Ignis, the Flame Weaver

The Dreamwalker··32 votes·3,897 views

Ignis' abilities have been updated. She is almost done, just need to add a few more things.

Hello, welcome to the first draft of my newest idea, Ignis, the Flame Weaver. (Ignis is latin for fire / flame)

Basics:

Homeland: Ionia

Stance: Pure / Evil (She is good to others, but harmful to herself)

Allies: Karma, LeeSin

Rivals: Syndra


**Powers: **

Passive: Spell Burn

Every 20 seconds, Ignis gains the ability to cripple an enemy's next ability. They deal 15% less damage on their next basic ability. This would be applied through landing her next ability, if she misses she looses the ability, but suffers a cool down at 50% reduced time.


Q: Magma Wave

Range: 1150

Cost: 50/60/70/80/90 mana

Ignis sends forth a searing wave of fire. This passes through units, gaining in damage for each unit hit. The ability stops once hitting an enemy champion or reaching full length. The fire deals 60/100/140/180/220 (+1 AD and 60% of AP) magic damage. The amount gained per unit is 4%.

Update

Her Q now leaves behind a flaming trail that deals 50% of the damage of her Q.

Cool down: 8 seconds


W: Blastwave or Eruption

Range: 975

Cost: 50/55/60/65/70 mana

Ignis fires a wave outwards in a circle, knocking enemies back and blazing them for 50/80/110/140/170 (+1% AD and 55% AP) magic damage.

W: Eruption (option 2)

Range: 750

Ignis erupts in a blaze of fire, blistering incoming enemies and slowing their movement speed by 20% and dealing 50/80/110/140/170 (+1% AD and 55% AP)

Cool down: 11 seconds


E: Bond of Flame or Fire Fly

Range: 675

Cost: 60/80/100/120/140 mana

Ignis marks a foe with the Bond of Flame. The Bond burns the selected target for 25/35/45/55/65 (1% AD and 25% of her AP) magical damage per second. The ability lasts 3 seconds. She is healed by this effect for 25% of the overall damage inflicted.

If cast after her Q hits an enemy, it deals 25% more damage.

E: Fire Fly (option 2)

Range: 1000

Ignis creates a searing wall of flames that flies down the lane, burning enemies caught within it. Enemies may only be burnt once. If the wall hit enemies recently afflicted by her Q, they are stunned for 1.5 seconds. They are damaged for 40/70/100/130/160 (+ 2% AD and 50% AP) magic damage.

Cool down: 9 seconds


R: Ring of Fire

Cost: 110 mana

Range: 2/3 of the width of Gangplank's circle

Ignis creates a large ring around a targeted area. This ult doesn't deal damage immediately, instead, it gradually closes in around enemies. Enemies hit are stunned and dealt flat damage worth 200/300/400 (+0 AD and 110% AP) magic damage. Enemies may dodge the ability by flashing, hourglass, etc. through it.

Update

The Ring is bond to Ignis' lifeline. If she dies, so does the Ring. Also, the Ring now only closes in a select amount, allowing for some safety while inside of it. Once it reaches the end, it dissipates. Also, the Ring only forms around Ignis' location.

Cool down: 150 seconds


(Check back for more later! Feel free to share your opinions, but please be respectful of my idea. Also, the art below is not my own. It is just used for an example of her appearance) http://imgur.com/7qEqXN0


Stats:

Health: 550.32 (+80 per level)

Health regen.: 5.32 (+0.60 per level)

Attack Damage: 55.08 (+3.5 per level)

Attack Speed: 0.625 (+1.5% per level)

Armor: 22.89 (+3.5 per level)

Magic Resist: 30 (+0 per level)


Lore:

Fire... a raging air of destruction... or an embodiment of peace. All of these represent the power that Ignis wields, how she choose to wield is up to her and the fates.

Ignis was born into wealthy family of great standing and power in Ionia. Her mother was an archmage of great connection to the elements, and her father was the commander of the Ionian armies. Ignis was raised by their values as well as Ionia's.

Much like her mother, Ignis mastered the elements, well, one in particular. Ignis has an unmistakable connection to the element of Fire. Once her powers made their first appearance, her mother taught her everything she knew. How to mend the flame, how to make it part of her, and that she did.

Ignis practiced day-in and day-out, until the tingling sensation of fire was no more familiar than her own heartbeat. Ignis learned how to gather the heat from the air around her and empower it into a raging sea of flames, or how to make it graze her enemies and send them flying backward.

The Elders of village watched as her power grew, and one day, they gathered the city in honor of Ignis. Her family brought her to the center of the city, Ignis' brows rose curiously at that sight of the group gathered in the village's forum. Her face grew crimson as the people turned and bowed deeply before her.

She walked, for what felt like forever, towards the village's Elders. Once she finally managed to get to the center of the circle, the Elders themselves bowed before her, an act that sent her into shock. The Elders had bowed before her. Ignis quickly returned the bow.

As she rose back to face the Elders, they shared one warm glance, before spoke in perfect unison. Their voices were wise and old and seemed to hold some other worldly power. Ignis almost could believe what they were saying. Within a matter of minutes, Ignis went from being the daughter of a wealthy family to one of Ionian most powerful arcane warriors.

To this very day, Ignis leads the charge on opposing forces, slashing them down before they can harm her home. Ignis' connection to the element of Fire continued to grow the more she used to, to the point that she wanted more. Her desire to practice her art led her far and wide to the League, where she has become a feared competitor.

144 Comments

IA9hRfpP5q10 votes

Brand

Saevum2 votes

He doesnt have bo0bz or a mini-skirt. We talkin innovation here bro.

ChauvinPlaysLoL10 votes

One word. OP. That ult is so overpowered and she has so much CC. Her passive is like a Brand ult and she has no distinct playstyle that makes her interesting and new... Her ult is basically Gangplank ult but more overpowered. And W is like Yasuo Wind Wall

midnight oil243 votes

But still, it's a good concept, it just needs some fleshing out. Dreamwalker's quality has increased by leaps and bounds over the past week.

The Dreamwalker4 votes

Okay, I will get to fixing her up. Give me an hour, and I will have some new updates.

FloRaider426 votes

Ignis: Name means fire in latin Brand: Name means 'blaze/fire', 'burning', and 'burned' in Danish, Dutch, German, and Swedish

How is this champion's thematics different from others?

Ignis: Pyromancer Brand: Fire Elemental

Passive: Sounds a lot like Brands R and passive, but with the added annoyance of flames jumping even after the initial effect (range?)

Q: Like the fact that the damage increases compared to other piercing attacks.

W: Sounds like it works like Taliyahs wall from what I can tell. Or does it work like Anivias wall (maybe a bit clearer)? 4 seconds stun seem a bit long though and the CD seems to short.

E: Stealthed flames seem thematically weird IMHO, but I don't know how others see that. Don't like the increasing damage (combined with W you are extremly safe against ganks), but the shorter duration remedies that somewhat. Does true sight disable the effect? Is the activation range the AOE effect or the fireballs size?

R: Pretty big form range (GPs R has 600 radius in comparison) Rather short delay for such a big range, very high damage (potential 1000 + 550% AP) and even a stun effect, seem rather overpowered.

If not for Brands existance this would be a pretty good concept

YFisfabulousBRUH2 votes

putting a 4 cd stun on a non-ultimate ability is full on stupid.

Prophet of Urgod4 votes

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The Dreamwalker7 votes

This not your idea in the slightest sense of word. If you do not stop parading with this, I will have Riot investigate this matter.

Prophet of Urgod4 votes

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midnight oil246 votes

Jesus, man. You just can't get over yourself, can you? And there, you just admitted that you copy-pasted.

The Dreamwalker6 votes

Buddy o'pal, that was called a trick. I wanted you to publicly admit to "copy and pasting" to help my cause. Who is intellectually smarter now? :D

TyrekGoldenspear5 votes

[zombie-brand-clap]

Auurun4 votes

Even now, after changes i don't see anything unique or interesting about her. She's just your typical fire mage. I'm surprised that someone tried to steal this and it got so much attention to begin with when i've seen much more interesting concepts on this forum that got just ignored.

The Dreamwalker1 votes

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Even now, after changes i don't see anything unique or interesting about her. She's just your typical fire mage. I'm surprised that someone tried to steal this and it got so much attention to begin with when i've seen much more interesting concepts on this forum that got just ignored.

I respect your opinion. I mean, I cannot please everyone. But, some people enjoy simplicity in a character concept.

Auurun3 votes

IMO every champion should have something unique about him, otherwise there's no point in playing him. And that's also riots goal apparently since every rework and new champion try to bring something new. I feel like most people that prefer simplicity are just old players that don't like changes.

The Dreamwalker1 votes

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HowIGankedYou3 votes

She is just a simple ripp-off from Brand .

-The theme. Both has fire as their main theme. (I didn´t read the lore of Ignis but I don´t think that it offers any more than fire.

-Some abilities are almost the same as Brand´s:

For example:

Q: Magma Wave

Range: 1150

Cost: 50/60/70/80/90 mana

Ignis sends forth a searing wave of fire. This passes through units, gaining in damage for each unit hit. The ability stops once hitting an enemy champion or reaching full length. The fire deals 60/100/140/180/220 (+0 AD and 60% of AP) magic damage. The amount gained per unit is 4%.

E: Bond of Flame or Fire Fly

Range: 675

Cost: 60/80/100/120/140 mana

Ignis marks a foe with the Bond of Flame. The Bond burns the selected target for 25/35/45/55/65 (0 AD and 25% of her AP) magical damage per second. The ability lasts 3 seconds. She is healed by this effect for 25% of the overall damage inflicted.

If cast after her Q hits an enemy, it deals 25% more damage.

-She doesn´t really add something new neither theme- or gameplaywise, while she takes much which already exist and recycles it.

Auurun3 votes

The thing is every single thing about her is typical for me. Passive is just a debuff every so often, q- main dmg spell (although the fact that it gains dmg with units it passes through is cool, i'll give you that), w- self peel, e- point and click dmg (i hate point'n'clicks) and ult that actually seems nice except it doesn't have enough counterplay (i don't consider summoner spells and items as good counterplay, but that's just me). For me champion is unique when he has that one mechanic unseen by any other champion, that affects his entire kit or give unusual feel like fiora's week points, aurelions stars, TFs w, illaois soul pulling, or azirs soldiers. She does not have anything that would feel new and doesn't have interesting gameplay. I can see her playing just like any other mage, poking with q, defending yourself with w just like syndra and when you feel that you can kill just throwing your entire kit in one combo and making sure that q was follow up by e.

midnight oil241 votes

Sometimes things just aren't going to fit with how you want things to go. Not every champ needs to have an overloaded kit or do something entirely new. Half of Jhin's kit is recycled and everyone loves it.

Ignis is for people who just want a champ to play without having to worry about all sorts of stuff having to be accounted for, and if that's not your play style, that's fine. But you're tearing down the concept because it doesn't do what you want it to do.

FloRaider421 votes

But, don't we already have the older champions for that ? Shouldn't a new champion add something to the game instead of doing something similiar ? I mean if you look at the reworks, new champions and class updates we have a trend towards making every champion feel different to any other champion.

midnight oil241 votes

I don't think that has to be the case. With all the emphasis on flashy champs with all sorts of unique stuff, we get things like Kindred, Yasuo, Azir, Kalista, and others, who because of their cool unique stuff caused big problems in competitive, and in some cases had to be nerfed into oblivion. It's a breath of fresh air to see a champ that doesn't force itself into doing something super unique, as it actually allows the champion to be its own thing that isn't tied to a gimmick.

FloRaider421 votes

Don't exactly understand how "doesn't force itself into doing something super unique" and "allows the champion to be its own thing" are supposed to go hand in hand. I understand why some people would have that mindset, but from a designer point of view making more champions with very similiar playstyle and themes doesn't make sense.

midnight oil241 votes

But it's not super similar to Brand anymore. Brand just makes explosions, while Ignis sends fire down the lane, pokes, has multiple options on how to do things, etc. She's not forced to do something that no other champ can do, which means that balancing her would be a lot less hard than, say Azir.

FloRaider421 votes

Sounds a bit biased to say that Brand just makes explosions. In the same vein Ignis just sends fire down the lane.

Being unique doesn't mean that you have to make completly new mechanics, but that your champion ultimately has a different feel to it.

midnight oil241 votes

And Ignis does. She uses fire in an elegant way, as opposed to the dangerous reckless way that Brand or Annie do. She's as much the same as them as all the freljord champs with slows are the same as each other.

FloRaider423 votes

#Themes:

Lissandra: Ice Witch Ashe: Classical Archer Sejuani: Heavy mounted warrior Braum: Protector Anivia: Phoenix

Ignis: Elegant Pyromancer Brand: Brutish Pyromancer or rather Fire elemental Annie: Creepy magic child also Pyromancer

If you really think Ignis and Brand are as close as the Freljord champions, I cannot help you anymore.

Auurun3 votes

Being unique=/= complicated/overloaded. Jhin is great example of champion that is unique not because of concrete mechanic, but his feel and i can argue that the way he uses ammo system is something new. Champs that you listed are problematic not because of forcing into originality, but because they got outplay potential, but barely any counterplay. Kalista got huge mobility, so can dodge lot of stuff, but she herself is focused on unavoidable damage, same goes for yasuo, his only counterplay is dodging tornado (basic q is almost instant, so i don't count this) and you gotta depend on counterpick, counterbuild, or that you're better with your champ than your opponent is with yasuo.

midnight oil241 votes

I know that being unique doesn't instantly equate to being problematic, but I just don't think that every champ needs to be completely unique all the time. Ignis is a cool champ on her own, and Dreamwalker has improved her, and in the end Ignis is his champ so it's his call on how to make the kit.

Auurun2 votes

And that's my feedback. She's not good enough.

midnight oil241 votes

But your feedback seems to just be that she doesn't have a cool thing that only she does.

Auurun2 votes

Yeah, that's why she's not good enough. Like someone pointed out earlier, she's basically rip-off of brand. And we have enough champs similar to each other, just look at vel'koz, lux, ziggs and xerath. They basically one champion in 4 forms with minor changes.

GigaPube2 votes

yeah it was a joke by a very obvious troll. i have no idea why or how they thought it was serious and that its a big deal at all. not like riot will ever implement any of these thorough, detailed champion concepts ever

if people thought they could be productive with ideas, they could think of actual and proper singular abilities/passives/interesting combinations with 2 or more abilities, but this is nothing but fanfic. whats there to literally steal anyway, lot of it doesnt even make sense lol

Stance: Pure / Evil (She is good to others, but harmful to herself)

Range: 2/3 of the width of Gangplank's circle

??????

midnight oil241 votes

The problem isn't that we thought riot wouldn't give credit, it was that people were claiming the ideas as their own. Even if they're trolling you, you wouldn't want to go through that either.

TyrekGoldenspear3 votes

We know who the real deal is.

We gotchu fam. \O/

Skins Project3 votes

Just me but I think you could add like 1%(Bonus) AD on each ability, it's kinda like the small amounts of AP some ad champs have on their abilities. It makes baron buff have a greater effect. Or at least feel like it.

Assuming on E you mean if the q HITS the enemy that is being targeted? Or just if it just hits anything.

Beyond that as quite a few comments have mentioned that it's a bit two similar to Brand overall & a bit like Veigar for the ult. In general flashing/itemization DOES NOT count as counter play. Especially for AD champions who don't itemize into hourglass.

I recommend making the similar to a thresh ult if you wish to keep that concept for it. IE the wall will dissipate or at least one portion will after hitting someone so there is something of an "Escape route" while good usage or bad teamwork will punish the opposing team heavily. The other path that can be taken for the ult is making it so it doesn't close in all the way. Or if you stay in a small zone in the center you can be "generally" speaking safe, this would allow the opponents to either A) spread out and take the stun, or B) to stay in the center but get chunked by AOE she has in her kit. But if that were the case the knockback on the W would have to be removed.

Overall the concept is good but is a bit too similar to other champions in areas, and needs some stat/balance fixes.

Gj tho :D

Edit Btw your post inspired me to actually try and finish a champ concept I had been working on a while ago (Because I was bored & whatnot) 2000 word's later I have finished (bad as it may be) Can you please give me some advice D: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/skin-champion-concepts/bbMK9Uvj-narod-the-manbacionian

hammond is god3 votes

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The Dreamwalker2 votes

Oooh, good tweak. Also, sure just send me a link.

midnight oil241 votes

Hey, missed you yesterday. Where were you?

Also, what happened to the other version of Ignis you posted?

The Dreamwalker1 votes

Wasn't on much yesterday, just here and there. Also, homework overload.

The other version of Ignis just didn't feel like me, and it also didn't represent her how I wanted her to be, so I took it down.

midnight oil241 votes

Okey doke. I'm glad to see you back, though. I missed you.

I'm excited to see where you go from here in terms of concepts as well!

The Dreamwalker1 votes

[{quoted}](name=midnight oil24,realm=NA,application-id=A8FQeEA8,discussion-id=aiyjNuIb,comment-id=00240000000000000000,timestamp=2017-02-09T15:40:02.829+0000)

Okey doke. I'm glad to see you back, though. I missed you.

I'm excited to see where you go from here in terms of concepts as well!

Hehe, the next thing I have cooked up inside my head is pretty... out there. ;) The good thing is that her theme is unique. So, 1+ for me. She is an assassin / mage / slayer type of champ. Working on her now.

Also, missed ya too buddy o'pal.

FloRaider421 votes

[{quoted}](name=The Dreamwalker,realm=NA,application-id=A8FQeEA8,discussion-id=aiyjNuIb,comment-id=002400000000000000000000,timestamp=2017-02-09T16:19:14.997+0000) Working on her now.

May the Sir of Poodles guide thee.

The Dreamwalker1 votes

I actually forgot his questions, I should try to find those again. I think they were on Harmonia's??

FloRaider421 votes

Were on Alias post

Erractic Eick1 votes

Two things: which list is the actual list of her abilities, and two, you may want to read Katsuni's guide on creating champions. It will almost certainly help you flesh out this concept in a way that both makes the idea even better and less oppressive to play against.

The Dreamwalker2 votes

The list after her picture are her new abilities. I am keeping the original because people have been trying to steal her. Could I get a link to that guide please? I will appreciate it a lot.

Erractic Eick3 votes

Sure thing! This is the complete guide of Katsuni, who is a game developer and was an active member of the League Community when they had the forums. It's a bit on the meaty side, but every bit of it is gold (and sometimes quite funny) so I highly recommend it.

Good luck, and enjoy.

http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=2099323

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