User blog comment:Numinous J/Custom Champion, Ruaidhrí/@comment-26815373-20151122185607/@comment-26378838-20151123112514

"(You mention 'practical AD' but I'm not sure what you mean.)" Yeah, sorry about that, Iat the time was concerned about the mistitling of the blog post that I probably ate some words for comfort; I meant "practical AD at his suggested roles", which are Fighter and Support. I wanted to design a champion that not only is flexible in which roles he can pick, it also has a niche of its own: a purely AD support that doesn't require to be an off-tank in order to work (e.g. Jarvan, Lee Sin) or have incredibly cheesy builds/tactics (e.g Ashe, Kalista). As a support, he'd fit well in compositions that either your ADC is the only other AD champion or need to amplify your AD champions' damage, while still being a decent pick in others with his sustain, damage and CC.

His role late-game is to control teamfights: a good Raidhrí can pull 2 enemy champions at the same time, he can root multiple enemies for either engage or disengage, he can make AS-based champions even more threatening late-game and he can frustrate duelists by out-sustaining them, which should prompt the enemy team to work against him first rather than other high-priority targets. His power fantasy, as well as his theme, is being a puppeteer, making his enemies and allies move as he pleases (in an early concept he even had a mind-control ult, but I quickly realized that such an ult would be the paragon of feast-or-famine). The lifesteal component of his kit also reflects this, as if he were manipulating the blood of his victims.

That said, both his kit and his theme make him akin to Aatrox, so it makes sense that lore-wise he'd be one of the five remaining Darkin. I'll probably include art for his portrait to reflect this (obviously crediting the creator since I can't draw for sh*t).