[Champion Concept] RED, the Crimson Blur
#RED, the Crimson Blur
##Splash Art https://pre00.deviantart.net/6b08/th/pre/f/2017/287/5/f/5f1843e0c9a471ff47e325ca73c4e2e9-dbql0h0.png (Art by me.) Deviantart link
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##Basic Information
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Faction: Zaun
Race: Vastaya
Gender: Female
Weapon: Double SMGs
##Lore
RED is a happy-go-lucky humanoid wolf-like Vastaya, and one of the many test subjects of a Vastaya-obsessed chem-baron. The chem-baron, determined to raise a personal army of Vastayan super-soldiers, mercilessly conducted dozens of inhumane experiments on the captured Vastaya every single day, with seemingly no end. Eventually, RED’s mind snapped, leading her to gun down her friends, and become the chem-baron’s personal bodyguard.
##"Insanity? No no no, this is hope!"
The chem-baron named Orion had everything in the grimy streets of zaun, from wealth, to status, and yet he felt empty inside, as if something was lacking from his life, until one dark, starless night, during a fateful encounter during a secret business trip in Ionia. In seemingly an instant, Orion’s entire worldview changed. He began to saw beauty in absolutely everything, from the beautiful flowers of Ionia, to the smog-ridden, trash-filled dumps of Zaun.
However, this obsession of beauty quickly turned to madness, and Orion returned for a second trip to Ionia, but with the intention of capturing the very creatures that helped to install the obsession of beauty into his mind; the Vastaya. Leading an army of chemtech-infused mercenaries and over the span of several months, Orion destroyed all Ionians blocking their way, and raided various Vastayan camps and villages, slaughtering those that fought back, and capturing the children to bring back to Zaun to raise as his personal army, one of the children being a small, humanoid wolf-like girl named Remilia Elisyia Dulcitudo.
As soon as the Vastayan children were brought into Zaun, many immediately became sick, and began dying to diseases native to the atmosphere of Zaun, as they could not adapt to the harshness of Zaun’s climate. In retaliation, Orion hooked many of them with hextech and chemtech augments, which the Vastayan children’s bodies also naturally rejected, leading to more and more experiments done on their minds and bodies, to suit them for the life of a mindless super-soldier.
Much to Orion’s dismay, was Remilia, doing her best to prevent the mindbreak of all of her fellow Vastaya. Always cheerful and energetic, Remilia helped to lift the spirits of her fellow captive Vastaya as they faced the many day-to-day experiments they were forced through, constantly keeping on a smiling face. With her unwavering optimism, the other Vastaya saw Remilia as a source of comfort and hope, hope that one day, everything will change for the better.
A year after their capture, a brutal experiment was conducted on Remilia, leaving her entire body covered in glistening, crimson blood. As all the Vastaya stared at RED, she laughed, and continued laughing for a minute straight. With an eerie smile, she exclaimed her usual spurs of optimism. However, rather than underlying tones of hope, it was insanity. On that day, the Vastayans realized that a part of RED was killed, spurring on her fellow Vastaya to instead give her the name of “RED”, in part due to her bloody visage, in part to her naturally red eyes, and also as an abbreviation of her full name.
From that day on, RED’s banters of cheerful optimism instead became short rants fueled by insanity. Her cheerful disposition instead took a twisted turn, as she instead hoped for all the Vastaya to stay together, forever, as what her now-twisted mind would describe as being “friends”. The other prisoners began staying away from RED, realizing that her mind had finally broken.
As time passed, the experiments only grew more horrifying and violent. On another dark, starless night, all of the other captive Vastayans finally plotted an escape. They shared their secrets among eachother, being extra careful not to be caught by Orion and his lackeys. It was also on this night that Orion’s first “experiment” was finally complete, as he had finally brainwasshed RED into his own frame of mind. As the prisoners attempted to flee, they defeated the many guards that blocked their path, and nearly reached the exit of the long corridors of the complex, until they encountered RED, standing by the entrance, with two large submachine guns pointed at the crowd.
A click was heard, and the hallway became painted in red.
Now as the chem-baron Orion’s personal bodyguard, RED guns down everyone that dares stand towards Orion’s goals. On every starless night, RED can only wish that she had spent more time with her “friends”.
##Gameplay Information
##Primary Role: Marksman
- Damage Type: Physical
- Primary Resource: Mana
- Attack Range: Ranged (550 Units)
- Intended Role: ADC
Style:
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#Abilities
##Passive - Bullet Hell
RED’s double SMGs carry three second’s worth of ammo combined, and replace her basic attacks to fire an extremely fast, constant stream of many weaker bullets at targets.
After she uses up all her ammo, or after not firing for a few seconds, RED reloads for a few seconds.
RED’s reload speed and total ammo count are both increased with attack speed, rather than her firing speed.
- RED’s SMGs fire at around 10.0 attack speed.
- Basic attacks apply on-hit effects at regular attack speed.
- Damage deflection from Thornmail items is only around 7% as effective against RED.
##Q - The Elusive Little RED
RED gains a small amount of bonus movement speed and becomes ghosted for 4 - 9 seconds.
During this time, she automatically continues auto attacking the last enemy she damaged with her basic attacks, or the most recent first enemy damaged with [W] Flick. RED will continue firing at the target while she is moving.
If RED or her target moves out of range of her basic attacks during this time, or if RED's target is killed, she will not automatically find a new target to attack, but can begin attack the first, most recently damaged enemy using [W] Flick.
The ability can be re-activated to end the effect early.
##W - Flick
Range: 600
RED infuses her scarf with Vastayan magic and flicks it in a target direction, dealing physical damage to the first 3 enemies struck and knocking them back a tiny distance.
Enemies hit near the tip of the ability won’t be displaced, but will instead be slowed by a small amount.
##E - Catch me if you can
RED tosses a magazine to a target location, and gains bonus movement speed while moving towards the location.
If she is at the magazine’s landing location when it lands, she catches it, instantly reloading [P] Bullet Hell, and empowering her basic attacks to deal bonus damage for the next second.
##R - Howling Bullets
Range: 725
RED fires one shot at each nearby enemy unit over the span of 2 - 1.5 seconds based on rank, dealing physical damage based off their missing health.
RED will begin firing at the closest enemies to her at the start of the ability’s cast, continuing outwards.
Moving during the ability cast will cancel the ability early.
#Playing As RED
Unlike other Marksmen, RED isn't as good as kiting backwards, as enemies can easily get out of range of her [Q] The Elusive Little RED, and her [E] Catch me if you can is very predictable. Additionally, her passive, bullet hell, causes her to fire at attack speeds faster than what anyone can kite with, requiring her to stay in one place to continuously attack enemies, unless [Q] is up. However, RED excels against locked-down enemies, as she can easily fire off a full clip of [P] Bullet Hell without the use of [Q]. As such, she synnergizes well with supports that can provide a lot of crowd control and lockdown on enemies.
##Core Items:
- Because so many shots are fired, Critical Strike acts more as a damage amplifier.
- Helps make up for RED's lack of waveclear.
- Doesn't really give RED a whole lot of useful stats compared to other items, but she can pretty much instantly proc Black Cleaver's shred effect.
#Changelist:
- Probably won't be anything, honestly.
