I won’t try to blabber on, but here’s some info about them.
Lore:
James Cornelius II, was a journalist in the cursed apple investigating a tip about the use of Eldritch powers in a rising Crime family of the city. In his ambition to get the scoop, Cornelius was cursed after being caught seeing something he was never meant to see. The memory of that day locked behind his curse and his body transformed, Cornelius comes to the ritual to undo the curse to unlock the memories of that day so he can finally bring what he saw to light.
Gameplay Loop:
Cornelius would play in a more utility-support role while also being rewarded for controlling the tempo of a lane or a team fight, with his primary gameplay loop involving taking photos of enemies adding them to his snapshots board allowing him and other players to buff themselves with his gathered snapshots. His ultimate mainly acting as a source of burst spirit damage to round out his kit. Below will be some individual notes on his abilities and primary fire.
All-seeing Scoop:
Using this ability takes you into “camera mode” which basically is just a first person POV with a new reticle, the goal being to get a nice centered picture of your enemy to get as a snapshot. The range of it definitely would be a point of balancing so you can’t just cross map people but you can take a photo whenever. However, the less accurate and centered the photo, the less buffs you gain and applied debuffs to your enemies. Snapshots would be stacked near the ability so you can have an easy visual to know how many you have. I think eventually upgrades for this ability would give it some form of damage and more charges, but the damage would definitely also scale on accuracy.
Evidence Board:
Functionally, it acts as a totem or bank to dunk your snapshots into with differing buffs it can spit out. Also I think it would be cool if you heavy melee the board it could roll somewhere else, so you can tactically hide it if things don’t go your way or can bring it closer to the fight for easier access to buffs. I think upgrades to this would just be mainly cooldown reductions if lost, more storage, more health, better buffs.
Notetaker (Passive):
This passive is mainly to try to keep you in the fight by being rewarded with health for snapping photos closer to the fight. Upgrading it might just scale how long people are visible on the mini map and how much health you’d get back, or potentially make it a source for barrier.
Ocular Artillery:
Nothing crazy, just burst damage. Upgrades probably more damage, more charges, or enemies hit get silenced.
Eldritch Amp:
Your primary fire with an auto aiming short range jolting effect on holding left click that does primarily spirit damage with some gun damage, while your right click is a longer range charged shot that deals more bullet damage with some spirit damage accumulated as you charge the shot up. (Lowkey imagine Winston’s gun from OW2)
I did kinda blabber on, but I saw some cool fan hero ideas and wanted to try one my own. Thanks 4 reading
