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Shower thought: Do we have a thief character?

Ralanr·1/23/2017, 2:32:57 PM·8 votes·2,314 views

Just a thought I found myself pondering on yesterday. When looking at the league line up, I've noticed that we have a lot of warriors, mages, and all other sorts of legendary heroes. But I don't really notice a "thief" character.

We do have criminals, Gangplank is a pirate after all, but these characters don't feel very subtle like a thief would be. Which makes sense because thieves normally want to avoid combat as much as possible and this is a combat heavy game. The closest champions that could fulfill a thief archetype in their playstyle are assassins with stealth or heavy mobility mechanics, which they use to kill targets rather than steal things.

On the topic of stealing, how could you implement that in game without being woefully unfair? Trundle has an ult that steals stats and it's frustrating to fight. Actually stealing income seems way out of the picture (As is stealing items). So how could you implement a thief character without actually stealing?

Just a thought. If league actually does have a straight up thief character then I'm probably too blind to notice them.

25 Comments

Fasmodey1/23/2017, 2:54:58 PM5 votes

Graves and TF's primary crime is stealing. Hurting and killing are secondary since they do that for stealing lul.

Requiemsfire1/23/2017, 2:45:40 PM5 votes

Yes, her name is Lux and she steals kills.

Sir Poodle1/23/2017, 10:05:53 PM2 votes

No one has mentioned Sivir.

Zen Ineth1/23/2017, 2:40:34 PM2 votes

You know, there's always technically TwistedFate

L Rayquaza1/23/2017, 2:54:14 PM1 votes

There was one in production for a while now but they just never found what they wanted with him http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/0/00/Rob_Blackblade_Render_Old.png/revision/latest?cb=20110323070458

Asayake 5150glow1/23/2017, 8:01:30 PM1 votes

Graves and TwistedFate

They've even got a set of skins for it - Outlaw Graves and Cutpurse TF.

Tattersall1/23/2017, 10:11:49 PM1 votes

I'm imagining a character who has heavy reliance on invisibility or camouflage, like Evelynn. However, Evelynn is far from a thief character, so let's think about this.

  • The champion could maybe be focused on counter jungling? Maybe stealing buffs, like a reverse Ivern? I dunno, but that would get really annoying, really fast.
  • Same with straight up stealing money/items from other champions.
  • I was thinking about bringing back that old GP mechanic that allows you to kill allied minions, but that has the same problems as the last two ideas.
  • Oh, here's a thought: A champion with a lot of gold generation passives, but a lot of that gold goes to allies. You're not straight up taking the enemy's gold, and allowing the rest of your team to share in your increased spoils seems interesting.
  • Obviously this champion would have to have low damage, otherwise it'd just be an assassin.
  • I'm not really sure where this train of thought came from, but maybe this guy would have the ability to, like, throw a sack over an enemy's head, disabling their vision.
  • We could take that a step further and have our thief straight up kidnap an enemy, maybe making them invulnerable but removing them from the game temporarily? Now that I write that down it sounds really weird to me.
  • Anyway, going down a related but different path, a champion who's focus is the disabling of the enemy's vision? Like, they have true sight at times to disable wards, they can set up null-vision areas, I dunno.

Hmm… I think those are all of my thoughts. Bye. Tl;dr: 1 - Steal buffs 2 - Steal money/items from enemies 3 - Execute allied minions 4 - Gain bonus gold for allies 5 - Just a note: Needs really low damage, otherwise just an assassin 6 - Disable enemy vision 7 - Straight up kidnapping enemy champions 8 - Champ with a focus on disabling enemy vision across the map

Solidair31/23/2017, 11:24:58 PM1 votes

I mean, Twisted Fate literally uses his teleporting magic to steal things. And he like, steals things.

He's a thief. Though his theme fits perhaps a bit more solidly with a con man.

SrbLud1/23/2017, 2:37:01 PM1 votes

Oh this one brings me back to s3... The forum was full of thief champ requests...

grug1/23/2017, 11:28:31 PM1 votes

Ekko is a thief, pretty sure he stole that chronotechnology rather than build it himself

lucian too, theres no way this dude could build those OP relic guns.

be pure1/23/2017, 2:44:59 PM1 votes

gangplank is a pirate so one could assume he is a thief

AthenasVendetta1/23/2017, 2:49:31 PM1 votes

It would be interesting to have a champion that their ability can take/mimic someone else's ability

concon601/23/2017, 2:51:12 PM1 votes

Twitch and Evelynn? Only because they have the pickpocket skins.