New Champion Idea! Banshee: The Barrows' Despair (Resubmitted due to MAJOR reworking!)
So I (still) don't have an image drawn up ((still) can't draw to save my life), but I have an interesting (reworked) idea for a new champion.
I noticed that there aren't any sound-based champions besides Sona in the game, so I came up with an idea.
The name right now would be Banshee: The Barrow's Despair. She could potentially be a void champion and be named something along the lines of Banshee: Despair of the Void etc etc.
Passive: Resonance: Banshee is so attuned to the sounds around her that she can identify weak points in pieces of armor simply by hearing them when struck by Sonic Wave. Each time she successfully strikes an enemy champion with Sonic Wave, she gains stacks of bonus ability power against that specific champion. She gains one stack for every successful hit. Each stack equates to 2% of her maximum ability power, and she maxes at 15 stacks per enemy champion. She gains an added bonus of 10% ability power if she maxes her stacks on multiple enemies. Half the stacks are lost upon death, and they decay over time when the enemy champions are unaffected by Sonic Wave for 1 minute. Stacks will remain if the enemy champion is killed, and 15 seconds will be added to the timer before decaying begins.
Q: Sonic Wave: Banshee screams, damaging and slightly knocking back enemies in a cone in front of her.
This would be Banshee's primary attack and most important ability, as it affects all of her others. The range would be something along the lines of 575, with the width being a little slimmer than Syndra's Scatter the Weak. The knock back would be rather low so as to avoid it being abused to push lane. The ability would be fired as a skillshot.
W: Echo-Location: Banshee clicks her tongue, sending out a sonar-like wall of sound in a large circle around her. After 2.5 seconds, the sound waves return to Banshee, granting her and her allies vision of any enemy champions that were caught in the area of effect. Located enemy champions are also marked and receive extra damage from allies. If Sonic Wave is used on a located enemy champion, vision of the champion is refreshed (can only be refreshed once per champion).
This ability can be used both as a defensive or support ability. With a radius of approximately 1200~1500 (scaling with level), Banshee could either use this ability to tell whether the jungler was coming in for a gank on bot lane, or use it in team fights to give her allies a damage boost in crucial moments. However, with the 2.5 second delay between cast time and when she learns where the enemies are, it would not totally eliminate any ganking.
E: Deafen: Banshee screeches, deafening the target. The target's sight, movement speed and damage are reduced for a short time. Deafened champions take increased damage from Sonic Wave.
Once again, Banshee has an ability that can be used either offensively or defensively. As a support, if you just can't catch that pesky adc running from you, trying to hide under turret, Deafen can be a great way for YOUR adc to finish them off. On the flip side, if you or your allies have to make a run for it to stay alive, it can be used to create some distance between yourself and the biggest approaching threat. A range of 650, and it being cast as a targeted spell rather than a skillshot make Deafen an indispensable part of Banshee's repertoire.
R: Sound Quake: Banshee shrieks with such force that the earth in a large cone in front of her roils and shakes, greatly slowing enemies and damaging them the longer they are within its reach. If Sonic Wave is used on an enemy champion in the area of effect of Sound Quake, the enemy is stunned for 1.5 seconds.
Sound Quake's range of 900, and width of 500 (at it's widest, furthest point from Banshee), combined with it's massive damage output, slow, and stun potential make this perfect skill to initiate team fights if used correctly. However, if Banshee misses, it is rendered useless for a full 100 seconds.
Lore: He walked along the frozen path, as he had done countless times before. The frigid air causing him to tighten the cloak about him, he trudged onward. On his right he saw the snow covered burial mound that he had seen dozens of times before nestled among the trees of the northern Freljord, on his left he could make out the base of the mountains whose peaks were obscured by mist and frost. The wind howled through the leafless branches of the trees, clattering against one another, much like his chattering teeth. He tore his eyes from the mountains to continue his journey when a sharp, wailing cry swept quickly through the forest and along the path he walked before tapering to a pitiful moan which hung in the air like a fog and ended as abruptly as it had begun. Shaken to his core and overcome with an overwhelming sense of dread, he slowly turned towards the innocuous tomb he had passed without incident so many times before and dropped to the ground and wept. As had been warned endless times through Freljord lore, he knew that Banshee now cried for him.
This is just an example Lore piece. I got the style from reading the piece on Gnar, but it's ABSOLUTELY open to a rewrite.
She would be an AP-based mage primarily as a support with mid-lane potential if played correctly (similar to Sona in that regard). Out of offensive necessity, Sonic Wave would have a fairly short cooldown as that and Sound Quake are her only two offensive abilities.
So what do you guys think? I have one or two more ideas for champions, but I want to see how this one goes over, first.
If anyone would be inclined to draw a potential champion design, that'd be awesome!
Here's a couple images that are similar to what I had in mind: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/api/embedly/1/image/resize?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffc09.deviantart.net%2Ffs71%2Ff%2F2011%2F250%2F4%2F9%2Fdeathshriek_banshee_by_velinov-d494yx4.jpg&key=a45e967db0914c7fb472fd4381e6c85b&width=425
This first one would be my vision if she were a Void champion (purple aura, gaping mouth with jagged teeth etc).
http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/api/embedly/1/image/resize?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.artdl.com%2FPosts%2FBanshee2.jpg&key=a45e967db0914c7fb472fd4381e6c85b&width=425 This one would be more along the lines of a skin than the actual champion. Similar to Scorched Earth Xerath, I think.
~Jascha
