User blog:LancettaBreeze/Esther - The Product of Experimentation

Esther, The Product of Experimentation is a custom champion for League of Legends. Volunteering as an experimental subject in Zaun, her body proved to be quite durable to the chemicals and modifications put into her body, resulting in her form being quite mauled. Once the scientists decided she was too valuable to continue, she was released to a remote area nearby the city, as despite the danger already existing there, her presence was dangerous to the people. She chose to adopt the wandering life, however, learning to make use of the body she'd been given for good, or at least what she viewed as such.

Abilities
Hey everyone, it's me, LancettaBreeze. Something a lot of people note about the new champions that Riot is putting out is that they tend to do something a bit different than anything else they've done. Kled has Skaarl, the mount interaction. Taliyah is all about movement. Aurelion has a passive with significant presence and an ability that interacts directly with that passive. Jhin has an obsession with the number four. With the two I've designed in the past, and this one here in Esther, I've tried to do similarly. Razor was all about auto attacks, Shieki had a complete playstyle shift in her different forms. And here, Esther has all of her abilities interacting with eachother.

So, the design process was as simple as wanting to make a champion where all the abilities interacted with eachother. So I started thinking on a way to achieve this. Well, what's the simplest thing that can be different but interact with eachother? Liquids! Yeah, liquids will work. But... How can I slip this into the League of Legends world without basically pulling ideas from multiple champions? Toxic waste? Sludge. Toxic sludge. That'll work. And different kinds of toxic sludge can fulfill different things while still being that, sludge. So that's how most of the background design of this champion went, with me putting her being from Zaun because it "is a city-state both supported and ruined by unchecked industry, mercantilism, and magic run amok."