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Dual-Style to Triple-Style Sword Character

DeltaXS··2 votes·2,828 views

A Tanky-Assassin which is a mid and top laner will have 2 swords for his basic attack Passive: On the 6th hit on a enemy champion the character summons the demonic sword which when hits the enemy champion he gains a small amount of health and his attack speed goes up but the demonic sword in return drains the characters mana untill it runs out. First Ability/Q: This character will Combine his 2 swords into one and when hit an enemy it will deal a significant amount of damage to the enemy. Second Ability/W: The Character will sheath his swords and will dash when finished dashing he will unsheath his swords and spin dealing damage to nearby enemies. Third Ability/E: The Character will cut himself with his swords resulting in him losing health but gaining mana and reducing the cooldown for his abilities. Ultimate Ability/R: This Character will summon a third sword which is a demonic sword and attack the enemy with 3 stages of the ultimate- First Stage: He will slice the enemy doing the same damage as the first ability. Second Stage: He will use the first two swords to deal less damage than the first stage but will also drain the enemy's mana. Third Stage: He will use all three swords dealing damage, draining mana, and poisoning the enemy with the demonic sword.

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MooooooooreDakka1 votes

What's his lore? That would be useful to know, especially given what we know (and don't know) about demons in Runeterra.

Also, the mana drain mechanic on his ult is kind of awkward due to not all champions using mana. Maybe change it to mana recovery, possibly scaling with targets hit.

You described him as a tanky-assassin, I believe the term for that would either be a diver or a skirmisher depending on whether he falls closer to the tanky end or the assassin end.

Passive: If I understand correctly, every sixth hit against champions heals and grants attack speed at the cost of mana.

Q: Is this a single target ability? If so maybe change it to an empowered basic attack for auto attack resets and to help proc his passive.

W: A basic dash with radial damage. Similar to Kayn's q in theory though it would be nice to get a general idea of the range and cooldown. This would be his tool for gapclosing, sticking to his target, and escaping and I guess it works though specifics would be useful to know.

E: Lets him trade health for mana and a partial cooldown reset. This is a fairly cool ability though it does feed into two problems he has that I'll bring up later. How does this work with his lore, why is he cutting himself with his regular swords?

R: Are these attacks single target abilities? Do they strike in a line of cone or something like that? Are they empowered autos? What's the lockout time between each cast if any? On a side note, why is the last of the three attacks the one that applies the damage over time effect?

There are two main issues I have with this: First, is he focused around basic attacks or abilities? His passive suggests a focus on basic attacks but I can't tell if the rest of his kit supports that. Second, he's supposed to be sort of durable but nothing in his kit helps him not die aside from a bit of innate sustain and his e actually makes him easier to kill.

Here's my suggestions: Passive: Instead of a mana cost on the initial attack, each attack while the attack speed is in effect turns a percent of his current mana into damage similar to manamune. Q: Is an empowered auto, maybe add some additional effect aside from damage, while passive is in effect it burns a much larger portion of mana. E: something like a brief shield or damage reduction on use to help with not dying. R: Is a targeted ability that applies on hits, gap closes a short distance, and has something like a 1.5 second lockout between uses. Poison on third hit is gone since the timing is supposed to be more tactical.

Basically, this focuses on auto attacks and doubled down on the idea of turning mana into auto attack damage.

DeltaXS1 votes

Q1-Answer: The lore isn't there for now, i created this character literally as i was making him, but well the idea of a dual wielder or triple swordmens was there, but if this character does get popular i will make a backstory and try and draw an illustration.

Q2-Answer: For the mana-drain i thought that all characters had mana and will now change that and make him possibly recover his mana (What you said) on champions who don't use mana.

Q3-Answer: I was thinking of it only using his passive against champions this is because if you chain all of his abilities i thought it would be too op so if it isn't give me some ideas and i will incorporate it into the character.

Q4-Answer: I plan to give the character all these details i must first balance it all out and not make the character too op, but i like the idea of him sticking to his target, i made this ability for him to close the gap between him, his enemy and to escape away from battles and for collecting cs aswell.

Q5-Answer: How does this work with his lore, why is he cutting himself with his regular swords? - So i plan to make a lore for him as i said before but on the other hand i will give you a glimpse of what i have thought about for his two other swords. Ok so i plan on making those two other sword like legendary swords, these swords have been passed down from generation to generation and both have been wielded by legendary swordmens. My other idea is to make them into holy swords the opposite of the demon sword so you can tell me which one is better or i can take more ideas.

Q6-Answer: Yes i was thinking of making the ultimate single target, and it will strike the enenmy from anywhere in a circle around him. No they are not empowered and yes im thinking of making the lockout 1.5 seconds, and the reason why the last hit poisons the enemy is because he hits the enemy with his demonic sword.

Q7-Answer: This character is mostly about his abilities and this is because you can easily chain his abilities and that is how i wanted it to be like, the reason why i said tanky-assassin is because i would like him to have a lot of health like Shen does when you buy items, and his E on the other hand is something he loses and gains and this is the result of him using his demonic sword.

Suggestions-Answers: Q: Is an empowered auto, maybe add some additional effect aside from damage, while passive is in effect it burns a much larger portion of mana. (i would like to add this)

E: something like a brief shield or damage reduction on use to help with not dying (the result of him using the demonic sword is to lose then gain something but this will just make it a win-win situation for him)

R: Is a targeted ability that applies on hits, gap closes a short distance, and has something like a 1.5 second lockout between uses. Poison on third hit is gone since the timing is supposed to be more tactical. (I will make it an targeted ability or is it already?, i will add that it closes the gap or should i not because he already has his W? you answer this for me, and the poison is the result of him using the demonic sword)

Thank you MooooooooreDakka for commenting on my post and i would love for you to leave more suggestions and ideas.

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