THOROUGH VAMPIRE LORD CONCEPT - BUMP FOR GREAT JUSTICE
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League of Legends doesn't have a real "Vampire" character. Vladimir comes close but he is not truly a vampire, just some weird lad obsessed with blood.
I think it will please the community to get a clearly defined character like this - it gives you a lot of creative opportunity to play around with abilities and lore.
General Concept: Vampire Lord who has awoken from a curse that kept him contained for a thousand years and now seeks to reclaim the power he lost. Wields a two handed European greatsword with one hand (because he's swole as heck, duh). Speaks with a noble European accent and sometimes uses old outdated language
Personality wise I'm envisioning him to be very cocky about his own ability and immortality, much like Rhaast is. However, he would be less chaotic than Rhaast and a lot more determined, meticulous (unlike Rhaast, who just wants to cause destruction, he would have a clear goal and will do everything to achieve it)
The core values of this character would be: power, ambition, domination
He would also need to be dashingly handsome, thinking of someone swole like Bloodstone Taric, but with a more youthful face like Kayn. Who clearly would make the ladies of League of Legends swoon
I don't want this to be too similar to Kayn or Vlad, and I think there is plenty of opportunity to make this Vampire character HIS own character with his own distinct lore. Given the "1000 year curse" story, you could really write an interest backstory for the character and give him meaningful character interactions such as: Vayne, who hunts evil creatures Vladimir, who he would consider less ambitious and a failure Rhaast who he would think has great potential, but is too chaotic and without clear ambition. Could have a joke interaction with Rhaast along the lines of "So, you too, huh?" Lucian, would want to slay him Ryze, who would recognize the potential threat of the vampire lords evil power Can flirt with lots of female characters (including Ezreal)
Gameplay wise he would be a melee bruiser most likely played jungle, mid, or top His kit would be based around sustain, mobility and lifesteal
Passive - Sanguine Tempo: Ability use and auto attacks build movement speed and lifesteal. Each Autoattack and ability on an enemy applies on them a bleed stack.
Q - Lord's Mercy: Swings his sword in an arc in front of him, slowing enemies hit, heals for part of damage dealt to champions, can be cast while moving
W - Dance of Darkness: Blink ability, where he vanishes into a cloud of darkness and reappears less than a second later at target destination. Has several uses with a long cooldown that build up over time and refresh 1 stack per kill like Akali R
E - Ancient Hunger: Passive: Getting 5 or more stacks of his passive on an an enemy champion or minion marks them as "bleeding", which boosts his movement speed towards them, and attack speed when hitting them.
Active: Can be activated on a "bleeding" target to blink to them and bite into them, stealing a percentage of their Max HP and slowing them (consuming
bleed stacks).
R - Royal Ambition: Unleashes his full power for 8 seconds, when moving towards enemies, he glides, gets bonus movement speed, and becomes immune to CC. Abilities and autoattacks during Royal Ambition stack Sanguine Tempo twice as fast Killing enemies while in Royal Ambition refreshes Ancient Hunger's Active. (assists don't reset the cooldown)
Pros:
- Insane sustain
- Extremely sticky, hard to get rid of him when he uses Dance of Darkness to get in close, Q to slow and Ancient Hunger to blink towards his target
- Great at cleaning up teamfights by activating Royal Ambition and refreshing Ancient Hunger on every kill
- Great early jungle clear with sustain
- Great early game dueling - he excels at extended fights
- Flashy LCS outplay potential by using his W and E at the right moments to dodge abilities
- Can split push for days
- BIG SWORD and has mad aesthetic
- Handsome 10/10 hunk
- Cocky personality that fits in perfectly with League of Legends community
- Can carry games
Cons:
- No hard CC abilities
- Not many defensive options aside from W, needs to commit to fights
- Like all CC-less champs, becomes a liability if set far behind
- Gets cucked by Grievous Wounds
- Not a full tank so he can't engage unless hes so far ahead that the enemy can't kill him
- Does not have burst damage, all of his damage is based on extending trades and fights, making him lose trades to champs that can burst and get out
Possible Builds:
Bruiser/Offtank:
Permanently Sticky:
Against AP:
Full Sustain/AD:
Split Push / Duelist:
Jungler (Auto-attack):
Jungler (AD/Sustain):
Jungler (Tank):
As you can see, there is a ton of different ways to experiment building him based on the situation. He is not bound to a single item or build path. The only item that reappears almost every time is Spirit Visage due to it being core for a sustain bruiser.
His goals in game are: Two options in teamfight - either engage on a target using R and stay on them, or come in midfight to clean up with your R and E reset Mid game split push while you have a dueling lead Farm early game until level 3 when you can start getting kills
Gank using your W from cover to get right on top of your opponent, or walk up to an enemy from behind and then use your W to jump to them after they burn their flash/mobility
Gank through lane using your R to surprise enemies
Use your R to force teamfights if you have a lead
Turn fights around using your R and E resets
Counterjungle early game if you are the jungler, you will win most early fights due to your sustain
Some good Runes would probably be Press the Attack, Lethal Tempo, Predator, Grasp of the Undying, Possibly even Phase Rush Overheal would work great on him, so would the Domination runes for healing
Take this into serious consideration, would be an excellent champion to be added to this pool.
Would you play this champion or want to see him in the game?
