[Champion Concept] Catrice, The Connecting Spirit

Name: Catrice, The Connecting Spirit

Intended Role: Ranged Support

Appearance: Ethereal, somewhat translucent. Blue and white coloration.

Background: Catrice's normal duty of connecting spirits from the mortal world to the next had been suddenly and almost entirely halted within Runeterra. Catrice's eyes turned to the League as the sole reason why so many souls could forego the laws that had stood in place for so long. At first, her presence was purely to understand how this could happen, but slowly Catrice realized that she could only fully gain such knowledge through participation. So as her involvement within the League changed, so did her responsibilities. Instead of linking souls with their otherworldly fates, she now kept hers and her teammates intact so as to try and make some progress in returning things to how they used to be.

Abilities:

Passive - [Fated Connection]: Description: Catrice chooses an ally champion to link with. The allied champion benefits from Link of Life and Link of Wisdom's active abilities, but only one can affect them at a time. A new ally cannot be linked with for 5 minutes.

Q - [Breaking the Link]: Description: Breaking the Link - Selected enemy suffers 40/50/60/70/80 (+.5 AP) damage over the next 3 seconds, then explodes for another 20/30/40/50/60 (+.4 AP). The closer you are to the enemy champion increases the damage dealt by the explosion, up to 1.6/1.7/1.8/1.9/2.0 times as much when very close.

W - [Link of Life]: Description: Passive: Your auto attacks and spells that connect with enemy champions return 1% and 5% of your max health, respectively. Active: For the next 4 seconds, your auto attacks and spells that hit enemy champions heal your linked ally by 3%/3.5%/4%/4.5%/5% of their max health.

E - [Link of Wisdom]: Description: For the next 4 seconds, when an enemy champion is hit by both yours and your linked champion's auto attacks, yours and your linked champion's cooldowns are reduced by 1 second.

R - [Worldly Connections]: Description: Catrice creates a zone around herself for 6 seconds. Any allied champions within this zone benefit from Catrice's Link of Life and Link of Wisdom actives without having to be linked with Catrice.

Discussion: This is a rough idea of a support I thought would be really fun to play with and against. Her kit revolves around making decisions with your skills and trying to capitalize on the benefits of each at the proper times. Her role would be something a bit different from the usual support however. She's designed to be fairly aggressive to make use of her different skills. Her Q reflects this idea a lot, in that you need to be very close to your enemy to get the maximum impact and damage. Her Link of Life and Link of Wisdom skills try to capitalize on this same concept, in that you need to be actively attacking your enemies with your linked ally to get the benefits from each, which are quite fantastic if used to their maximum potential. Her ult may be a little too strong for a team that's already ahead, but can provide some excellent teamfight sustain and pressure for a team that is coordinated and can plan a grouped assault. This obviously leaves her team open to AoE skills, so there is a drawback to consider when using her ult.

Champion Statistics: I don't have mana costs, cooldowns, and the like really set up much, and the scaling on her skills will almost certainly need some fine tuning since this is my first go at champion design.