User blog comment:ViciousWombat/Phobos/@comment-3391671-20170118223125/@comment-7852319-20170123072918

I took a look back at most of Phobos' kit and lore and tried to funnel it into a brutish diver, that tries to run into the fight with extrememly close range abilities. I changed from the long rage artillery like tank to this approach, since it didn't fit a person who wanted to beat you into believing in their god.

Ability wise, i tried to make his abilities flow more into a stronger bursting fighter. Who inflicts fear into his enemies on the field and wishes to keep Aretha close to him. Her soul actually isn't inside the hammer, he just calls it that so that he can remember her. It didn't make sence if he had all this power with his sister to fight along    Mordekaiser, so i scraped the sister soul, and instead have him fight for    Mordekaiser  out of both a revenge on Noxus, and to do what his sister would have done. He Hammer is still named Aretha, but now for veneration.

Stats

 * I decided to nerf his base attack speed, and his growth since he would gain so much from the other bonuses that he will be gaining from his passive and ultimate. His attack speed is now close to    Illaoi  level.
 * I fixed the mr issue that you had disclosed to me earlier, and nerfed the range to be more apporpriate with Riot's standards
 * All the other stats are still as they were, but if someothing would seem too strong now, let me know.
 * Lastly i did decide to add a mix of magic damage and physical damage in his kit, with a few ap ratios too, since i was looking at the other Shadow Isle's members, and noticed that a lot of them had multiple ratios from both and.

Abilities
===Lore===
 * Innate: I didn't know that a lot of people put the    Jhin  like passive in, so i decided to scrap that, and make it more in line with his theme of Enraged Zealot. I had the idea that he likes to damage people before going all in. So the three hit passive was a good idea. I also wanted to keep the high attack speed in the kit, so i moved the previous attack speed from the old W to his innate. This gives him trading power in lane, and good 1v1 potentional.
 * The other reason for this passive was too still follow the theme of beating his opponents into submission to converting to Morde's cause, but in reality he jsut wants to let his anger out for what had happened to his loved ones.
 * Q: I took the adivce that you had about the Q still being too strong and not working thematically, so i nerfed the range as you said, but decided to turn the ability into two differnt cleaves instead of like an exact copy of    Sion  Q. I looked a lot at how    Ekko  Q worked, and tried to make my own spin off of it.
 * It is a rather strong ability, but it rewards the players that are able to stay ontop of their opponent with a short stun to then proc the passive, as well as a three black cleaver since the player will be able to easyil proc the passive now.
 * Also this ability allows for some counterplay since you have to be pretty close to Phobos for it to hit, and you do not want to be close to him since that is what his kit exceeds at.
 * W: The idea of having a basic ability completely heal Phobos, was unecessary and completely broken, even for the simple mecahnic of reduce resistance take damage, so I decided to change it into a detonating shield like    Sion  but not to deal damage, and to have a refreshing affect like    Leona s W.
 * The new ability allows him to soak a little bit of damage but not too much, or he won't be able to actaivate the second phase of the w. Which if he is successful, allows him to get a large amount of cc off onto the enemy team, as well as him being able to reshield himself.
 * This allows him to have some tankyness, but if he doesnt have a lot fo resistances, like if a person builds him full damage, he wont have a strong shielding, but if he builds a good mix of bruiser and tank, he can tank some damage, and then be able to fear the enemy team, to set up his Q easily.
 * E: Now the old ability that was here, was the spear like ability, but Phobos wants to keep "Aretha "close to him at all times like i mentioned before, so I thought a good idea would be to have him have a little bit of a mixture of a    Malphite E, without the cripple effect and a    Singed E.
 * The ability, allows him to also proc his passive if needed, to help clear the wave, but it has a high mana cost, for the strong like slow that it does provide. But the ability is cast at his feet, restricting him to only being able to fight in close corters, and unable to really have any ranged poke.
 * This ability, really helps him set up his combo after using his ultimate, and that is about it, it doesn't really have a purpose besides that, and because of teh rather high mana cost, it isn't as spamable as other abilities.
 * R: Now the only thing missing from Phobos' kit, was a semi reliable way to get to the backline to deal damage. So i gave him a low cc, medium damage ultimate, so that he could be able to get into the fights.
 * This also allows him to get right in the enemies face, but if he doesn't time his W correctly, he isn't able to really be that useful, except auto attack and keep increasing his attack speed.
 * The attack speed gained, is both express his revenge for Aretha's death, as well as for him to be able to kill people to join    Mordekaiser's ranks.

Now i updated the lore, and wanted to give a semi TL;DR (its not really)

Nightfall's Eve is a cult for   Mordekaiser

their goal is to train warriors to find the skull of Morde, and fight under Morde

Phobos is born into the cult, where his older sister exceeds expectations

Cult is in Noxus, the old fort of    Mordekaiser

Phobos is bad at combat, Aretha is good

Phobos is scared that Aretha, the only person who blieves in him, will leave him

She is sent on a mission from Noxus, with her own hand picked squad, and Phobos can't leave with her

He feels abondonded, and  leaves the city to follow her.

Noxian elite learn of cult after Aretha leaves, sends squad to follow Phobos

Aretha takes this time, to now go searching for the skull

Sends sqaud into city to erradicate teh cult

Phobos fear of abondondment turns into resentment and anger

He finds her weeks later, and so does Noxian guard

Noxian squad attacks Aretha's squad.

Aretha left standing, Phobos runs to her, Aretha takes sword meant for Phobos

Phobos releases his rage onto soldier guy

Phobos follows the map, that Aretha said she had in her dying breathe

Goes to isles, right once Ruins King curse comes in

Phobos dies by the curse, but his fear and anger, let him possess the armour he brought for   Mordekaiser

Breaks the crypt holding    Mordekaiser's  skull

Helps the liches make the ritual, He will complete the task

Mordekaiser  forms, become a devote follower filled with fear of failing his sister.

Works under    Mordekaiser  as a general now to continue his sisters work.

Edning Thoughts
I hope that this is a better and more solid iteration that what I had previously thrown together, and would strongly encourage as much criticsim so that I can make this champion the best that HE can be.

Lastly - How do you make the Legend that you have in your custom champions, i have 0 clue in how to do it.