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Champ Concept: Azure Dragon, the Great Dragon Deity

midnight oil24··1 votes·700 views

Sorry I'm late on this one. Had some stuff going on.

Lore: Nova Grapplers, the no-holds-barred fighting tournament held in the Star Gate region of the planet Cray. It is here that Aliens and robots prove their combat worth in front of adoring crowds. Out of all the competitors, few groups are known more than the Beast Deities, robots designed to resemble animal gods. Even in this mighty force, few can top the might of the legendary Azure Dragon. Modeled after a blue dragon of near-godlike celestial power that roams the universe forging stars, this powerful robot strikes hard and fast. He has stood against the VOID and its subordinate faction, Link Joker, and is one of the champions of the Nova Grapplers, even to this day.

Abilities:

Azure Dragon is our second champion to utilize Judgement, so we'll discuss that in a bit.

Passive: God-like

Whenever Azure dragon strikes an enemy with a basic attack, they gain a stack of "Dominated." At three stacks of dominated, Azure Dragon's next basic ability will deal a bonus effect, and charge the judgement gauge by 5%. An enemy that has been hit by an ability while dominated cannot be dominated again for 10 seconds. Stacks fall off one at a time after 5 seconds.

Q: Divine surge (12/11/10 second cooldown)

Passive: Every time you kill an enemy or enemy minion, Azure Dragon's AP increases by 10% for 5 seconds. Active: Azure Dragon lunges forward with his spear, dealing magic damage that scales with 10/20/25/30/35% of your AP to all enemies hit. If it strikes an enemy that has been dominated, it will restore health to Azure Dragon equal to 25% of the damage dealt.

W: Battle Aura (8/7/6 second cooldown)

Active: in a cone in front of him, Azure Dragon unleashes a blast of energy, dealing AP damage with bonus damage equal to 3% of the enemy's max health, while also slowing them by 20% for 5 seconds. If this ability hits a dominated target, it will stun them for 2 seconds instead of slowing them.

E: Sky Strike (10/9/8 second cooldown)

Passive: For five seconds after you activate your E, you can preform autoattacks while moving, but you deal 50% less damage, and must autoattack twice to apply a stack of dominance. Active: Azure Dragon soars forward, attacking the first enemy hit, dealing AP damage equal to 20% of your AP. If you hit a dominated target, you will stun them, and the attack will deal bonus magic damage that scales with your missing health.

Ultimate: Bladestorm (100/90/80 second cooldown)

Azure dragon becomes unstoppable, and moves at 30% increased movespeed for 5/7/9 seconds. During this time, all enemies in his autoattack range will receive damage over time. Against an enemy that has been dominated, he will deal bleed damage that lasts for 5 seconds after the active ends. All damage dealt with this ability will be AP damage.

Judgement: Illuminal Dragon

Killing minions and hitting dominated enemies will charge your judgement gauge. When it is full, hit the button (located where the E. Lux transform button is) to turn into Ultra Beast Deity, Illuminal Dragon. In this state, all allies and you will have 30% increased movement speed, and you will gain 10% increased attack speed. In this form, autoattacks deal bonus damage equal to 10% of your AP.

Friends: Ethics Buster, All Beast Deities

Enemies: Maelstrom

Special interactions:

Ethics Buster: Now to settle who rules the ring!

Viktor: I know another Viktor back home. I'll introduce you some time.

Maelstrom: You've been duped by the void, you fool!

Camille: You wouldn't be out of place in the nova grapplers.

Blitzcrank: If you join the nova grapplers, we could really upgrade you.

Orianna: Your methods are unorthodox, but there are no rules in the ring.

Jayce: You wouldn't last one minute in the ring!

Aurelion Sol: I'm the superior model! / Only one dragon god can exist, and I intend to put up a fight!

Talon: What on earth are you wearing?

Volibear/Rammus/Alistar: I know a beast deity like you.

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Azure dragon is above, Illuminal Dragon is below

Image credit goes to bushiroad

6 Comments

Gravy Traín2 votes

Why do people try to convert other random series characters into league champions? Obviously it can't be done because Riot would just get sued for copyright. They're also never even that good because the design is so limited by the preset parts of the character.

midnight oil241 votes

I'm just having some fun. This is just a little project of mine, it's not like I want Riot to make champs of them.

A champ made from a shadow paladin unit would be weird. They sacrifice allies. It really only works in champ concepts.

Also, vanguard works better because a lot of cards get various versions of themselves from the lore. I don't just rely on the card, I rely on their story and what it says about the characters themselves. The official lore for Azure Dragon says that he's super mobile, so he can attack while moving here.

Got any actual feedback so that I can learn for the future?

Gravy Traín1 votes

The name feels really uncreative. I would suggest giving him an actual name, and making "the Azure Dragon" his title which comes afterwards.

I don't understand the auto attacks while moving thing. Melee champions already pretty much auto attack while moving. Are you just saying it gives him no auto attack animation? The fact that he permanently does 50% damage and only applies on hits every other attack after he puts a point in E is ridiculous. It seems more beneficial to avoid ever putting a point in E all game, the E ability isn't worth the massive drawback that is the passive.

The passive and Q passive feel a lot like Varus, but it's not that bad to have similar abilities. You can clearly tell they aren't the same champion, largely because this one is melee.

The judgement system feels very clunky. Having to reach over to click something on your hotbar in the middle of a fight sounds annoying af. I would suggest a system where his ultimate consumes Judgement stacks on cast and gains increasing effect based on each Judgement stack consumed. If it consumes full stacks, it does the full Illuminal Dragon effect.

midnight oil241 votes

With the E, how it works is this: Warwick, for example, can move towards a person but needs to stand still to launch an auto attack. Azure dragon, on the other hand, gets to move forward while still attacking. Think of it like tracer and lucio in heroes of the storm. If you aren't moving when doing an autoattack, you get the full benefits of your passive.

Name would be a hard fix, as that is his name in-canon. It's not that he has some other name, he's just "beast deity, azure dragon," or, in the case of his (not really) better form, he's "Ultra Beast Deity, Azure Dragon." It's sort of like how when I do the other major beast deity, Ethics Buster, his name will still be ethics buster.

I'll see what I can do on the judgement, but that could be hard to implement the ult idea. In another one of my concepts, his ultimate only becomes usable once he's in his judgement form. I'll try to find a key to put it on instead.

Any other feedback? I appreciate any and all ^^

Gravy Traín1 votes

Now it just sounds ridiculously hard to stop moving while attacking if you want full damage. I think you should really just make it into a "for 5 seconds after using his E" type deal rather than a permanent passive.

midnight oil241 votes

Okay. I'll make the change. I was thinking of like how you can hit the s key to make the stop, but okeyy.

I hope I can get some feedback on future champions, you were really helpful ^^

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