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Donathan, the Raining Steel

Kuzja1·10/26/2014, 9:48:33 AM·1 votes·563 views

Stats: Health - 50% Attack - 10% Magic - 90% Difficulty - 50%

Class: Primary - Mage Secondary - Assassin

Description: Another ace pilot and former member of the Screaming Yipsnakes, capable of raining death from above to help his fellow teammates on the ground continue through enemy lines by dropping explosions and leaving enemies under the burning flames.

Abilities: Passive - Hextech Bomb Shells In the seventh attack, Donathan will shoot a bomb shell that will deal AOE damage to enemies near his target and deal magic damage 100% of his ability power.

First Ability - Bomb Drop On a selected area, Donathan sends out a bomb that will deal AOE damage. Upon impact, enemies within the radius will take damage afterwards if they remain inside the fire. (Unlike Hextech Bomb Shells, Bomb Drop covers a larger radius but does not deal damage 100% of his ability power). The bomb detonation will take longer depending on how far the caster is to the target point.

Second Ability - Explosive Missiles When activated, Donathan will lock on to four nearby enemies in up to four seconds. When activated again or when lock on duration ends, Donathan fires his four bombs that will detonate upon impact, dealing AOE damage based on ability power. (The radius of the explosion is pretty small. It's smaller than Corki's Missile Barrage detonation radius)

Third Ability - Carpet Bomb When active, Donathan's aircraft leaves behind explosions for 6 seconds that will turn into flames that will deal magic damage to enemies overtime if they stay within the flames. (It's like when Singed activates that poison gas. It isn't as wide as Corki's Valkyrie but because it lasts for 6 seconds, it can be made to look longer) Damage stacks as more bombs are laid on the same area.

Ultimate - Steel Rain from Above Donathan flies his aircraft off then flies back in, dropping bombs across the map. Once he finishes dropping the bombs, he will fly back to his last location where the ability was activated. The bombs that drop leave behind a flaming path that deals damage overtime to enemies within the fire. (Just like how stealth bombers in Call of Duty would fly across the map, dropping a bunch of bombs)

Special Passive - Screaming Yipsnakes (While Fighting with Corki) "Death from Above"

Team Play: Works Well With -

  • Corki When Corki uses Phosphorus bomb to reveal enemies, Donathan can use his abilities to attack those enemies.
  • Ziggs These two are a team of explosive carnage. The more explosion, the more area to cover so no enemy is safe from fire.
  • Singed If these two were both being pursued, Donathan can use Carpet Bomb along with Singed's Poison Trail to deal more damage to the purusers.

Works Well Against -

  • Azir Even if Emperor's Divide is active, Donathan could just send bombs over the shielding soldiers separating him from Azir.
  • Heimerdinger Donathan is able to bomb both Heimerdinger and his turrets in one shot so the team wouldn't have to worry about Heimerdinger's turrets preventing their advance through enemy lines.
  • Yorick Donathan could use his bombs to take out Yorick's undead creatures, leaving Yorick to only fight with his shovel.

Struggles Against -

  • Kassadin Kassadin can slow and silence Donathan, disabling his ability to drop bombs, leaving him extremely vulnerable to incoming attacks.
  • Malphite Malphite's passive can shield him from the bombing attacks. Once they are all in cool down, Malphite can charge in and smack Donathan's ship with stone fists.
  • Soraka Soraka is able to heal majority of her teammates after Donathan's bombing attack, making his attacks almost useless.

I'll have this thread updated later. Give me some productive feed backs or suggestions. I'll be happy to read them.

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Kuzja110/27/2014, 9:07:13 AM1 votes

Alright. I'm back to bring in some updates on this concept.

Tips: Playing as Donathan -

  • Donathan can't stay in the battlefield for too long. Once you've used all your abilities, fly off the battle until you can return for another round
  • It is better to use Steel Rain from Above when your are distant from team fights. Your stealth bomb airstrike will come out unexpected.
  • Try using Steel Rain from Above to clear out an entire lane in one cut. Donathan can drop enough bombs to clear out one entire minion wave, including super minions.

Playing against Donathan -

  • Keep an eye on your minion waves. If they were hit by Donathan's Steel Rain from Above airstrike, get clear of that lane before the airstrike flies above you.
  • Focus your attacks on Donathan once he uses all of his abilities. They all have a high cool down
  • When team fighting, keep your allies split so Donathan doesn't hit all of your teammates at once.

Lore: In the Screaming Yipsnakes Squadron before the time of the League of Legends, Donathan was the squadron's main attacker for enemies on the ground while the rest of his squadron members protect him from airborne attacks. He tends to go along with Corki whenever he flies behind enemy lines. This type of team work has not only helped the Yordle's Megling Commandos military proceed with their ground missions, but has left nothing but flames where there is no one left in the battlefield. The Megling Commandos and other military units would just walk across the fields without pulling a single trigger.

Donathan is known to be the most destructive and reckless ace pilot in the squadron. Sometimes he would end up putting himself in danger, forcing his teammates to get him out of the hot zones. Thankfully, every reckless act has paid off by making the enemy lines weaker for the ally military to push through. When the League of Legends came about, some of the squadron members were relieved to retire now that they don't have to deal with babysitting Donathan every time he participates in a mission. Donathan was left to go back home and live with his parents which he sees as the most humiliating and boring life style he would ever live. He finds his parents as the most annoying yordles ever lived in Valoran. They did not approve of his career. They wanted him to be a farmer. He was working as a farmer when he was forced into retirement. He wasn't really good at it either but his parents still insisted that he works because that's what they wanted for him. After learning of Corki's participation in the league, he thought maybe he should do the same just to do what he loves to do best; Giving his foes some steel rain like he always has in the squadron. But he wanted to train himself first so he left his parents with all his belongings and of course leaving behind his parents' disapproving anger and visits the city of progress to find Heimerdinger and Corki to rebuild his stealth bomber to practice his new tactics, proving that he can fight along with Corki in the league without causing too much trouble.

Donathan pilots a Stealth Bomber, the Deadly Over Waste Nuclear Bomber, once only able to drop bombs manually. But Heimerdinger has modified the bomber with Hextech electronics to make bomb dropping controls easier and quicker. With this new modification to his bomber and Donathan's training in the bombing run, the league's competition will have to look out for fire around the Fields of Justice.

"Don't worry. The world won't be burned as long as I know what I'm doing." - Donathan

I won't have enough text to finish. I'll have this updated tomorrow. Give me a feed back if you want. Take a look at my other airborne champion, Aravel:

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/skin-champion-concepts/UFm4wtXP-aravel-the-iron-sky-warrior