Ethereal Dash

[cheyenneixxi]

Ethereal Dash
Spirit Item - 500 Souls - Timed passive item - Upgrades into Ethereal Shift

Buffs:
+8 Spirit Power (Item Bonus)
+10% Dash Distance

Effect:
Passive -10 seconds charge time
Your next dash makes you enter a void state and become untargetable and invincible while dashing. Ends upon sliding or dash jumping.


Explanation of specifics:
Similarly to Kinetic Dash, this item would activate every so often and make you untargetable/invincible during your next dash while it's charged.
Visually, the character would enter a state like ethereal shift while dashing.

This state only lasts until the end of the dash (adding synergy with other items that extend dash radius like Fleetfoot).
When jumping out of a dash or entering a slide, the effect wears off.

Use cases:

• Provides an early-game way to counter enemy ability & active item usage as well as the choice to add some extra evasion in small moments.
• Utilizing it properly seems fun for the type who would get value out of it.
• For example, it could lead to clutch evasion of Talon's charged arrows in lane, Bebop's hook, etc.
• Provides some value into the mid game with it's brief invulnerability, countering potential items, stuns, or extreme cases like Wraith or Vindicta's ultimates with good timing and conscious use.
• The 500 soul spirit item selection in the shop is currently one item behind the weapon category, along with vitality. This could help round it out.
• Ethereal Shift currently seems to be a very niche and rarely used item, and this building into it could provide more value for running it.

 

[nathanieljbrill]

I think the idea is good but it's definitely too strong in its current iteration. The 8 spirit poer and a passive of only 10 seconds for a 500 item is intense.

 

[cheyenneixxi]

I think the idea is good but it's definitely too strong in its current iteration. The 8 spirit poer and a passive of only 10 seconds for a 500 item is intense.

Actually didn't mean for it to be 8 spirit power, should def be 4. Originally I was envisioning it as a tier 2 item so it was 8 for parity with all the others. To clarify, the spirit power increase is just meant to be the passive increase that you get when you buy any spirit item (+4 in the case of tier 1).

10 seconds is probably too little, yeah. Once again a bit of a lack of editing on my part - I was referencing kinetic dash's timer, which is a 10.5 second one by default. But that's also a tier 2 item, so that's where the issue here came from...

Nevertheless, glad you like the idea. I think it'd be a great addition. Since posting it I've thought to myself while laning a few times "I wish this was something I could buy" because I keep running into moments where it'd be fun to use.

 

[gibnewitems]

This item would be incredibly broken in it's current state. I don't think it's very wise to make certain abilities (especially skill shots like hook) feel useless just for 500 souls. Reactive barrier is fine since it's a tier 2 and takes up a vitality slot.

Ethereal Shift currently seems to be a very niche and rarely used item

Not even close to reality.

 

[Stakhanov]

This item sounds like an upgrade of ethereal shift , actually. Moving while invulnerable would be huge. There's a reason mirage tornado had to be nerfed multiple times. Try to rework the concept with that in mind.