Heroes of the Storm Build Concept: Archon AX

Combat Trait

Split

AX is able to split into Aedus and Xerxes when needed causing all basic abilities to become Xerxes's ability while Aedus is still controllable and able to deal physical damage.

The heroic ability will also change accordingly.

The current health of AX will be split in half between the two. and both of them are attackable.

Aedus and Xerxes will merge back by using certain abilities or by the death of either one of them.

Dynamic Damage

AX has a short ranged attack with an area of effect. 100 DPS

Xerxes has a melee attack. 70 DPS

Aedus has a long ranged attack. 60 DPS

Primary Abilities

Plasma Renewal

AX will heal for 100% of the damage he deals for the next 3 basic attacks

Split: Xerxes Surge
Xerxes moves and deals 150 damage to enemies in a line. He will stop and start attacking at the last enemy in his path.

Psionic Attack

Activate to make AX's next basic attack deals 200% damage

Split: Xerxes Storm
Deal 300 damage to enemies in close proximity to Xerxes .

Breakable Bound

cause Xerxes to split from Aedus and attack the selected enemy unit. Xerxes will continue to fight indefinitely until chosen otherwise or the death of either Aedus or Xerxes.

Split: Xerxes Shift
Xerxes will blink to an enemy and start attacking him. If cast on Xerxes it will cause Xerxes and Aedus to merge back into Archon in Xerxes location. If cast on Aedus it will cause Xerxes and Aedus to merge back into Archon in Aedus location.

Secondary Abilities

Xerxes Surge

Xerxes moves and deals 150 damage to enemies in a line. He will stop and start attacking at the last enemy in his path.

Merge: Plasma Renewal
AX will heal for 200% of the damage he deals for the next 3 seconds

Xerxes Storm

Deal 300 damage to enemies in close proximity to Xerxes.

Merge: Psionic Attack
Activate to make AX's next basic attack deals 200% damage

Xerxes Shift

Xerxes will blink to an enemy and start attacking him. If cast on Xerxes it will cause Xerxes and Aedus to merge back into Archon in Xerxes location. If cast on Aedus it will cause Xerxes and Aedus to merge back into Archon in Aedus location.

Merge: Breakable Bound
cause Xerxes to split from Aedus and attack the selected enemy unit. Xerxes will continue to fight indefinitely until chosen otherwise or the death of either Aedus or Xerxes

Heroic Abilities

Power overwhelming

AX gain unstoppable and Psionic Attack and Plasma Renewal will stay active for the next 10 seconds. increasing his damage and healing him massively.

Split: Khala Bound
the protoss will come to aid Aedus and Xerxes in there fighting. Creating a clone for both of them that will try to mimic their behaviour for 8 seconds. This will lead to 4 protoss fighting on the battlefield doupling the damage output of Aedus and Xerxes combined.

Khala Bound

the protoss will come to aid Aedus and Xerxes in there fighting. Creating a clone for both of them that will try to mimic their behavior for 10 seconds. This will lead to 4 protoss fighting on the battlefield doubling the damage output of Aedus and Xerxes combined.

Merge: Power Overwhelming
AX gain unstoppable and Psionic Attack and Plasma Renewal will stay active for the next 10 seconds. increasing his damage and healing him massively.

Key Talents

Level 7
This level talents encourages strategic interactions between Aedus and Xerxes in team fights:

Tips

- when on merge the Archon will be tankier as a result of the merged health of both Aedus and Xerxes. It has Self-sustain because of Plasma Renewal which is also important to have enough health for Aedus and Xerxes before choosing to split. He is also able to clear waves effectively because of the area of effect of his basic attack and Psionic Attack.

- when on Split the Archon will have higher damage output because of Xerxes abilities and continues auto attacks from both Aedus and Xerxes. Aedus still controllable as a normal unit with being only able of inflicting damage using auto attacks. Xerxes location and ability damage are controllable using the abilities buttons only.

- Notice that your ulti will change based on the form you are in. choose wisely because both are sharing the same cooldown of 100sec.

- Make sure to have enough health (using Plasma Renewal) before splitting.

- When using Xerxes Shift to merge into AX choose the location wisely; usually merge into Xerxes location when aiming to deal more damage in AX form, or merge into Aedus location when aiming to move to safety or restore health using Plasma Renewal.

- Remember, you can use split as a gap closer; If an enemy hero is out of range, you can use split to attack him with Xerxes on mele and Aedus from range. you can even choose to merge back in Xerxes location to give the enemy a burst of damage with Psionic Attack.

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Strengths

+ Can fill different roles in the same match tanky-solo-liner & high damage dealer
+ Durable during Merge mode
+ High damage possibility during team fights during a team fight
+ In Split mode, both Aedus and Xerxes should be killed to kill AX
+ Cn added confusion to the enemy team in a team fight if on the Split mode
+ Different possibilities of combos that can provide damage and survivability
+ Both ulties are available in a match
+ A lot of fun to play
+ Does not require mana

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Cool concept man!
Is the hero picture your design? (the one where you show AX, Aedus and Xerxes together).
I really like it :)

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Thanks,
yes I combined a couple of pictures to make the design

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The concept seems well thought and fun to play. However, it took me sometime to really understand it and the images that you use to explain are not very clear.

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I changed the pics :)

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Thanks, I will see what I can do to improve the explanatory images

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really liked the concept! i've always wanted a hero that is "divided" into 2 characters, who are both impotent (not like rexxar) and cant split soak like vikings, and this is a really good concept for that!
i would love to see more interaction between them when they split, for instance- make Xerxes abilities more effective vs targets that Aedus aa and verse versa, (with talents or basic...) so you ll be reworded for good management of split mode.

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Thanks am glad you liked the concept.
I totally agree that the more interaction between the two characters the better. I will add your Idea when I create the talents.
The main interaction is with the ability: Xerxes Sift which makes the positioning of each important when they merge back. That is because I was trying to keep the character as simple as possible (with all the complexity that split brings).

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Archon AX by MuraStad

Archon AX