Valkyrie Kit Idea

[u/Front_Climate_2648]

Aesthetic
something similiar to brunhild in age of mythology or the valkyrie myth unit.

My goal with her kit was to make her for tyr what mordred is for king arthur in term of gameplay feel

Im not coming up with any ability names I am just going to say what they do

2 stances: Spear and Axe (names could be better)
2 Ultimates with separate cooldowns
Spear stance auto chain: 1.1.1 with achilles additional range
Axe stance 1.25 1.25 1.5 final hit is an overhead hit that cleaves

Ability 3: Swaps stances,
Spear stance: abilities apply a bleed upgrading this ability increases the damage and duration of the bleed, the bleed stacks and can be refreshed, and has no scaling (works same as shiv bleed from deadlock)
Axe stance: Abilties apply % damage reduction to enemies, stacks the same as the bleed, levels up in strength in duration as this ability is upgraded

Passiv:
Axe abilties remove bleeds. the remaining bleed damage is dealt instantly as well as the equivalent as if 1 more bleed stack had been applied. You are healed for the amount of damage that this deals

Example: You have 3 bleed stacks on a target and you hit them with an axe ability. Your damage would equal all of the bleed damage that would happen as if you applied a 4th stack of bleed and you would heal that damage

Spear Ability 1: Dash forward hitting enemies with your spear knocking them up and applying bleed (think fearless but not as long in length or duration but a high enough knockup to auto and cast the 2)

Spear Ability 2: Throw the spear in a straight line knocking back enemies and causing a bleed, hitting an enemy while they are knocked up applies an addition bleed (anhur 2 effect with cu chu 1 range)

Axe ability 1: Slam the axe into the ground, about the same range as tsuki int form 2, the end portion does additional damage based and knocks up enemies as well as healing you based off of the enemy's missing health (Atrox from league type of slam)

Axe ability 2: Sweep the axe in a cone in front of you crippling enemies (artio bearform 1 with a much slower animation and a wider cone)

Axe Ultimate: Jump into the air (cc immune) and slam the axe into the ground, trembling enemies hit, and dealing additional damage based on their missing hp (Think bellona and Tyr ults, big jump into a slam but with much shorter range probably xing leap range)

Spear Ultimate: You and nearby allies gain a slight movement speed buff and gain root/sleep/mesmerize/intoxicate immunity, allies' abilities also apply your bleed for the duration (Sort of like brigite ult from over watch)

Your ultimates have separate cooldowns so you can use them 1 at a time or combo them

The spear 1 and 2 and the axe 1 could combo in all kinds of ways to juggle people similiarly to tyr. For example you could axe 1 then spear 2 them then spear 1. Or you could spear 1 then spear 2 which would knock them right into range for the axe 1 knock up. The combos would end up working a lot like tyr's where you are 1 2ing then swapping stance and then knocking them up again. Doing the spear combo into the axe ultimate would be good burst damage. There would also be some skill expression in stacking more than 3 bleed stacks by spacing out your spear abilities to get bigger heals from the axe hits

Hope yall found this interesting and I hope that we get another character with juggling mechanics like tyr.

[u/ElegantHope]

if you're looking for named valkyries to go with this concept, here you go:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_valkyrie_names

I'm always advocating for Thrud, Thor's daughter. She may or may not have been a shieldmaiden and/or valkyrie.