"A young and innocent queen. Quite unused to the bloodshed our heroes are bringing to her gardens. She is a fairy tale princess who in the day rules fairly and justly over her picturesque kingdom. At night Queen Nightshade is infested by plantspores becoming a horrifying monster. If Nightshade is Jekyll, the Spore Queen is Mr. Hyde. She is all the darkness within her given life. She cares only for her plants everything else is simply a tool to spread their infestation."
She is the sister to Raena, the Lady of Thorns, the current Realm Lord of King's Crest and Dragon Shire's announcer. Queen Nightshade cursed Raena's husband, a knight from Dragon Shire and the former ruler of King's Crest, turning him into a monstrous form, which forced his children to seal him away and Raena to rule in his stead. The Dragon Knight's children vowed from that day to fight against Queen Nightshade and protect their father's kingdom from her growing infestation.
Later it turned out that Raena was also slowly getting affected by the same curse. With the Raven's Lord attack, she was weakened, causing the curse to petrify her completely. It's unclear how those recent events affected Queen Nightshade's position. With Raena defeated and Raven Lord weakened, a power vacuum has been created, a good opportunity for the Spore Queen to rise, at least until the cataclysmic arrive of Deathwing.
Hero Description:
Queen Nightshade is a strong sustain Healer. Her main goal is to spread her spores to allies and enemies alike, collect her precious seeds and grow her garden terrors, or transfer an enemy into one.
Pros and Cons:
+ AoE Heals
+ Percentage Heals
+ Strong Crowd Control
+ Versatile Trait
+ Can heal Solo-laners and gather XP from afar - Low Damage
- No real burst heal/or wind up time of her heals
- Needs to get Melee to collect Seeds, her main resource.
Base Stats:
Health: 1500
Health Regeneration: 3.125 per second Resource: Seeds - no maximum.
Resource Regeneration: See Trait and Level 1 talents. Basic Attack Damage: 80
Basic Attack Range: 5.5
Basic Attack Speed: 1.3 (Around 4 Basic Attacks per 3 seconds)
Comments:
I hope you enjoy reading the concept. As always, any Feedback or suggestion is much welcomed! Help me make this concept better and make sure to check the talent's tree if you have time, as no concept is complete without them. I thank you for your time and again hope you enjoy reading it.
Combat Trait
1
Evolving Gardens
Cooldown: 10 secondsPassive: Every 4th Basic Attack against the same enemy spawns a Spore Pod at their location. Nearby Heroes trigger its explosion after 0.5 seconds, dealing 80 (4% per level) damage to nearby enemies and healing nearby allies for 160 (4% per level) Health over 2 seconds. Each Hero affected by the Spores drops one Seed that can be collected through right-clicking. Collected Seeds can be used for Abilities and are lost upon Death. Dropped Seeds and Spore Pods last for 5 seconds.
If a Seed isn't collected, it becomes a Flower Sprout. It can either be collected by an allied Hero, healing them for 160 (4% per level) Health or it uproots and charges to the nearest enemy Hero within 3 radius, dealing 80 (4% per level) damage and Slowing them by 60% for 1 second. Flower Sprouts last 10 seconds.
Active: Spawn a Spore Pod at a target location. Spore Pod's area of effect radius: 2
Healing and damage ticks: every 0.5 seconds, can stack.
Spore Pod cast range: 8
Primary Abilities
1
Q: Living Seed
Cooldown: 10 seconds
Cost: 1 (+3!) Seed(s)Give an ally Hero a Living Seed. The Living Seed grows and heals the target ally for 160 (4% per level) over 2 seconds and then blooms outwards healing all nearby allies for 8% of their maximum Health.
Additional collected Seeds cause Living Seed to infest up to 3 other affected allied Heroes but those collected Seeds are spent in the process. Secondary Living Seeds do not spread. Radius: 3
Cast Range: 8
Ticks: Every 0.5 seconds
2
W: Siphoning Plant
Cooldown: 15 seconds
Cost: 1 SeedSeed a Siphoning Plant in the target location that sprouts after 1 second. Siphoning Plant steals 50 (4% per level) Health from the lowest nearby enemy, prioritizing Heroes, every second and gives it to the lowest nearby ally Hero.
It has 500 (4% per level) Health and lasts until killed or casting another Siphoning Plant.Radius: 8
Cast Range: 5
3
E: Night's Curse
Cooldown: 15 seconds
Cost: 1 SeedCurse the soil of a target area. After 1 second, the Cursed Soil erupts, dealing 160 damage and turning all enemy Heroes within its area into plant zombies for 1.5 seconds. Cursed enemies are Silenced, unable to Basic Attack and Slowed by 30%.Radius: 2.5
Cast Range: 8
Heroic Abilities
1
Terrors of the Garden
Cooldown: 60 seconds
Cost: 4 SeedsGrow 4 untalented Siphoning Plants after 1 second. Additionally, those Siphoning Plants grow within 0.5 seconds 4 Vines between them, creating an enclosed circular area.
Vines and Siphoning Plants created by Terrors of the Garden last only 5 seconds and each has 500 (4% per level) Health. Reactivating this ability on a Vine destroys it, opening a free path. Radius: 5
Cast Range: 7
2
Overgrowth
Cooldown: 45 seconds
Cost: 1 SeedCreate an Overgrowth after 1 second in the target location that lasts 3 seconds. The Overgrowth's tendrils seek out up to 3 nearby enemy Heroes and Root them over its duration, dealing 30 (4% per level) damage every 0.5 seconds.
The Overgrowth has 750 (4% per level) Health and killing it ends the Root effect earlier.Radius: 7
Cast Range: 5
Talents:
Level 1:
[Q] Nexus' Fertilizers: Regeneration Globes grant 1 Seed every 1.25 seconds of their duration. If primary Living Seed infests at least 2 other allied Heroes with secondary Living Seeds, it creates a Regeneration Globe upon blooming.[W] Devouring Plant: Siphoning Plant consumes dead enemy minions
Changelog:
28.10.2019:
Added a Lore section.
Added a hero description..
Added Pros and Cons section.
Added Comments section.
I feel Queen Nightshade isn't very known character even within the game, as many may even mistake her with Lady of Thorns, the Dragon Shire announcer, so I felt the need to add the lore section to explain a bit about who she is. Though even Blizzard chose to keep this character a mystery and only little is known about her. I also used the chance to explain the hero concept a bit more by adding Pros and Cons and better explanations. V 1.0: 25.10.2019 Concept published!
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