JILL "LUMBER" JACKSON - HCC (Your Dream Hero)

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A female strength based hero that specializes in chopping down trees and heroes alike. She can quickly fall trees to stun enemies and block their path. She can harvest trees to convert them to lumber to be sold for gold, but caring them comes at the expense of movement speed. Her bipolar nature means that she can be Focused or Furious and that affects her ability to hurl her axes at enemies. She can strike a single target for massive damage or do a small amount to damage a number units in front of her.
In the mountains beyond the Vale of Augury, lie magical and powerful woods. To the forces of nature, this is a sacred place, made to stay hidden and unknown. Yet inevitably the wider world grew aware of this untamed land, and with each passing winter, the outsiders grew bolder. Jill's family was one of first to arrive in this new land looking to harvest the forest and reap the rewards. They arrived with tools to cut and with flames to burn. Treant Protectors charged with keeping the peace in this dangerous land, ensure that none within encroach without reason and these outsiders were not welcome. It was there lone Protector that finally crushed the invaders. Jill, the only survivor, has vowed vengeance against all tress swearing one day to return to that valley and fall every tree to the ground.

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Primary Stat: STR Strength: 28 + 3.20 Agility: 8 + 1.60 Intelligence: 18 + 2.10

MOVEMENT SPEED: 325 TURN RATE: 0.7 SIGHT RANGE: 1800 / 800 ATTACK RANGE: 300 PROJECTILE SPEED: 500 ATTACK ANIMATION: 0.3 + 0.5 BASE ATTACK TIME: 1.6 BASE MAGIC RESISTENCE: 25% COLLISION SIZE: 24 LEGS: 2

LEVEL 1 15 25 HIT POINTS 760 1656 2296 MANA 291 644 896 DAMAGE 57 - 63 102 - 108 134 - 140 ARMOR 1 4 7 STAT RESISTENCE 4 11 16

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Timber

Do not say I did not warn you.

Select a tree a distance away then select the direction it will fall. Damaging enemy units and blocking the path.

ABILITY: Unit Target Vector Target
MANA COST: 100 / 60 / 40 / 20
AFFECTS: Trees
DAMAGE TYPE: Physical
PIERCES SPELL IMMUNITY: No
DAMAGE: 10 / 50 / 100 / 150
CHARGES: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
CHARGE REPLENISH TIME: 45
CAST RANGE: 200 / 300 / 400 / 500
TIMBER DURATION: 8
STUN DURATION: 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75

Harvest

The forest belongs to me!

Clears an area of forest destroying the trees and converting the trees to Lumber.
Lumber is a new item
Lumber can be sold for 50 gold/stack
Lumber reduces movement speed by 10 / stack

ABILITY: Point Target
MANA COST: 100 / 80 / 60 / 40
COOLDOWN: 80
AFFECTS: Trees
RADIUS: 250 / 325 / 400 / 475
CAST RANGE: 600

Forest Walk

No tree can stand in my way.

This innate ability allows Jill to move around the forest with ease providing unobstructed movement through trees.

ABILITY: Passive
AFFECTS: Self

Focus

If Jill is shifted to Focus then Hurlbats' cooldown, mana cost, damage, stun duration, and travel distance are increased while the number of targets, and ending radius are decreased based on the amount she is focused.

ABILITY: Toggle
AFFECTS: Self
SHIFT RATE: 5% / 10% / 15% / 20%
HURLBATS' MANA COST: 100
HURLBATS' COOLDOWN: 40
HURLBATS' NUMBER OF TARGETS: 1
HURLBATS' DAMAGE: 400 / 600 / 800
HURLBATS' END RADIUS: 100
HURLBATS' TRAVEL DISTANCE: 1000
HURLBATS' STUN DURATION: 6

Fury

If Jill is shifted to Fury then Hurlbats' cooldown, manacost, damage, stun duration, and travel distance are decreased while the number of targets, and ending radius are increased based on the amount she is furious.

ABILITY: Toggle
AFFECTS: Self
SHIFT RATE: 5% / 10% / 15% / 20%
HURLBATS' MANA COST: 25
HURLBATS' COOLDOWN: 5
HURLBATS' NUMBER OF TARGETS: 9
HURLBATS' DAMAGE: 25
HURLBATS' END RADIUS: 700
HURLBATS' TRAVEL DISTANCE: 200
HURLBATS' STUN DURATION: 0.1

Hurlbats

Jill's bipolar nature dose have its benefits

Jill throws her axes in front of her doing a lot of damage to a small area or a little damage in a large area. Focus & Fury causes a % shift in Hurlbats' attributes based on what is current amount of Focus or Fury.

ABILITY: Point Target
AFFECTS: Enemy Units
DAMAGE TYPE: Physical
PIERCES SPELL IMMUNITY: Yes
MANA COST: 20
COOLDOWN: 35
NUMBER OF TARGETS: 5
DAMAGE: 100
STARTING RADIUS: 200
END RADIUS: 700
TRAVEL DISTANCE: 400
STUN DURATION: 1


10: Gain XP 15% Or 5 Armour
15: +25 Attack Speed Or 10% Cooldown Reduction
20: +2s Timber Duration Or +2 Timber Charges
25: +600 Mana Or +50 Strength


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For this contest, my dream hero was to create a Female Strength Support hero (I know almost a contradiction of words). I wanted to also highlight how vector targeting can be used in a new way. I like the protentional of this hero to start out as support and transition into a core late game.

Strengths Great mobility Good chase and stickiness Scouting power Farm the jungle!

Weaknesses Takes time spent not attacking / pushing / etc. to farm trees Micro control of Fury and Focus is required to get it "just right" Not much team utility

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Big thanks to Mike Peace for the Jill the Jack artwork.
I would also like to thank CanadianChicken for his theorycraft
I'm also extremely grateful to everyone who gave me feedback and ideas to realize the concept.



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Thanks for reading my submission for the "Your Dream Hero" hero creation contest.

Remove the gold collecting ability.

Change the tree walking skill to be anything but a passive. I might be reading it wrong but the only way to stop her from doing this is to break her passives with something like Silver Edge. It would be better if this was a long lasting skill or something; basically there needs to be a weakness in the skill. Think of Broodmother, she has basically 100% up-time on unobstructed walking but it restricts her to specific areas of the map.

Otherwise the hero is pretty fun!

1. The gold collecting ability is here to stay, learn to love it!
2. I am currently not sold on the Forest Walk (It may become an activated or Aghanim's Scepter upgrade or be removed completely)

The gold collecting skill is bad for a few reasons.

1. Most notably is the changes it makes to the in-game economy. Notice that in almost all game play patches Valve adjusts how much gold is distributed by creeps, neutrals, runes, kill gold, assist gold, Greevil's Greed gold, Track gold, and Hand of Midas gold. The economy is very delicate and is something they are always trying to tweak to make balanced. There's no easy way to say if this skill is balanced or if it adds/subtracts from the game in a meaningful way.

2. It promotes solo play. There was a pretty good reason why they removed Iron Talon from the game. And there's another pretty good reason why almost everyone hates having a jungler on their team. This skill is in that vein.

3. It ruins the laning phase. Whether this hero is in the off lane or the safe lane she can win her lane, even is she loses it.

If you insist on keeping this skill, you should at the very least, provide more detail. You get 50 gold per stack, how much lumber is a stack? You can't transfer lumber to an ally but can the courier pick it up? Is the courier slowed by lumber? Does lumber in the backpack count as lumber that slows you? Does the lumber on the ground (I assume it spawns on the ground) ever despawn or does it remain there all game?