steppe warrior - champion idea

[quote=Sporner]I came up with a champion idea off a mounted warrior, striking hard with a charge and shooting arrows at his enemies while drawing back. as my first concepts for champions tend to suck, ill keep this version a bit raw in the beginning. Abilities: [spoiler] Q: weapon switch (starts with one point in Q) Bow: increased movement speed + attack speed Lance/halberd/naginata/...: increased dmg/ percentage true dmg based on the distance travelled since the last AA/ ability Both weapons should scale with additional points in this ability Bow abilities: - barbed Arrows: stick to the enemy (visually) slight slow + grievous wounds (improved AA/ target ability) - burning Arrows: next three AA deal bonus magic dmg (based on AP) and have a chance to set the enemy on fire (DoT, chance skaling with skilllevel) - whistling Arrow: travels in an high altitude towards the center of a shrinking target area, fearing enemies inside the area, damaging on arrival those still inside the area Lance abilities: - heavy swing: single target knockback depending on enemy size, dealing more damage the lesser the enemy was knocked back (should come down to knocking the carry far and damaging the tank hard) - nomads shield: Passive: recieves less damage; Active: recieves highly reduced dmg from ranged AA/ Abilities, till the shield breaks (really high dmg capacity) or deactivated. iff the shield actually breaks the cooldown goes up - increases move speed and tenacity boni by a scaling percentage for a mediocre period/ till the next outcarried AA/ ability [/spoiler] I want to force the player to play both sides of this champ, so im thinking of giving him high cooldowns independent of the other side of the ability, to force him to switch depending on which side is on cooldown, or making it so that the abilities do not replenish without switching weapons/ using the counterpart.[/quote]

[quote=Sporner]Details for bow abilities: [spoiler] barbed Arrow: W, target ability shoots an barbed Arrow at the target, that is difficult to remove. The Arrow will stick visually to the hit unit, slowing it for 15/20/25/30/40 percent for 0.75/1/1.25/1.5/2 seconds. the Arrow dissapears with the slow. The ability deals damage like a normal AA. the damage can't be healed as long as the Arrow remains in place. iff the Arrow is removed before the slow wears off (e.g. by ending the slow) the enemy suffers 3/4/5/6/7 percent off his maximum health as physikal damage. This Abilitie only recharges 5 seconds after casting W in Lance-mode. burning Arrows: E, enhanced AA the next three ranged auto attacks (maybe meele AA too? E-Q-W = burning heavy swing?) deal 40 (+50% of AP) bonus magical damage and have a 20/30/45/55/70 percent chance to set the enemy on fire for 4 seconds. burning enemies can not stealth or hide in brushes. while burning, they suffer 4 times their champion level magic damage per second (+10 x the number of arrows needed to set them on fire). This ability only replenishes after you spent 6 seconds in lance mode. whistling Arrow: R, ground based shoots an whistling Arrow at a high altitude, which travells for a short time towards the center of a predestined area. the arrow can be shot over 850/1000/1200 paces. while travelling, the arrow fears enemies around the target location. as it becomes clearer where the arrow will land the further it has travelled the area of fear decreases rapidly. enemies who leave the area of fear are not feared anymore. enemy champions can not willingly walk into the target area. the area starts at a 400/500/600 radius and decreases to 250/300/400 paces while the arrow is travelling for 1.25/1.5/1.75 seconds (+0.5 percent off bonus AP). any enemy who is inside the area at the end of the ability is stunned for 0,75 seconds and damaged for his armor and magic resist. when casting this ability, the cooldowns for your lance mode W & E are reset. [/spoiler][/quote]

[quote=Isolanporzellator]Finally a concept I like at first sight^^. Still got a few queries, though: Usually champs with multiple ability kits use the switch ability as their ultimate, as it would be sort of OP to have 2 ultimates ready. Not sure about the ults tho as his melee ultimate does kind of suck for engagements and would be broken for escaping (Thought he was supposed to enter the fight melee, and leave it ranged, correct me if I'm wrong). You should probably just switch the ultimates around, having the retreat ult for bow form and jumping into the fray with his melee ultimate (which would be the fly+fear thingy, sort of like [[Onslaught of Shadows]]). And switch your Q to R to turn the six abilities into normal ones (long cooldown around 30 seconds is totally ok for the ult-like abilities.) Heavy Swing: Knockback needs to be dependant on hp, not size. Or it is too random with small tanks like [[Rammus]] or big carries like... hm, well, rammus is enough to break the size concept. Whistling Arrow: Shorten flight time. Not only will this make the feartime less broken (you could shorten the cooldown for that to make it a normal ability), it will also stop champions from walking faster than your arrow flies (which they can do if you only travel with a speed of 666 (evil, btw.)) which would just look odd :/. Probably not that odd if you make it to a melee engagement tool, though. Movespeed thingy: If you want to flee with this in ranged form, you should be able to kite and attack enemies. That won't work if the bonus is gone when you attack. Better give some flat MS and tenacity bonus and add bonus MS if you hit enemies with AA, which encourages kiting instead of just running and doing nothing. Just some rough thoughts, correct me if I understood some part of the champ wrong. Greetings, Isolanporzellator[/quote]

[quote=Sporner]you should have noticed by now, that i don't like to follow the normal ways, so i take my ideas here and wait for people like you to knock some sense of reallity into my head^^ @heavy swing: i didn't know there was a special measurement for size/weight of champions in this game, so i eventually would have made it dependant of the max HP anyways... @order of abilities (Q/R): [spoiler] i made it that way, because the whistling Arrow ability the way i wanted it to be seemed too powerful to me to be on any other Position than R, but i don't really care about the Letters. i just like to be sort of creative. if the product is good, its all the more fun. [/spoiler] @whistling Arrow: [spoiler] as people are feared for the duration of the arrow travelling, the higher the travel times the better the ability. i planed the numbers to be ult, so i think that would make sense (could be i misunderstand the word "broken" in this context a bit). i made this ability for the fear, as an arrow that makes a sound while travelling wouldn't make sense to be focused on the impact. because champs can not willingly walk into the area, you could also use it to block escaping enemies path. [/spoiler] @MS thingy: [spoiler] its still the raw version. i agree with you. either i have to improve it or i have to make the other meele abilities so that landing one heavy swing is enough. maybe with heavy swing scaling with AP and the move thingy giving out a high AP buff. idk, ill write again when im not as tired.[/spoiler][/quote]