Merchant: The Champion(Yordle From Bandle City)

[woeful forge]

So the rest of the kit is an enchanter?

[queen cobalt]

Yea

Consumables cost 50 gold idk why it wrote 600

[woeful forge]

I will say my view is that this kind of chicanery seems like the stuff a utility support would want more than an enchanter but that's not an important distinction

[queen cobalt]

The consumables are a great alternative to buffs that the whole kit baseline can't get

[woeful forge]

So I think I don't quite understand what's going on here

Why is the potion of AS granting AD?

[queen cobalt]

Permanent AD?

[woeful forge]

Permenant AD but like elixir duration AS?

[queen cobalt]

Yes

Each consumables cost 50 gold

[woeful forge]

For the record this seems like a champ who basically can't exist in soloq due to the learning curve the teammates have to tolerate

[woeful forge]

The post body says 600 is that a typo

[queen cobalt]

Yea I did a disclaimer after posting this

That's meant for the completed item

[woeful forge]

Merchant seems incredibly pro jailed but like there's worse sins in design

I do love the idea of a cheap temp buff consumable, get everyone a bit more geared up for a big teamfight or whatever

[queen cobalt]

All gold allies spent are converted into permanent stats that the merchant provides

[woeful forge]

Now explain the prized item its got too many mechanics for purchasing an item I think

[queen cobalt]

And the merchant himself enjoys all the gold spent. It's why he gains buffs for every item purchased

[woeful forge]

Also the three components there do a very bad job of covering the stat space that the various classes need but you may be alright with that

[queen cobalt]

Prized item is a single item that's built after the components

[queen cobalt]

You have an active part of the space so it doesn't matter

And it's dirt cheap

[woeful forge]

If the active is the part that matters what are the stats doing there

[queen cobalt]

You get the components first before purchasing the completed item

[woeful forge]

Just make it AP, AD, HP if you're so inclined. The stat packages are likely to make players not want to buy them, even if the stats literally don't matter

[queen cobalt]

It costs gold so there should be stats cuz items and consumables take up a slot

Specially for ADCs whom are the target audience

[woeful forge]

Like if I'm an AD fighter, imagine a Renekton, which of those do I want to build?

[queen cobalt]

Yeah I should probably sort them by class.

Add more components

[woeful forge]

And be cautious with classes, since some classes have multiple stat packages they might want

Like ADCs can be on-hit champs who don't care for crit chance

That said you can just make merchant have crit synergy but I think that should be a deliberate choice and not an accident

[queen cobalt]

Oh it's the first thing I wanted to synergize with

Through the passive

[woeful forge]

I think for an already fairly niche champ who asks quite a bit from their teammates I would consider it risky to give too much champ binding

One positive is that by putting a lot of this complexity in the item shop, you can offload some of the text from like the in game passive tooltip

[queen cobalt]

Components stats:

Ranged AD
A. 20 AD, 20% Attack Speed, 12.5% Crit Chance
B. 15 AD, 25% Attack Speed, passive: 15 On-Hit Physical Damage
Melee AD
A. 30 AD, 300 HP, 10% Ability Haste
B. 35 AD, 10 Lethality, 5% Ability Haste
AP Class:
A. 50 AP, 8 Magic Pen, 10% Ability Haste
Tanks:
A. 450 HP, 20 Armor, 20 MR

[queen cobalt]

Disclaimer: Prized Item doubles all these stats

[queen cobalt]

Wdym by champ binding?

[queen cobalt]

I think this is enough for all classes

Will edit the stats that you think are overtuned

[woeful forge]

Like I think it would do bad things to champ select if your support champ had substantial buffs for crit champs and no buffs for on-hit champs

[queen cobalt]

Oh right

My champ concept got deleted cuz I wrote too much words inside it

And it's just the passive btw

[queen cobalt]

I wanna know if each class are overtuned so I can nerf or buff it

[woeful forge]

I would just do a gold value analysis tbh

[queen cobalt]

All these costs 1200 gold

[woeful forge]

https://wiki.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/Gold_efficiency

[queen cobalt]

And the completed item(prized item) costs 600 gold which grants 200% gold value of all stats

Basically doubled stats on top of the active component

Pretty much Ornn esque scaling

[woeful forge]

Like the crit one is worth 3520+2520+40*12.5= idk you do the arithmetic

If you've balanced it to that then I trust that the stats are at least close to balanced

[queen cobalt]

It is slightly overtuned at least the completed item

Cuz people might forget that the active exists and it's basically the whole identity of the champ

[queen cobalt]

It's cost efficiency is just as much as a 2100 gold item and costs like 1800 gold with an active component

But the reason why I balanced it like that is because it should be a must take or else the champ doesn't do anything

Mainly because the merchant himself needs to rush it himself lol

[woeful forge]

I mean like relative to eachother

Obviously the item has to be turbo efficient that's the point of your champ existing

[queen cobalt]

Oh yeah, they're equally balanced in terms of cost