[Champion Concept] Joanitta, the Zuan Saint

SSmotzer··5 votes·1,527 views

A religious woman who dedicated her life to her faith, she gave every cent she earned to those in need, but that was never enough for her. Then one day, her monastery, in the heart of Zaun, was attacked by radical anarchists who saw her church as just another establishment of the Zaun elite.

The bullets and fire ravaged everything Joanitta dedicated her life to building, and something inside her died, and something new, something darker took it's place. Melting down her beloved Kinkou crest, she forged a revolver and blessed every shell chasing and every grain of gun powder that she loaded into the chamber.

Taking to the streets, Joanitta seeks to liberate Zaun from the chaos of the extremists who roam the streets and the corrupt who control everything else.

"The fires of hell would sooner burn this city to the ground before I rest."

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Melee Assassin

Passive - Iron from Blood: Whenever Joanitta kills a large minion, jungle monster, or enemy champion, she adds a bullet to the chamber of her gun. For every 15% of Joanitta's max health she loses, she adds a bullet to the chamber of her gun. Her gun can hold up to 6 rounds.

Q - Fanning the Flames: Joanitta channels and fires a bullet in a target direction, dealing mixed damage to all enemies hit, the bullet stops at the first enemy champion in it's path. The cooldown of this ability is refreshed instantly, so long as Joanitta has an extra bullet. Moving or running out of bullets will place this ability on cooldown.

W - Smoke and Shadows: Joanitta cloaks herself, gaining bonus movement speed for a few seconds as she leaves behind her trench coat, as a decoy. Enemies who attack her decoy are revealed and take bonus damage from Joanitta's attacks and abilities while revealed.

E - Visions of Fire: Joanitta will glow, as the dark half of the Kinkou crest appears beneath her. She will then point her gun in a target direction, fearing all enemies who are looking at her in a cone in the direction she is looking, and causing any damage they take in the next few seconds to deal bonus magic damage over a few seconds.

R - Ultimate Penance: Joanitta slashes half of the Kinkou crest across her chest, reducing her health to 10% her current health, then she instantly loads her gun. Her next six attacks or spells gain bonus range, deal bonus true damage, and heals Joanitta for a large amount of health.


Allies Akali Kennen Shen

Enemies Jinx Singed Warwick

22 Comments

Gravy Traín2 votes

I absolutely loved everything until I saw your W. Your W is so horribly out of place on what you've created. From what I've seen on your post, Joanitta has basically abandoned her faith for the sake of revenge on the people who took that from her. Her praying to make projectiles miss feels so stupidly out of place with her story line, and especially has no synergy with her kit. Please replace this with another revolver ability. Also, her ultimate is way too overloaded. Get rid of the invulnerability part and I think it would be fine, depending on the % of life steal she gets.

SSmotzer1 votes

I get what you're saying.... How bout a cloak on her W instead?

Gravy Traín1 votes

I'm thinking more of a "mark a target" type ability. Like she identifies the criminal, then gets mad so she does more damage to that target.

SSmotzer1 votes

Her E already kinda does that.

Gravy Traín1 votes

I guess so. Maybe give her a movement ability?

CodyBear 1 votes

That's a really good creation you have there!

Nanuk Pihoqahiak1 votes

This sounds supremely broken, but looks hella cool. That ultimate is amazing. :D

SSmotzer1 votes

Yeah, but she is pretty squishy, when she isn't matrix dodging bullets with her W.

DrugsForRobots1 votes

I think she's thematically confused. She dresses like Graves but is somehow connected to the ninjas of the Kinkou Order? But she's stationed in Zaun . . . (or is Zuan a location you've invented?)

Her abilities names come together nicely and reinforce her theme (despite her lore and art not really working toward this end) but she doesn't really feel like a Support, despite being able to shield an ally. And you want her to be THE Assassin / Support - a title even Shaco can't get despite having two instances of hard CC and two ways of getting vision / scouting the enemy (one of which is a built-in ward). I'm sorry, but I can't upvote this.

SSmotzer1 votes

There isn't much in the way of religion in LoL, outside of Ionia and wherever Illaoi is from, so I figure Joanitta could be an Ionian missionary, who managed to open a monastery in Zaun, like how Illaoi set up shop in Bilgewater. And Joanitta didn't always dress like an outlaw, but traditional ninja garb doesn't quite fit the big city underbelly setting, and I think she wants to distance herself from her past, considering she watch it all literally burn to the ground.

The reason she is a support is because the damage from her ult is flat and heavy enough for her to build support items and still be able to handle her own in a fight. Unlike Shaco who relies on high damage items to have any real impact.

DrugsForRobots3 votes

. . . Shaco would be much more impactful if a free item didn't counter one of his core abilities . . .

Regardless, why would anyone ever build any support items on this gal when they could just build AD items so she gets the most from her Q, basic attacks, and R? And her R would probably feel terrible to use or ridiculously oppressive. Scenario A: She presses R and immediately gets blown up due to some stray AoE damage spell. Scenario B: She presses R, doesn't die, and then becomes unkillable while she's dealing True Damage with her basic attacks and / or Q, healing her back up to full HP.

I guess she has some utility, but I can't see her as a support. Even worse, in my eyes, is that the idea of slowing projectiles and / or turning projectiles into non-tracking vectors is actually a great idea (I've seen it elsewhere before) but it doesn't really feel like it belongs on her. It's the kind of effect that's unique enough to define a champion (like Braum's Unbreakable or Yasuo's Wind Wall or Camille's Hookshot) but Joanitta just seems to have it tacked on as a way to make her feel like a Support, which it doesn't really do because the Assassin in her completely overshadows it.

THE RlVER KlNG1 votes

Will you be entering this month?

DrugsForRobots1 votes

I'm not sure. I've got an idea I'm working on, but nothing concrete yet.

I do see several champion concepts I want to comment on though. (But I don't have time to be a full-fledged judge.)

SSmotzer1 votes

She probably would have owned a really nice Cultivair, which is one of many tiny bio-domes in Zaun, where food and fresh air is cultivated. She would have given it a real eastern vibe, been feeding and training homeless kids in the arts of self discipline and meditation with the spirits... until it exploded.

boo9101 votes

one. turn her w into a slow time thing that lets you dodge projectiles. but only you

and i agree with adam

ps- yo adam, howsEvelynn

hammond is god1 votes

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SSmotzer1 votes

The part of the city that is the arm pit of Piltover, yeah

Friendly Ram1 votes

it's a weird type of adc. P: why is this not a passive portion of her q since only that utilizes this resource. Q: i like the idea of this. W: will there be any visual differences between herself and the decoy? E: any affects if they look away? R: scary and effective.

SSmotzer1 votes

Taking her bot would probably be a mistake, since she has no range until either she takes damage or kills something big.

P Her ult also does, as her auto attack would use the ammo after. Q LoL needs a real cowboy W To the enemy team, no. E The burn maybe, but it's already pretty powerful as is, with the cloak and all. R High risk with a massive reward.

Friendly Ram1 votes

oops i saw gun and thought adc. didn't read below the pic.

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