User blog:Rowtuh/Depth, the Mirror of Potential

Sometimes quantum mechanics isn't enough

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Samuel Depth believes that he was born with a twin brother, Mattheas. They grew up being very close. They built strong memories, and both showed fair magical talent. Mattheas and Samuel Depth were both accepted to the same summoner's academy at the age of 16 - not a particularly well-known one, but nor were either of them were particularly well-known. Samuel became better known for his emotion-affecting magic than his summoning talent, and Mattheas similarly drifted from the practice of summoning - he dropped out within a year to instead study hextech.

Around his 19th birthday, he woke up, and Mattheas was gone. There was no sign of him anywhere. His family had no idea that Mattheas ever existed. His friends at the academy told him they'd never heard the name. As he continued to search over the next year, nobody in his hometown recognised what he was talking about, nor was there any physical documentation that he ever had a sibling.

After many years spent uncovering many of the other mysteries surrounding the two, Samuel has become convinced that his brother being hidden is a massive conspiracy, possibly by the League, possibly by Noxus. He fully believes, though nobody else does, that Mattheas existed and is somehow now hidden. He believes that magic obscures the minds of everyone on the continent, and he alone is of clear mind.

Depth is the only way to see the truth.

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His design focuses on the idea that it's more difficult to control secrets as the game goes along. In order to keep up, he's encouraged to build CDR items with his AP. As for sustain, he might build a large mana pool and later in the game burst-and-B often, or be limited by needing blue buff like Zilean is.

His passive becomes more powerful, and he can recognise more truths simultaneously. At the same time, it's harder to keep track of things that have become so developed, so the duration becomes much lower. As a battle progresses, he usually becomes stronger offensively.

His Q is like a weaker Karthus Q, unless he's ulting, in which case it's still a bit weaker. It's a bit harder to hit, since it's a skillshot, but it's supposed to be extremely fast. It's partially meant to be a source of Truth stacks.

His W provides some CC and allows him to momentarily trap an area of clustered enemies. Only the initial cast slows attack speed - the ongoing slow is movement-only. I've buffed and changed the damage and duration a number of times. It's still a little weird.

His E gives him single-target CC and area damage. It affects each unit in an area, not the area itself, so leaving the area will still leave you taking damage. Combined with his W, he might have wave-clear too powerful.

His ult almost changes the way he functions in a fight. A Karthus player might say that they've broken their Q key before, and a Depth player would be able to report the same. However, with 40% CDR, the cooldowns on W and E are reduced to 3.9s and 3.3s, respectively, allowing them each to be used two or three times in a short moment.