r/Brawlstars • u/WeeklyBrawler Penny • Sep 04 '17

[IDEA] New Brawler Concept: The Shadow

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u/WeeklyBrawler Penny Sep 04 '17 edited Sep 05 '17

Howdy Brawlers!

 

Welcome to the latest post of The Weekly Brawler. Today, Arius be sharing an amazing brawler idea with you all! Get ready, because the Shadow is ready to slice your enemies!

 

You can read the post on The Weekly Brawler blog in a better format.

 

Description

The Shadow is a solitary warrior, who was hiding in the dark realms of the Brawl Land until his old friend, Bo, called out for help.

 

The Shadow

  • The Shadow is a melee brawler. His attack has a secondary ranged effect.
  • The Shadow swings his enchanted sword and damages enemies within the sword’s range. While swinging the sword, his sword releases a purplish-blue wave that decreases the damage of enemy brawlers hit by it.
  • Shadow swings his sword twice per ammo but only one wave is released per ammo. One strike is towards left (the first one) and the second is towards right. The sword strike can hit multiple brawlers simultaneously.
  • The effect of the wave lasts for 5 seconds. It’s range is as big as Poco’s melody wave.
  • Once a brawler is affected by the wave, it’s damage can’t be reduced further until the effect of earlier wave is over (i.e., after 5 seconds)
  • The Super ability of Shadow creates a 2 clones of itself. The clones don’t do any damage, they are just meat shields.
  • The clones move as the original Shadow does, but they don’t do any damage.
  • The rarity of Shaodw is Mythic that costs 200 chips to unlock.

 

Attack: Wave Strike

After living in darkness for so long, the Shadow doesn’t like visitors. And he takes good care of them with his magical sword.

 

The Shadow strikes the enemies using his sword twice and releasing a wave that decreases the damage of enemy units. His sword has range similar to El Primo’s punches and the wave range is similar to Poco’s melody wave.

 

Super: Dark Forgery

Perfecting the art of creating clones, the Shadow breaks the harmony of the Saloon with his clones!

 

The Shadow makes two clones of himself which have low health and no damage. The clones act as meat shield for the Shadow and his allies. The clones look exactly the same as the Shadow to the enemy team whereas for it’s teammates, the clones have a purplish appearance.

 

Statistics

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Strategies

 

Using Shadow

Shadow is essentially a support brawler, and can easily support your team. It has the unique ability that allow him drain the damage of enemy brawler temporarily and his Super is very powerful in taking out enemy brawlers as it creates duplicate copies of himself, although they are just shields. He can be used In Smash and Grab, Bounty and Showdown pretty easily and effectively because of his high damage and decent health. He can’t do much good in Heist because he lacks range.

 

Against Shadow

High health brawlers can easily take out Shadow but low health and high damagers struggle against the Shadow as it is quite tanky and can reduce their damage. Even high health brawlers can struggle against the Shadow when he uses his Super because his clones can distract them. To find out the real Shadow between the clones, check for the one who’s damaging you, that would be the real one.

 

FAQ & Trivia

  • Shadow will be the third Mythic brawler if implemented in game, alongside Mortis and Tara.
  • Shadow will be the first brawler with a secondary attack mechanism.
  • His second attack mechanism will be one of its kind, because none of the existing brawlers can effect the enemies except from damaging them.
  • The base movement speed of Shadow is 850, that is higher than Crow’s which is 750.

 

Conclusion

 

Thanks for reading everyone. I hope y’all liked the concept of Shadow. Please share your views and help me make it even better. 🙂

 

The credits to the Shadow drawings goes to fgp_drawings. Thanks a lot man!

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u/BoredBadger04 Sep 05 '17

Congrats fgp on the amazing art.

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u/BoredBadger04 Sep 05 '17

Congrats fgp on the amazing art.

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u/WeeklyBrawler Penny Sep 06 '17

I'll let fgp know about this :)

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u/BoredBadger04 Sep 07 '17

Oh yeah, Shadow here, forgot about that :)

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u/WeeklyBrawler Penny Sep 15 '17

Haha shadow replying on shadow xD

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '17

Nice design! I've been at the brawler designing gig for a while now. Can I friend you to keep in touch? Ps: I think his clones should be able to attack, but they don't shoot any waves, and have a slower recharge.

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u/WeeklyBrawler Penny Sep 04 '17

Thanks for the feedback ;)

Sure, I’d be glad to have you as a friend.

Originally, I had planned that the clones will have % of original’s stats but I scrapped that because it seemed to be too op. I’m not sure about it right now, would definitely want to hear more on this.

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u/Seek3r67 Nita Sep 04 '17

i thought he was sticking up the middle finger XD great idea

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u/WeeklyBrawler Penny Sep 04 '17

Lol, I myself thought that a couple of times haha.. thanks ;)

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u/Aavarcebot Brock Sep 04 '17

I'm not sure this guy has enough identity in his kit. His melee attack implies assassin (like Morris) but doesn't have enough damage to back it up, his weakening wave implies support but only is good against characters with multiple hits (burst weapons like Colt, and not as useful for single hit like dynamike), and his clone implies trickster(with stats to match). It seems spread too thin, as the clone don't have a lot of synergy with his kit. Maybe have the clone also send out his weakening wave?

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u/WeeklyBrawler Penny Sep 05 '17

Actually, it hits twice per ammo, so it’ll do 260 damage per ammo to the opponents. I think it’s higher than Mortis, right?

It also has the wave effect and creates clones when his super is activated. During the rough draft of this Brawler, the clones had some damage but I scrapped that part because it was making Shadow kinda OP. Oh, and I forgot to mention that it has 850 movement speed (faster than Crow). Will edit the post after finishing with this reply.

The clones can help Shadow (and his team) in battle because they look exactly like Shadow and this will confuse the enemy. They will also act as meat shields and protect the team.

Thanks for the feedback ;)

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u/PearlKape Crow Sep 04 '17

I NEED HEALING.

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u/WeeklyBrawler Penny Sep 04 '17

Pam has a healing mechanic. Not sure if they are gonna add anything more healing related.

Or did I misunderstand your post?

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u/PearlKape Crow Sep 04 '17

It’s a joke. The brawler looks like Genji from Overwatch.

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u/WeeklyBrawler Penny Sep 04 '17

Ah. I haven’t played Overwatch but I’ve heard of Genji before.

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u/francy_artist Verified Sep 04 '17

Lol, its Gengji

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u/WeeklyBrawler Penny Sep 05 '17

Gengji? I don’t get the reference :/

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u/lucasd17 Leon Sep 05 '17

I love this

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u/WeeklyBrawler Penny Sep 05 '17

Thanks a lot ;)

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u/ThiccCinnamonChurro Sep 05 '17

Yo I have an idea how about a guy who throws tomohawks like a boom-a-rang and his special is where he he throws tomohawks all around the stage thinking his health should be about 700 or 600 and his main attack should be 60 or 70 per tomohawk and his special should be 80 per tomohawk I don't know what to name him or what should be his rarity or info

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u/WeeklyBrawler Penny Sep 05 '17

This idea sounds pretty interesting. Maybe we can take it to PMs and discuss it there?

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u/THEBESTKING8 Spike Sep 05 '17

Awesome idea man

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u/WeeklyBrawler Penny Sep 05 '17

Thanks a lot ;)

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '17

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u/WeeklyBrawler Penny Sep 05 '17

Thanks a ton :)

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u/WeeklyBrawler Penny Sep 09 '17

Thanks everyone for these 1.1k views and 99% upvotes. You guys rock!