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League of Legends Crossover (Chapter?)
I've wondered for some time what League of Legends champion would work best as a killer in Dead by Daylight. Fiddlesticks originally came to mind until the Unknown was released. They are both extremely similar as both have crooked bodies, both wield a weapon haphazardly, both mimic speech and sounds, they both utilize otherworldly tentacles inside their bodies to drain life energy from others, can teleport and create husks or decoys, and inhabit other things as vessels to move around. At this point, Fiddle would be better served as a skin for the Unknown complete with new voice lines and particle effects from League. This transitioned into thinking about what champion would fit best as a killer if Fiddle became a skin and, in my opinion, no one fits better than the mass murderer Pyke. Here's how I think implementation could work:
The Killer: The Bloodharbor Ripper, Pyke
Two abilities, Ghostwater Dive (Stealth) and Bone Skewer (Charged ranged attack)
Ghostwater Dive
This power would work by pressing the active ability button. Pyke would be locked in an animation amd dive under spectral water with only his knife staying visible, being held outside the water like a shark's fin. Pyke would lose his terror radius and would then enter third person while Ghostwater Dive is active. It would create ripple effects in it's path and could potentially mimic League's gameplay where a sound cue is heard when Pyke is near, such as a lullaby. He would get a speed boost but be unable to attack or interact with the world around him, perhaps unable to move sideways easily or at all, having to physically turn by looking a direction like a Billy sprint. When a timer would end, or the stealth is ended by reactivating the power, Pyke would quickly jump out of the water with a loud sound and splash and the animation would lock him in place for a moment with his terror radius instantly returning. The ability would then go on a longer cooldown.
Bone Skewer
This power would be similar to a Huntress hatchet and a Deathslinger shot. You'd press and hold your power button to begin charging up a throw, slowing Pyke in the process. If held the skewer could be cancelled early or be released for a partial distance throw. Fully charging the skewer would make a sound cue and releasing would fling the skewer a longer set distance. If striking a survivor, the skewer would pull them a set distance towards Pyke and if impacting a wall slow them. This would work similarly to a reverse Wesker charge, pulling rather than pushing. A partial charge, if released, could pull but not slow. This may also damage the survivor on impact at full charge, with a skewer downing a survivor being pulled directly into Pyke with him picking the survivor up. The bone skewer can't go through walls but could slip through gaps and go over obstacles. Missing, hitting an obstacle, or cancelling the ability early would put it on a short cooldown with cancelling being slightly faster.
Mori
Pyke would dive and cut the survivors legs / drag them slightly under the ground / wrap them in fishhooks and nets, then circle them on the ground like a shark. After a moment, Pyke would leap from the water and do a large plunging attack with his knife into the chest of the survivor, maybe dragging them fully under the water at the very end and/or scratching off a name on his endless list of victims. The dive attack would perfectly replicate his execute ability in League and is his signature pose for hunting sea monsters.
I imagine Pyke would play most similarly to Deathslinger/Chucky. Addons could be themed around League items or pieces of his backstory as a sea monster hunter. Perks could revolve around Obsession, Exposed, and Scourge hooks. The lore would easily allow Pyke to be taken right after his betrayal and subsequent revival in the sea. I did think about what other champions besides Pyke would work, such as Warwick, Jhin, Shaco, Evelynn, Thresh, or Nocturne, but unfortunately they haven't stuck in my head quite like Pyke. Pyke is THE horror serial killer of League lore. I also think a few voice lines for Pyke would be a nice touch.
New Map: Bilgewater Slaughter Docks
A pirate island made of docks, scrapped and refurbished ships, sea serpent corpses, and back alleys would make for a fresh new environment for the game. Could even throw in an eerie Shadow Isles glow and mist with spirits flitting about.
Survivor(s): Graves and/or Twisted Fate
These two are partners in crime and have intertwined lore. The smoke bomb ability used in past gamemodes could make for an interesting perk on graves and magic existing gives Twisted Fate some nice ideas for perks. Without their signature weapons, they do seem the type to be less than eager to battle supernatural forces.
Skins
For killers there are a couple candidates. Pyke himself could get any skin from League that already exists for him. As mentioned before, The Unknown takes the cake for a new Legendary skin as Fiddlesticks, but there are a few more that come to mind. Renata Glasc would be an easy Skull Merchant skin, Sevika from Arcane also fitting a bit. A Mordekaiser Knight skin could look pretty cool but the mace might be an issue. A Draven themed Trickster outfit might be interesting.
For survivors there is MANY ideas. With Arcane being popular, skins for Vi, Jinx, Caitlyn, Ekko, and Jayce would be easy sells. Then with the Noxus show arriving soon comes Vladimir, Katarina, maybe Darius, LeBlanc, and especially Mel.
Other ideas could include:
Ionia: Karma, Hwei, Yasuo, Akali, Ahri
Bilgewater: Twisted Fate/ Graves (If not survivors), Miss Fortune, Nilah, Gangplank
Shurima: Sivir, Taliyah, Akshan
Noxus: Swain, Rell
Demacia: Lux, Morgana, Vayne, Quinn, Garen
Piltover/Zaun: Ezreal, Zeri
Freljord: Braum, Olaf, Ashe, Udyr
Targon: Aphelios, Taric, Diana, Leona
Shadow Isles: Lucian, Senna, Gwen, Viego
Ixtal: Qiyana, Nidalee, Neeko
Funny bonus would be Teemo's Hat on somebody.
Comments
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I'm sure there are plenty of good fits for both roles. However, I would so strongly discourage this collaboration that I'd probably send angry letters, sign up for Twitter and tweet against it, go out on street corners and hand out flyers, contact my congressperson, try to get Big Bird to tell children to object to this, and anything else I could do to stop it.
The reason is that while League has awesome characters, the LoL community is so deeply toxic that I completely quit playing the game even though my friends play it. There were stretches when I found myself sticking up for someone being bullied every day. It was absurd. I wouldn't wish the League community on anyone.
And I don't mean to say your idea is bad in any way. I just don't want DbD attracting the attention of the LoL community.
But it is fun to think of. Oddly enough, Lux is kidnapped by the entity and corrupted, becoming the killer for the chapter as she hunts down Shaco, who is the survivor. But really though, please never ever eber do this collab :)
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Tahm Kench would be great killer. Mid-range teleport and tongue-hits. His lore also makes him viable as a killer (IMO even better then Pyke. Not saying that Pyke would be incompatible). The only bad part would be chiseling his niche compared to slinger, unknown and trickster (and no, huntress is long-range. So there's very clear distinction, Xeno works also quite differently).
Other viable champs if different type of killer was wanted would be:
Cho gath (short range, but scream (omnidirectional) can dizzy/slow survivors for a short time) would make him a little similar to clown.
Elise as a jumping killer (a mix between hux's camera placements and wesker dashes)
Jhin as a long-range shooter (great lore for DBD, unfortunatelly shooting killer would be harder to implement sensibly. Maybe switching to shoot mode would make him set-up for 1 second and he can't move while shooting?)
Warwick (sprinting and tracking hurt survivors (tracking by speed when going towards injured surv instead of showing anything), but base killer towards healthy survs) could be similar to Oni while being slower when in power, but no need to collect blood + better maneuvering. Most problematic part would be tunneling which can be circumvented by giving 1 minute postponed ability for unhooked survivor.
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ah yes, letcs combine the two most toxic gaming comunities :D
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This collab would likely never happen. Riot does not appear to be remotely interested in doing any sort of collab, because they want their characters to live only in the world they made.
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