[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