New champion idea
Still looking for someone who is good with splash art to draw a skin mock up for Dante.
Dante, Defender of Runeterra
Lore
Dante, born in the Shurima Desert was trained by his father, a man whose heart was cased in ice and who knew only of battles. Dante, was raised to thrive in combat, facing foes with nothing but his bare hands. He had been fighting for as long as he could remember along side his father, never seeing him smile or praise him for his efforts. Until one day, Dante was in the midst of battle, his father was facing a foe so grand and challenging he turned around for a second that when looking back he witnessed his dad beheaded by a blade. He ran for his life making him feel like a coward fearing he was next in line to lose his life, but as the enemy approached Dante had noticed his father's Zweihander and a rifle that laid near his unmoving body, as swiftly as he could with the beast close to the tracks he tumbled and grabbed it turned around making a quick escape. Once he realized he had lost track of the beast he was overwhelmed of the loss of his father and a new sense of cowardness. For the next couple of days he had retunred to the Shurima Desert and in shame had gashed his face starting from from his left eye, traveling to his mouth across his cheek, and upwards, the same shape of his family's crest. As he traveled down the markets he was shoved by a young boy fleeing from a scene, being quite annoyed he kept walking thinking nothing of it. So when returning to his dome, a small camp outside of town he witnessed the same boy from earlier being attacked by the monster that had murdered his father. The boy was being protected by an older man that was fighting him off with a simple bronze sword. He instantly got flashbacks and lunged to help them even with the fear tugging at him to stay back. The monster had roared making Dante double think his actions and saw that it was going to destroy the man, as the monster was about strike them with his massive claws, he stops it with his fathers Zweihander. Thinking of their saftey he yelled, "go now! I will fend him off! Please take your son out of here". The man went to take the child's hand to run to safety, but when they left the monster cut Dante's left arm forcing him to fall to his knees. The wild beast jumped straight at the man and impaled him right through his body. Overtaken by grief, blood lust, and outrage he pierces his leg and before the killing blow was dealt to Dante, the young child who he had attempted to help had moved in front of the beast holding the bronze sword. At that moment Dante had witness someone courageous and killed due to his weakness. He stood up with blood flowing from his leg and wailed, "you have stolen beautiful lives, and for that you shall pay with your own". With his father's Zweihander he launched it toward his head, but was blocked by his claw thus he pulled out the rifle from his back and shot three times but with little to no success. The beast then turns and disappears with a maniacal laugh, "you are strong, but no, enough games for tonight". After that day he vowed to fight for those who needed it when ever he could holding no allegiance to Noxus or Demacia. However would fight in the league in hopes of preventing others from doing the same. At this point he was still a young man, After that hateful moment in his life, he began to change his ways instead of allowing fear hold him back.
AA - Dante's AA when at range he will use his rifle having the ability to only hit one single target, Due to the size of his sword when at close range he will cleave targets in front of him (165 range ) per strike 54-94 for Melee 0.678 base attack speed with cleave doing 55% of initial damage to champion or 75% to minion 56-120 for Range 0.584 Base attack speed.
Auto attack will change at 175 range
Q - Line it up/Impale ( cool down 13/11/9/8/7 )
Line it up - Dante being less training with a rifle then others drops to one knee after a short time (1.3/1.2/1.1/1/0.9) fires a single shot into the Max range enemy dealing scaling damage 20/35/55/60/70 + 75% of AD.
Impale - When in 165 range Dante thrust his sword forward if it touches a enemy it will cause a bleed effect for a scaling time as well as scaling the bleed would last a total of 5 seconds. damage bleed - 5/15/20/25/30+ 10% of AD Damage from initial 15/30/40/45/55 + 100% of AD
W - Take the head (Cool down 18/15/13/12/11) **Take the head ** - In a horizontal slash Dante attempts to remove the enemy champions head in one swing. scaling damage 25/35/55/65/70 + 100% of AD
E - Protect the weak/Over the head (cool down 22/20/18/17/16 ) Protect the weak - Dante can target one of his allies and share the damage inflicted on them (3%/5%/8%/10%/12%)+ 15% of AP
If Dante activates this ability on an enemy champion this ability will become Over the head
Over the head Dashing to a target Dante Impales them and uses his sword to throw his target above his head. During this time his target is untargetable. Scaling damage (10/20/25/35/45) + 0.4% of AD
R - Death comes quickly ( Cool down 120/100/85 ) Dante throws his Zweihander forward dealing damage to the first target hit by his sword and impaling them, At this point He can only use his rifle to continue attacking removing the attack range requirement for his rifle. After a short duration Dantes weapon will return to him or if he touches the enemy champion he impaled. During this time anyone that comes within a short radius of the enemy champion impaled will suffer a bleed effect.
Initial damage 60/90/130 + 85%/100%/110% of AD.
Bleed effect would be 20/50/70 + 20% of AD Bleed would last for 4 seconds. dealing damage a maximum of 4 times depending on attack speed. Initially with no attack speed items it would do damage 3 times. If he touches the enemy champion impaled he will rip the sword from them dealing an additional 100/150/200 + 50% of AD
Voice lines "Never again" "I will protect you all" "Harm them and you die" "I can still see his face, His horrible face"
**Answering question **
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Dante is met to be a melee champion with some abilities that can be at range so you must make the choice between in the thick of combat, or slower attack speed at range.
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Dante provides both support and damage in late game, You must make the choice to use your abilities to kill or save your ally.
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The reason he would become untargetable would be if using his Over the head incorrectly he could allow the enemy champion to dodge a ultimate.
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This champion could be a good addition to the league of legends line up because he would provide a top lane bruiser/Jungler with range capabilities
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Max range by Dante would be 475 with the Auto attack and Q switching over when ever within 175.
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The abilities that have two effects depending on range or casting target share a cool down with its counterpart.
Game play
While having the ability to play other roles the ideal roles would be Jungle with his engage setting up a kill, or in the top lane to become a late game bruiser.
Top lane engage Dante would rush in to Garen and cast** over the head**, followed by Impale to provide some age as well as a bleed falling back behind minions after that for safety
Top lane engage kill When going in for the kill Dante would again dash to the target with Over the head. Using impale to add the bleed effect and Take the head. Casting his ultimate Death comes quickly after and finishing Garen off with a long range Line it up as he attempts to escape.
**Jungler gank ** Dante uses his Line it up from the bush mid on a unsuspecting Syndra who has engaged on Lux allowing Lux to survive using Save the weak when Syndra uses her ultimate. Then using Death comes quickly impales Syndra with his sword allowing him to continue his autoattack on syndra just barely reaching her before she returns to to her two to retrieve his sword dealing the killing blow.
How would you defeat this champion
Dante can both defend his allies or attack the enemy however he cannot do both. So the easiest way to combat him is to force him to use his abilities to peel, or to reduce damage taken by his allies and then engage on Dante himself. This provides interesting game play in the terms of target switching depending on which abilities are cast when and provides a certain skill cap to the champion himself
**Enemies ** Rengar - In the lore it doesn't say it flat out because that would just disallow people to come to there own conclusions however Rengar was the "mighty beast" that took his fathers life
Allies
Dante holds no allegiance
**Skin idea's **
Basic skin would be a barbarian type champion wielding his fathers sword while the Rifle is strapped to his back,
First skin - Blood bathed Dante - A skin that is similar to the Barbarian however different due to the fact that it would feature killed items from champions on his armor, as well as Rengars claw around his neck.
