User blog:Emptylord/Custom Champion - Nighthawk the Winged Fury


 * The following is a complete relaunch. For the original version, see Nighthawk (2013).

' ' is the best champion ever.

Abilities
Innate Wallcrawling=
 * The current issue with this version is that Nighthawk is required to jungle by virtue of Summoner's Rift's map, which isn't good design. Exploring options for having Nighthawk capable of jumping on the ground, but it's hard to cover all the nuances.

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 * In this version, Nighthawk has a base movement speed of 110 and must rank his W ability first.

Catch The Wind=

Lie In Wait=

Development
is believed to suffer from a mild form of vampirism. Regardless of whether or not this is true, it implies that vampirism does exist in Valoran. I thought a night hunter/stalker would be a really nice theme for a champion.

I'm thinking more along the lines of Man-Bat in appearance, because it's a much richer silhouette than a man or woman with pointy wings and a cloak (and we don't want this champion to get confused with the.

I want him to feel stronger the lower health he is - to have things that scale with his missing health, rather than his opponents.

The original design was almost a Warwick relaunch, with strategically identical abilities on every button (although this wasn't intentional and not even something I noticed until I set about relaunching the champion).

His general theme is an assassin/ambush champion, but I want it to be distinct from or, and I was allured to how bats/wyverns crawl along buildings - and so a theme of a wallcrawler emerged.

First Pass

 * The following is my first attempt at relaunching Nighthawk, and stays close to the original design.

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Gallery
Some inspiring artwork of DC's Man-Bat:
 * http://jazylh.deviantart.com/art/Man-Bat-61937177
 * http://francesco-biagini.deviantart.com/art/Man-Bat-shriek-204669629
 * http://1314.deviantart.com/art/MAN-BAT-73684614
 * http://pifalo.deviantart.com/art/Man-Bat-sketch-173367571