Damballa by redmist456
Use your shedding health to protect yourself and your allies. Coil and toil, or summon the great Dusts of Creation to abate the damage from your enemies.
Passive Ability
Shedding Health
PASSIVE: DAMBALA stores [ 35% (+1% per Level) ] of the damage he takes as Shedding Health on his health bar. He can store up to 150% of his maximum health.
After 4 seconds without taking damage, DAMBALA rapidly consumes his Shedding Health to restore his health equal to [ 45% (+2.75% per Level) HP ] of the amount of Shedding Health that he has.
Primary Abilities
COIL OF 7000 STARS
ACTIVE: DAMBALA dashes forward, dealing [ 60 / 100 / 140 / 180 / 220 (+40% MP) ] damage to enemies he passes through, as well as rooting them for [ 1.0 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2.0 Seconds ] . This may be cast even if Cosmic Constriction is being channeled.
ABILITY NOTES
Type: Dash
Distance: 27ft
Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 Mana
Cooldown: 15 seconds
COSMIC CONSTRICTION
ACTIVE: DAMBALA channels and begins coiling in a large area, slowing enemies inside for [ 25% for 2 seconds ] . After [ 2 seconds ] , DAMBALA constricts, pulling all enemies inside to the center of the area and dealing [ 80 / 140 / 200 / 260 / 320 (+45% MP) ] damage.
ABILITY NOTES
Type: Area
Radius: 32ft
Cost: 50 Mana
Cooldown: 15 seconds
VIPER HUSK
ACTIVE: DAMBALLA dashes backwards and molts his skin, consuming all Shedding Health that he has and leaving behind a Viper Husk that lasts for [ 5 seconds ] . This husk blocks enemy movement. The Viper Husk can take up to [ 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 ] instances of damage before breaking.
DAMBALLA or his allies may pass through the Viper Husk , absorbing the deployed Viper Husk . By doing so, they will gain a shield equal to [ 25% (capped at 500 HP) ] of the Shedding Health that was consumed.
ABILITY NOTES
Type: Reversed Dash
Distance: 15ft
Cost: 50/60/70/80/90 Mana
Cooldown: 18/17/16/15/14 seconds
Ultimate Abilities
DUST OF CREATION
ACTIVE: DAMBALLA summons white-dusted winds from behind him. Any enemies caught in the gale are dealt [ 100 / 200 / 300 / 400 / 500 (+65% MP) ] damage and knocked forward in the direction of the wind. This leaves behind a wall of wind that blocks enemy movement and projectiles (except Objectives/Turrets) from passing through. The wind wall lasts for [ 5 Seconds ] .
ABILITY NOTES
Type: Ground Target
Size: 32ft Length
Cost: 110 Mana
Cooldown: 75 Seconds
Author Notes
Damballa is a Guardian who uses his Shedding Health as a means to survive longer in fights. Damballa offers a wide range of peel abilities, such as Coil of 7000 Stars and Cosmic Constriction to reposition or stop his foes dead in their tracks. He can also summon Viper Husks and the Dust of Creation to hinder enemy movement and damage, transforming the map to his benefit. Trick your enemies into thinking you are retreating, before using your Viper Husk to dash backwards, then following up with Dust of Creation to push them into danger (whether it be tower range or your ally's abilities).
Damballa is very tanky and has lots of peel and mobility, however, these same abilities can cause hindrances. For instance, Viper Husk consumes all of his Shedding Health. Use this window to counter attack. Shedding Health will also only restore health once Damballa is out of combat. Keep the snake busy, and his Shedding Health will be completely useless.
Who is Damballa?
Damballa is one of the most important loas in Voodoo myths, having created the world and is the progenitor of all life. Despite this, he doesn't hold particular importance towards his creation - rather, he acts distant and isolated. He is so old that even the concept of language eludes him, thus only speaking in whistles and hisses.
LORE
Dust - the primal progenitor of all things. In the beginning, only ashes and dust of some past distant world swirled in the vortex of chaos. Amidst this chaos, a lone divine serpent of Ashen Skin coiled, gathering the dust into usable, permanent earth.
No one knows why Damballa was moved to create the world in such a way. Perhaps he was always destined to do so. But how can a being, older than language, time, death, and even Fate itself, be fated to always create the world? No matter how many dreams are shattered and world lost to ashes, this snake always coils, and reshapes the world anew. Not to his whims or fancy, but it is a job that he must do.
So many wonder, then, what the great creator god is doing in the battlefield of the gods. Perhaps this is a signal that the shattering of this world will soon come, and this divine snake is merely doing his job - gathering the dust after all the fighting has settled down for the creation of a new world.
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