[Hero concept] Candle Wax

[CandlelitLamb]

General idea for Candle Wax is punishing people that run away (both player and the enemy) "face your fears" type of hero
focusing those with tools to escape.


Ability 1 - Hot Wax
Splash a cone of hot wax in front of you dealing spirit damage, Leaving a puddle of hot wax on ground that deals tick damage if stood on.

Ability 2 - Pursuit
Lunge forward slowing and dealing spirit damage to first enemy hit, If Pursuit is hit from behind their back deal bonus spirit damage and silence movement abilities.
If missed take self damage splashing hot wax on the ground

Ability 3 - Horror struck
bullets and abilities build up Horror struck, when proc'd apply Fear
Fear forces units to flee away from the source and cannot take action

Ultimate - Hide 'N Seek
Target an enemy to surround them in total darkness and silence, during Hide 'N Seek They are able to only see and hear you.
During Hide 'N Seek the targeted enemy builds up Horror Struck 30% faster



Horror Struck is their main identity playing around applying the fear, turning their backs at you fleeing, pairing this with Hot Wax for them to walk on, and to hit Pursuit to deal extra damage and punish them.


Hide 'N Seek is especially strong against heroes with targeted abilities, as they can only target you or themselves with said abilities. the affected enemy still can damage other heroes with their attacks during it, but it can be hard to do so as they arent able to see or hear them.



Lore - Once a simple human chasing a dream to sell sculpted candles the business ended up being unsuccsseful, the young human seeked help from a unknown entity, it promising them exactly what they wanted in exchange of promising that when the time comes it will return and ask for a favor. So the contract was made and the business boomed with customers.

Eventually the entity returned for the favor, asking them to take away their loved ones lives.
Refusing this, the contract broke, upsetting the entity hexing Candle Wax to eternal feeling of their skin melting off losing their previous life, burning their business into ashes, and their own family fearing them and refusing to let them in.

Candle wax roams around searching for something or someone to bring them the feeling they yearn the most, Touch.



I havent done stuff like this before, but i hope it is an enjoyable idea!!

 

[ÅggeLågge]

Man this concept is really neat, i love the design! For the first ability i had an idea, that maybe after a delay the wax dries, immobilizing players standing it. So if you stand in the wax when it dries, you get stuck in it and cant move. It both makes sense and works with the entire "you cant run" vibe he has.
Really good design tho, keep up the work!

 

[CandlelitLamb]

Man this concept is really neat, i love the design! For the first ability i had an idea, that maybe after a delay the wax dries, immobilizing players standing it. So if you stand in the wax when it dries, you get stuck in it and cant move. It both makes sense and works with the entire "you cant run" vibe he has.
Really good design tho, keep up the work!

Ahhh thank you!! That was actually an idea i had haha, i was just uncertain if it would be too much crowd control, due to the built in fear they have in their 3rd ability xD, could be a neat thing to add as a later upgrade.. perhaps?

 

[MyWifeLeftMe]

this is a really cool idea and it gave me an idea for a possible weapon they would walk around with a lantern with a candle inside that would shoot out wax and that it would also go with their first ability where they swing it in front of them to send out the hot wax and as an animation for the ult he blows out the candle in the lantern to plunge the targeted enemy into darkness

 

[CandlelitLamb]

this is a really cool idea and it gave me an idea for a possible weapon they would walk around with a lantern with a candle inside that would shoot out wax and that it would also go with their first ability where they swing it in front of them to send out the hot wax and as an animation for the ult he blows out the candle in the lantern to plunge the targeted enemy into darkness

Ooohh hold on i actually really like this idea!! The blowing out the candle into the darkness sounds extremely cool to me

 

[MyWifeLeftMe]

Ooohh hold on i actually really like this idea!! The blowing out the candle into the darkness sounds extremely cool to me

im really glad you like the idea

 

[Cutzematic]

ooh this is so great thematically, totally fits the world of deadlock ^^ id love to play as this character or honestly even against, such a cool idea id be terrified of this

 

[CandlelitLamb]

ooh this is so great thematically, totally fits the world of deadlock ^^ id love to play as this character or honestly even against, such a cool idea id be terrified of this

Thank you so much !

 

[lgbrokhoff]

This is pretty sick, I love the identity and personality behind it, scaring everyone and just wanting to feel something, and of course the visual design is great. The first and second abilities also seem really cool, pursuit especially, I also think AggeLagge's idea is super cool and would be a great level up, I also thought it'd be cool if the Wax had a buff for Candle Wax while they're walking on it, or if there was some way to create a longer trail of it. The only thing is that I'm failing to understand exactly how the third ability functions, it sounds sick but I don't really get what you mean by it, and the ult seems kinda similar to Drifter's ult.

 

[CandlelitLamb]

This is pretty sick, I love the identity and personality behind it, scaring everyone and just wanting to feel something, and of course the visual design is great. The first and second abilities also seem really cool, pursuit especially, I also think AggeLagge's idea is super cool and would be a great level up, I also thought it'd be cool if the Wax had a buff for Candle Wax while they're walking on it, or if there was some way to create a longer trail of it. The only thing is that I'm failing to understand exactly how the third ability functions, it sounds sick but I don't really get what you mean by it, and the ult seems kinda similar to Drifter's ult.

3rd ability is similiar to something like Love bites or after burn!! Where you attack the enemy to build it up to proc it (so a passive and not an ability you cast by pressing it) , Fear is a crowd control that forces the affected to start running away from the person who afflicted it on you :] while they cannot take action (so player cant use abilities or control the character as the character is forced" to run away ) so this is extremely good if paired up with Pursuit with the extra damage from behind! x]!! (I hope this explains it ?)

And yeah i can see it being similiar to drifters in a way! Drifter does allow you to see others nearby you, which this ability doesn't!

 

[lgbrokhoff]

Lmao for some reason I can only read your reply when I highlight it. Anyways, that seems kinda broken then if I'm honest, losing full control over your character for any amount of time would be extremely annoying, and it'd be a really hard ability to balance and make feel natural in the game, it could be a cool concept to have a fear building passive but I feel like that specific interpretation couldn't really be balanced well.

 

[CandlelitLamb]

Lmao for some reason I can only read your reply when I highlight it. Anyways, that seems kinda broken then if I'm honest, losing full control over your character for any amount of time would be extremely annoying, and it'd be a really hard ability to balance and make feel natural in the game, it could be a cool concept to have a fear building passive but I feel like that specific interpretation couldn't really be balanced well.

Thats so strange haha XD, also yes i did think its kinda broken LMAO its why i tried to make them very single target heavy? Might still be broken but tbh alot of abilities are broken in this game. ALSO to add to your suggestion a self buff on the wax is actually a very cool idea, could be perhaps regeneration or something, maybe an upgrade to the ability of some sorts..

 

[lgbrokhoff]

Thats so strange haha XD, also yes i did think its kinda broken LMAO its why i tried to make them very single target heavy? Might still be broken but tbh alot of abilities are broken in this game. ALSO to add to your suggestion a self buff on the wax is actually a very cool idea, could be perhaps regeneration or something, maybe an upgrade to the ability of some sorts..

It could be cool if you could like alternate cast your wax laying ability to pick up spilled wax to heal yourself maybe? Definitely not for alot, but that could be cool. Also what if instead fear stacks were gained by looking at you? That way it would discourage looking at you without making them lose control of their character, and it could just be some powerful debuff or something that increases Wax's utility against targets with more fear stacks.

 

[CandlelitLamb]

It could be cool if you could like alternate cast your wax laying ability to pick up spilled wax to heal yourself maybe? Definitely not for alot, but that could be cool. Also what if instead fear stacks were gained by looking at you? That way it would discourage looking at you without making them lose control of their character, and it could just be some powerful debuff or something that increases Wax's utility against targets with more fear stacks.

Ooh this does also work well with the character, since they yearn to be seen as something else than a monster so people looking away would make CW angry what would definitely fit as a reason for them to lunge at them

 

[mixelmanmixelman]

this character + victor combo would be pretty fuckin scary

 

[Cutzematic]

this is a really cool idea and it gave me an idea for a possible weapon they would walk around with a lantern with a candle inside that would shoot out wax and that it would also go with their first ability where they swing it in front of them to send out the hot wax and as an animation for the ult he blows out the candle in the lantern to plunge the targeted enemy into darkness

i really liked the candle idea, so i wanted to explore how the character might look with a lantern ^^

lovely idea, and lovelier character! cheers

 

[skiply]

I love the entire design, but I think the 3 sounds absolutely crazy annoying. It should maybe instead of forcing them to run away, maybe incentivize them to run away? With maybe a silence when too close or DOT, idk something that "forces" them to run but not enforce them to run ya know? Or maybe applies a massive slow down so they cant runaway could be interesting but deviates more from the original idea. Movement lock isn't all that fun to deal with in general.

I think a cool passive would be minions running away from him, but this could maybe lead to unforseen consequences like holding and stacking a massive wave (would be funny tho)