Hero idea: Nyx, the Swordswoman of the Night.

[IgorNL]

Conceptual art:

Skill 1: Shadow Slash
Description: Unleashes a powerful strike in a straight line that leaves a trail of shadows in its path. Enemies hit take damage and are slowed by 20% for 4 seconds.
Cooldown: 10 seconds.
Improvements:
- Shadow trail lasts 2 seconds longer and poisons enemies it touches for 3 seconds, dealing 3% of their maximum health as damage per second.
- Reduces cooldown by 2 seconds.
- Increases base damage.

Skill 2: Nightstep
Description: Nyx becomes invisible and gains +2m/s movement speed, attacking or being attacked will interrupt the invisibility, exiting the invisibility grants +10% damage for 6 seconds.
Cooldown: 32 seconds.
Duration: 8 seconds.
Upgrades:
- -14 second cooldown.
- +6m/s Invisible movement speed.
- +10% damage.

Skill 3: Shadow Blessing (Passive)
Description: Killing enemy heroes grants 1 stack (maximum 4), each stack grants: +5% ballistic and spiritual resistance and +0.5m/s movement speed. Dying causes you to lose 2 stacks.
Improvements:
- +6 health regeneration per stack.
- +5% damage per stack.
- +5% ballistic and spiritual resistance per stack.

Skill 4: Death Zone
Description: Creates an area of death around you, enemies within this area take continuous damage and are slowed by 50%. Additionally, reduces all damage taken by 30%.
Duration: 8 seconds.
Cooldown: 90 seconds.
Improvements:
- Enemies within the death zone take +4% of their maximum health as damage per second.
- -26 second cooldown.
- Enemies killed within the death zone explode, dealing area damage to nearby enemies.

 

[IgorNL]

Conceptual art:

 

[IgorNL]

New idea for skill 2:
Dark Dash:
Description: Dashes quickly in a straight line stealing life from all targets it passes through and reducing their spiritual resistance by 15% for 4 seconds.
Cooldown: 25 seconds
Upgrades:
1. -12 seconds cooldown.
2. Increases life steal.
3. Applies a curse to the target that explodes after 3s causing area damage.

 

[IgorNL]

New idea for skill 4:
Shadow Spear:
Description: Throws a shadow spear at the target, dealing damage. If the target is below 25% health, it is finished off and heals for 50% of the damage dealt.
Cooldown: 115 seconds
Improvements:
1. +25% healing.
2. If Shadow Spear finishes a target, it explodes, dealing 50% of the original damage to nearby enemies.
3. Finishing a target resets the cooldown.

 

[IgorNL]

Rework:
Dark Dash:
Description: Dashes quickly in a straight line, dealing damage to enemies hit and healing you for 50% of the damage dealt. After dashing, you gain 30% bullet evasion for 3 seconds.
Cooldown: 25 seconds
Improvements:
1. -13 seconds cooldown.
2. +20% bullet evasion and +25% healing.
3. Applies a curse to the target that explodes after 3s, dealing area damage and slowing by 30% for 3 seconds.

 

[ramiroRa]

Interesting. I remember someone asking for a character that could be the counter side of Vindicta, like a Holy character keeping "bad spirits" at stakes. This could be.