Champion Concept: Kyen & Buron
Im a big fan of Champion lore from both a creative and gameplay influencing aspect so i figured id start with it and describe his ability's/gameplay second.
(P.S. Im not a writer so please go easy on my bad grammar and story telling and over all corniness >.<)
Buron was born a small boy to a wealthy Noxian family. He was weak and shorter than every other child he knew. Buron probably wouldn't have lasted long if not for his parents power and his innate skill for defensive magics. He lived a quiet and easy life relying on his parents influence to keep him safe from the other more aggressive children... and adults. Sadly for him his quiet life would not last long for while his physical weakness was enough to keep the Noxian war machine from looking in his direction his proficiency with defensive magics did. Soon he was drafted into the military fold and began training to be made use of as a front line meat shield for the coming invasion of Ionia.
Buron never wanted any part of the war or violence in general and said as much to his trainers. This however only made his superiors more brutal in his training and treatment during his tenure. While some boasted that his magic would bring victory to the front line he new his true purpose was to be the wall that took the majority of the first volleys of Ionias attacks till he was broken down and run over by his "comrades in arms". Knowing this but unwilling to accept his fate he trained hard to make sure that he would be a wall that never fell. More for his own fate than for anyone else.
When he was finally put to the test with the front line invasion forces he performed far better than anyone (including himself) could have imagined. Blocking volleys of arrows and spells one after another he protected the soldiers as they marched toward the Ionian strongholds till they could touch the gates. He had proven his trainers wrong, he had proven himself to be vital to the war effort and he had proven he was not worthless, but there were no thanks or medals for him. It was not some huge battle between equally sized army's. He had helped soldiers who hated his guts to breach the defenses of a small Ionian force who had the misfortune of being caught by surprise and ill armed to truly defend themselves.
He couldn't relax during the moments of calm nor sleep under the clear Ionian skies. There was no escaping the images of mangled body's he'd helped kill. Unwilling to face the wrath of his commanders should he disobey an order he marched along side the his formation to continue the slaughter across the land.
Eventually the Ionain resistance proved to much and the unstoppable Noxian military had to retreat. Buron however did no join them. During the cover of night he slipped away from his garrison and fled toward the Ionian mountains. Not caring for the life of one traitor his former comrades condemned him to death for running and left him behind without even trying to search. Though Buron didn't care, he had finally escaped from his old life and was free to go where he pleased and be who he wanted too be. That was until Ionian trackers discovered his tracks and began searching the mountains for his hide.
He spent days running and climbing trying any method he could to escape from his pursuers who wanted nothing more than to carry out Noxuses death sentence for them. Finding a lonely cave covered in strange writing and moss he decided that he decided he would be more hidden in here than on a mountain side. He was wrong. The Ionians found the cave within the day trapping Buron inside with no method of escape. As he went deeper his dread that this would be his tomb grew stronger. Eventually he found his dead end in a small chamber filled with glowing moss and a single odd vase in the center and nothing else.
"All this way to just die at some Ionians hand in this stupid cave" he sighed. After putting up the strongest barrier he could at the chambers entrance he sat down and layed his head against the stone vase and waited for the end. Sleeping for the first time in days he dreamed of things that had never crossed his mind before. He saw a odd creature with two heads attacking countless shadowy figures with grace and power to rival any warrior he had ever known. After it had slayed the darker shadows it was approached by lighter shadows that cowered in its presence. Unwilling to let something so powerful exist in the same world as them they sealed it deep within a mountain to stay where it couldn't hurt anyone either friend or foe again. There it existed feeling betrayed and lonely to exist without purpose for all eternity.
"If only i could help it" he mumbled waking to the sounds of Ionian spears finally breaking threw the last bits of his shield. "Actually" he continued standing upright "I wish someone could help me". Apon seeing the looks of hatred on the Ionian soldiers faces he received all the motivation needed to try and reinforce the shield before they could get to him. The Sorceress however had other plans and broke threw his defenses before they could be reformed. As the soldiers charged spears forward he braced himself against the vase and pleaded for someone to help him.
He waited but no spears pierced his chest nor spells seared away his skin. The yells for blood were silenced instantly and the room had once again become calm. Looking back at the chambers entranced he saw the body's of the soldiers and sorceress on the ground and the creature from his vision above them looking at him from its two strange heads.
A man short in height and dressed in a heavy cloak with a hood walked down a market place in the Shuriman desert.
"So what do you think?" he asked to nobody in particular while holding a purple fruit in front of him.
"I thiiiink its edible but i cant really tell." he continued while walking down the market still studying the odd and possibly poisonous fruit. After staring at it for a few more seconds it was suddenly stolen by a small wisp of smoke that snaked out from his cloak before anyone else could see. "Hey! I was thinking about eating that" he yelled into the back of his hood much to the confusion of onlookers. Annoyed he held out his hand in front of him and waited for the fruit to be returned. It was returned promptly by the small smoke wisp, though it missed a rather large chunk. *sigh* "Well i guess you decided its not poisonous at least".
Finishing off the last bite Buron took a left down a dark alley where nobody would hopefully bother him. Berrly making it halfway down the alley he was joined by 5 large men brandishing sharp blades and wicked smiles.
"We'll be taking your valuables now" said one of the men before pointing his blade at Buron. Buron just shook his head gave the man a cocky smile.
"Remember Kyen" he started as the small ships of smoke began to poor out of his robes and form into a larger shape much to the confusion of his muggers "No killing just brake a few bones ok? I don't want a repeat of last time".
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Well hope that wasn't as bad as i assume it was but in any case now i can get to the in game champion concept.
So Buron is a defensive mage who uses CC to defend himself and has little to no damaging ability's. Kyen by contrast is a summoned Spirit that protects and fights for Buron with her ability's witch only do damage.
Buron and Kyen are a type of transformtaion champion who have both forms out at all times. Their utl allows you to switch between Burons CC and protection and Kyens attacks.
P.S. im not 100% on names of attacks or numbers if you have any suggestions
Passive:
Buron cannot auto attack himeslf and instead auto attacks with Kyen.
Buron and Kyen share a health pool. Only 50/40/30% of the damage dealt to Kyen by champions after resistances is dealt as damage to their health. 100% of the damage deal by minions and monsters is dealt to both.
Q:
Buron: Force Back
Mana :?? Cooldown: 10 at all ranks
Buron throws out a wave of power in a short area throwing back all hostile units a short distance dealing ?? (+??)magic damage.
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Kyen: Spirits Scream
Mana: none Cooldown: 10/9/8/7/6
Kyen fires out a blast of magic energy in a targeted location dealing ??/??/??/??/??(+??) Magic damage.
W:
Buron: Withhold
Mana: ?? Cooldown: 15 at all ranks
Buron throws a short range web of energy that stuns the first enemy struck for 1 second. The width of the stun increases in size with ranks.
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Kyen: Celestial strike
Mana: None Cooldown:8/7/6/5/4
Kyen leaps to target enemy within X range and swipes twice applying on hit effects to all enemy's hit
E:
Buron: Summon
Mana: 80 at all ranks Cooldown: 8 at all ranks
Buron summons Kyen at a targeted location. If Kyen is summoned on a friendly champion she fallows that champion.
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Kyen: Mystic claws
Mana: None Cooldown: None
Passive: Kyens basic attacks are converted into magic damage and deal ?/?/?/?/?% of Burons ability power on hit.
R: Shield and Fang
Allowes you to Switch between Buron and Kyen's ability's
Kyen shares Burons Attack damage, Ability power, Armor, Magic resist, Movment speed, Attack speed and Health.
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Buron and Kyen are a tag team pair switching between Burons CC for defense and Kyens power in attacks in order to over power their enemy's.
Buron is small for a champion and wears bulky cloths to try and hide this. Kyen is the larger of the two and has two heads one a similar silhouette to a dog/snakes head with the other being a simple cylinder with an ever present large white eye in its center. Kyen's body is a cross between dog and lizards with a over all smooth black hide with a row of white spots along her spine and a white mane behind both heads.
Notes:
Buron 'cannot' auto attack himself. Attack commands are instead performed by Kyen. Issuing attack commands on non-hostiles or pressing R on locations will move Kyen (think Annies Tibbers or Mordekaisers ghosts). Otherwise Kyen will fallow closely alongside Buron getting between him and hostile units.
Buron's E allows you to quickly re locate Kyen to your side for when you get dived in fights.
Unlike most 'Pets' in League Buron and Kyen share a health bar and will die when the other one does. To compensate for this weakness only a fraction of the damage dealt to Kyen (after resistances) will be dealt to their shared health pool. Buron will still take the full damage though.
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So what do you think? Id have tried to add some art but om not very good and i dont really have a way to put it up here anyway. If you guys did want to have some idea of what Kyen looks like i cold try to do something.
Hope you like the design :D! (and again sorry for the **** grammar and writing)
and
) I'd love to see this or other champions of this archetype, they're fun to play! Though I think making it so that Kyen is seperate from buron just makes it harder to kite, it could be a really nice champ.