[Champion Concept] Hollowed Hand
Tabu, the Hollowed Hand
Primary: Mage, Secondary: Support
Overview
Puppets are everywhere right now. League just released a video a while ago on the Harrowing, and then we even have Ultron coming out singing Disney songs. I wanted to revive Tabu and string in some scary ideas from Shaco and Thresh, almost putting them together. Tabu is a character who makes the better of his situations. In fact, he would rather be damaged than not! His abilities scale off Ability Power, but his strengths fall in varying areas, allowing him to even enter the tanker spectrum or the marksman zone bottom lane. He tethers enemies together, making them have to change their fighting style if they're going to meddle with the puppet master. If they run, they better do it together. No one wants to leave a teammate behind...
Concept Art
http://th09.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2014/304/5/e/hollowed_hand_by_errorscreen-d84tm1s.jpg
Log In Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grJslyfkHoA
BASE STATS: HEALTH: 435 [+86 per level] HEALTH REGEN: 5.5 [+0.67 per level] RANGE: 600 ATTACK DAMAGE: 40 [+3.25 per level] ATTACK SPEED: 0.67 [+2.9%] ARMOR: 17 [+4 per level] MAGIC R: 30 [+1.25 per level] MOVEMENT SPEED: 325
Passive: Unsnipped Strings
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Tabu’s basic attacks string enemies up for four seconds. Tabu can mark several enemies at a time, but there is a cooldown between every time Tabu can mark another unit after hitting a champion. 15℅/20%/25%/30% of all damage done to Tabu by monsters, minions, champions, and himself would be dealt to each enemy marked with his Unsnipped Strings in magic damage. Cooldown: 6/5/4/3 Seconds Percentage Damage levels up at 6, 12, and 18, starting at 15% on level 1
How does it work? Tabu marks his enemies with Unsnipped Strings with basic attacks or Twisted Threads. A portion of the damage he takes from all sources minus towers is dealt back to them in magic damage. He can even damage himself through his abilities to deal damaged to enemies marked with Unsnipped Strings. When he hits a champion, however, the ability goes on cooldown before he can start marking again until he hits another champion. It's not like Thornmail where everyone takes their own damage. He chooses who gets the backlash and he could damage himself to hurt his enemies.
Q: Possess/Vuduu
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Self Origin Cast: Tabu lunges forward 475 units, but launches his spirit further. If he or his spirit make contact with an enemy champion, he would possess the champion, making them a puppet of his own. Puppets last for eight seconds. Enemy Origin Cast: Tabu would pull a string, tugging the puppet in the targeted direction 475 units. If the enemy hits another champion, he would transfer possession. Transferring possession would refresh possession and reduce the cooldown by half, but missing Vuduu would make Tabu lose his puppet. Tabu could deal basic attacks and cast spells from his puppet. Basic attacks would deal 40% of his attack damage and 20%/25%/30%/35%/40% of his enemy’s attack damage. Each attack would consume 20/30/40/50/60 of his enemy’s health to perform and match Tabu’s base auto attack range in magic damage. *Cost: 5%/5%/5%/5%/5% Total Health on Possess/ Vuduu has No Cost Cooldown: 6/6/6/6/6 Seconds Self Max Range: 800 *
How does it work? Okay so either he or his puppet lunge forward in his choice of direction. If he is thrown, then a skillshot keeps going. If the puppet is thrown, there is no skill shot. That's the only difference. If he, the puppet, or his skillshot ends up hitting a champion, he possesses the champion, making it his new 'puppet.' He cannot control his target's movement. He merely uses it as a source of his attacks and spells. Only champions can become possessed. After this, he can now attack from his new source with basic attacks or spells. He can make champions possess other champions to keep the cycle going, but if he misses and the lunge hits no one, the puppet cycle has ended. There is only a cost if Tabu has no puppet yet.
W: Twisted Threads
Active: Tabu shoots shadowy strings from himself or the puppet to all champions in a 700 unit radius. These enemies are tethered to him or the puppet for seven seconds, unable to leave the radius lest they take 50/70/90/110/130 (+50% Bonus Ability Power) magic damage or be pulled back 300 units into Tabu or the puppet. The web of strings follows the origin, Tabu or the casted puppet. Champions can only be pulled back twice before they break their strings. All enemies affected are marked with Unsnipped Strings. * Cost: No Cost Cooldown: 16/15/14/13/12 Seconds Range: 700*
How does it work? It acts really closely to Morgana's R. But the opposite. It deals no damage to those who stay in its perimeter, BUT those who try to get away are violently pulled back to the epicenter, Tabu or the puppet, and take magic damage. The enemies caught have to pull it a total of two times and on the third yank they would be freed. He or the possessed could move and drag his enemies with him or it. In all: No damage initially. Try getting away and you get punished. Enemies should try to stay in the circle. They can't escape through flash or other movements without taking damage and being pulled right back in. After the duration ends, there is no damage at all.
E: Conjure Smoke/ Conjure Fire
First Cast: Tabu shoots potent, dark smoke in a single direction from himself or his puppet, dealing (80% Total Ability Power) magic damage and silencing enemies hit by the wave over three seconds. Tabu can cast Conjure Fire in the next three seconds. Second Cast: Tabu blasts a wave of fire from himself or the puppet, this time igniting the smoke and fearing all enemies hit by the first wave for two seconds. These burning enemies would take 140/150/160/170/180 (+65% Total Ability Power) magic damage over three seconds. Cost: No Cost/ 2% Current Health +50/60/70/80/90 on Conjure Fire Cooldown: 10/9/8/7/6 Seconds Range: 800/600
How does it work? On first cast, he or his possessed casts smoke. This smoke does purely magic damage if he has any, but it will silence all enemies in the skillshot. Casting the ability again would shoot bluish fire. Fire this time would actually deal more damage to all enemies caught regardless if they were hit the first time. However, if the enemies have been silenced by the first shot, the fire would then make the enemies fear. There is only a cost on Conjure Fire.
R: Wangateur’s Scars/ Masterless Strings
First Cast: After a 1.5 second channel, Tabu inflicts heavy damage upon himself, immediately dealing 200%/250%/300% of Unsnipped Strings' damage to affected enemies. This reveals all marked enemies around him and grants him 25% attack speed, 25/40/55 attack damage, 60% Spell Vamp, and 40%/50%/60% Lifesteal for eight seconds. Tabu can cast Masterless Strings in the next five seconds. Second Cast: Tabu swaps places with his puppet and replaces it for 3.5 seconds unless he recasts Masterless Strings. Tabu would then swap back with his puppet. Cost: 35%/35%/35% of Current Health Cooldown: 95/65/35 Seconds
How does it work? He hurts himself. Badly. 35% of his current health is drained. However, an even higher percentage of damage is blasted through Unsnipped Strings. He could use his Twisted Strings and then Wangateur's Scars to maximize damage output. On top of dealing more damage, he gains significant buffs to get his health back. In the next five seconds if he has a puppet, he can cast Masterless Strings, allowing him to replace his puppet momentarily. He will swap back after a short time.
LORE:
His name is taboo. Speak of it he will find you. But what is he, how is he, who? The legends and myths you hear of him are all true.
The doctor who came to cure the Isles of its darkness found himself at the mercy of the heartless. The carcasses which filled the forests and villages came to life by the power of their own strife. The existence of the Isles came through the power of endless torture and trials, of conjurations and demonic exaltations as escapes from life's bitter grapes. So the doctor found himself at an end, with nothing malleable to amend. But their strings.
The strings held by the darkness's folly, made of the corpses toy and dolly. The skeletons of evidence pointed to a source of power emanating from before the age's hour. Perhaps if he found it he could free the shadows and end their wallows and wails found in the hollows of trees and gallows. So the man took up darkness's embrace and became one of a familiar race of dead with no trace of his old living face. A mask of a cadaver, the shadowy actor behind the Isle's curation and transformation. With shadow at hand and magic through strand, he could piece the world from before darkness's stand. The voodoo puppeteer, he called himself, able to disappear right before the shadows come near. But right then he pulls the strings and makes the darkness follow his echoes and rings. A master of the fallen things to return the world to a time of living kings through the exploitation of the soul's silent strings. Their strings.
Upon himself he took darkness and spite to make the world turn into something he thought was right. But those in the shadows knew that this was their night. A night of blight without a sight of light, making the darkness glow ever bright. The ghouls and ghasts ran from the shaman's paths, finding shelter in the fallen masts of those who did this before and breathed their last. Uncowering empowering now towering the shaman continued to take the world, devouring. At last, his breaths began to falter, but his old and aged body built an altar. His mission unfinished and darkness to be diminished, the shaman built a table upon where began his fable, to revive and allow his work to thrive. Upon his death with his final breath, he defied the living death. A puppet of his own began to groan as the isle's light shown. With strings.
But now he sees what he had missed and seized. Death still breathing away from life unredeeming, he entered a world of the dreaming. His body no more, and his corpse now torn, he follows the Isles to war with his soul now sworn. A marionette of the darkness by bayonet, unliving undying not breathing nor crying. Forced to fight without his own dying light, he falters in darkness with only strings as his harness. He thinks he has his own will, but only the isles are in control of his every wooden twill. But the dead he seeks no more, but now upon the living he will come ashore. To take a body and make it his, hollow it as a puppet, a bundle of his. Attach it with string and who knows what else he’ll bring. But those who know of his tale lie behind darkness's veil, for those who hear and lend their ear will know his name and will die in shame. Call his name he'll come out of the blue. I'll give you a hint: his name is something of Tabu…
And now he’s coming for you. Your strings...
Quotes:
Upon Selection: "Hollowing bellowing are the bodies captured by the shadowing…”
Q: (Self) “Come!” (Self) “Reaaaargh!” (Self) “Hollow bodies… make good puppets.” (Self) “Pull…” (Self) “Bwahaa!” (Self) “Bwehehe I feel a change of presence…” (Self) “A tingly mingly feeling…” (Self) “Whipee!” (Self) “A little bit of dark magic… will… whoomph!” (Self) “I feel emptier and lighter!” (Puppet) “Dance for me!” (Puppet) “Pass the spark on!.” (Puppet) “Feel the tug!” (Puppet) “Resistance is futile…” (Puppet) “Strings will take your souls!” (Puppet) “Dance dance dance!” (Puppet) “Come closer to one another!” (Puppet) “So light on your feet! Bahaa!”
W: (Self) “Come and play with the puppeteer…” (Self) “See your strings now, puppets?!” (Self) “All you champions are but hollow vessels!” (Self) “Twisted and tangled yet?” (Self) “Run run run as fast as you can. But I will catch you. And i will kill you... Hehe...” (Self) “You all seem a little tied up! Hehe!” (Self) “You are all mine.” (Self) “Come to me, children.” (Self) “You are mine.” (Self) “Now how am I going to pick up after this mess?!” (Self) “Looks like… hehe… I’m… tangled!” (Puppet) “A champion is nothing but a magician’s marionette.” (Puppet) “Puppets are petty tools for powerful fools.” (Puppet) “Oh look what your teamwork did.” (Puppet) “Hiding behind the big ones. How cute.” (Puppet) “Let’s see if you can get out of this one!” (Puppet) “It’s your mess. You clean up all the messy strings.” (Puppet) “You untangle yourself!” (Puppet) “BWAHAHA!” (Puppet) “You want to snip snip?” (Puppet) “Tug them. Tug them. They will play you in the end.” (Puppet) “Strings and pain for everybody! Ha!”
E: (Smoke) “The fog begins!” (Smoke) “Magic and darkness all begins now!” (Smoke) “Yes. Breathe it in!” (Smoke) “Harder to breathe, huh?” (Smoke) “Good thing I don’t need lungs.” (Smoke) “Shhh. The Shadows can hear your screams.” (Smoke) “Hehehe why yes. Quite lovely. Yes.” (Smoke) “It hurts doesn’t it? I brewed it myself.” (Smoke) “You puppets could have survived this if you let me hollow you out.” (Smoke) “Darkness for all! And to all a good night!” (Smoke) “BLEEEEEEH” (Smoke) starts to cough (Fire) “Didn’t see that coming!” (Fire) “HRAAAH” (Fire) “You wanted light? I’ll show you light!” (Fire) “Feel it burn? AH! It does! It does!” (Fire) “I almost burned myself!” (Fire) “BWAH hot hot!” (Fire) “Aww look at you all squirming!” (Fire) “Light burns, doesn’t it?”
R: “The Shadow Isles beckon!” “Night night everyone…” “A puppet will not bleed. But his puppets will.” “I am unwound. Unstrung.” “Summoner… my strings!” “I thirst.... I thirst!” “Darkness…” “Stop it, summoner, why do you do this to me…”
Spawning: “I hear their souls pleading for a master!” “Into the fields we go, over the hills and through the shadows low…” “I know where I’m headed, summoner.” “The grass is green, their blades with sheen, and the battle much too clean!” “If we stand around any longer sitting and plotting, my fine wood would begin stinking and rotting. It’s already bad as it is I’ll tell you that.”
Movement: “Can you feel the tug of war?” “Why can’t anyone see their strings?” “Everyone’s a puppet. They just don’t know it.” “You think you’re controlling me? No. It is I. Controlling you.” "Imagine this war never existed..." "Your tact is all an act! Just part one too, you pitiful fool!" “Summoner. Feel the strings tighten around your throat.” “That isn’t love pulling at your heartstrings…” “Pluck for the hand. Another for the heart. Two more for the eyes and pluck go their lives!” “C’mon. Dance a little!” “Freedom is the living’s greatest lie." "You have nowhere to run nowhere to hide, for I have friends waiting in the other side..." “Click and clock dead like a rock. Tick and tock gone with a shock.” “Pull their heart strings and writhe as death stings.” “Hew hew hehe!” “Death so gracious and the Isles… oh so spacious.” “I can’t feel my legs. I… can’t feel anything. Like. Anything.” “Why do I keep getting all… tangled…” “Stop pulling! I already hear the clicking echo…” “Step and step and turn around, and skip and jump and onward-bound!” “I’m on to you, tool! Treating me just as would a fool.” “I don’t rhyme all the time.” “Death feels so much better when you just let it fester!” “I know no chains- but the strings. I can’t get rid of the strings!” “Hear them! Hear them! They’re talking! They’re talking!” “Darkness still nearing, the shadows still fearing, the light now clearing.” “I keep tripping over my own cords. Heh heh.” “The strings are thirsty.” “Everyone always go for the light but you never know which one is right.” “They can only hear death coming when they hear their strings barely humming.” “They call me the doctor- at life and death’s gate. But I hold in my hand their thread, their lives and fate.” “It is written…” “I miss feeling the wind.” “See anyone following me?” “Trust me I’m a doctor.” “Simple rule- mi muerte, tu muerte.” “Celebrate the folly’s fate!” “Too dee too doo hah haaah!” “Who am I you may ask? I am but a soul hiding in this wooden mask.”
Attacking: “Do you feel something- cold?” “Unwind and untether your breathe like a fleeting feather.” “The strings no better than to let you without your fetter.” “Avacio!” “Feel the Isles sting your soul, and watch them devour you whole.” “Bring it! I love a good fresh corpse.” “Abracadavra!” “Leave you skin and bone to rot disgraced and alone…” “Alakazee! Alakazoo!” “Hah hah! I love your style! To bad it won’t last a while.” “You’re tripping yourself up, puppet!” “Slow down will you! I’m getting all tangled here…” “I need you for my collection, my obsession of the undead complexion.” “I twisted this string just for you.” “Your death is your own contraption!” “Watch out you’ll end up tripping yourself over.” “Thread and needle- to bleed a little…” (Mordekaiser) “You’ll be my good puppet. So stop hitting me!” (Thresh) “Your chains bind you, and your fate will do so, too.” (Yorick) “A ghoul’s fool of a tool, trying to rule undead drool.” (Hecarim) “You’re a traitor amongst us all. Flee before I lay your strings for your fall.” (Lucian) “The hunter is hunted. But is the hunter haunted by those he haunts?” (Lucian) “You’re being played, puppet! The chains are your strings, Lucian.” (Lissandra) “Witch to witch, your play has been written, iceborne.” (Aatrox) “A puppeteer of champions. Aatrox why do you keep playing as the champion?”
Taking Damage: “Oh hoh hoh! That feels like… tickling!” “I am you am I. My pain is yours is mine.” “A champion and a puppet. But who’s being played here.” “Ahh! It burns!”
Joke: [Takes off hat in one hand, head in the other, rolls head across shoulders into hat and puts it back on] “I wish I were a real corpse! Wouldn't that be just grand! Heh heh!” “You should quit while you’re A HEAD! Ha! Get it ‘cause- nah I’ll just choke you now.” “Ninety nine piles of bones of the wall, ninety nine piles of bones. A lad comes in, skin the kid, a hundred piles of bones on the wall!”
Taunt: “Thread? Why do I need Thread? They’re not for my control, but for yours.” “Feel the wrath of darkness’s hand choking your throats with your own strings!” (Hecarim) “The war horse is a puppet of his own, where chaos brews and death’s ablown.” (Mordekaiser) “Mordekaiser, my puppet and friend, have you not seen what fate lies at your end?” (Fiddlesticks) “You’re already hollow. Just let me take your body, Fiddlesticks, and make it useful for once…” (Shaco) “Oh you’re such a clown. Where’s your circus, Shaco? Where are your masters, clown?” (Sion) “Mighty and strong, Sion the bestial Juggernaut! Come and see the monstrosity Noxus had brought!” (Darius) “A puppet of powerless vanity, Darius. No strings to call your own?” (Zed) “The shadows are empty, your masters are void. The strings are not yours, your true self destroyed.” (Zed) “Zed, the dead, shadows at thread, hoping to find something to shred.”
Dance: [Dances to I’ve Got No Strings ~Pinocchio]
Death: [Falls to the ground, crumpled and limp, his hand trying to reach out and his hat falling off] “Snip!” “I can see… the hand…” “It’s… your fault…” “I feel… cold…” Cries out
Revive: “The act is not over yet… for me!” “Can I really die again?” “I can rhyme again!”
