[Champion Concept] Scoots the Selfish Shellfish

SSmotzer··29 votes·3,129 views

http://s11.postimg.org/jplml4her/Scoots.png

^^ Pending image ^^

TL;DR - Pet of a pirate, pirate found a magic box, pirate died, crab got in the magic box, crab got magic, crab wants gold.

Scoots was an average pet scuttle crab to a long forgotten pirate. Scoots' master's greed stretched far and wide across Runeterra's oceans. One day, his master, bloodied and broken from battle, held victory in his hands as he collapsed onto his newly acquired treasure chest. Barely able to breath, Scoot's master opened the chest, revealing the legendary golden Midaeum pendant that seemed to glow in the chest. Scoots scuttled over to his master, and with a chuckle, his master said, "Scoots me boy, looks like all my treasure belong to you now..." Scoots was placed into the chest with the pendant, his master then collapsed closing the chest as he died, his body still clutching the, now broken, key.

Scoots then sat, and waited, doing nothing but looking at the pendant. Over the years in the box, Scoots grew in size, but never once looked away from the pendant. Till one day, he reached out and grabbed the pendant, holding it in his claws. Suddenly, for the first time in Scoot's life, he felt, alive. Scoot's legs and claws burst from the sides of the chest, he looked around at what once was his master's horde of treasure, now an empty cave, but lay there besides him was the bones of his once beloved master. With the desire to claim what his master had left him, with the chest still surrounding his shell, Scoot's sets off into the world, wanting to reclaim his master's treasure.

Melee Support/Tank

Passive - Ooo! Shiny! - Increases movement speed for a short time whenever bonus gold is gained.

Q - Gimme! - Scoots clamps and roots a target for a second while he "pickpockets" bonus gold from them. Damage is mixed and scales off ad and ap.

W - Ok, I wait - passive - After a few seconds, Scoots burrows into the underbrush, making him invisible to enemies, even if they are in the bush. Active - Scoots withdraws into his shell/chest, decreasing his movement speed but greatly increasing his defense.

E - I need this! - Scoots roots in place for a few seconds and stores the next ranged attack or ranged ability projectile he crosses paths with, from an enemy champion, in his chest. No wait, you have it. - Activating this again will release the projectile in a target direction, for XX% of it's original damage and/or effect.

R - Gold is mine! - For several seconds Scoot's golden pendant begins to shine and his melee basic attacks are increased to ranged attacks. His basic attacks now apply a stack of "Gold" to his targets, and when the stack fills, the targets are completely suppressed for a few seconds as they turn into golden statues. Damage is mixed and scales off ad and ap.


Skin ideas - Buccaneer Scoots, he holds a pirate cutlass in his claw, he has an eye patch and his chest is replaced by a giant pirate hat or a tiny pirate ship, and his E animation makes it look like the projectile was fired out of the tiny ship's tiny cannons.

Harrowing Scoots - His chest is replaced by a skull, a coffin and a pumpkin, and it switches between them upon death, or when he burrows. And when he burrows, a little grave stone pops up and it looks like he is a fresh grave plot. Also, his ult turns his opponents into decrepit stone statues, as oppose to golden ones.

http://s28.postimg.org/5zbm023od/Skull_Scoots.png

Pool Party - His chest is a cooler. His ult turns his opponents into ice sculptures.

http://s7.postimg.org/6lj37x7aj/Cool_Scoots.png

58 Comments

Ipols3 votes

Better and deeper lore than Rito's, 9/10

s LessThanThree3 votes

+1 Deeper lore than new Riot lore team

Colonel Lapoose3 votes

Was this the same Scoots I saw before? Wow what an update. I do like hermit crabs or perhaps scuttle crabs! Have one right now that has like lived forever, so no doubt this would be an OP champion. Lets fund this soon!

Here is some skin ideas: -Stocking Scoots -(Snowdown skin) -Gentleman Scoots (Top hat shell) -Headhunter Scoots (An head shell) -Undercooked Scoots(He could hold a wooden ladle, and have a cooking pot shell) -Goldminer Scoots (Minecart as a shell, could carry pickaxe) -Scoots n' Boots (A cheap skin, boot used as a shell) -Safecracker Scoots(A bank vault safe with a lock on it, as a shell)

Lol just some suggestions.

SSmotzer1 votes

I don't think he'll be too op. I mean GP has a ranged, aoe bonus gold ability that refunds more mana than was spent..... But yes, this is the same Scoots, and I have been doing some work on him.

Ha!

Yatsufuså2 votes

So.. if Scoots got ancient coin, his passive would proc all day and he'd be speedy gonzalez?

SSmotzer2 votes

There is also a mastery that grants bonus gold whenever an ally kills a minion, also triggering his passive.

Yatsufuså1 votes

Well with that one skill that catches projectiles then launches it back would be like a new and improved version of Braum's shield. Plus the fact he is very mobile in terms of movement speed via procing passive. He's be an interesting champion indeed.

What build path do you recommend for him early game?

SSmotzer1 votes

He can build any gold item and go from there. He could build more utility with Talisman and keep himself and his team going fast, he could build Claim and be a good burst support, with a hit followed by a Q to root followed by another hit to consume the burst of Claim, or he could go for total tank with Mountain.

Koldheartedjsp2 votes

didn't read a thing, agreed and upvoted because of "selfish shellfish"

rito pls make this happen

bxAmkd7pIF2 votes

Lore too long. Reduce it to 15 words and Riot will use it

SSmotzer1 votes

did you not see the TL DR at the top? Basically summarizes his character.

CerberusRampage2 votes

this sounds cool, reminds me of Mr. Krabs

SSmotzer2 votes

"It was his gold Mr.Crab, he was number one!"

Mimaropa3 votes

Better lore than most champs. Love the abilities though. Isn't he op? I mean he will get so much gold that he will out build everyone. Still, i love him already.

TheFirstGokun2 votes

He's so majestic. RIto pls

IsmokeOregano2 votes

hahah i love it! the lore is awesome and he actually sounds legit. Rito pls

SSmotzer1 votes

Thanks, and if you want to help, share this and get other to up vote it. The longer it stays on the first page, the more likely it will get noticed.

Mister Modesty2 votes

WOW- this concept is literally garbage.

SSmotzer1 votes

No, Trundle's concept was literally garbage, Scoots is a crab.

Medic Meister1 votes

Did you just....? Was that a joke referring to Junkyard Trundle?

SSmotzer1 votes

Did you not see Trundle's original concept? His pillar was made of sewage. It was originally called Pillar of Filth.

Medic Meister2 votes

Besides that fact, I still really like the concept. Good job.

SSmotzer1 votes

Thanks

SSmotzer1 votes

Passive: Decompose Q: Rabid Bite W: Contaminate E: Pillar of Filth R: Agony

He was a literal garbage champion.

Colonel Lapoose2 votes

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WOW- this concept is literally garbage.

Careful, you might get pinched.

Candurill2 votes

I love it!! Its lore is very funny and actually pretty good (tbh i didn't expect much from a post called "Selfish shellfish"). His abilities are geniusly named and make an interesting kit!!. Why hasn't this been noticed by Riot yet?!?!?

Mister Modesty1 votes

Because the balance. Figure this. You're playing ADC against an enemy 'scoot' support. The entire enemy bottom lane could completely suck as players- but your cs won't matter, and you won't be able to build. Like I said, this concept isn't any good. He can just stick around and grief your cs. There's no balance- because you can jungle him and simply grief the entire enemy team's cs. Meanwhile, there's no counter measure- what- build item 3093 on every champ?

SSmotzer1 votes

Have you not see Gangplank? He has a ranged, aoe, bonus gold ability, that deals critical damage, ignores armor and refunds more mana than it costs. Scoots only gets one bonus gold whenever he gets gold, he can only get one of his unique items, because Riot has already balanced bonus gold items, meaning you can only have one.

Mister Modesty1 votes

Gangplank is a single champ though. Granted, it wouldn't be so much overkill if he only takes 1 gold. Figure if he was taking somewhere from 100-150 gold on a single ability it would be completely griefing. Still, the idea of a scuttle crab as a champion is kind of insulting to the existing champions. Scuttle crab is (without looking at stats to back this up) most likely the weakest jungle monster in the game. I base this off them not attacking. If you put one of these creatures on par with a creature like Rek'Sai, it kind of insults the entire concept of being a "legend". That's my honest opinion.

SSmotzer1 votes

40 minutes in, a scuttle crab has more armor than the Dragon. If you have a problem with a simple animal becoming a champion, I imagine you must hate Rammus, who is just an armadillo who gained sentience, made himself some spike armor and just walked into the league, only saying "Ok." Rammus

Mister Modesty1 votes

There's no existing lore on Rammus' species. Nothing to compare him to. We see in-game how helpless scuttle crabs are. This champion seems like it would be better suited as an ability. A summon from a real champion. Like I said, scuttle-crab champions are just ridiculous concepts.

SSmotzer2 votes

Funny you mention that, cause there is a weaponized scuttlecrab coming in the Bilgewater Mercenaries event. It's a mindless scuttle crab that walks down lanes with an automatic turret on it's back. So pirates owning pet scuttlecrabs is in the lore. They also have pet turtles, shark rats and hover squids.

We have champions who are wolves, rocks, dragons, spiders, Tahm is a catfish that looks like the frog, why can't we have a crab?

Mister Modesty1 votes

Tahm is a "demon"- and trust me- I didn't like the concept of a 'frog-catfish' concept either. Anyways, your champion has upwards of 15 votes- why does my opinion matter?

SSmotzer2 votes

To be honest, talking with you just helps keep Scoots on the front page.

Jellycake Demon1 votes

this is to cute, If this little crab does get released INSTA-LOCK FOR BUYING! we need more funny & goofy type of Champions to make us laugh & have fun while we play LOL.....which seems we are getting less & less of. but still this is a really concepts hopefully Riot will consider making this little guy.

SSmotzer1 votes

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