[Altered Melee] i need ideas for a rat hero

[andreasaspenberg]

the hero is called a plague spreader. i need some good spell ideas for it. it is the mage hero of the animal race.

 

[Chaosy]

Posion infection
each basic attack applys a debuff on the target stacks up to 3 times and decreases the armor by the target by x per stack

Rush
increases your movement speed with X% for X seconds

Toxic wrath
Deals x damage to targeted unit + slowing unit by 20% + x% per stack of posion infection

Plauge ray
each basic attack deals X% of targets max hp + 0.x% per stack of posion infection

 

[andreasaspenberg]

interesting ideas but they seem better for a melee hero. the plague spreader is a hero based on the arch mage. it would really help if you provide a method with which to create the abilities as well.(with the exception of already existing abilities of course.) i dont have a lot of experience with creating custom abilities.

 

[cleavinghammer]

Squeaking Swarm: Summons a variable amount of small rats. Rats have Disease Cloud, low health and attack.

Turn Tail: Temporarily gains movespeed boost and evasion. Manacost lowers as the hero's health decreases.

Putrid Feast: Creates a corpse at a target location that heals allied units around it and slowing enemy units.

Tumors: Select a target allied unit, temporarily increasing its armor and regeneration with cancerous growths.

Rats in the Walls: The target building is temporarily neutralized (can't attack or produce units). Alternatively, decreases the target building's owner's total food by an increasing amount.

Pestilential Presence: Generates clouds of noxious pathogens that slow and damage enemies in a wide radius around the hero, but drain mana until deactivated.

Plaguetouch: Casts a plague on a single enemy unit, afflicting it with diseases that will quickly kill it. The afflicted unit explodes on death, infecting surrounding units as well.

 

[andreasaspenberg]

that sounds good but, some of those abilities are beyond my skills so if i am to add them you need to explain how.

 

[cleavinghammer]

Which ones?

 

[andreasaspenberg]

plaguetouch, Pestilential Presence, Rats in the Walls, Tumors and Turn Tail. Squeaking Swarm is the only ability i dont need help with but how many rats do you suggest it creates.

 

[cleavinghammer]

Putrid Feast is just a healing ward with a modified Endurance Aura, Rats in the Walls just puts a Freezing Breath buff with different effects.

The others are basically normal abilities (Turn Tail is Wind Walk, Pestilential Presence is Unholy Aura, Tumors is Rejuvenation, Plaguetouch is Doom) with triggers to produce the additional effects (may I suggest you look at this tutorial, it helped me a lot).

As or the swarm, maybe something like 3/5/7.

 

[andreasaspenberg]

what kind of icons should i use for them.

 

[Wolf_Wing]

Two Little Feet

Typeassive
Effect:Active when the rat run in X speed. Increase Rat speed as much as Z and will stop active when rat run in normal speed
Icon Download:Here


Family Bound

Typeassive
Effect: If Rat meet another rat increase the attack and armor as much as X
Icon Download :Here


Cheese!

Type: Passive
Effect :Give Rat a ability to track cheese
Icon Download:Here


Sharp Teeth

Type:Active
Effect: Give chance to critical strike to Rat
Icon Download:Here

Rat Vision

Type : Passive
Effect : Give rat chance to dodge and give rat ability to track another rat
Icon Download:Here


Smell Of Rat

Typeassive
Effect:Give Ability to track enemy in x range of rat
Icon Download:Here

 

[andreasaspenberg]

cleavinghammer gave me better ideas. i could however use your ideas in my other map where i dont have any animal heroes yet.

 

[Wolf_Wing]

Hmmmmm......
Why u not using my idea in your rat map??

 

[andreasaspenberg]

it isnt a map based just on rats. the rats is just 1 of 4 hero races in the animal faction.

 

[Wolf_Wing]

ohhh......

 

[gorillabull]

Black Death - Deals heavy damage over time to one enemy that can spread to its allies.

you can base it off disease cloud

 

[Manuval]

Chinook, Plague Spreader



1. Toxic Flask

Chinook throws a poisonous flask bomb at an
enemy, dealing 50/75/100 damage and
slowing it by 15%/25%/35% for 5 seconds.

2. Venomous Protection

When a unit attacks Chinook, the latter
becomes poisoned. It takes 5/10/15
damage per second for 3 seconds and
slowing it by 10%.

3. Poisonous Snakes

Chinook summons his pet snake to help
him in battle. The health of the snake is
250/375/500. The damage base is 15/20/25.

4. Plague Nova

Chinook creates a poison nova around him.
Enemies hit by the poison gets slowed by
10%/15%/20% and gets damaged by 10/20/30
per second for 5 seconds.

 

[Sin'dorei300]

Poison Tail
Strikes a target enemy with tail, dealing x damage and having a x% chance(based on target's hp)to infect target.


Cheese Boost
The Rat eats a big piece of cheese, increasing atk and movement speed by x%(based on hero's armor). Lasts x sec.


Poisonous Teeth
When attacking an enemy, increases chance to infect him by x%(based on enemy's armor).


Rat's Quickness
Reduces the chance to be affected from negative buffs by x%(based on hero's movement speed).


Rat Swarm
The Rat calls a swarm of friendly rats to attack the enemies, reducing nearby enemies' movement speed by x% and infecting the weaker ones. Lasts x sec.