"Transistor" the Steam Game

AceGeo·Jul 7, 2017·1 votes·499 views

You know that game on Steam called Transistor?

Well, we already have a champ that is a time bender , but I love the mechanic from the game where you can highlight enemies, plan all your abilities out, and then watch it unfold.

Riot, primarily I like the fact that you plan the abilities out before hand.

Make a champ that plans out HER abilities beforehand and then for the next 5 seconds (maybe 8) make it so she can't do anything else until it's done. That would be really cool. It would reward players who can see things in hindsight.

7 Comments

Azure DancerJul 7, 20171 votes

League fights are too fast paced for this concept to work

AceGeoJul 8, 20171 votes

Maybe she'd have a large radius for her affects. Don't think about Camille for her abilities, think more like Sona level of radius, but instead of support she's a fighter.

ModEchoingJul 7, 20171 votes

It is, indeed, a really cool game and a really cool system.

This hypothetical champion would just eat a stun in the first second and die horribly though, assuming you didn't just miss completely. It might work as a single ability idea, but not as something you can base the entire kit around.

AceGeoJul 8, 20171 votes

Maybe stuns would pause the timer. I don't think she'd be a skillshot champion, though xD

ModEchoingJul 8, 20171 votes

Then she eats a stun in the first second, everyone moves forward accordingly, and she misses the rest of her five second combo, then dies horribly.

Again, single ability? Okay, might have something cool here. Entire kit? Oh dear. Even if she's not skillshots, that still means she has to position properly, so interrupting her at any part of the sequence will throw her dangerously out of position.

IronwallJacksonJul 7, 20171 votes

While I can see the fantasy that you're trying to enable, one set of mechanics can't be chopped out of one game and dropped into another successfully, and the other posters more or less have the crux of it. Transistor is a very cool game, but even with it's more relaxed pace, it's still easy to completely wiff a series of inputs, and that's against fairly simple AI.

You couldn't feasibly have that sort of kit in League, not with 9 other players in the game influencing the outcome of even minor events. Furthermore, it's a fast, complex beast, and the minutia of the game state changes on a dime.

Players already have the tools to act on their predictions, vis a vis the actions of the enemy team and we already have champions who are rewarded by comboing abilities together. A champ who acted out their actions like in transistor would be a gimmick and little else.

AceGeoJul 8, 20171 votes

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Maybe she'd have a large radius for her affects. Don't think about Camille for her abilities, think more like Sona level of radius, but instead of support she's a fighter.

Let's put it this way => If your ally team has ANY sort of cc at all, her kit should work fine. Cause exactly what you just said, other League players said about Azir. But look how dominant he was before he got nerfed out.