Hero Ideas - Idea Dump

[Frostywild]

I've realized that all my hero ideas are a little half baked so I'm just going to post the core idea of several hero's that I've come up with. Including some old ones that were half baked to explain the idea bit better. I'll also link to the old posts if I'm re - posting here

Quick Summary for each

• Ancient Automaton - old robot that can create a second body then swap between them to be as close to two places at once that I think is possible in this game
• Experimental Archaeologist - Archaeologist with ancient device that mixes magic runes to create different effects, works like Invoker,
• Nature Conservationist - Park ranger wanting to protect magical nature, works with fairies and uses fairy abilities like inducing sickness, flying, and creating will-o-wisps
• Soul Banker - stores souls in an Investment fund instead of getting them directly, this fund increases with souls at a fixed percentage, allowing the character to possibly get more expensive items earlier at the cost of not having cheaper items earlier
• Transmuter - Transmutes themselves into different elemental forms based on the states of matter, gaseous, liquid, solid, plasma

• Ancient Automaton -​

  • Design: The idea behind this was to create a character that had a similar idea to Meepo from Dota 2, because you can't control multiple characters even remotely effectively in a 3rd person shooter a different approach must be taken.
  • Meepo's main idea is that he can be in two places at once to gain resources and then pool those resources into himself to become very powerful with the downside being that if one version of him dies they all die.
  • My idea is that you can have a hero that can create a separate body in a spot then swap to it whenever they want, the cost for this is that they would have a lower Max Health while the second body is out.
    • Subsequent ideas on how this could work are as follows
      • The other body can be attacked and if destroyed cause extra damage to the main body and take a longer time to recover Max HP
      • The second body has vision for a small area
      • The bodies can be swapped between quickly allowing you to escape death at the cost of Max HP
      • Destroying the second Body can cause the Hero to lose more Max HP than what was used to create it which then recovers slowly, possibly aligned with the cooldown of the Ability
  • The rest of the abilities are unclear to me, I'm not entirely sure what role this character would have, Meepo kind of warps the game around him so that it requires a different skill set but generally Meepo wants to get a bunch of gold get great items, level up a lot then win the game
    • the few ideas I had were somewhat based on the idea for the lore of the character, that they are an ancient Greek automaton that came to life in the 20th century so uses old technologies inspired by the myths of Daedalus.
      • Daedalus was attributed with the invention of Carpentry, Sails, and the various things from myths, Wax wings, and the Labyrinth.
      • So my ideas were:
        • A glue gun that creates an area that sticks enemies to the ground
        • Wings to glide with, the idea being this is a movement ability to supplement the multiple bodies,
        • A giant mallet to hit things because he kind of needs a damage ability
      • There are probably other Greek myths of automatons that could be pulled from for abilities but fundamentally I'm not sure what other things this character would want to do

• Experimental Archaeologist​

  • Design: The idea for this character was to do an Invoker from Dota 2 style character that could work in Deadlock
  • My other inspiration for this character is The Curious Case of the Golden Idol, a game about a Golden Idol with incredible abilities, mostly to take and give things to other things
  • In The Curious Case of the Golden Idol the Idol has symbols that correspond to different elements that make up the command for what the Idol will do, either take something or give something
  • The idea for this character would be someone with an ancient artifact (like from Atlantis but not from Atlantis because that feels too on the nose)
  • The other idea was that in the Deadlock world there are a bunch of old traditions that seem mystical so there would be a field of study concerning old possibly mystical rituals to se what they do and if they are dangerous or useful. This is how the two ideas came together, an ancient magic researcher comes across a powerful magic artifact and doesn't fully understand how it works but knows enough to use it.
  • The elements I landed on were Force, Matter, and Energy, which would be combined to create the abilities.
    • I put all the abilities in the original post, feel free to look it over

• Nature Conservationist​

  • This started with the lore, a National Park Ranger wanting to defend against the increasing industrialization of the world that threatens magical wildlife
  • I just wanted to do something different with fairies and have a character that can fly short distances
  • The general idea for this character is that they can disrupt enemies with abilities that put hazards in an area, debuff enemies, and punish them for engaging with you unprepared
    • Ability 1: Will o Wisp - Put a cloud of will o wisps in an area that do damage to enemies that come in contact with them
    • Ability 2: Fairy Dust - Fly for a short time, the idea being that you can use this to rotate quickly between lanes or escape preemptivly, a good modification for this would be the classic you can't use this for 5 seconds after you take damage
    • Ability 3: Elf Shot - while looking up Fairy abilities I found out about an Elf shot, which is this ability to cause sickness through a projectile
    • Ability 4: Fairy Ward - One of the most notorious abilities of Fairies, especially now, is the idea of rules in the Fairy world and making deals, so this ability makes it so if someone damages you they break the ward and suffer the consequences.
      • I'm not sure what debuff to use for this, the big one is curse, which has the most flavor for it, but getting disarmed would also work

• Soul Banker​

  • This character is based on the Greevil's Greed ability from Dota 2. Greevils Greed gives the character extra gold on kills
  • The idea for Soul Banker is that instead of gaining souls directly on a kill the souls are instead Invested which puts the souls in a seperate fund that causes them to slowly increase over time.
  • This, in my mind, creates a risk reward of waiting for the Invested souls to increase to a point where you can get better items while not being able to get certain earlier items that might be useful
  • This ability would be entirely contained in the Ultimate and I'm not sure about the other abilities, the one thing I do know is that this character would never have a movement ability as any ability to move or farm quickly might break it
  • I also don't know at what rate the souls should increase, this idea might be dead on arrival

• Transmuter​

  • This is a newer idea based on The Scholar from Sentinels of the Multiverse, a cooperative superhero card game
  • The idea here is that Transmuter can transmute their body to become different elements based on the states of matter, Gas, Liquid, Solid, and Plasma
  • This will basically be something of a stance character, I would love suggestions for abilities, I would like to keep the theme though
  • I'll give an idea of what these can do
    • Ability 1: Gas Form - Become Air - Increases movement speed, gives you bullet evasion, very short duration
    • Ability 2: Liquid Form - Become Water - teleports you to a location and heals all allies in a radius around where Transmuter lands
    • Ability 3: Solid Form - become Metal - this increases Transmuter's weapon resist, lowers movement speed, increases weapon damage
    • Ability 4: Plasma Form - Become Plasma, increases spirit significantly and adds spirit damage to all gun attacks and melee attacks, increases movement speed.

I would love any feedback on these Characters or this format, and thank you for reading!