Hey Kid, where did you found that at? Same glow as the shovel..." "Ezeral, I just want to compare notes, kid." "I propose a trade, artifact for artifact. How about it kid?" "I put things in a museum. We should be business partners Ezeral… I’ll run procurement, you’ll run marketing kid."
##Skill Specific
Q: Boulder Smash (Slaying an enemy Yordle) "Now its on my shovel… sheesh." "Herrup!" "Heckts" "Huroont!"
W: Peak Momentum "Out of the way!" "On my way to the top!" "Coming through!" "Ain't no stopping now!"
E: Tectonic Blows "Your going to feel this." "Force of the mountains!" "Make them crumble." "Time to get my hands dirty."
R: Moving Mountains "Lookout below!" "Here comes the..." [A game wide 'boom' sound plays when he lands.] "Tectonics!" "Earthwaves!" (After Crushing a Yordle with this ability) "Oh, that felt like a Yordle… Get it off, Get it off!"
#Patch Notes
##Version 2.21 - 08/05/2015
Champion Changes
- Corrected champion thumbnail image.
##Version 2.2 - 05/31/2015
Abilities
- R: Moving Mountains
[...] landing and sending a slow traveling shockwave across the battlefield from the epicenter, destroying generated terrain, dealing 125 / 225 / 325 (+30% AD) in physical damage and suspending enemy units for 1.0 .75 seconds. [...]
Added created terrain destruction to give even more impact to his ult. However, the suspended time on global wave is lowered.
##Version 2.1 - 05/21/2015
Visuals
- Updated Champion image - Former Image
##Version 2.0 - 05/20/2015
- Major changes everywhere.
