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[UNIQUE champion concept] KATRINA, THE SPACE COW

FallOfMortality·2/4/2018, 7:53:11 PM·1 votes·385 views
https://imgur.com/9zMnrJR

Aside with joke, today i will present my champion concept which I think is one of more unique ones yet.

Pre-introduction:

I am a fan of champions with unique kits (eg. Nunu), because you can experiment with them a lot which brings a lot of fun. I love kits that may firstly seem useless but as you would experiment with them you would see that they can be pretty competitive. I also love champions flexible that can fit almost role. I also love odd builds that work, and "expression on opponents face" when you beat them with "useless champion".

With new champion releases Riot proves that nothing is impossible (Zoe; able to obtain summoner spells), or older ones (Nidalee; having 7 spells instead of 4), so it would be most probably possible to create this one too.

SHORT STORY:

There is a small village deep in the woods. Its inhabitants live happily in peace, during the day! But during the night they hide silently behind thick walls, because at night The "Firefly of deep woods" appear seeking something and preying, and of those who stood in its path, and only loud cries of fear, pain and hopelessness and growl, screams or croaking were heard and only trace left of them left in the morning were small stains of blood and noting more. Many brave men have gone hunting for the firefly none have returned.

Introduction:

I am presenting new void champion: [Name], the firefly of deep woods. This void creature is a giant parasite that preys on creatures of lesser intelligence and controls them via connecting its nervous system with host's nervous system. Parasite always observes its preys carefully and than chooses the one which will serve his purpose the most efficiently. If the prey grows weak or parasite finds another stronger prey, it will tear out host's nervous system, instantly killing its host.

Having Introduction from the way, we can now jump to its gameplay, abilities and roles.

GAMEPLAY:

Like Nidalee, this champion obtains his ultimate ability on the beginning. Ultimate ability allows him to attach to any Main regular jungle monster in the camp; ancient Krug, Great Murk wolf, Gromp, and Crimson Raptor. Reactivating ultimate ability unmounts and kills jungle monster. If you ULT jungle monster it does not count as a kill (also good potential for stealing enemy camp in the beginning).

Potential abilities, gameplay:

Each or these monsters give champion different 3 normal abilities and passive. For Example: Grom Q would be tongue lash (since Gromp lashes you with his tongue), his W would be leap and his E would be switching ranged and melee auto-attacks or casting poisonous spit. His passive could cause oponent to get poisoned if he is beside the champion/ he gets auto-attacked by the enemy/ he successfully lands a ability on an enemy.

Imagine how many possibilities would that open for a surprise gank. One time from bush as a frog, the other time gank with speeding wolf and so on...

And you could always surprise the enemy with editing/changing your build/ make a odd build. You could also fit almost any role.

You could lend your jungler's Gromp and go AP mid or top tank and so on.

You could change your role midgame "like Kayn".

When Champion would not be attached to jungle monster it would hover around, and would have weak abilities and passive that would reduce damage taken for X% as his tentacles would "defend" his interior from taking much damage

The kit does not have to make much sense, there will always be creative players that will make it work. Power of this champions would not be in this kit but with ability to surprise your opponents, so it would have its pros and cons (enemy vision, not having ability to reach jungle monsters).

I also made poor 2D side, rare and front view of champion and image of how his ultimate would work.

Here is coloured image with explanations: https://imgur.com/N1FraYM Here is uncoloured image: https://imgur.com/9zMnrJR

Please leave your feedback. It would be also nice to hear Rioters opinion.

PS. 1.) Feel free to colour and edit this 2D model any way you want . 2.) Hope any Riot champion designer gets inspired by this concept.

4 Comments

FallOfMortality2/4/2018, 7:57:18 PM1 votes

PS.

Zooming pictures reveals a lot of details and explanation.

LuaDotExe2/5/2018, 1:16:49 PM1 votes

Each or these monsters give champion different 3 normal abilities and passive.

While this is cool, it's not a good mechanic for the game; the visual representations that you have specfic abilities (because League is all about clarity) would be rather complicated, and while Kayn's gameplay does change his ROLE, what he focusses on doing (killing priority targets) never changes. This is also kind of complicated to deal with; low ELO players would just stick with whatever abilities they want, which isn't an issue or anything, but high ELO players would abuse this constantly. Not to mention, multiclassing lets you counter a large pool of champions, all at once. Once again, while the mechanic is cool, it's not fun to play against, since you just have to be afraid of more things coming from one champion. Their kit would end up overloaded.