Anan, The Living Bomb(Champion Concept)

General premise: A mage who is cursed with something like the Midas touch but instead of everything he touches turning to gold, it would turn volatile and explode. He would be a ranged mage who would have use both auto-attacks and abilities to fight opponents.

Story(in progress): Anan was an adventurous young man when he began his journey across Runeterra. His dream of exploring what the world had to offer had been filled with both danger and fun alike, but nothing prepared him for his meeting with the enchantress(potential Darkin? we need more of those guys). His day began like any other, waking up at the crack of dawn to begin the days journey. He had been on the border of Kumungu and the Fyrone Flats when he met her, the enchantress. Toying with him at first, she tortured him for hours, like playing with a new toy, until she finally grew bored. She the forced two gloves onto him and said, "from henceforth, you shall know no solace from your own volatility." As his gloves started to glow, and intense pain burrowed into his hands, as just before he could even say a word, the woman was gone. This was the start of his curse, and the first day of his new mission, to find the enchantress, and reverse the curse that destroys everything he touches.

Would love input on the story, there is much that could be improved.

Visuals: I am not that good of an artist, but I will try to make a picture that matches what I envisioned him to look like. The really big important visuals that I will describe though are his gloves. They are finger-less leather gloves with a large blue gem inserted in them from which the blue taint from his curse comes from, which would kinda look like jagged blue veins.

Gameplay: His whole kit is designed around explosive range and all his abilities revolve around this concept.

Weapon: Anan uses a slingshot as his weapon. I liked this idea because I thought it would be cool because we don't have a champion who uses a slingshot, and with his curse, anything his hands touch(excluding what is touched by the glove itself) turn volatile, meaning the pellets would eventually explode. Yes technically the slingshot would explode too, but I was thinking that either was glove would maybe be a whole leather glove, or that maybe out of anger he cut off one of his arms and replaced it with a prosthetic one.

Passive: As Anan attacks a target, they become volatile, which after a certain amount of time, causes them to explode dealing aoe damage to them. This volatile debuff can stack to 10 times, with each stack increasing the amount of damage that the explosion will deal.

Ability 1(Q): (Reverberating Pulse) - Anan focused his mind, and stabs the air in front of him with his hand, causing small pockets of it to explode, with each explosion going a further distance, covering a larger area, but dealing a smaller amount of damage.

I will post a picture of this idea, but for now think this. C=champion ()=explosion A=Anan

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Ability 2(W): (Explosive Launch) - Anan touches the ground beneath him, causing an explosion around him that deals damage and slows targets proportional to how close the target it to Anan, dealing more damage and slowing a greater amount the closer a target is to Anan. After the explosion reaches its max range, it launches Anan in the direction of the cursor at the time of casting.

Basically a nautilus E, except he is launched at its end.

Ability 3(E): (Cluster Shot) - Anan shoots a cluster of volatile pellets in a direction, which upon hitting a target or after a certain distance, will explode, shooting forward in a cone.

Same as graves ult, this one is the one I am thinking of changing, although I like it still.

Ability 4(R): (Living Bomb) - Anan fills himself with volatile rage, causing his entire body to become explosive for X seconds. While volatile, his passive causes a .5 second stun, his q has a slightly increased radius for each pulse, his w knocks up in addition to slowing, his e will now split after hitting and enemy in addition to leaving a cone, and the projectiles from the split will explode into additional cones if they hit a target. After X seconds, Anan will explode, dealing damage to all enemies around him. After X seconds(probably half way into ult), he can trigger his explosion early.

I like the idea of his ult amplifying his abilities slightly, with the bomb at the end(think like Quinn when she re-ults) An idea I had with this was also that if you died, your corpse would still explode, and if you zhonyas he would still explode.

I would love input on the champ. I like the whole Midas touch trope, and I think his story could be improved drastically. Maybe he found the gloves and they were cursed, or maybe he was granted a wish that was twisted. I like his abilities overall, and the idea of his original abilities improving with his ult, but a lot of his concepts are taken from existing champions, except his q. I may look at making them a little more unique over time. I will try to make something that resembles concept art, but I am no artist so no guarantees.

Thanks for reading.