User blog:GGooeytoe/Annwn, Master of the Wild Hunt

Annwn, the Master of the Wild Hunt is a champion in League of Legends. Always surrounded by his pack of, Annwn is versatile champion who can function as a mage, physical or hybrid fighter, or as a physical or hybrid DPS champion. He thrives in the jungle, where his give him exceptionally easy clears, permitting him to repeatedly gank lanes with his surprising mobility, or take advantage of his sustain to invade the enemy jungler. However, Annwn is equally at home in any of the three lanes of Summoner's Rift. In top lane, his ability to attack at range and potent sustained damage (physical OR hybrid) allow him to bully the tanks and fighters he will face, while providing his team with crowd control and damage in team fights. In the middle lane, he functions a lot like ; he is strong in drawn out fights, where his ever escalating damage will shred through his foes, but in skilled hands can offer surprising amounts of burst damage. Finally, Annwn can be built as a powerful sustained autoattack champion who deals massive physical damage--in effect, an ADC.

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Final Thoughts: His numbers are probably way too high, at least in the autoattack department. The other MAJOR kit problem I see is the weird W (I think I should replace it with some kind of AP burst tool, maybe one that offers utility to the non-AP builds..ideas?). There is, however, a FUNDAMENTAL design problem...how does his ability to summon endless swarms of pets interact with tower/minion/jungle monster aggro? If his pets pull jg aggro, he won't take ANY damage while farming his jungle, but that's the standard behavior right now, I think--jungle monsters attack the nearest targetable opponent. I guess Annwn's pets would just need to be special cased. But towers specifically prioritize pets; with enough CDR and HP, he could potentially tank a tower permanently with just his passive. Maybe go the Zyra route and make towers one shot his Hounds? It seems like having distractions should be a strength of pet champions, so unless it's really necessary, making towers one-shot the Hounds should be avoided, I think.

When I set out on designing this champion, my goal was to create a pet champion. I quickly realized that the pets gave him an excellent diversity of build options and aimed to make him extremely flexible as well. Did I succeed in creating a pet champion AND a viable hybrid champion (not hybrid like Ezreal, who goes full AD or full AP, but hybrid in that he can go AD, AP, or some of both)?

Thanks for reading this super long post :). GGooeytoe (talk) 01:59, August 7, 2015 (UTC)