(Champion concept, Splash art, Suggested skillset, Lore) Azulynn

she seems to op. Way to many good spells on her. With a Azir like mechanic.

She's got Voodoo She's got Hoodoo She's got things I wanna try 'Cause she's got friends on the other side She's got friends on the other side

The spells and lore sound really awesome only problem with the lore is that they retconned the IOW and League, also did you think about maybe her being from the Voodoo lands. Because she would fit and we need someone else from the voodoo lands

The art is awesome, the passive mechanic is interesting, and I love the theme (I would be super excited for a witch/voodoo themed support).

That being said, her abilities are a little boring, the numbers are way too high, and she lacks counterplay.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like her W, E, and R are all undodgable and can be cast from up to 4500 range on whoever she auto attacked last. It doesn't seem like there is any duration on it, and I can't tell if casting a spell consumes the mark (do you have to re-tag them with an auto every time you cast a spell?)

Imagine her in lane. She get in range for one auto attack. From that point on, whenever she wants, she can blast the target for a total of 970 (+280% AP) and stun them for 2 seconds. Once you've been tagged with her passive, what's the counter play to her just repeatedly burning down your health with her W from a ridiculous range, and instantly stunning you/ulting you when the jungler comes in to gank?

She would be a little less oppressive if casting a spell DOES consume her passive mark. But even then, she still has an undodgable 2 second stun that she can instantly apply after landing an auto attack. And a 2 second fear on her ult.

She needs to deal far less damage. Her stun needs to be avoidable. Her max range needs to be heavily, heavily reduced (her range right now is nearly as long as a pantheon ult). And she needs to be made more consistently interactive.

maybe she has to root her self to apply a mark? or maybe she has to stun the target the target before she can do any damage, and she has to be super close to stun, and after the stun has to wait befor she can do anymore damage. As for her location origin, just make it one of the islands from the shadow isles, that fits her perfectly

you really do need to give her some disadvantages though, to balance her. there need to be available counter plays. How about a really short range to use any of her abilities, mana starvation, and really squishy, you could also reduce the damage for abilities that have extra effects

ok i got it, she has to root her self to create a doll of the champion she plans to attack

Im changing my previous root suggestion to a channel, that way she could still move but, but moving would interrupt the channel, so its not a real root. Before she can use any ability (besides q) on her enemy champ, she must channel for 2-3 sec. An enemy ability could interrupt her, but she could just move away to avoid damage, and start the channel again.

Lets say her passive, is that after 3 basic attacks, a mark is placed on the enemy champ (it could disappear in 6 sec if not used, or range of the mark is exceeded (up to you) ), and making a voodoo doll consumes that mark, (its up to you if you want to make her have to be within a certain (close or far) range to be able to make the doll without the mark disappearing and having to start over) If you do decide to do this, you could have the mark stack: if she stays and does 3 more basic attacks within the first 6 sec that the first mark is made, then another mark is added. This means that when she makes her doll (no time added to the channel), that it will consume both marks to do 10% more damage with spells(more risk more reward). Or she could save the second mark for later.

i mean, she needs some counter play for those powerful abilities, and a channel is perfect, because she has to make the doll after she has attacked the enemy champ, and that would take time, and concentration, it also allows the other side to make a fair retaliation, because they are about to get hit with some seriously painful skills, at a possible very far range, so its only fair. I'd also make her super squishy, like a friggen plush toy, with all the damage she puts out.

Also I think after her ult Burn!!, that she has to make another doll, so she'd have to start the process over, i also think that her ult could have a map wide range

want, seems like oriana to me more than azir

First you need to explain it more so people can understand it better to critique it better. So does that mean that her Q would become an ability that toggles, like Jinx's Q? Or is it a passive, where she doesn't activate it, the doll, (after she has made it) it just goes out every 2nd AA? Or is it every time "another" of any of the abilities is used 2 times? (which I think may be a little weird and awkward, since she'd have to wait). Or maybe its a way to balance her? having an uncontrollable passive, but then I feel that the heal is too OP unless its balanced, but then again having to wait balances, it unless it not a passive. If it’s a toggling ability, It would heal herself in one form, and damaging an enemy in the other? Is an ability that you could voluntarily toggle to decide which one you want when? or does it toggle on its own, as a passive? Also during the time that the doll is away getting herbs for the heal, (say 5 sec) She wouldn't be able to use any abilities! she'd only be able to AA, assuming that her AA is melee or some ranged magic, and not stabbing the doll from a mile away, (then she couldn’t do anything, which I guess is another balance, but an unfair one). Was this an intended balance for the heal, or her as a whole, or did you not intend this? Maybe a Passive is better, IDK If it were up to me (and mind you, it isn't, its your choice), using what you have given me, I would have it toggle between a heal ability (where after making the doll of the enemy, then by activating Q it would walk away, and come back, all within, say, 7 sec, to heal her for a short amount) and a damage ability (where the doll walks up to the enemy and maybe punches them, doing a little damage) But having two Q abilities, one being a heal, may be a little OP Other idea you could do is that the doll runs toward the enemy champ. But instead of dealing damage the doll could lifesteal. This technically gives you a heal, and damages them at the same time, simplifying the spell. There are two ways that I see this happening. In both, after activating Q, and selecting the enemy champ, the doll walks toward the enemy champ at a moderate speed giving them time to react. The thing to balance this ability is that, the enemy champ can target the doll with AA, (or maybe abilities as well) and destroy the doll before it reaches them, denying the spell (Think of the doll as a slightly stronger minion). Thus Azulynn would have to start her doll making process over. I think that this is a good balance. Also the doll will have a moderate range in a straight line, so she'd have to get in a bit closer to use Q to balance the life steal. Or it can be a moderately low range based on Azulynn's position (the doll can only walk so far from the center of the circle Azulynn being the center, so if she walks forward the doll gains range, technically, if she stands still then the doll will reach the end of its range) so that if the enemy runs out of range before the doll reaches them, then the doll would fall down, Azulynn would have to pick it up within 20 sec, or it will fall apart, and she will have to start the doll making process over. The instant that she picks it up she can use her other abilities again, because while the doll is out walking she can’t use her abilities on that one champ (Although, it does leave room for a loop hole, that being its a voodoo doll of the enemy, and damaging it would be the same as damaging themselves, so you could make it an ability that has no escape (unless they run), where either they take the damage from it or damage themselves, we could make it so if they kill the doll they only receive a fraction of the damage) but originally I wrote this, so that they can stop the attack). If the doll reaches the enemy then it would attach itself to their leg and life steal for 5 sec, drawing a (high or low) amount of life.

In the first version, the life that is drawn by the doll is instantly transferred to Azulynn, and then it walks back to Azulynn. In the second version the doll must walk back to Azulynn with the life that its stolen from the enemy to give it to her. If Azulynn ever leaves the range of the doll (radius or straight line - wise) then either the doll will fall immediately down and she will have to pick it up within 20 sec, or It will stop life stealing and remain on the enemy’s leg until she returns to range or until the 20 sec runs out, and she has to start the doll making process over. Either way, in both versions the doll must walk back to Azulynn, its just a matter of what order in events she gets the heal from the life steal. But on the way back the doll runs faster than when it walking towards the enemy. Because the doll must walk to the enemy and runs back this could give (your choice) the enemy two chances (although the second one is less of a chance) to kill the doll (again this is on the premise that killing it will not hurt them, cause if it did, it would hurt them a fraction, but it would still be OP). And if they do kill the doll then, Azulynn would have to start her process over. I personally like the 2nd option because it gives the enemy a chance to deny Azulynn the lifesteal heal, but it wouldn’t be a complete lost for her because the enemy still lost health. Or you could further balance the spell, by making it so if the enemy damges the doll on its way back for (option 2) that they take a percent of life stolen back, until the doll is destroyed, where they get it all back. (All of these different variations will be up to you to decide how you want to do it, or not do it at all). For both versions, the beginning is the same.

I hope i did an ok job in this post, I had a lot of complicated ideas, and if you need clarification I will gladly give it

Also shes a person who can only damage one person at a time, right ? or can she have multiple dolls, for each champ, that she has her voodoo mark on? How would she switch between dolls if she did? Would she just click on a different champion, and then the next spell would only damage that on champ right. I think I just discovered her big flaw, that is the perfect balance! Now no one can complain about her being OP. Even if her spells do a lot of damage, and she can be relatively safe, the whole time, she has no crowd control, she can only hurt one enemy at a time. And to champs to her doll collection she has to get close to do so, and making the dolls takes time. BING!!! insta perfectly balanced champ!

whaaat her name is fiiine, I likes it. Its incredibly unique, and thats what Riot values. HEAR THAT RIOT? VALUE THIS CHARACTER AND HER AWESOME CREATOR'S TALENT!!!!!!

The theme seems really good for a new league champ (somehow she reminds me of Ryze's spurned lover though) and the artwork is impressive. However, I believe the kit could use a little tweaking. Instead auto-attack gating as a method for spell delivery, which is both frustrating for the caster who just wants to cast, and the opponent who feels there's no counter play to her spells, consider using it as a lever.

For example, change the passive something like: Azulynn's attacks deal 1/2/4% (+3%/100 AP) of her attack damage as bonus magic damage. This damage accumulates into a sphere of life-force that is absorbed into her own health if nothing is attacked for 3 seconds.

This enables you to create some pretty neat interplay between her abilities and this passive, and it also reinforce the idea that she's sucking out a little piece of your soul with her every attack.

Instead of throwing her doll with Q, it could instead be changed to: CD- 6/5/4/3/2 Mana cost- 30 Azulynn channels for 1 second to weave a wicked voodoo doll and imbuing it with her accumulated life force. Half the damage received by Azulynn while channeling or while carrying the doll afterwards will also apply to the doll, and it's health will also slowly decay over time. Casting this spell while a doll is still held will instead cause Azulynn to choke the doll, dealing 20/30/45/60/80(+30% AP) magic damage, to both the doll and cursed champion, and slowing, the cursed champion by 10% for 2 seconds.

Now how much health a doll gains per unit of life force, and how fast it decays is definitely a pivotal piece balance-wise, and frankly I just don't feel like crunching the numbers, but I feel like they should only last about as long as Yorick ghouls. When loose, and maybe half as longer when held.

The rest of the changes to her kit would just be minor tweaks, change the W so that it can be used as a projectile, or cast on the doll to affect the cursed automatically. Make E an aoe that throws her doll/life force sphere, slowing enemies or stunning someone if they're struck by their own doll. (The doll will just mindlessly chase down and attack their target at that point). And change the ult so that instead of just a straight burn, it deals more damage and possibly some CC, but can be blocked by another champion as she tosses the blazing doll-missile on an unerring path towards its victim.

There is a puppet master kind of champion comeing, but when and whos the source im not allowed to say :)

Fun little thing I noticed the other day. Azulynn's needles look alot like the summoner icon with the skull darts/needles

I have a problem with the skillset rewrite and would love some ideas, before I finalize. Instead of Azulynn's Q healing and allied champion OR damage and enemy champion, how about she sends out the doll every 2nd attack to gather herbs for healing herself instead of an ally and then only dealing damage on every second cast. Furthermore with a long cd (probably like 10-12 seconds with no CDR) that would nerf her heal and damage output on that spell quite alot (of course I'm changing the values aswell). Would love some feedback on that, as I'm not sure how well recieved it would be as a spell.

So here it is, the second draft, and as always, feedback is much appreciated: Azulynn the voodoo witch 2.0 (Damage and range on spells are only guidelines towards the kit we wanted the champion to have and probably needs a few modifications, twitches and nerfs.) Q (CD: 21/19/17/15/13s Mana cost: 30/40/50/60/70): Azulynn lets her voodoo doll run for 3 seconds toward a nearby enemy champion dealing 20/40/60/80/100(+30% AP) magic damage over 2 seconds if the champion is caught. The doll then returns to Azulynn healing her for half of that amount (10/20/30/40/50(+15% AP). (Range 800 if doll goes further than 800 units away from Azulynn or it doesn’t catch its target, it returns to her) W (CD: 20/18/16/14/12s Mana cost: 70/85/100/115/130): Azulynn puts a needle in her doll making her target bleed for 60/85/110/135/160 (+55% AP) magic damage over 5 seconds. E (CD: 18s Mana cost: 50/60/70/80/90): Azulynn tosses her doll to the ground stunning her target for 1,5 second with the sheer force, dealing 50/75/100/125/150 (+40% AP). R (CD: 130/110/90s Mana: 100/120/150): Azulynn sets fire to her doll dealing 100/150/200/300/500 (+90% AP) magic damage to her target over 3 seconds and burns Azulynn’s doll in the process, removing the mark from the target. Passive (Voodoo mastery): Azulynn can mark an enemy champion with her basic attack with an added 3 seconds channel. Only one mark may be applied and only to one champion at a time and any other basic attacks while her current mark is still active are treated as normal basic attack. The mark disappears if it is inactive/not being used for 6 seconds, allowing for a new target to be marked. Azulynn can use her spells against marked targets and only marked targets.

I feel that you could un-nerf her damage a bit now that we have given her some balance. She has to get in close to AA, and then she has to channel for 3 sec (say within 500 units of the enemy she just AA'd) to apply the mark and make the doll. Also is her main ability, Q is stoppable on the first phase (while the doll is walking towards the enemy, before it starts dealing damage and sending some life steal to Azulynn)? Im guessing you chose the first version of the Q, which is cool. It would be harder to land a combo, if the Q is stopped. Now that she has some real risks I think it'd be ok for her to be able to absolutely be able to 1v1 if she has the mark on them and lands a combo. I also think that she should be able to mark multiple enemies, but she can only damage one at a time, to pick another champ she'd just click on them and use another ability. That way she can't really spam abilities of she wants to get multiple targets, but if she wants burst then she has to focus on one person. I think that, that makes her more versatile and fun to play, and still balanced. I think her marks should stay active until the enemy dies or she does, but she can only damage them within range. I think that this would balance out her early and late game because, in the beginning she could just run to all the lanes, and her team mates would help her land her marks in early, then she goes back to her lane. Then if there's going to be a skirmish, her team calls her in for an assist, she runs to that lane, clicks them does a little damage, then runs back off (this is based on her being a mid laner, or can she Jung?). Once her team kills that enemy, they could call her back when that enemy comes back, to place another mark and save it for another team fight.

I guess I kinda see her as the person who is trying to stay on the edge of a fight to deal a lot of damage, and not die but still has to be kinda near. I also feel that she may need some quick, but low damage move, that could damage any one person that is trying to initiate on her, or a kind of get away move or shield? Would that make her OP? because now I feel she'd be kinda squishy and I have to protect her. I know that this would be bad, and be unfair and unbalance her but I cant help it. I guess I am trying to cover her intended weaknesses. Maybe being squishy and not being able to damage a random target on command was part of her weakness, and it comes with the voodoo arch-type, but I might as well tell you my idea. What if part of her passive is if: Within 3 (or maybe 6) sec of placing her first mark, and making the doll after the channel (within 500 unit?, she'd be able to interrupt her own channel after AA 3X to place the mark, to put some distance after being in very close, to make the doll, but its ur choice, it does take away from her intended weakness) if she does another 3X AA she will place another mark on them and herself, that is visible to both teams (youll kno why in a sec). This mark means that if any enemy (besides the one that the second mark is on) damages her with an AA and/or/both Ability then 10% (or maybe just 5%) of that damage will be redirected to the enemy that has the second mark (or maybe changes the damage received as a slow or AS reducer for the person with the 2nd mark). Or if multiple enemies have 2 marks then the doll she is currently holding gets the mark effect, as long as it isn’t the attacker, (or maybe it can be, hurt yourself hahahaha), and they have 2 marks. Hows that for a passive. Another idea, is that her damage to one target increases based on how many marks she has on other enemies. In terms of a quick spell that can hit anybody (I kno u prob wont like this) what if she can use Q on any enemy, but it only damages a tiny bit, if its not a doll of the enemy currently being attacked, and it doesn’t life steal. Have you given thought to what her AA would be after making a doll for an enemy, would she go from melee, to just stabbing the doll in a slightly close ranged range?

I had some other ideas but I forgot em, sorry <:)

Right I like the idea of a 3X AA and a channel. Your whole post is full of things done right, she is very much balanced right now. And even if her early game doesnt match her late game without help (a good balance) if she completely shuts down her lane then she has done her job. That mean that in the late game her tesm will have one less enemy to worry about because Azulynn did her intended job. And you have done a good job! Now its the waiting game, GJ and good luck ! :)

Alt. support passive: Steals 6% of a random stat (movement speed, attack speed, armor, etc.) And gives the stats stolen to the next champion to basic attack the target.

niiiiice :)

thanx

Made a new draft, however while there has been a good amount of ideas I decide not to change much. Taria5 gave me an idea to change her Q a bit and I've tweaked a little bit on her damage (her ult and cd on her E by like 1 seconds xD) This is not because I am lazy but instead because I am satified with Azulynn as her kit looks now. I'm ready to argue her spells or whatnot if people still find her OP, but keep in mind that I have NOT made her stats, such as movement speed and start AD and so on, mainly because that's too much math for me (>_>) and because I generally don't know how they should look other than her health should be low and her movement speed aswell. Her attack speed wouldn't matter because she only needs to attack once and her AD should be low like idk most other AP mages? Nevetheless here is the 3rd and probably final draft for Azulynn, The Voodoo Witch: (Damage and range on spells are only guidelines towards the kit we wanted the champion to have and probably needs a few modifications, twitches and nerfs.) Passive (Voodoo mastery): Azulynn can mark an enemy champion with her basic attack with an added 3 seconds channel. Only one mark may be applied and only to one champion at a time and any other basic attacks while her current mark is still active are treated as normal basic attack. The mark disappears if it is inactive/not being used for 6 seconds, allowing for a new target to be marked. Azulynn can use her spells against marked targets and only marked targets. Q (CD: 21/19/17/15/13s Mana cost: 30/40/50/60/70): Azulynn absorbs a bit of her target’s lifeforce into her doll dealing 20/40/60/80/100 (+30% AP) magic damage. If Azulynn doesn’t use any spells or basic attacks for 3 seconds she will absorb the health the doll has stolen from her target, healing half the total damage (10/20/30/40/50(+15% AP) but removing the doll in the process. W (CD: 20/18/16/14/12s Mana cost: 70/85/100/115/130): Azulynn puts a needle in her doll making her target bleed for 60/85/110/135/160 (+55% AP) magic damage over 5 seconds. E (CD: 17s Mana cost: 50/60/70/80/90): Azulynn tosses her doll to the ground stunning her target for 1.5 second with the sheer force, dealing 50/75/100/125/150 (+40% AP). R (CD: 130/110/90s Mana: 100/120/150): Azulynn sets fire to her doll dealing 100/150/200/300/500 (+80% AP) magic damage to her target over 3 seconds and burns Azulynn’s doll in the process, removing the mark from the target and fearing enemies around the burning targe for 0.5/1/1.5 seconds.

hmm you both have a point...

ok cool thanks, i just like helping out

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Damn that champion is cool, i did think that such a long range stun, DOT and such is way too op, but then realized that she can only use it on a marked champion, which could be very problematic if she's a squishy champion overall. So you would kinda have to go defensive AP items to get close to those enemies :) Anyhow, very interesting concept and i freaking LOVE the lore, man whoever wrote that should write more! =) Wish i wrote like that. I have made some champs of my own, but are afraid to do it concistantly as i do not draw the art myself, i just find it on google. So my final question is, who drew that art, and can you help me? :) If you can thanks, and if you can't.. Thanks anyway ;-) Champion: 7,5/10 - Lore: 9,5/10. Hope to hear from you soon!