Monday, November 19, 2012

Character Concept Harley, the Belly Dancer: Moba Design

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Permission is not granted to use any of this characters concept, lore,abilities,attributes and any other related parts from this design, if not credit is given to myrmonden.
(Contact me and we can work something out - e.g Hire me as a Full time worker or a Freelancer etc this character is just the tip of the iceberg)


I will follow a League of Legends design fashion for this character as I it is designed for a MOBA genre game or a similar game genre. + Most of my readers do read the League of Legend related articles (roughly 8000 unique readers yesterday on those articles), making it seems reasonable.
Well the best thing with making it be about League of Legend, is that it eases the communication for me. Now I can say well it would work similar to X or it would removes Y’s ability. Its especially good when using examples, and explaining situations.

Furthermore, if anyone is interested in working as a concept artist etc I know some people who have interested in doing so for Character Design contact me and we can probably work something good out of it.


Harley, The Belly Dancer

Quick Overview:

Harley is a attack damage carry, based around speed and crow control.
Harley’s got some great area of affect crow control ability's, but they have a limited time of effect. Harley is agile but with a low attack range, which means that the user has to be very mobile. Otherwise Harley is pretty straight forward and with good escapes and kiting possibilities.

Easy-Medium difficulty

Lore:

Harley was born with both male and female sex organs, Harley was born as Hermaphrodite. His parents diced to raise Harley as a boy. He could kinda hide the fact he had a vagina growing up as, he otherwise didn't show any sign of being female as well. However, as Harley grow he found affection for both male and female people. And when Harley started to grow to a young adult his breast started growing by a large margin.
Harley’s parent decided to send her, to a boarding school. Where Harley would from now on live as women instead of a man as she was normally used to.
At the school Harley was trained heavily in classic dance styles to make her more feminine. Harley couldn't help being interested in her fellow students, which caused trouble for her multiply times. In the end she was kicked out of the school, this lead Harley to decide she/he would show the world that she/he was both the most manly and womanly person in on body.
In Harley’s view of genders,  males are good fighters and females are attractive this has made Harley a developed a deadly dance martial art, so that she/he can look sexy will kicking ass.

-I picked Harley as a name because its androgynous, and of course an alternative skin would be a Harlequin costume.

Appearance:

A sexy belly dancer obviously. 

Her/his range attack is hitting with shawl. 

Health
365 (+80)
Attack Damage
53 (+3.1)
Health Regen
4.6 (+0.5)
Attack Speed
0.69 (+3.2%)
Mana
280(+38)
Armor
15 (+3.7)
Mana Regen
6.7(0.7)
Magic Resistance
29
Range
450
Movement Speed
320




Abilities:



Passive ability: Dressed to kill

Harley’s beauty is unparalleled. When enemy champion comes closer to her/him they will be unable to attack her/him with full force.

On 300 range Harley takes 5% reduced damage from any champion

Every range closer then 300 reduces Harley’s damage taken by 0.0333333%

On 0 range Harley takes 15% reduced damage from any champion

- Harley is able to charm both genders of man and monsters alike.




Shawl Slap (Q):


Harley’ lashes out her/his Shawl at very high velocity, a small target area of enemies becomes stunned.

500 Range
25 Diameter Range

Deals 50/65/70/85/100 + 20% Attack damage + 20 * Attack speed per target in the area as physical damage
Stun every target for 0.5/0.7/0.9/1.1/1.3 Seconds

Cost 50/65/80/105/120 Mana
Cooldown 15/14/13/12/11 Seconds

- As this attack is Harley attacking very quickly with her/his weapon I think it should be based around her/his attack speed. But, as she/he is a attack damage carry most users will go attack damage, so it has to have some bonus from that as well.

Pull the rug (W)



Harley lays out her/his cloth on the ground in a straight lane. Then she/he quickly can pull it back making the enemy standing on it trip (Mini stun + slow after standing up again)
After the user has used this ability Harley will keep putting cloth out when moving.

The user first aims in a direction which will lay out the cloth on the ground, by pressing W again the user can pull back the cloth.
The cloth will go back automatically if Harley moves to far away the starting point (300 Range).

Range 200
Movable  60/120/180/240/300 Range

Deals 75/105/135/165/195 + 30% Attack Damage to each target hit in the area as physical damage
Stuns each target for 0.1 Seconds
Slows each target for 20% of movement speed  for 1.5 Seconds

Cost 50/60/70/80/90 Mana
Cooldown 25/22.5/20/17.5/15 Seconds


Animation: It will be a clear different color on where Harley’s cloth is(Color depending on the users skin).

Sauté (E)



Harley performance  an elegant dance step towards a targeted location.
When she/he lands, she/he charms each enemy in a close area around her/himself and makes them move towards her/him.
Range 300/350/400/450/500
Charm Range 50/75/100/125/150
Enemies are charmed for 0.1/0.2/0.3/0.4/0.5 Seconds


- This ability I like, it make sense Harley has some sort of a charm mechanic. I want Harley to be able to escape, so some sort of a dance move to avoid battle seems reasonable. Furthermore, it is a synergy with her/his ultimate.


Ultimate : Dance of Death (R)

Harley flickers around on the battle field with lighting speed, landing at unpredictable parts of an area. When Harley lands, she/he deals damage in a area of effect around the landing point and flickers away again.

During this time Harley cant be target by abilities or be damaged by any means,.

Harley will flicker 20 times

When the dance is over Harley returns to the location where the user started the ultimate.

Diameter of the area 900.
Diameter of Harley’s flick 300

Deals 55/110/165 + 30 % Movement Speed per flicker as physical damage

Cost 200/180/160 Mana
Cooldown 100/85/70 Seconds



-An experience league of legends player probably pictures a Gangplank ultimate now. And yeah, this ultimate kinda is like that, but with a smaller area(more dedicated damage) and it is casted where Harley stands instead of anywhere on the map.
I want this ability to get that, combat dancer feel to it. Furthermore, Harley is a lot about crowd control and moving around, while she takes lower damage in close combat. So I found it a good synergy, between the abilities.
Jump in, put the rug out to slow the opponents stun 1-2 champions and use the ultimate.

I also want it to give damage from movement speed as that make sense, and might give some diversity in item builds for her.


Inspiration for the design:

I wanted a carry with an uncommon weapon. This became a cloth shawl and then I build the character concept around that.