Champion Concept: Liu, The Girl with the Dragon Spirit
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#LIU #THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON SPIRIT
Liu’s theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHFvCphS7U0
When Liu joined the Kinkou, she trained under Shen personally to be the next eye. But her reliance on her inherent magic abilities made her unfit. It didn’t help when she absorbed a malovent spirit to protect a group of villagers. Now Liu determines balance for herself as she uses both her new uniquely mobile ally and the flurry of skillful nunchuck techniques she’s gained to lead Ionia to a new way of balance.
CLASS: Skirmisher ROLE: Jungler RESOURCE: Energy
#ABILITIES
PASSIVE - Team Spirit: Effect Range: 500 If Kohtari is Awake Liu gains 10% bonus AS for 4 sec upon hitting a unit with an ability, each AA’s in turn. Every 4th AA or Finesse applies on hit effects twice for 25%(+ 30% bonus mana) of the dmg/effect strength. If Kohtari is Asleep every 4th AA deals (+25% bonus AP) bonus magic damage. Dragon Spiritfire: Kohtari’s AA (range: 200) gains 10% bonus magic pen, dealing 60% AD magic dmg.
Liu Q - Finesse: (Recharge: 5.5) (Range: 850/350 - 145º) Effect Range: (500 - 200) (Cost: 65/62/59/56/53) FIRST CAST: after a 0.25 sec delay Liu lashes in the target direction dealing linear AoE dmg SECOND CAST: Liu flourishes dealing damage in a cone, leaving Excess Chain at the edge of the cone after a 0.5 delay. She will drag the chain behind her within 500 units for 3 sec.
Each cast uses a Charge and costs Energy If a target is Grounded by Chain Jail she can cast Finesse from their position if the mouse is over them.
Kohtari Q - Path of the Dragon: (CD: 20/18/16/12/10) (Range: 215) Kohtari dives in the direction she’s facing damaging all units hit, passing terrain. Can be recast twice. The 1st cast knocks back the 1st unit hit, reducing the CD by 2 sec if against a champion. Hold Q: Liu follows the path through Kohtari from either end, doesn’t pass terrain.
W - Sircadian Rhythm: (CD: 18) (Range:150 - 145º) Effect Range: 500 (Cost: 10/8/7/6/5 Energy per sec) Passive: After hitting a unit with an ability every 4th AA against large monsters or champions within 4 sec restores (5% AP) energy. While on CD this passive is inactive. Toggle ON: Kohtari Awakens, emerging from Liu dealing dmg and blocking abilities in the target area for 0.75 sec. While Awakened player controls Kohtari movement/AA and accesses an alternate set of basic abilities. If Liu takes dmg it alerts Kohtari. Every instance of damage Kohtari takes uses up 30/25/20/15/13 Energy. Hold W: to control Liu ’s movement/AA/ Abilities Toggle OFF: Kohtari goes Asleep and comes back granting 8 HP and Energy from each takedown within the last 20 sec. Dropping below 20/20/10/10/1 Energy forces Sircadian Rhythm to Toggle OFF.
Casting W while the Dragon is in motion will switch abilities but WON’T make the Dragon go back until she’s finished moving.
Liu E - Chain Jail: (CD: 11/10/9/8/7) (Range: 800) (Cost: 50) Holding E: Throws out a chain, Grounding and Disarming the unit for 0.75 sec. Tap Cast: Casts Chain Jail to from Finesse’s Excess Chain affecting a unit touching the edge of the AoE immediately. (Prioritizes enemy champions with the highest AD, then monsters, then minions)
Kohtari E - Skyrise: (CD: 13) (Minimum Range: 450/150) Kohtari coils up in place for up to 6 sec if an ally enters the AoE, Kohtari spiral springs up with them towards the target AoE they chose slamming down dealing dmg.
R - Walking Spirit Portal: (Radius:550/1000-∞) Passive: Kohtari deals 10/20/30% bonus magic dmg to units in Spirit Realm. Active: After a short delay Kohtari marks all units and draws nearby enemies 200 units toward her location and into the Spirit Realm for 5 sec. Units cleanse the mark by leaving the outer radius. Increases AoE outer radius and Dragon hitbox by 10% for every unit affected by R. Marked allies are ghosted, and enemies are slowed by 2%. All dmg dealt to marked champs is stored as gray health. Gray health depletes when effect ends or upon mark removal. Kohtari can can pass through terrain in Spirit Realm. Running out of Energy won’t force her to cast Sircadian Rhythm if Awake.
All of Kohtari’s abilities deal magic damage, all of Liu’s abilities deal mixed damage.
Suggested Items Lich Bane, Nashors Tooth, Wits End, Hextech Gunblade, Guinsoo’s Rage Blade, Runic Echos
#Lore
In the wake of the failed Noxian Invasion the precarious balance of Ionia has been upset. There have been many consequences as people try to realign themselves to their previous state or attempt to redefine what balance means to them. Many still cling to the past while some try to unveil what the future might hold, unfortunately others have taken advantage of these turbulent and changing times.
The Kinkou have been stretched to their limits as they try to seek to the correct the balance in their sacred way. The clan was called upon to solve a case of mass missing children who had been gone for a week after a brutal bandit raid. Shen handled the mission personally. During his investigation he discovered a weakening in the veil that separated the material and spirit realms, and he entered it to investigate further. Fearing the worst, that these violent times had angered the spirits he reached for his spirit blade, what he saw on the other side surprised even him, all the missing children were playing in the spirit realm. He urged them to leave lecturing that the spirit realm could be dangerous, and asked them how they had managed to traverse the veil. This was a serious feat even for advanced acolyte and required an immense amount of energy, training, and precise technique. No one spoke up.
Shen decided to stay in the village while he gathered information on the bandits. But on the side he also collected information from the village about each child, and he learned that one girl was gifted at birth. Upon questioning the girl, Liu admitted she had split the veil for the children to hide in when her village was attacked by the bandits, earlier in the week, but they only felt like they had been there for a day. Shen sensed the well of spiritual energy in her and appealed to her parents to take her in to train her, she had the potential to be the next Eye, because her connection to the spirit realm was so strong at a young age.
As Liu trained under Shen her connection to the Spirit Realm grew even stronger. Shen trained her to help her attain balance between her spirit and material disciplines and under akali, to bolster her physical combat abilities, who she grew to admire before she left the Kinkou. Shen noted that while very bright, Liu struggled to maintain her balance and leaned too much into the spirit realm. It didn’t help that when sent on missions she relied far more on her spiritual abilities and was rather unorthodox in her methods. He often had her meditate in the cloud ponds among the serpent grass to try to find spiritual balance once she returned.
In one such mission the Kinkou was summoned to deal with a malevolent spirit that had been on a spree of carnage across a series of villages. Shen sent Liu with specific orders to practice using her spirit abilities as minimally as safely possible and observe the more advanced acolytes in their balanced tactics. During the combat the spirit turned suddenly from the acolytes and Liu leapt into action from the sidelines using her own body as a shield as the spirit dive bombed a group of villagers. Instead of raising her spirit shield on instinct she opened her mind and spirit up absorbing the spirits attack and the spirit itself. Liu fought the spirit from within with her own large reservoir of magic and spirit energy as she felt the spirit rage within her. But she also felt the spirit’s emotions radiating out in waves and she felt her mind almost drown in the surge of grief, and despair. This spirit wasn't angry it was lost, it had lost its home, Liu could feel them like they were her own thoughts. She calmed her own spirit just like in her cloud pond meditations producing a peaceful landscape within, with nothing to fight the spirit calmed as well.
But Liu was less prepared for the wave of memories and emotions that billowed to fill the peaceful vacuum. Liu strained to maintain her composure as a story unfolded within her psyche: The spirit was the last of the original vastayan ancestors, the vastayashai’rei . She was angered by the humans reducing the magic her kind needed to live. Due to her kinds’ reliance on magic her once physical form had been reduced to a spirit and was only able to survive in the spirit realm and the few pockets on the physical plane where magic still abounded. And due to her weakened state Kohtari, as Liu picked out her name, longed to travel around the worlds wonders just like she used to in the ancient days, but lack of magic in the current world prohibited this. Liu realized her innate abundant source of magic could solve this problem.
Shen decided that his search for the next Eye would have to continue. Liu was rendered unsuitable for her inability to maintain balance as she continued to favor the spiritual magical side of her abilities more and is more connected to it. It is the Kinkou way that everyone must find their own balance, it cannot be taught.
Now Liu travels Ionia acting as an ambassador between vastaya and humans and is a representative for how vastayans and humans can work to find balance together.
- Balance can mean many different things. Sometimes the pupil can teach the teacher. Perhaps the violence of the conflict was not without with hidden blessings as well. - Shen
#Quotes Liu You stand on the ever on the edge of something far greater I am a door to another world Take the next step There's more to each of us than what lies on the surface We can work together We make a great team Kohtari! You'll tire yourself out I've got a friend I want you to meet You are blinded to the truth I once trained to be the next Eye, and I won’t lose to you If you stand against me you stand against the Kinkou If you stand against the Kinkou you stand against balance I’ve trained with the Kinkou, you don't stand a chance I always wondered why I couldn't just do what I was good at
Kohtari I want to see the world one last time Don't fight back, know your place If I were a few centuries younger I'd put you in your place myself I'm not tired, just resting Hey it's not my nap time You will pay for what you did to my world This is the wrath of vastaya who's world you ruined. Magic belongs to no one it belongs to the world Ach my back! Your kind, it looks familiar What was your name again Which way to the spirit world again? I’m getting to old for this
Liu: You’re so frail you need to eat -> Kohtari: Bah, eating is for material shimon
Liu: You’re supposed to rest -> Kohtari: I need my exercise
Kohtari: Just stretching my limbs -> Liu: aggresive combat is not stretching -> Kohtari: ur not a vastayashai’rei
Liu: Koh, you're old and wise -> Kohtari: OLD!? -> Liu: Tell me what balanced means. -> Kohtari: It means having a balanced amount of respect for your elders
Kohtari: I might have a few eons on you but that doesn't mean I can't kick your -> Liu: KOH! Sorry, she's not always grumpy like that. But still don't mess with her.
Kohtari: I came here to breath in the scents of ancient magic and this diluted place is all thats left? -> Liu: I understand how you feel
R: Kohtari Try to make me take a nap now! It's nap time for YOU now Ok. Now, you’ve made this old spirit angry
R: Lui Lets show them your realm Kohtari! This world doesn’t belong to anyone alone! Lets show them the realm we live in! You only know half the truth
W: Kohtari I've had enough of all this ruckus Leave her alone Enough of that Settle down now Ooh, I needed a good stretch You're all annoying!
Response to taunt Kohtari: What was that? My hearing isn't as good as it was a few decades ago Liu: Your words aren't as effective as my nunchucks are Kohtari: What are they saying? -> Liu: Nothing important