Nyxa, The Shadow Binder

Kortia·11/1/2015, 8:07:06 PM·1 votes·420 views
Final??? Ideas appreciated

Nyxa, The Shadow Binder Origin- Damacia, The Shadow Isles Mage "After all- what is light without shadow?"

Passive- Shade Vortex Nyxa pulls the shadows of nearby fallen champions, monsters, and minions for additional ability power and mana regen.

Q- Dark Bolt Cost: 50/60/70/80/90 Mana Range: 1000

Nyxa sends out a shadow dagger which deals 10/35/70/125/230 (+60% ability power) magical damage to an enemy, and reveals them if not stealthed.

W- Possession Cost: 1/2/4/6/8 % of collected ability power Range: 600

Nyxa releases one of her shadows, sending it into an enemy, causing enemy to auto-attack a nearby ally (prioritizes Champions) for 1/1.25/1.50/1.75/2 seconds.

E- Hidden Motive Cost: 50/70/90/100/125 Mana Range: Self

Nyxa pulls shadows around her, shielding her for 50/100/150/200/300 (+50% Ability Power) damage and stealths for three seconds.

R- The Summoning On enemy hit: Nyxa summons up all of her collected shadows from the map, releasing them on a target enemy champion for 250/350/450 (+90 ability power) magic damage. On ally hit: Nyxa summons all of her collected shadows to defend target ally champion, adding 100/200/300 (+50 ability power) magic damage to their next ability based attack.

5 Comments

ShatteredSkys11/1/2015, 8:32:37 PM2 votes

Hey! Here are my thoughts on your concept! ^_^

Passive: This is essentially a buffed version of Veigar's scaling. Her scalings might be bad this gives her a huge amount of power and turns her into a ticking time bomb. You know how tough it is to face Veigar.

W: Could be absolutely broken depending on range. It's a point and click CC that not only locks them down for up to 2 seconds and forces them to deal damage to their allies. This could single handily win teamfights. Might want to tune it or change it.

E: What's the point of a shield when you're stealthed? Also instant stealths are incredibly powerful. Think of pre rework rengar and think about how safe he was because of his stealth.

R: You could potentially give that character over 900 damage on their next abilitly based attack when full build not including your passive. Which would be weird for something like Caitlyn E. Also point and click nukes are not fun:/

Overall: You concept lacks synergy. You have 4 strong abilities but how do they relate to one another? For an example take Ekko for an instance, his q slows which sets up is w, his e/r ult let him get into his w, and his q also gives him two procs of his passive letting him e for huge damage. None of your abilities work with one another.

ShatteredSkys11/3/2015, 10:23:49 PM1 votes

Hey! ^_^ Sorry been a bit busy lately.

Anyway here are some ideas I had, take what you want from them and use it as you please or trash the whole thing if you feel like it.

For this concept I'm going to try and keep her as utility mage who specializes in binding

Passive:

Q- Creeping Dark- Nyxa releases one of her shadows as a skillshot, if the skillshot hits the shadow tethers to the target dealing 10/35/70/125/230 (+60% ability power) and revealing them if not stealthed , if the tether remains for 2/3 seconds the enemy takes another 10/35/70/125/230 (+60% ability power) damage and is possessed by Nyxa and attacks allied units/snared/stunned.

With this ability I tried and combine your q and your w while adding a bit of counterplay.

W: Malicious Intent: Nyxa unleashes her shadows in 300(?) radius area for 5 seconds dealing 10/25/40/65/100 (+40% ability power) per second and slowing them for 10%/15%/20%/25%.

Synerigses with your q and ult , use it to punish people for getting tethered or to get your tether.

E- Black Mantle- Nyxa pulls her shadows around her stealthing herself for 3 seconds, if she is out of combat it takes 2 seconds to completely stealthed if she is in combat it take 4 seconds. While stealthed Nyxa gains 10%/15%/20%/25%/30% movespeed. When she's stealthed near a certain distance from enemies she laughs warning enemies of her approach.

Changed the e a bit, removed the shield and turned it into a generic stealth. Added the laugh because Nyxa is incredibly powerful when stealthed and nobody like being blown up by a stealthe champion. Just look at rengar, shaco, and old eve.

R- Shadow Bind- Nyxa prepares to bind the shadow of her enemies, she marks the ground in a 500 radius circle, after a 0.75 delay all champions have their shadows binded to the center of the circle dealing 100/200/300 (+50 ability power). if the enemy leaves the circle they take 250/350/450 (+70 ability power) and are slowed for 80%. This bind lasts for 1.5 seconds.

Kind of wanted something to say that she's the shadow binder. Kind of copied Puck's ult from Dota 2 though:/

I don't know what role you wanted Nyxa to fill so I turned her into some kind of ganking/utility mage. Her goal in the game is to roam with her invisability and try to snowball the other lanes with her e and snaring them with q. When mid game comes around she's going to be looking for a good ult opportunity or try to peel off enemy champions with her cc.

I don't know how to do numbers so they are probably pretty off:/ and i don't know if you want to keep the infinite scaling or not so I didn't make a passive.

Anyway this was my idea, feel free to do whatever you want with it. If you could provide me with more information in the champ I could write some lore if you would like.

ShatteredSkys11/5/2015, 5:47:51 AM1 votes

Nice idea for the ult. Definetly the oh shit it's Nyxa run!!!!! feeling when she pops up.

Oh yeah some ideas I had for the passive.

Collector of Shades: Every time Nyxa slays an enemy or gets an assist she binds their shadow to her. She has a cap on the amount of shadows she can claim. She starts with a cap of 5 and every ranks of her ult adds 1 to the cap. For every shadow she gains Nyxa gains ???

The idea behind this is too encourage her to go roam and get kills. She has really low kill potential in lane since you only need stand behind a minion to avoid her combo. This means she has a reason to go to other lanes and get them to snowball. Yeah it's pretty much your original passive but it only affects champions, this way Nyxa doesn't spend the entire match farming and instead must hunt for her shadows. I honestly have no idea what to give her. I'd rather avoid AP or raw stats but I can't think of some way to change her ability for the more shadows she has.

Corruption: Every time Nyxa deals damage with an ability she applies a stack on to the enemy. When an enemy hits 5 stacks one of Nyxa's shadows possess them for 0.50, .75, 1 or 1.25 seconds depending on rank of her ult. Possessed champions target nearby enemies prioritizing champions until the effect ends.

This is to add to her utility, making her ganks and teamfighting even more terrifying.

About her lore. You could honestly take the Shadow Isles from her lore and she would be the same person. The Shadow Isles is more associated with the dead than shadows(Kind of contradictory now I think about it) .

Also what she like? I at first imagined her as a more unhinged person kind of like a morbid Jinx. But the lore you have now makes her seem like a straight headed vigilante.

Oh and one last thing, her kit sort of resembles Morgana's, they both have that snare pool combo, they're both utility mages, and they both have mass gamechanging AOE ults. Just wanted to bring that up.