Zero, The Soul-Born

Soularous·8/30/2015, 10:44:13 PM·1 votes·1,134 views

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Zero, The Soul-Born

Roles- Primary: Fighter Secondary: Assassin

Base Stats- Health: 450(+85 per lvl) Health Regen: 7.45(+0.75 per lvl) Attack Speed: .670(+3% per lvl) Attack Damage: 55(+3.5 per lvl) Movement Speed: 345 Armor: 20(+3.5 per lvl) Magic Resist: 30(+1.25 per lvl) Mana: 250 (+45 per lvl) Mana Regen: 7(+.5 per lvl) Range: 125

Lore: Zero's life was a simple one, before the experiments. He was an ordinary rabbit, prior to a yordle scientist and mage catching him. The yordle put him through all sorts of tests, and injected him with all sorts of substances. Zero was exposed to all this within weeks. He had no idea what was happening to him, yet the yordle still fed him and treated him like a pet-beside the near daily experiments. One day, however, the yordle placed the rabbit in a small tub, fit for the size of a yordle, and hooked up tubes that were linked to large canisters filled with a glowing blue substance to Zero. The scientist put a lid on the tub and pulled a lever. The machine that the canisters were connected to, began to whir and chirp, and began pumping the liquid into the tub. A few minutes later the canisters emptied and the machines slowly died down. The scientist turned off the machine and opened the tub. The previously small rabbit was now the size of a yordle and his eyes were a piercing blue. Zero pushed himself out of the tub and looked around his surroundings with new light. He could understand more about what was around him. "How do you feel?" The yordle asked cautiously. Zero looked at the yordle and realized something different that he could do. "Fine, I think." He could speak! The yordle stepped back, then fainted. Over the moths that followed, the yordle taught Zero how to adapt to his new abilities and taught him about the world that he now understood. He had been infused with the genes of a yordle, granting him speech and intelligence and his size was also increased as a result. He had also received a special set abilities, christened by the yordle as 'Soul-blood'. He could do unbelievable things as a result and quickly requested to fight for Bandle City in the League of Legends. His mentor sadly bid him farewell as Zero explored the world for himself.

Passive: Soul strike: Zero's basic attacks deal 5/5/5/5/5/10/10/10/10/10/10/15/15/15/15/20/20/20 bonus magic damage every second for 3 seconds. This effect stacks up to 3 times. Upon reaching 3 stacks, an ability used on the target deals bonus magic damage and resets the stacks. Stacks decay one by one over time.

Q: Soul Shred: Zero slashes out at his enemy's soul with both his paws, dealing physical damage 40/60/80/100/120 (+50% AD) (+20% AP) to enemy units in front of him. This ability applies on hit effects. This ability heals Zero for 5%/10%/15%/20%/25% of the damage dealt. With 3rd Stack of Soul Strike: Slows the target by 30/35/40/45/50%, and deals bonus Physical damage based on the targets max HP. Mana Cost: 25 MP Cooldown: 4/3.5/3/2.5/2

W: Spirit Leap: Zero Jumps to target location dealing 15/20/25/30/35 (+20% AD)(10% AP) damage to enemies in an AOE around where he lands. (Think Aatrox, but much more mobile and without a knockup). Enemies towards the center are slowed by 30% for 3 seconds. With 3rd stack of Soul Strike: All enemies are slowed and the damage is increased by 20%.

E: Soul Dash: Zero dashes towards your cursor dealing 20/40/60/80/100 magic damage (+ 5% of Zero's AP) to enemies in his path. Enemies caught in the path take 5/10/15/20/25 magic damage over time for 3 seconds. With 3rd stack of Soul Strike: Doubles the damage dealt, and stuns the target for 2 seconds. Mana Cost: 70 MP Cooldown: 5/5/4/3/3

R: Grapple Kick: Zero Jumps to and enemy champion and kicks out with hind legs three times dealing 60/80/100 (+50% AD) total damage. After the grapple Zero jumps back, kicking the enemy while jumping, dealing 20/30/40 (+10% AD) and slowing them by 50% for 5 seconds. With 3rd stack of Soul Strike: Damage is increased by 30% and the instead of slowing the enemy he stuns them. (This ability is mostly a placeholder-please give me ideas!)

Note ~ Zero is a rabbit and as such, he is on all fours and moves like an ordinary rabbit(hopping). His passive applies an animation on his target similar to Braum's, Twitch's, and Darius' passives. His voice would be similar to Rumble's and maybe Twitch's (kind of a medium in between the two) He has gray fur and blue eyes. ~

Quotes: Upon selection: Let's get this over with

Movement: Moving Alright, alright On my way Got it Going Excellent

Attacking: Growl Grunting (one of his most common attacking sounds) Fall! I will not retreat Give up now! Ha! Don't even try!

Taunt: You won't survive this encounter!

Joke: Don't call me cute! That's the term used for my thirty children!

Skin Ideas for Zero:

520- Sandstorm Zero: Fur is more sand colored, eyes are light brown, possibly white patches in his fur. Sand-like Particles.

Galactic Zero: More Space looking, minor particle updates to look like otherworldly energy

Assassin Zero: Darker themed skin, more assassin style similar to Assassin Master Yi.

750- Arctic/Tundra/Freljord Zero: Lightly frozen blue fur, frozen blue eyes,Ice-like particles.

975- Lightning Claw Zero: Looks more electric, similar to Shockblade Zed

High Noon Zero: He looks more western, Cowboy hat and such

Full Metal Zero: Wearing heavy metal armor

Dreadknight Zero: Has armor similar to Dreadknight Nasus and Garen.

Dragon Claw Zero: Wearing armor made from Dragon scales,dragon skull helmet has more dragon like/flaming ability particles.

Flame Claw Zero: Firelike particles, similar to Firefang Warwick.

Deep Sea Zero: Water like particles, his model looks more water-like

Blight Crystal Zero: Corrupted similar to Varus.

Bioforge Zero: Has a tank on his back (like the skin for Darius) and looks more sciency.

Arcade Zero: Similar to the Arcade skins.

1350- Nightmare Zero: Dark energy flowing around him, Shadow/black coloring on his particles

Battlecast/Mecha Zero: Cyborg styled rabbit. Possibly have part normal and part mechanical, or just pure mechanical. VO similar to how Mecha Kha'Zix's voice. Mechanical particles and animations(again, similar to Mecha Kha'Zix or really any robotic skin).

Soul Reaver Zero: Pretty much like Soul Reaver Draven, VO kinda like Soul Reaver Draven, Energy has purple and blue particle coloring.

1820- Void Zero: Zero's legendary skin showing him corrupted by the Void. Definitely alot of purple animations and particles. One his forelegs could show signs of corruption(More muscualr, long Jagged claws). Maybe add some extra eyes to him to appear more Voidlike.

3250-

Energy Core Zero: He has a blue core on his chest/back area, in the center. He is wearing body armor. Upon upgrading an ability the first time and maxing it, the model changes, Q:Claws and forelegs upgrade, maxed- Two blue energy circles are on his shoulders W:Gets a sort of helmet, maxed- Helmet upgrades to have two eyepieces similar to the Bumblebees helmet visor on transformers. E:Back legs get a small upgrade, maxed- Two energy circles on the sides of the legs where they connect to the body His ult has the model changing for every upgrade in it R: 1-Body armor shifts and adds two razors going along his back and the core glows brighter 2-Body armor upgrades more giving him a more buff look 3-The Core Shines extra bright with energy surging around it. This is of course his Ultimate Skin, I mean why not give more skin ideas.

Well that's it for now, I hope you guys can give me some pointers(and please don't just say its stupid because it's a rabbit) Give this constructive criticism.

NOTE ~ Zero is a rabbit, NOT a hare ( there is a difference). I'm a bit OCD about things like this, but it irritates me when people call rabbits hares and hares rabbits. That aside, his anatomy will be that of a rabbit and not a hare ( he won't look like a jackrabbit or other hares with freakishly long legs...yes, a jackrabbit is a hare). When I say rabbit, think European rabbit~ Excuse the OCD :)

Special thanks to The Djinn for helping me out before

Changelog

W: Spirit Jaws: Zero charges his jaws with Soul energy and his next basic attack will be a bite dealing 30/40/50/60/70 physical damage (+ 20% of Zero's AD) and slowing the enemy by 30/40/45/50/55%. With 4th Stack of Soul Strike: Increases the slow to 50/55/60/65/70% and deals 10 damage(+ 30% of Zero's AD) over 3 seconds. During the 3 seconds any attacks will deal 50% more damage and ignore 20% of the targets armor and magic resist. Mana Cost: 45 MP Cooldown: 6/6/5/5/4 This ability has been changed.

R: Soul Tear: Zero channels all the magical energy he can and sends a soul powered blast towards his target dealing 200/250/300 AOE Magic Damage and slowing the target by 40/50/60% for 5 seconds(Scales with AP). The ability deals 10/15/20 magic damage over time over 5 seconds and at the end of the duration, it detonates dealing 50% of the initial damage plus a 30% of your attack damage. With 4th stack of Soul Strike: Deals 20% more damage and deals 30% of the targets missing health as magic damage Mana Cost: 120 MP Cool down: 110/90/75 This ability has been changed.

Selection quote has been removed until further notice.

Passive now has a max of 3 stacks instead of 4.

Infiltrator and Headhunter Zero have been removed from possible skins list.

Ionian Mantra Zero has been renamed to Inonian Zero.

All quotes pertaining to Ionia have been removed.

10 Comments

Soularous9/1/2015, 12:47:21 AM1 votes

Bump!

Soularous10/17/2015, 2:58:09 PM1 votes

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Soularous10/24/2015, 4:22:33 AM1 votes

Bump!

Soularous10/28/2015, 12:44:07 AM1 votes

So, uh...No comments?

Soularous9/29/2016, 2:44:33 AM1 votes

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CobaltTheMadMage9/29/2016, 4:44:41 AM1 votes

A Yordle scientist dubbing his mutagen/cognitogen "Soul Blood" just seems a tad bizarre for even a mad scientist.

Aside from that- the concept of a mutant lab rabbit as a champ is actually kinda neat, but now that the League of Legends as an organization is no longer canon the bar has been raised somewhat on champion lore quality expectations; a lab experiment given sentience trying to find its way in the world is a decent story, but it might need a bit more to distinguish it from Blitzcrank beyond hometown and species.

Now for the kit:

Passive: Ok first I can just say I think most passives in this game scale at the same three level thresholds, so repeating numbers is a bit unnecessary. As for the ability itself... I'm not sure I understood it right, but I did see free True Damage on your AA's, which is a bit OP. The stacks buffing your next ability seemed like an interesting concept, though.

Q: So... a bit like Warwick's Q, but more physical-damage oriented? Granted it doesn't have nearly as much damage as Warwick's Q, but that cooldown makes it much more spammable. Part of me worries it might be too much so.

W: Usual AOE jump/slow. Seems fairly decent, slow effect would make this a great engage.

E: Huh. Dash line attack with DOT effect. Not something you see very often.

R: So a point-and-click single-target ult like Warwick's or Yasuo's, except this one lets you end it somewhere other than adjacent to your target. Huh. Seems like something that could be useful for hit-and-run ganks or selectively eliminating a single target in a teamfight without risking harm to yourself.

I'm not in the mood for crunching numbers, so overall this seems like he'd be an ok Jungler or possibly toplaner, though I still question some things like the true damage on AA's and all the weird "soul" mechanics on a product of mad science. It's not particularly great, but it's not too terribly bad either. Lore and personality could definitely use some work, though, but I applaud the originality of a mutant lab rabbit.