[Champion Concept] Hadrian the Shade Slayer

This is my champion concept for a melee mid assassin

History and Aesthetics

Lore: When Hadrian was a child he lived with his father. His father was a powerful sorcerer and they always traveled together so his father could strengthen his skills. He loved his son hadrian,. When Hadrian was 15, his father decided to visit the shadow isles, as he had heard it was a place of great beauty and power. However when they arrived, they discovered that the king of the shadow isles was trying to break the barrier between life and death. Hadrians father pleaded to the king that this was too dangerous, but he did not listen. When the seal was broken, a dark energy was released, which instantly killed everybody nearby, including hadrian's father. Before he died, hadrian's father managed to cast a spell on hadrian,so although his body was destroyed, his soul was cast into the shadows from the dark energy. From the shadows of the isles, all Hadrian could do was watch. He watched as the undead rose and took over the shadow isles. He hated the undead, and all of the residents in the shadow isles. During his time in the shadows, he realized he could use them to his advantage, travel faster, manipulate them, absorb them. So he patiently waited for ten years, then finally a boat came to the shadow isles. It was a ship sent to investigate the isles. He knew that none of the people on board could stand up to the undead so once they had all been run out of the isles, or killed, he searched. He came across a straggler begging for his life infront of thresh, who was impatiently waiting to take his soul. Hadrian saw this as his chance, and approached with the help of the shadows he used them to surround his soul, to talk to the chain warden. He made a deal, that when thresh took the man's soul, he could have the body. Thresh agreed, and took the man's soul. Hadrian then engulfed the body in shadows, and took it over.Thresh was astounded by this power, and attempted to take his soul too. They had a great battle, but realizing that he was no match for thresh, hadrian fled into the shadows. He followed maokai's lead and jumped into the ocean to return to runeterra. When he arrived he decided that he would fight against the undead and those that cursed the shadow isles.

Appearance/ Personality: Hadrian has log black hair, and werars a black cloak, which waves with shadows at the bottom. he carries a black blade, and has shadows manipulating around one hand. When he ults he grows large black wigs, and has a black hood on.

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Game play

Playstyle: Hadrian is a melee assassin, who can play in mid lane or the jungle. He scales off of AD and some magic damage. He uses mana. He relies on the mark from his passive to add effects to his abilities. He has no cc except on marked targets.

Base stats:

HP: 440(+81) HP regen: 4(+1) Mana: 245 (+60) Mana Regen: 5 (+0.5) AD: 45(+4) Attack speed: 0.66 (+3.3%) Armor: 20 (+3) MR: 26 (+1) Move speed: 350 Range: 150

Abilities

Passive: Shade- after hitting an ability or using item actives on a champion, Hadrian get a stack of shade. When he has 3 stacks, Hadrian's next basic attack marks an opponent with shade. this mark is consumed when an opponent is hit with an ability, and it adds an addition effect to that ability. the mark lasts for 20 seconds. Marks can be applied through on hit effects

Q: Strangler- Hadrian sends out a shadow along the ground in a line that passes under minions, if this ability hits an enemy champion, it deals 70/100/130/160/190 (+50% bonus ad)(+45% bonus ap). If this ability is used on a champion who is marked by shade, it suspends them in midair for 0.25/0.5/0.75/1/1.25 seconds. 60/65/70/75/80 mana 6/5.5/5/4.5/4 second cooldown 900 range

Explanation: This ability is your every day average poke skill, with a low cooldown it allows him to harass in lane even though he's melee and if he can hit his skillshots, it allows him to easily stack towards his passive. The suspension is great, because as of right now only 2 champions can suspend people, nami and yasuo. The suspension is great because it allows him to either have time to get into melee range, or position himself to hit his w ability.

W: Shadow walk- Hadrian can use this ability to move in four directions, either directly forward,backward, left or right. while he is moving in target direction he turns into shadows, and cannot be targeted. If he passes through enemy champions they take 80/110/140/170/200 (+20% ap) If the enemies he passes through are rooted by shadows for by 0.5/1/1.5/2/2.5 seconds. he can also pass through terrain. 100 mana 20/18/16//14/12 second cooldown 500 range

Explanation: This is essentially his gap closer, it allows him to get into melee range. It is difficut to pull off, however, as positioning is key, and if you're not positioned right you may miss, or end up not hopping the wall you were hoping to get over. it's high mana cost and long coolown make it so players really watch their positioning before using this ability.

E: Shadow Blade- Hadrian extends his shadow blade, increasing his auto attack range to 200, and his basic attacks deal 50/70/90/110/130 (+40% ad) extra damage for 3/4/5/6/7 seconds. if he has shadow blade active, and attacks somebody with a shade mark, they are slowed by 30% for 1/1.5/2/2.5/3 seconds (only every third aa on an enemy can count towards stacking for his passive) 80/75/70/65/60 mana 10/11.5/13/13.5/15 second cooldown

Explanation: Since hadrian's abilities don't do much damage compared to other similar abilities, he relies on auto attacks to deal the majority of his damage. So it makes sense that he should have an ability to strengthen his main damage source. plus this ability gives him an easy way to stack his passive.

R: Shadow rise- after a 2 second channel time, hadrian takes on a pure shadow form, growing wings and taking flight. He is untargateable while in the air, and can move. the only thing visible of him is a shadow of him on the ground. While in the air he gains 50/75/100 increased movement speed. he can stay in the air for 5 seconds. When he is in the air, he can activate his ult again to engulf an enemy in a 600 range. the targeted enemy is suppressed for 2 seconds hadrian comes crashing down onto them dealing 100/300/500 true damage to target champion. Any enemies around the target take 20/40/60 (+20% ap) magic damage. If the target is marked by shade, hadrian steals 5% of their maximum health, if anybody around the target is marked they are feared for 1/2/3 seconds. hadrian gets 2 stacks of shade after using this ability. 135 mana 150/130/110 second cooldown

Explanation: a badass ult for a badass champ

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**Recommendations and matchups **

Items: : He gains lifesteal and attack speed, plus it's active can help him stack shade

: either is a good choice, mobility can help him get to lane to assassinate champs, while bg gives him attack speed, helping him get more hits in with his E

: can help him with his mana use, plus the cdr allows him to use his abilities more often to stack his passive

: lifesteal and spellvamp, plus ad and ap for his q,w and r. The active can help his passive

: Lifesteal, plus the passive allows him to mark multiple targets at once, active can help with stacking passive

: Crit chance and attack speed for his e, passive allows him to mark multiple champions at once

: Crit chance and armor pen for assassinating, plus active can help him stay in aa range

: crit chance and attack speed

: self explanatory

: help him stay in aa range of enemy

: Sheen passive, plus can mark more than one target at once

: basic late game defensive items

: Not used on many assassins, but the active can help with stacking his passive

Lane Matchups G: Hadrian is strong against champ B: hadrian is weak against champ

B: Can be difficult to deal with, has alot of poke, and her mobility can make it hard to hit abilities, making it difficult to stack passive, her charm can cancel his ult channel B: also hard to deal with, as her invisibility makes it impossible to aa her, lowering Hadrian's dps G: Has no real escape, so it can be hard for her to shake off Hadrian, plus his beefy aa can cut through her passive egg : No real escape, but she has alot of poke, plus an armor buff. Evenly matched G: No mobility or escape, and hadrian can easily dodge his abilities. : Her harass can shred him early game, but late game he can easily dodge her abilities and a well timed w can dodge her ult G: Diana relies on keeping her enemies close to her, but against hadrian it allows him to stay in aa range and dish out loads of damage B: Fizz's mobility can make it hard for hadrian to deal with him, preventing him from gaining stacks, and his ability to easily get out of aa range makes this a difficult matchup B: Hadrian being melee ranged can make it difficult for him to take out his turrets, plus his e can cancel his ult channel G: No real escape and poor mobility make karthus an easy matchup as you can stack your passive, then get in aa range with w for the kill B: Ult. That is all B: High mobility and dps at melee range makes it tough to deal with katarina : her w can make it difficult to land abilities, however your w can counter her q and e and she has no way to stop the channel on your ult B: She can be difficult to deal with because when you finally do get in aa range she can root you, or stun you. She can cancel your ult channel B; His silence and suppression can make it difficult to deal with him in lane : Dodge ball : Ult make being in aa range dangerous : see oriana B: invisibility and mobility B: Blind, shrooms and generic satanic stuff B: Stun to cancel ult, and long range G: No escape and ult is worthless on you : No escape, but his knockup can stop your ult G: No escape and stun takes to long to stop his ult : See syndra G: His wall is useless except for your q, and you can easily dodge his tornadoes : His mobility can make it hard to deal with but you can escape his deathmark by using w or ult G Easily dodge his bombs, once in melee range, hard for him to get Hadrian off

Doom Mode If Hadrian were to become a doom bot.... -Every auto attack would mark an enemy with shade -His q would go in 4 directions at once -His w would animate and do damage in all 4 directions but he would only appear in 1 spot -He would gain 300 range and 50% attack speed with his e -His ult would have 3x the range, and deal the true damage to everybody in the area

Skin Ideas Pre-Isles Hadrian Void Hadrian Infernal Hadrian

Quotes

Generic walking quotes: The Darkness is my only ally My soul shall live forever in the shadows You can cut this body, but darkness has no form I will purify the land of filth

Joke Body falls to the ground, leaving a cloud of shadows floating around Ugh, it gets kinda stuffy in there

Taunt Come see if you can drive out the darkness

Special interactions

: No more shall you torture innocent souls insect : I dont care what you are, to me youre all the same : Time to silence you once and for all lich : GAH! My only weakness : We could have been friends marksman, too bad i have to kill you : How about we free that spirit maokai? : We are one in the same phantom : You'll never take my soul warden : And I thought the undead were ugly : Lets see who can manipulate whom.