Developing a Yordle Jungler to pitch Riot Games and boy oh do I sympathize with the teams who work on kits and art! Hoping for some feedback and opinions.
Underlined content is iffy in my opinion and could be removed or edited.
Here is the quick version. He is a yordle on a fluffy beast.
Primary Role: Jungler
Secondary Role: Mage
Primary Damage Type: Ability Power
Pros: clears jungle camps fast, has high DoT in fights, excellent in skirmishes, is a Yordle
Cons: lacks hard engage, early game Kichi is heavily reliant on Blue Buff
THE KIT
Passive:Mystic Fire
All targets hit with Emboldened abilities are marked with a stack of
Mystic Fire and take bonus damage from Kichi and deal less damage to him.
Q: Fireball
60 Mana
12 Seconds
Kichi hurls a fireball from his torch in a target direction stopping at the first enemy hit and dealing
magic damage.
Emboldened: Fireball is now enhanced, dealing extra damage and explodes dealing a small AoE of magic damage.
W: Emboldening Brazier
No Cost
15 Seconds
Passive: Kichi stores charges of
Mystic Fire from his torch in two braziers mounted on each side of Kimi's saddle. If Kichi has one charge remaining his auto attacks apply
magic damage to the target over the next few seconds. Immolated targets take more damage from Kichi's basic attacks and deal less to him.
Active: Consume a
Mystic Fire charge to Embolden your next ability. Not using the charge will replace the flame. (trick would be to get three charges ready by timing the charges and consuming one)
E: 'Kimi Kick!'/ 'Kimi Bite!'
55 Mana
24 Seconds
Kimi whips around and kicks the target back a short distance. Enemies are stunned if they hit terrain and gives Kimi a move speed increase.
Emboldened: Kimi lunges a short distance biting the target, dealing massive
magic damage. Kills on minions and monsters reduce cooldown by half. Kills grant defensive stats to Kimi and Kichi. Max stacks of 5.
R: Flush 'em Out
120 Mana
105 Seconds
Immediately ignites all brush in a large surrounding area.
All enemy targets caught in ignited brush are marked with Mystic Fire and take magic damage over the next few seconds. Enemies leave a short trail behind them over the next few seconds that only Kichi and Kimi can see.
Emboldened:
(kit could be all moved around and sti
ll work but the intent is to have him hunt you down and bring his team to you for the kill)
Tips and tricks: Take W first to help with your clear time.
Use your ult to check the area when in those late game stalls, it might just save the game to know where they are in a bush.
To counter Kichi deny him his blue buff, most if his kit has high mana costs.
Build: Build with high ganked threat and mid game team fighting in mind. He drops off later filling the role of utility with vision and CC when catching out enemies.
I want to go through my entire thought process on this champion.
The idea started with one thing, a Torch. I overheard a conversation as I walked by one day and the words 'olympic torch bearer' were spoken. For some reason the phrase struck me as interesting, having just finished a League of Legends match against a very fed Master Yi, a champion was born at that moment. Was he a hard Yi counter? Or maybe a new better, faster, stronger Yi. Who knew but I knew I had to make a champion with a Torch....or so I started with.
As many know the first idea isn't always the best so I mulled it over thinking....
Torch, torch bearer, fire, medieval torch, the show "Merlin" (great show), wait....fire okay torches so hunting party?
They use torches to hunt right? What if I made a Gangplank style, mean green jungler with some hounds on leashes! Then it became one hound and a yordle, then a yordle on a mount. I sketched out a big fluffy cute bear cat thing and shortly after I felt it click. This yordle was a hunter he wore you down until finally discovering you huddled and hiding in a corner before he struck you down. Wait I love yordles and although they do go bad apple Veigar sometimes its not their fault. So the evil demeanor lost its appeal atop his fluffy friend. It took the help of my good friend Joe (league handle "Krim") Before settling on fire and immolation and pack leader. Trying to shy away from the whole evil killer feel, but still the torch was there in his hands. Now what? I am even today torn about the cohesiveness of his kit. and his story, would it be better riding a dragon but would i change his kit? is it to similar? Who knows!
