Concept for Baba Nana, the Purveyor of Potions
Hello, this is my first time making a champion concept post, but I've been sitting on this idea for a while, and in light of the recent ask of Riot for different personality types to try, and suggestions of an old woman being thrown around, I thought I should take the time to share my rough idea. Note that pretty much anything in this post is up for heavy alteration, including her name. (Also, I claim no ownership of any of the art in this post).
Now without further ado, I present Baba Nana, the Purveyor of Potions!
Baba Nana is a kindly old witch, skilled in the art of crafting potions and using said potions to provide aid to whomever seeks her out. Personality wise, she's very similar to the Witch from Brave, definitely one of the good guys, but not above playing a prank on you or leaving a key bit of information out about your recently purchased potion to teach you a lesson if you displease her.
In game, her entire kit revolves around the brewing of potions to throw out and release their effect in an area, roughly the size of the center ring of Zigg's ult.
Her Q, W, and E are all different ingredients with a different effect when used to craft a potion. On first casting one ability, you add that ingredient to the final product, at the same time bringing up another set of different ingredients with different effects to augment your final potion. After choosing a second ingredient, the potion will be complete, and may then be recast a third time to throw the potion to a target location, exploding and unleashing it's effect in an area. To streamline things, the two ingredients assigned to each ability would be related, for example if Q1 causes the potion to inflict damage, Q2 would potentially shred the armor and MR of any enemies in the area. W is for utility, and E for allied effects; W1 being a slow, and W2 granting vision of whoever is hit, and E1 granting a heal and E2 granting a shield.
Before we get into her ult, I want to go over her passive, because it effects her entire play style. Baba Nana can't create potions out of thin air, she has to gather her ingredients first. Each component of a potion requires at least one of the corresponding ingredient to be gathered from the jungle it can be used to create a potion. These ingredients will spawn in predetermined locations in the jungle, similar to how the jungle plants work. Each spot of ingredients yield multiple ingredients of various types, with some being more heavily weighted based on which area of the jungle the location is, such as more Q1 and Q2 ingredients being in the Red Buff Quadrant, more W types in Blue Buff etc, etc. To keep Nana from completely being cut off from being able to do anything if she's cut off from her jungle, she slowly gains ingredients over time, just enough to ensure that she can operate, but not nearly at the level she could if she forages for ingredients. In cases of dire need for ingredients, she will be able to purchase ingredients from the shop as well, for a fee.
Finally, we arrive at her R and for this there are two different routes to take. One is to go the Udyr route and simply make the R another set of two ingredients with unique effects at along the same power level of the other ingredients. This would allow for more combinations and tricks that Nana can use and increase the versatility of the champion. The other route is to make her R "The Secret Ingredient", enhancing the two effects of the next potion that is crafted. For example, and Ulted Q1 could deal a portion of it's damage as True damage, W1's slow would become a root, and so on. This would be counted as an ingredient as well, only being obtainable in the dragon and Baron pits, as well as regenerating extremely slowly.
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Well, that's about everything, at least all the basic stuff, although you wouldn't guess it based on the giant wall of text. I'll have a poll below as to which route for the Ultimate would be a better fit, just to so which is more preferred. If you have any questions I'll do my best to answer them below, and any suggestions and constructive criticism are welcomed. Let me know what you think!
