[Ability Concepts] Ward Manipulation

Lizdeath·8/26/2015, 4:46:33 PM·1 votes·1,269 views

Currently we have a handful of champions that interact with wards, most of which either grant vision of stealthed units or move a champion to a ward (Lee W or Katarina E), but there are no abilities that manipulate wards in more interesting ways.

I would like to propose some ways of manipulating wards that could be interesting and unique.

Passive Skills:

Damaging Wards: Upon being placed, wards cast a one time nova dealing magic damage.

Damaging Trinkets: Upon casting a trinket, ward trinket releases a nova dealing magic damage, blue and red trinket deal minor damage over time in their area of effect. Not really a ward manipulation passive, but still similar in nature, different, and interesting

Unlimited Vision: Removes the cap on ward placement, but ward duration is based on number of wards placed (wards last 3/x where x is the number of wards placed by this champion currently on the map, ability does not change the secondary resource quantity of a ward, but rather dilates its consumption). Pink wards would count towards ward duration length for the purposes of balance.

Increased Range: Range at which a ward can be cast is increased by distance per level.

Active Skills:

Ward Swapping: User changes place with a ward and triggers some effect upon swapping places.

Moving Wards: Ability moves the nearest ward a distance towards the mouse, healing friendly units and damaging enemies it passes through, or some other effect while in motion, maybe revealing stealthed units while in motion.

Exploding Wards:
Targeting a ward causes it to explode, dealing damage based on how much time is left in its duration (green) or dealing damage in a small radius and revealing stealth in a large radius (pink).

Ward Pulsing:
Activating this ability causes wards to release a vision nova, temporarily granting increased vision range and/or granting vision of stealth units, dealing damage, providing heals, providing shields, pick some other effect, you get the idea.

Ultimate Skills:

Will add such skills here based on comments, as I cannot think of anything fitting as an ultimate beyond copying Syndra's ult, which would be boring and take away from the uniqueness of Syndra's kit.

8 Comments

1374348/26/2015, 4:51:13 PM1 votes

You would only see an ability that interacts with a "ward" that the champion itself places (from an ability the champion has, whether that be the same one the interaction is tied to or another one), not ones stemming from items/trinkets. Remember wards are only available in SR, not any of the other maps.

Sniper 08/26/2015, 4:51:40 PM1 votes

Seems a little underpowered, considering cd's would be based more on ward cd's than the skills actual cd.