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[Character Concept] Laura; the Fury of the Seas

Aria Storm·5/29/2016, 12:51:24 AM·19 votes·2,540 views

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Hello League of Legends players, Riot, and fans alike ! I got this idea the other day and I thought others may like it too.

Abreviated Lore: Her name is Laura, she is a spunkylittle yordle with big dreams. She grew up in Bilgewater, hearing tales of pirates and brigands, she wanted to make her own legends. A yordle pirate captain was laughable at best - but with her trusty razorfin Nibbles, she defied the odds and mastered the seas with her own ship and trusty crew.

Her Kit: (Please note, this is basic, the numbers are not set in stone, which is often why I will have # - # meaning ti can be anywhere between these two and doesn't have to scale with level !) Everything in Italics is something I'm not entirely sure about.

Passive: When out of combat for 5-10 seconds, she mounts up on her razorfin gaining 10%-30% movement speed. Within a certain range of an enemy champion, she can leap onto them. (Like a Rengar bush dive) Her razorfin attacks units within its range. Prioritizes champions.

Q Bomb Satchel: She throws out a volley of three bombs, on impact they do a small AOE damage. Each bomb can hit a different unit. (So if one hits a minion and the other two don't, only the one explodes and the other two only explode when hitting the ground) Scales off of AD damage.

W: To be honest, I'm not sure. I'm torn between making her passive her W and her passive just the razorfin thing. Alternatively, it could be an AD and attack speed steroid, a mount up and dash, or making her ranged. (If Ranged, she'd have twice the range as the Razorfin attack range

E Anklebiter: Her Razorfin leaps and clamps down on a campion's leg, not letting go until they are out of the range of it, if they remain in the range for x time, they are rooted/snared for 2-4 seconds. Does a DoT bleed. Scales off AD. Passive: Her razorfin attacks units within its range. Prioritizes champions.

R Release the Kraken!: She calls opon the storm and the sea. The whole map will get a storm effect. The actual ult would be about a Zyra ult range and area size. There will be a whirlpool that slows people softly and slightly pulls them in. After 4 seconds, those still within the area, will get pulled in to the center by a giant kraken, and rooted there for 5-8 seconds. Ult does NOT deal damage in and of itself.

Champion interactions:

Gangplank Oh wooooow! GP! Its an honor! Bow

Gangplank I am your biggest fan ! I've followed all your stories! And.... oh... when did you lose your arm?

Gangplank Wow you survived all that! You've even cooler than I thought you were!

MissFortune Miss Fortune! This is like... the Best. Day. Ever!

MissFortune This is sooo cool! And ... I should probably run now.

Gnar Nidalee Rengar Kitty!

Gnar Nidalee Rengar (Opon getting jumped on) AHH! Bad kitty!

Gnar Soooo Cuuute! Look at him chase his tail!

Gnar (Opon being attacked by Mega Gnar) NOT CUTE! NOT CUTE! NOT CUTE!!!

Varus Is that fur, corruption, or pants? Can you take it off? Are you not wearing clothes? SOOO many questions!

Nasus Hey boy! Get the stick, get the stick!

Nasus (Opon getting attacked by ulting Nasus) BAD DOG! BAD DOG! BAD DOG!

Nasus (Opon getting attacked by ulting Nasus) DOWN BOY! NO TREATS FOR YOU!

Q & A: Why a Yordle? I made her a Yordle for several reasons:

  1. Its been a while since we've had a new one, Gnar was the last one /if/ we count him. (Do we count him? He's basically a caveman for yordles)
  2. There's only three female yordles, two of which looked like they were sisters for years.
  3. We don't really have many AD Yordles, or a Yordle Assassin.

Why an AD Caster/Assassin midlane? Again, I have several reasons:

  1. Its been a long time since we had an AD caster, I think Jayce was our last one. 2: If you want to follow the meta and go AD, you have a choice between Zed or Talon. Other AD assassin/AD casters CAN go mid (Jayce, Pantheon, Kha'zix, Lucian, etc) But they either fall off (Pantheon), aren't in the Meta (Jayce), or simply preform better elsewhere. (Kha'zix in Jung and Lucian in bot)

Her kit seems a bit overloaded for an assassin She has assassin features, but if its too strong that's where the caster/bruiser comes from. She isn't intended for a tank and is still fairly high risk. If her passive is mounting up, she can't use it to escape. Roots don't prevent autos or spells so even if she pulls them off, she can still die. She is potentially safer than Talon and Akali but not as safe as Zed or Fizz. The idea I had for Laura was to be an AD caster Midlaner and/or Assassin. As a result, she has a fast, mobile kit, while also being able to be a team player.

Why a Pirate? We only really have one, we have pirate skins but only one actual pirate. That and it was just the idea I had. Plus imagining a yordle in an oversized pirate jacket looked adorable in my mind.

_ She seems a bit of a joke?_ I wanted her to be cute, adorable, and a bit ADHD. Kind of like Lulu but a bit more extreme in some places. I had the idea that she would have nerdgasms when she met either GP or MF.

You can't tame a Razorfin! There's a lot of things that 'can't be tamed' and someone ends up taming one. I'm sure that people said that to the first dude that tamed a wolf and without that, we wouldn't have dogs, would we? ;)

But why a Razorfin? Because it was about time for them to be included. We only saw them in Butcher Bridge and Black Market brawlers. If people missed either of those, they wouldn't even know they existed. We have several champions that have poros included. (Sejauni Skin and Braum in general)

_ Razorfins don't get that big!_ I don't know if Riot ever explicity said how big they get anywhere. The Razorfins in Butcher's bridge and in Black Market brawlers were a lot different looking. One being clearly bigger. The ones in black market brawlers were a bit longer than minions, it isn't too much of a stretch that they could get bigger - big enough to carry a small yordle.

_ Why does she have a permanent Kindred w as a passive/kit passive?_ Because the idea I had for it was the range of it was a LOT smaller (I was thinking Aurelion stars before expanding out) so most ranged champions would stay out of the range, anyway. It also deals less damage as a whole because I figured that you can't get the numbers of it up by buying AD unlike getting Kindred's w to scale nor does the damage scale with level. (So its probably half as strong or even less than a level 18 full built Kindred's W would be)
Plus The idea of it sitting there while she was being hit didn't sit well with me.
I also wanted her to do the most damage up close and personal.

** Might add more content at a later date **

http://i.imgur.com/UgEGm3r.png http://i.imgur.com/V49Lnt8.png http://i.imgur.com/sZdRr8G.png

10 Comments

Torino135/29/2016, 7:54:51 PM2 votes

I like it. I've been trying to design a little yordle character myself, perhaps an archaeologist. But I digress.

I do think shadowforger11 is right about the ultimate and that it is a little out of place. I liked his idea about a larger razorfin or perhaps instead of a kracken it's a bunch of little razorfin that swarm the whirlpool (though it wouldn't be able to root, that wouldn't make sense). It seems like razorfin are her thing and that it should be incorporated some more. And if she's the only one who has tamed a razorfin, maybe change her title to: Laura, the razorfin tamer (or something along those lines idk I'm bad at coming up with things like that).

One other thing, and it's kind of minor, but I think you should change her coloring. Purple is a very magical/royal color (like Lulu) and I don't think it fits the idea of what a pirate is. It seems too clean. A pirate is a grungy, dirty, flea bitten kind of character and I think a darker color like a brown or dark green might be more fitting for a yordle that's been sailing the seas.

Great work though! Lots of fun reading what people come up with.

shadowforger115/29/2016, 7:31:32 AM1 votes

Yo! I saw the post and decided to take a look instead of looking and leaving without giving any feedback (I'm looking at you, sir. You had better post some criticism/ideas and not click out). WARNING: THE POST IS LONG AND I AM NOT A PROFESSIONAL DESIGNER!!! Let's start with the Lore. Very basic, but it gives me this picture: Enjoys fighting the odds, hates being told that she can't do something, tenacious. My main issue is the interactions, which seem to go against the established picture. The interactions make me picture someone who is attempting to be a pirate, is easily impressed and distracted, and not savvy at all. As demonstrated by how Gangplank killed his way up, we kinda get the image of what a pirate really is.

ABILITIES

Passive: When out of combat for 5-10 seconds, she mounts up on her razorfin gaining 10%-30% movement speed. Within a certain range of an enemy champion, she can leap onto them. (Like a Rengar bush dive) Her razorfin attacks units within its range. Prioritizes champions.

I want to do this for the sake of consistency: (5/4/3 or a flat 5). Now I do like the idea of the mounting and even the leap might be fine, but the last part where Nibbles attacks opponents near her and goes on champs without her attacking them is dependant on damage. Maybe keep the "attack what she attack's" for the sake of readers. I also want to note the fact of the double passive.

Q Bomb Satchel: She throws out a volley of three bombs, on impact they do a small AOE damage. Each bomb can hit a different unit. (So if one hits a minion and the other two don't, only the one explodes and the other two only explode when hitting the ground) Scales off of AD damage.

So the picture I see is that the bombs are thrown and boom. No bounce meaning fixed positions. Also how about the width? Would it be as wide as the Q of TwistedFate or just a bit closer? Then there's range. Numbers are too hard to deal with so give an objective point of reference like the aforementioned Q. With your addition at the end, were you trying to say that if one blows then the others don't? For that matter, it sounds as if you don't cast them at the same time or they would all blow at the same time since they connect in a similar zone. In that case, it is a barrage in which you can toss three bombs out.

W: To be honest, I'm not sure. I'm torn between making her passive her W and her passive just the razorfin thing. Alternatively, it could be an AD and attack speed steroid, a mount up and dash, or making her ranged. (If Ranged, she'd have twice the range as the Razorfin attack range

I find this option the most intriguing. Once mounted, she gains ranged supremacy. In terms of a weapon, would she just throw bombs all day or be on an "ammo" system (maybe since they are bombs she throws three at a time, but needs to use them before the fuse blows?) Regardless, the fact that Nibbles is her constant companion, means you need more interaction than just a passive. They are a tag team like Quinn and Kindred . Perhaps she will stay mounted until hit by an enemy twice? Keep me posted on updates.

E Anklebiter: Her Razorfin leaps and clamps down on a campion's leg, not letting go until they are out of the range of it, if they remain in the range for x time, they are rooted/snared for 2-4 seconds. Does a DoT bleed. Scales off AD. Passive: Her razorfin attacks units within its range. Prioritizes champions.

"Her Razorfin leaps and clamps down on a campion's leg, not letting go until they are out of the range of it" So a slow and not a stun then? Also, what range and range of what? The root/snared thing doesn't make sense in terms of the whole. Is there an additional interaction where Nibbles grips the opponent as you line a single musket shot and he only lets go after x time or if you miss? Also that passive should remain as a main passive. As I noted before: Ensure he hits what you do.

R Release the Kraken!: She calls opon the storm and the sea. The whole map will get a storm effect. The actual ult would be about a Zyra ult range and area size. There will be a whirlpool that slows people softly and slightly pulls them in. After 4 seconds, those still within the area, will get pulled in to the center by a giant kraken, and rooted there for 5-8 seconds. Ult does NOT deal damage in and of itself.

What? Just simply: what? When did she become a Tidalmancer? I assumed her kit was wholly revolving around the pirate and her constant companion. Where did a KRAKEN come from? She's a (from the interactions) an eager, wanna-be pirate who has a razorfin for a constant companion. Wouldn't she do something like "Feeding Nibble's a special biscuit, he grows twice as large and deals extra damage while benefiting from bonus attack speed and movement speed. (effect: he also becomes red) Laura, on the other hand, will mount the behemoth razorfin and resort to pulling out her musket (or bombs) without worry as she cannot be removed from the beast until the effect wears off. (You control Nibbles in this mode, but Laura will automatically target enemy champions. Be wary as you share a health bar.) You may have to do alternate abilities in this mode as Laura may be unable to logically utilize some of her kit. All that was just my concept on the matter.

ART I love it. Jhin approves.

Additional Notes:

You can't tame a Razorfin! There's a lot of things that 'can't be tamed' and someone ends up taming one. I'm sure that people said that to the first dude that tamed a wolf and without that, we wouldn't have dogs, would we? ;)

Just a bit of clarification. While rats CAN be tamed, the dog parallel doesn't work since wolves have a pack mentality. They follow the Alpha and I am fairly certain Wharf Rats do not have Alpha Males.

That concludes my analysis, if you have the wish to type to me again then please do. Keep me posted on how your project goes!

This may be one opinion, this may be a bad one, but I believe that offering any feedback is better than looking, voting, and clicking out. I hope that this comment helps this and future posts. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Seraphize5/29/2016, 7:59:43 AM1 votes

Love the concept! I agree with Shadowforger11 and basically all he/she says take my +1 (even though I was hoping for a AD support yordle) [slayer-jinx-wink]

Blossom of Time5/29/2016, 2:20:05 AM1 votes

For your champion interactions (new): Tristana Wow! Are you my sister?!

Lucian I'm so sorry about your wife.

Thresh HEY! HEY! FART CLOUD!! HEY!

Thresh (Upon attacking thresh) For Lucian! Ahem. I mean Senna!!!

Also I love your idea for this concept, you deserve more credit. <3

DeathTheHorseman5/29/2016, 3:03:39 PM1 votes

I like the idea of pirate mouthy yordle but the kit looks plain bad and overtuned on the max => 10 sec CC from Ankle Bite + Release the kraken (btw having an R spell with that name is hilarious)

Generally, either remake the kit or tweek it because it's not going to work in the current state.

I will leave an upvote since riot would never release a champion in such a state but might notice the concept and start working on something.

shadowforger117/26/2016, 4:17:43 AM1 votes

When kled was shows, I couldn't help but look at this post again. Huh, interesting relations.

THE RlVER KlNG5/29/2016, 1:18:35 PM1 votes

More like Laura, Furry of the Seas