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Hero concept : Karax the phase-smith.

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bestiszest
Profile Joined March 2015
France103 Posts
September 15 2015 16:35 GMT
#1
Global idea : Specialist, he's able to push quite quickly and to do a lot of damage in team fights.

Lore : Protoss super engineer designing their technology, he's following Artanis and wil help him taking back Aïur.

Basic stats : No numbers but should be the same as Zagara : squichy and decent mana pool.

Trait : Engineer.

Minions and mercs within Karax xp range have a chance to drop a protoss engineering tool. Once you get x of them you can upragade one of your basic ability (if the game is
very long you can upgrade the 3).

Basic abilities :

Q spell : Colossus shot.

Skill shot, perpendicular to the directiion you're looking at.
Decent damage against heroes, increased against non heroic targets.
Upgraded version : Extended thermal lance : the laser hits twice : it sweeps from left to right and then right to left following the same path.
10 secondes cd.

W spell : Tempest shot.

Targeted ability.
Decent damage againt heroes, increased against structures.
Very long range (you need the vision though).
Upraded version : Desintegration : Applies a debuff to the target dealing a few damage and reducing heal/repare.

E spell : Oracle's revelation.

Skill shot (aoe).
Give vision of every targets in the aera.
Upragaded version : Extrapolating strings : Reveals clock units in the aera of effect and tag them as well.
Lasts 8 seconds, 30 seconds cc.

Heroic abilities :

Disruptor energy orb.

Shoots an energy orb, you control it by pressing r again (like Jaina water elemental for instance).
You can move while controling the orb, if you die it will not explode (no damage).
It will explode 8 seconds after activating the ability or you can make it detonates manually by pressing r with cursor on the orb.
High aoe damage.
100 secondes cd.

Build a pylod.

Warp in a pylon, it takes 5 seconds to build you can cancel the warp reseting the cooldwon to 30 seconds.
Once it's built, it will summon 3 waves of protoss units in 20 seconds; first wave is warped as soon as the pylon is built, then every 10 seconds.
Ennemy can prevent that by destroying the pylon.
You can chose beetwen 3 modes :
-Zealots : a round of 8 zealots with charge targetting heroes whenever its possible.
-Adepts : a round of 5 adepts clearing waves quickly.
-Stalkers : 3 stalkers going for the structures; they outrange turrets (they don't outrange keeps or core).
120 seconds cd.

Level 20 upgrade :

Psionic orb : the energy orb is slighlty faster and doesn't collide.

Overcharged pylon : warps units every five seconds, the pylon shoots nearby ennmy units.
Can spawn high templars and dark templars aswell.
Two high templars each one has a storm which one shot a wave, then they make an archon with splash damage.
One dark templar, he's cloacked until he takes damage, 3 shots melee minions 2 shots bowmen and one shot mage.

It might be too strong because it basically forces back one person to the lane so the level 20 could just be more warp ins and making the pylon able to attack nearby units.

Sorry for grammar and typos
If you have any advice or criticism please give me feedback
Hope you like it!
Kt Rolster Zest and TY myboys freaking teamkills :'(
EsportsJohn
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States4883 Posts
September 17 2015 05:06 GMT
#2
This is interesting. I like that you kind of took the idea from Viktor (from LoL) to upgrade your basic abilities so that they do more stuff and molded it to the interface of Heroes (AKA no money). Also, the concept of having a Protoss engineer to match Abathur for Zerg ^^.

As far as the actual design goes, you need to remember to come up with abilities that are:
  • Simple and easy to pick up and understand
  • Has a lot of room for individual skill or control
  • Don't overlap with a lot of other skills/abilities in Heroes
  • Have a unique characteristic that sets them apart from other abilities in Heroes and other MOBAs


So starting off with Q. It's a good basic ability very similar to Viktor's Q: press button, do damage in a line. The shape of the skillshot is unique, but it's questionable if it's really a new ability. The upgrade doesn't do a whole lot, but whatever, it's just a basic wave clear ability.

W is interesting, but I'm not a huge fan of targeted abilities. I would rather see something like a line skillshot that moves fairly slowly and damages things along the way, passing through everything. Or something like that. The upgrade idea is pretty interesting though.

E is too redundant. It is Tassadar's trait, no reason to build it into another hero.

The heroics both seem interesting and fun, though I'm not sure I agree with those unit ratios. When you can have potentially 24 zealots running around on the map, that's wayyyyy too much clutter for just one ult.


Overall, interesting ideas, but far from something complete ^^.
StrategyAllyssa Grey <3<3
Markwerf
Profile Joined March 2010
Netherlands3728 Posts
September 17 2015 13:13 GMT
#3
Hmm meh.

The basic abilities and trait determine how the unit feels, it doesn't feel engineer wise at all now. It's a hero with a line aoe, long range single target spell and a reveal ability, with a trait that improves abilities potentially. The trait feels like now that you would always just upgrade the damage abilities first, the copy of tassadar's trait just feels out of place. Especially since you can get that for example at just a talent for rexxar.

The disruptor and pylon ult both seem pretty cool though. And they bring forth the feeling of an engineer more. The selection of modes for the pylon seems useless though, why these options and how would you even select. Just make 1 mix of units if you want them all or different waves.

To thematically work I'd say he'd need some sort of engineering/upgrade thing among his basic abilities. Perhaps an ability that buffs an ally letting them do +x% abilitiy damage for 8 seconds.
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