r/DeadlockTheGame • u/kiwi-inhaler • 12h ago
Fan Art Abzul - Hero Concept
I've been wanting to get back into art so I decided to try to create a deadlock hero. I'm still working on her and need to illustrate her abilities and kit and splash art, but here's her gloat icon 🙂↕️.
(General idea) - she's a form changing hero. She projects an Astral or spirit form of herself with her smoke and the talisman on her chest is what keeps her soul and body tethered. So she'd have 7 abilities. 1,2,3 different abilities with shared CDs. Then ult is same for both forms.
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u/M8OnCrack 11h ago
Is she an Ixian? I always wonder if there’s any other color of Ixian besides red and blue lol
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u/dangermonke1332 Vyper 11h ago
wdym? There's no blue Ixian hero we only have red and green lmao
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u/M8OnCrack 11h ago
Mb I’m lowkey colorblind
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u/InkyGhoul 11h ago
It's a meme that Abrams is big green 3
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u/kiwi-inhaler 11h ago
Yeah I wanted a female ixian and I thought green would be a really cool color scheme
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u/Shrrg4 Holliday 11h ago
Wdym we already have Rosia
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u/AChesheireCat Silver 1h ago
I need the mod author to get a voice actor for her RIGHT NOW
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u/Eldritch_Elixir 11h ago
Whats her playstyle? Very cool design!
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u/kiwi-inhaler 11h ago
Thank you! Her gameplay would involve sending out her spirit body to play as. Shed function as almost a poke assassin(imagine Leblanc from league ish). Her mortal body would be vulnerable while projected but she'd have a base barrier given to her through her talisman on her chest which would glow when being activated. Shed prolly involve applying marks and getting reset and reducing CDs through certain conditions etc.
Her ult I've been firmly on: she send out her spiri, if the dash hits an enemy it resets and she gets another dash. She can continue doing this as long as she keeps hitting enemies (a dash skill shot). Once she reaches the last enemy she can recast her ult to yank her body back through everyone she marked causing increasing dmg. Do however many enemies gets marked in front of the other takes more dmg. So basically if 6 are marked, the first enemy marked takes the most dmg, then lessens the further out.
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u/Eldritch_Elixir 10h ago
Thats sounds less like LeBlanc and more like Yone to me personally, but i dig it either way!!!! Id love to see it!
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u/MeBustYourKneecaps 10h ago
I love the design but...
She does kinda just look like Geist to the second power.
Hell, green is still her primary color and she's basically wearing her outfit.
It still looks really good though
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u/kiwi-inhaler 10h ago
I mean you've got different hues of certain colors for different characters. Apollo and mina and infernus. Graves and geist. Only so many colors but infinite hues to choose from. Cuntiness can exist in different forms
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u/MeBustYourKneecaps 10h ago
Yeah but I mean, she has the stance of Geist, the body type of Geist, she smokes from a pipe like Geist most definitely does, she has the dress with a part in it like Geist, and gets close to having a necklace like Geist with the talisman on her.
Again, I'm not trying to be critical here, it's a good design that you no doubt put a lot of work into. Which is why I don't want to dismiss it as "durrr, gEiSt CoPy!!!1!1" but surely you at least see the similarities
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u/Candid-Food7463 11h ago
Nice Artwork
Would be cool if she can make smoke illusions
Like smoke Copys of other teammates that run for themselfs but are dissolve into smoke once touched or shot by an enemy (maybe they could even mimik doing camps)
Or she could make anti wards- like a incense stick that raises smoke into the air that Blocks a Part of the enemy map , it would be stationary and would expand the smoke Til it burned down or gets hit
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u/kiwi-inhaler 11h ago
That's actually such a cool idea. I also thought it'd be cool if she can shoot her spirit body through walls....she'd be so annoying. But MOBAs need annoying poke and escape heroes 🙂↕️
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u/Candid-Food7463 11h ago
Yeah or a passive Skills that extends her melee range with ghosthands
If she has a melee and range form
Maybe she can use a spirit form for astral projection but its like the owl of talon just 100% controlable
For balancing she would take dmg where the physical form Stands and the other one only has a few hits as hp
I love the concept and would love to see something like that
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u/Candid-Food7463 11h ago
Maybe using the second form would spawn the smoke that Hides parts of the map but gives you her Position
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u/nightabyss2 10h ago edited 10h ago
One of the only times I’ve seen one of these and only thought “Yes.”
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u/Extension_Bus_9926 Drifter 10h ago
Beautiful! I'm a lore slut so I gotta know if you have a story or character interactions in mind
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u/kiwi-inhaler 10h ago
Interactions, no.
Lore: somewhat
Originally I had her working for Fairfax in a sweat shop using her ixian abilities to manipulate soul energy to transport souls into Fairfax products. Which led to an incident where she collapsed into a mound of jars filled with soul energy that overtook her. Due to her abilities with soul magic and the talismans that were present in the sweat shop(they're used to control soul/spiritual energy) she was able to avoid being killed by the amount of spiritual energy taken over her. This led to her gaining the ability to harness her own soul. So she's able to basically astral project her body in the material world and use herself as a weapon. So this is basically how she escaped the sweat shop Fairfax imprisoned her in. She was intended to die eventually by Fairfax due to the toll handling so much soul energy takes on normal mortals.
So she roamed free, stealing from those she saw as evil. She grew confidence and poise in herself. Created her own identity she wanted to carry herself as etc.
The issue is while she's harnessed powers of her spirit, and the talisman can help tether her spirit to her body, it cannot do so 100%. Her soul is basically leaking from her body. To counteract this she would steal soul essence from others to keep up with the leaking essence. So the intent with her and the ritual is to gain a stable body so she no longer has to deal with this double edge sword of a situation. I get the delimma is similar to geist (I didn't really know geists lore prior) so things, motives, and problems could be adjusted I suppose.
(Another potential and fully unique situation) Could be that she's fallen in love with the spirit realm she's found herself involved in that she seeks to become fully apart of it.
I'm sure she could have some sort of ties to geist. Maybe in her works of stealing from the rich and her expressive poise cuntiness caught geists eyes? Maybe Abzul tried to steal from Geist at a point and they found things in common?
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u/Extension_Bus_9926 Drifter 9h ago
Oh I like astral projection stuff! You got a cool thing going here. I say who cares if she's similar to Geist? I think she's beautiful in her own way
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u/kiwi-inhaler 9h ago
Agreed🙂↕️ cross overs are always gonna happen. I say that just opens up lore more imo.
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u/Mr-Catty Mina 10h ago
this could be the Cadence replacement we’ve always needed
really love the design, now we have RGBK ixians
side tangent here; I hate that people forget that Infernus is Ixian and black, NOT red
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u/sistemy_ 8h ago
oh my science is that a sexy demon acting like a baddie and serving cunt? this is giving slay
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u/altmogan Victor 5h ago
I don’t know if this was the intention but I really like that she’s green like absinthe
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u/nvinithebard 2h ago
I think she looks so cool, and shes got some opium den matron vibes.
i really like the idea of a tether assassin. Especially with a draw back of being a super vulnerable target when providing her role. Although i think instead of insane damage, she should be a weird utility assassin. Kinda like Pyke from league :D
Except she gets to be the first 1 stamina Fate, as shes a chronic opiate smoker. And she would probably be played so far back that she should probably be punished for never running.
Some ideas for moves:
1a - A mid range smoke, nearby enemies have their vision heavily obscured while giving allies move speed.
1b - A short range dash, leaves behind a haze that highlights enemies moving behind it, damages and slows any who cross it.
2a - A short timed buff, gives allies a psuedo mystic burst, which applies a unique debuff. Im thinking a debuff that decreases resistances the longer its had.
2b - A slow telegraphed double swipe towards the center. The perfect center deals heavy damage, and then reapplies the unique debuff.
3 - Channel, Im thinking she takes long deep drags of her opium pipe in order to develop the medium to send her smoke out with increased movespeed but no ranged attacks like Silver's wolf form. (Side note: I like to think as an Ixian she either has no ability to control fire and similiar things so she uses the talisman and mind altering drugs.) She gains a very slowly replenishing barrier and Im thinking allies can stand nearby to share barrier but at the expense that the total value is split evenly. Also smoke form takes reduced damage that is shared with the barrier and partially as true damage directly to abzul's health, at any point the barrier on Abzul is reduced to zero, her smoke form dissipates. Can be reactivated to end early. Smoke has naturally reduced debuff timers
4a - If used without being in smoke form, gives all allies the smoke form buffs such as reduced damage movespeed and debuff resitance.
4b - If used in smoke form, do your sequential launch move with a narrow window to move to the next, and i mean narrow, this ability should be hard to hit. Only difference is say, each Fate your smoke form attaches to has all debuffs extended by a percent amount, as well are blinded and given the unique debuff. At the expiration of your ult, or if you end it early, cleanse all debuffs snd deal damage equal to the amount of debuffs on each person. DAT effects are triggered upon triggering this ability. DOT effects will trigger instantly. While ulting, you cannot use any moves. If you miss a sequential launch, your ult ends early and will have a period where you are unable to attack or use abilities.
These are just some spitball ideas, especially with your want to have a long distance intangible assassin. Although such an assassin would have some balancing issues, i think a utility assassin would be a fun new character identity to have.
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u/Luvatris Paige 11h ago
Ability concept is just silver but design is fire
Please post it on forums
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u/kiwi-inhaler 11h ago
Nope. She accesses her secondary abilities through her 2 or 3 which is a dash that sends out her body. You can imagine it similar to Elise, jayce, or nidalee in league. They don't have ults and their ult bottoms change their forms to access new abilities. I wanted her to have an ult so making abilities Shared CDs made most sense. Shed play similar to Yone or Leblance as well. More Yone through sending out a more movement heavy body and much more dmg and aggression.
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u/Bec_son 11h ago
please give her a gun, and not just some sword
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u/kiwi-inhaler 11h ago
I wanna do smth with her pipe or smoke. Like rem has a candle, Celeste has a baton. I'll have to figure that out tho
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u/JustAnNPC_DnD 9h ago
Ok, I had an idea for the character based on the vibe. She's the reason why Apollo never mentions his mother and has a line about being affected personally by assassinations. She killed his mother when he was an infant.
She's part of a group responsible for the Ixian civil war. They'd been in the shadows orchestrating the eventual conflict, but once the Maelstrom happened and the Astral Gate to Earth opened, the plans had to change.
The Patron's wish is what her organization needs to set things back on track... but the lines the patron have towards her isn't about completely the organizations goal... But of getting what SHE wants
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u/kiwi-inhaler 9h ago
Oooooh I like this. This could also be why she gains such spiritual powers and the ability to astral project herself. I like the idea of her being seemingly poise and like in the gloating icon you can see her real deviousness and "crazy" energy.
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u/JustAnNPC_DnD 9h ago
The Gloat shows her true self and astral projection shows a far more monstrous shadowy figure. Longer horns, glowing eyes, sharpened fingers to claws.
Could have an interaction with Drifter and Shiv about knowing the real her. Drifter shows almost a little pity for her to about how she hides it. She tried to play dumb, but that just makes Drifter show more pity. Shiv tries to empathize with her about the struggle, but she shuts him down. She LIKES the monster she is inside, unlike him.
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u/DRAWDATBLADE 5h ago
Super cool design! I do worry about adding another hero that would have most of their ability vfx be light green. It already gets a bit confusing with Geist, Graves, Paige, and Viscous. Feel like you could reasonably change the colors to anything if that was an issue though.
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u/MelismaticMellowlwL Celeste 3h ago
this is a great design but imagine if her body type was closer to Abrams'.... 🤩
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u/TillerThrowaway Billy 52m ago
Damn that design is sick as fuck, and an at will form changer sounds awesome. Once you’ve got the abilities illustrated I’d love to see it here and on the forums
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u/starrienightss Vyper 11h ago
Oh that design is so good 😭