Hero idea: Snap

paigemain123

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A Fate's Tale:
Snap is an investigating journalist for the New York Oracle.
Her character is the typical annoying journalist.

Ability 1: News Flash (25 Seconds Cooldown, 80 damage 0.8 Spirit Scaling)
Target a hero, taking a picture of them after a short delay (0.5 s). The target is then partially blinded (something similar to Drifterss Ultimate but with a shorter range that expands slowly until the duration ends) for 6 seconds. Each Photo of an individual hero is saved, max 1 per hero, and you can see which Photos of which enemies you have in the top bar.

Ability 2: Disguise (45 Seconds Cooldown, 25 Seconds Duration)
Disguise as an entity (trooper or jungle creep). You have no control over the entity and you cannot regenerate health. Your hearing of surrounding sounds caused by enemies is improved. When the entity is killed or when you cancel the disguise, your News Flash deals double damage for 4 seconds.

Ability 3: Gossip (20 Seconds Cooldown)
You and your teammates gain a Healing Amplification of 3% (in a 40m range) for every photographed hero in the 30 m range 0.03 spirit scaling, for 10 seconds. You lose the Photo of the enemy hero that is furthest away from you. The healing amp cannot be increased by Healing Booster/Healing Tempo

Ability 4: Breaking News! how original haha (120s Cooldown, global ultimate)
Use all of your Photos, revealing Photographed targets for 4 seconds on The Minimap, and deal 100 Damage 2.0 spirit scaling after the reveal duration ends.


Hero Playstyle, other ideas:
This hero is meant to be played as a hit-and-run hero early game, in order to collect as many Photos as possible for later use since her 1 lets her hide away from the enemy quickly. She is weak in laning stage, since her only damage ability is her 1, but she can disguise as a Trooper, to try and catch out the opponent for double damage. Her 3 is a useful tool in teamfights, but leaves her team vulnerable to split pushes since it takes away the Photo of the enemy that is the furthest from her, so communication is very important. Lastly, her 4 provides useful information for pushes or generally collecting information, but has to be used very carefully since it consubes all of the Photos. Also, the photos aren't lost on death.

Movement and utility items will be the usual buys.
Potential upgrades for her abilities:

News Flash:
level 1: -5s Cooldown
level 2: +2 s Blind Duration
level 3: +100 Damage and +2 m/s Movespeed on use for 4 seconds.

Disguise:
level 1: +5s Duration
level 2: -13 s Cooldown
level 3: You can redisguise as a different entity in a 15 meter range once per Disguise.

Gossip:
level 1: +20m Amp Range
level 2: +10 s Duration
level 3: +20m Photographed Hero Range

Breaking News!:
level 1: -20s CD
level 2: +50 Damage
level 3: Your teammates gain a 30% Damage Amp on revealed enemies during the reveal duration


Gun: Has an arc, 100 Bullet Velocity, 20 Base Damage and 0.8 Bullets per Sec, faloff range 25-40 m.
Snap rips out a page from her notebook, crumples it up and throws it forward.
 
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Awesome idea! I can see a visualize a character like this, though the gossip ability feels out of place.

What about this?

Ability 3: Deep scoop! (20 second cooldown)
Snap violently delivers interrogating questionnaires, amplifying her attack speed and damage for a short time but consuming all photos. Hits during this time stack Hard Hits, amping spirit damage. At 5 stacks, News flash deals increased damage, which stacks with the increased damage from Ability 2, so if you time it right then someones getting hit hard.

It's not healing amp, but it synergizes insanely well with Ability 1 and 2 making her much more of a threat in every aspect outside of teamfights
 
A pretty creative kit overall. The name could use a little work. How about Muckraker? If they're going to fit the "annoying journalist" trope, then a direct reference to US history would be the perfect fit.
 
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