[Champion Concept] Nyx, the Spirit Dreamer
Nyx, the Spirit Dreamer
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Nyx is an ethereal mage who functions as a strong ganking/supporting jungler. Her abilities allow her to get close while being unnoticed, then cause massive panic and confusion to her enemy while she finished them off.
However, She is not a true assassin: she lacks reliable escapes and strong burst, and she doesn’t have a great way to get in and out effectively. Instead, her strengths lie in her ability to mislead and fear her enemies, and support the rest of her team in fights to secure kills, objectives, and the nexus.
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After casting a certain number of spells, Nyx gains a bonus based on the next spell cast:
From Q: Rampant Spirit - Nyx grows in size, and gains extra tenacity From W: Mischievous Spirit - Nyx slightly reduces in size and gains additional movespeed From E: Deadly Spirit - Nyx pulses with dream energy, which deals a small amount of damage over time to enemies within range
Only one bonus can be active at a time.
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Nyx transforms herself into a physical manifestation of nightmares for her enemies, and a celestial stag for her allies, for a medium duration. This causes a set number of spirits to emanate from Nyx each second.
To her enemies in range, she releases terrifying spirits that haunt their minds, dealing damage. Spirits return to Nyx to heal her for a portion of damage done. Bonus damage is applied to feared enemies.
To her allies in range, she releases celestial spirits that surround them with additional armour and magic resistance. Allies cannot gain more than 3 spirits.
Nyx bursts forward in a line, tearing the rift behind her apart and revealing a dream world.
For enemies, the rift creates a hellish landscape of death and fire, reducing their sight and dealing damage per second while they are on the tear.
For allies, the rift creates a fantasy world of wonderment that increases their movement speed and grants increased health regeneration while on the path.
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Nyx disappears in a cloud of smoke and goes invisible for a brief time. Upon re-appearing, dream energy explodes around Nyx.
Dreams from the explosion causing enemies to be feared and take damage, and cause allies to get excited and have a large movement speed buff for a very short duration.
Nyx creates images of all her teammates around her. Images and Nyx fade in and out of visibility for a brief duration. Images do no damage, but can be hit. Once hit, an image will be destroyed and explode with dream energy, doing a bit of damage to enemies within the explosion.
Images move as their counterparts on the rift do - they are not controllable by Nyx.
Dream forms
When Nyx uses certain abilities, her form visually changes, and looks different for allies and enemies.
Allies see Nyx as a celestial stag
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Enemies see Nyx as a demonic wolf
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Combos
Dream Surprise - E - Q - W : By sneaking up on an enemy, you can fear them into a direction they don’t want to go - then follow up with nightmare spirits for burst damage, and finish them off by using your W to ensure they cannot escape.
Hallucination Bomb - W - R - Q : If you can isolate an enemy that has AoE damage, you can get close to them with W and trigger hallucination - when they attempt to fight back, the images will explode and cause good damage, allowing you to finish them off with your Q.
Lore
Nyx was born from the devastation from the last Rune wars, as a small spirit from the Howling Marshes. From this place, spirits and undead thrive - but Nyx was not like her bloodthirsty kin… she instead enjoyed peering into the minds and dreams of wandering travelers, torturing their minds to madness. This was best done while they slept, as the mind is a beautiful playground for trixy spirits.
Nyx, with her cunning mind, curiosity, and ability to break lesser minds, became well known by merchant and travelers, which caused them to avoid entering the marshes at all costs.
As the years went on, fewer travelers entered the lonely marshes, so Nyx began searching for more things to play with. After hearing about the league of legends, she felt it would be a perfect place to play with some new foes.
Art Credit
Images for this champion concept were found from deviantart, and altered slightly to match this champions theme. All credit for the art is given to the respective artists, shown below.
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