User blog:Shaw Fujikawa/Custom Champion Revisit - Arvice, the Wandering Psychic

After the relative success of Lontar, the Emissary of the Future, I felt like I should show some love to the other two champions I previously designed. I still feel that I would enjoy seeing a champion involving their main concepts, and besides, I gotta' be fair, don't I? And I can take advantage of the shiny new layout for the ability tabs!

For those who don't want to go back and reread what I wrote before on the old blog, the main theme behind Arvice, the Wandering Psychic was to create a champion utilising a mana and energy hybrid resource. The inspiration for this was the Zoanthrope unit of Dawn of War II, who has the unique ability to use its own resource bar as a temporary shield. Of course, applied directly, this would never work for LoL - units in Dawn of War II use fast-regenerating energy, much like the four ninjas and Lee Sin, and have health in the low hundreds making this number very significant. The only resource to be on the same scale as health in LoL is mana - two interesting mechanics which combined to make this interesting champion.

For the rest of his abilities, I constructed him to be very similar to Ryze, but at the same time very different - he does not have much upfront burst, but once he starts landing those QWEs, he can start dealing enormous amounts of sustained damage as well as repeated crowd control, and at the same time be incredibly tanky with his mana shield and ability to build full mana and CDR tank.

I shall be adding his League Judgement, lore and quotes later, but for now, digest his abilties and tell me what you think.

Arvice, the Wandering Psychic is a champion suggestion by Shaw Fujikawa.