User:Wlord99/Sandbox5


 * Planned for July 2017 (image source)

Abilities

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Gameplay
General= Strengths & Weaknesses


 * Very mobile and quick.
 * High Utility (powerful Wlord99 Elika E.png heals & Shadow Dance.png shields; CC)
 * Strong late game and teamfights.
 * Sustained magic damage.
 * High Skill cap and flexible playstyle.
 * High Skill cap and flexible playstyle.


 * Very squishy and vulnerable to CC.
 * Can shut down due to weak early game; difficult to return after being behind.
 * Mana problems early.
 * Needs to wind up (Rite of the Arcane.png Q, Wlord99 Elika E.png E); very vulnerable to bursty assassins.
 * Needs to wind up (Rite of the Arcane.png Q, Wlord99 Elika E.png E); very vulnerable to bursty assassins.

Elika is a mobile, but squishy, champion, capable of both assisting from behind and diving into the enemy lines to pull out crowd control and damage. Leaping through teamfights, Elika can dish out sustained magic damage while inflicting her enemies with crowd control, at the cost of reliable safety, thus requiring good decision-making for high risk-high reward plays. Despite being able to pull off flashy plays, Elika needs careful preparation, as her power, in each fight, has to ramp up, before she can truly shine.
 * In-game purpose/niche

Even though Elika's utility makes her a good choice, her offensive abilities make her suitable for the  lane. By building more offensive items, Elika excels in longer trades or teamfights, where her Consecutive Magic and  Enduring Resistance allow her to consistently deal considerably magic damage. Therefore she posseses the ability, in long conflicts, to turn even the most hopeless fights into her favor.


 * -|Playstyle=
 * Playing as Elika
 * Allied movement impairements can trigger Runic Blessing mastery 2014.png Arcane Block too.
 * Shadow Dance.png Nimble Leap in combination with, Vault Breaker.png Runic Shockwave can be used to insec enemies.
 * Use Shadow Dance.png Nimble Leap to close onto high value targets and them into your team's lines.
 * Diving into the enemy lines unthinkingly, with Shadow Dance.png Nimble Leap, is dangerous, as CC can lock down Elika easily and trap her between opponents.


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Elika is a very mana dependent mage, which posses strong heals and shields. Therefore she should focus on building mana items and those, which increase her shield and healing power (e.g. ;; )

Background
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Born in the dusty desert of Shurima, Elika was the daughter of a passionate, who searched for ancient relics and scriptures to unravel Shurimas past. From an early age on, Elika helped her mother in housekeeping and selling grandmothers self-knitted clothes. But soon Elika started to ask, where her father was, causing her mother to become very uncomfortable as she explained it. She said that her father too was analysing ancient texts, trying to figure out their meaning and that he worked as one of the village's seer, to foresight the beginning of dry seasons. But he had left her, after not returning from a scientific trip to the desert's east.
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Playing with other children in the village, Elika discovered her arcane potential, when she saved one friend who was hiding in a collapsing ruin, as she leapt into the falling house creating a sphere that shielded her and the friend. Her Mother clearly made her understand, she had to keep her gift a secret and that she should never use it in front of strangers. Despite trying to hide her power, Elika had trouble to not do magical tricks to impress her friends. She would leap across the village's roofs and adventure the dangerous desert to test her limits.

But one day, when a sandstorm raged overnight and mysterious shapes tried to break into Elika's house, her grandmother gave her a golden medallion to cloak her magical talent. The same day her grandmother left the village and only a few weeks later her distorted corpse was found near a tradesman route, with fear screaming out of her dead eyes and fatal wounds covering her whole body. Elika's mother, terrified by what happened to her own mother, decided to move together with Elika to a bigger village in the west of her home village.

In their new village, Elika's mother relied on her helping to earn money and so Elika decided to work as a courier, to deliver messages between villages, as she liked to adventure the desert and was fast on her feet. Elika's curiosity drove her to explore other villages and desert ruins, so she had trouble delivering messages in time. To prevent that Elika used her magic abilities to shorten her travel duration. Elika was a big help for her mother and allowed her to focus more on her research, by earning enough money for the two to survive.

Elika's mother was always suspicious about Elika earning so much money with such a basic job. She did not know that Elika enhanced her speed by the use of arcane magic. Elika kept it a secret because she had fun and did not want her mother to worry about her. And so one late afternoon, when Elika returned from a journey to another city, she was disturbed by a sandstorm raging above her village. It was not one she usually experienced. It was smaller, only circled about a particular part of the village and had lightning striking in it. Elika ran as fast as she could to see what happens.

Elika finds out that the storm rages around her home too. Despite a few people trying to stop her from entering, she continues running until she arrives at her home's door, forcibly smashed open. She walks in slowly asking for her mother. She sees her lying on the kitchen floor and falls over her in shock. Her mother can not answer any of Elika's questions about what happened, but only shakes her head and looking in Elika' eyes, in a terrified and warning way. Elika senses someone entering their home and turns to the door. It is a man, cloaked in black cloth, his she ever saw.

"Your father sent me after you, Elika", the man says.

Elika is stunned, she cannot believe her father is alive and only shouts:"What have you done to her, who are you?!"

As the man approaches Elika, she becomes filled with anger and shoots bolts of arcane magic at the stranger. But the impacts diminished as they touch the cloak and even the leftover magic does not harm the man. Elika steps backwards, her eyes filled with tears until she is cornered in the kitchen. The man tries to touch Elika, but just before he could grab her hand, his movement freezes. A pierced his chest and was pulled back out soon. The man silently falls to the ground, with Elika starring shocked at what now stands in front of her. A looked at her. The being away, leaving Elika mumbling in tears. Soon Elika calmed herself and put her stunned mother to rest. Elika read the last of her mother's work. it described a place called Icathia and an ancient culture residing there.

Now that Elika knows what problems her potential brings with it, she is focused on finding out where her father remains and who saved her from the, who has harmed her mother and probably killed her grandmother.


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