Satori Komeiji [Touhou hero concept]

art illustrated by きぃら～☆３日目Z35b

Satori Komeiji the Third Eyed Maiden COMPLEXITY ◆◆◆ Support ◆◆◆ Nuker ◆◆◇ Disabler ◆◇◇ Str 18 + 1.7 Agi 12 + 1.7 Int 22 + 3.8 280 2 RANGED 600 MORE STATS Health H regen Mana M regen Armor Atk Spd Damage Magic resist : : : : : : : : : BASE 200 0 75 0 2 100 20 - 26 25% -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Movement Turn rate Vision range Attack range Projectile Spd. Attack Ani. B.A.T. Collision Legs : 280 : 0.7 : 1800/800 : 600 : 1200 : 0.40 + 0.35 : 1.7 : 24 : 2

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HERO SUMMARY:

Satori Komeiji is a very unconventional hero that can significantly alter how the game is played just by existing at the hero selection screen! She is feared even by the spirits as her abilities to manipulate the mind and death^[1] makes her a real threat to get even close to her. Memory Vice is a potent ability that makes the target re-experience every damage they just received, potentially doubling the damage burst of her entire team. Concentration Cracker is her passive aura and attack modifier that serves to ruin any hostile potential. It increases cast points, inflates mana loss, and slows attack speed by disturbing their mind's focus!

Recollection is a unique ability that allows Satori to replicate an allied spell. It's similar to Spell Steal, but stolen spells only last 8 seconds or until she cast it once. She also cannot replicate allied ultimates and the cooldown changes based on the cooldown of the borrowed spell. Finally, Death God's Contract is her ultimate ability that bypasses death, resurrecting an already dead ally to immediately join the fray once more! Usage must be with caution. If the resurrected ally falls at the hands of foes, Satori will die with a much longer respawn timer!

All-in-all, Satori's design employs heavy focus on amplifying her allies' strengths! Memory Vice amplifies allied damage, Recollection doubles allied spells, and Death God's Contract gives allies a second fighting chance! Meanwhile, Concentration Cracker mitigates the enemies' strengths.

PROS : Can combo with just about anyone. Disrupts enemy combos and spell casting attempts. The third Rubick! Can resurrect dead allies! All of those even without an item!

CONS : Heavily reliant on her teammates. Squishy with no escape abilities. Stolen spells are worse than their original. 2 channeling abilities. Overall, a difficult hero to both balance and master.

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(innate) Death Butterflies Whenever and wherever an allied hero dies, their death location will be marked by a tombstone emitting a very thin pink pillar of light. It also has pink and black butterflies fluttering around it. Lasts as long as that hero is dead. The tomb doesn't grant vision. NOTES : Has no effect other than to provide quality of life forDeath God's Contract targeting mechanic. Pillars are visible to enemies. the pillars have the lowest selection priority on mouse hover. Except only toDeath God's Contract targeting cursor, which it has highest priority.

[Q] Memory Vice Deals damage equal to all damages the target received in the past 2 (4) seconds (after reductions). ABILITY DAMAGE TYPE PIERCES IMMUNITY? CAST POINT CAST RANGE : TARGET UNIT : VARIED : NO : 0.6 (0.3) + 0.2 : 500 / 575 / 650 / 725 (900 / 975 / 1050 / 112520) Damage re-deal Re-dealt Time MANA COOLDOWN : 100% : 2 (4) : 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 : 20 / 16 / 12 / 8 "The past beats like a second heart" NOTES : Also includes damage dealt by the target's allies. Can only re-deal the 3 damage types. Heals and HP Removal are not re-dealt. This means damage from Sunder, False Promise, Soul Ring, etc. are not part of this spell's damage calculation. Uses damage received after all reductions. Which means the damage is reduced again by the target's resistances, but can also be amplified again this time by Satori's own amplifications.

[w] Concentration Cracker AURA: Satori's influence to the mind disrupts an enemy's attempt to cast spells. Each of their spell cast points are increased. PASSIVE: Units hit by Satori's basic attacks gets a debuff that increases their mana loss and reduces their attack speed. ABILITY PIERCES IMMUNITY? AURA RADIUS : PASSIVE : NO : 1200 Cast Point Increase Debuff duration Mana Loss Inflation Attack Speed Loss 25 Attack Mana Burn : 0.07 / 0.14 / 0.21 / 0.28 : 5 : 10% / 15% / 20% / 25% : 10 / 25 / 40 / 55 : 120 Her hypnotism is so great, not even the greatest shrine maiden can do anything right. NOTES : Disfocus aura : UNDISPELLABLE Attack debuff : dispellable (basic) Affects spells that don't normally have any cast points. Does NOT affect spells that cannot charge a Magic Stick. like sub-spells, or innate actives. Mana loss inflation is just the opposite of mana loss reduction. If you're curious, mana loss modifiers stack additively. There should be a visual and/or audio when the enemy hero is affected by the cast point increase. So they wouldn't think the cast point increase is just their computer being "laggy".

[E] Recollection Satori channels into the mind of an allied (or enemy) hero to learn their arcanery. After the channel, Satori learns the target's last cast non-ultimate ability but can only be cast once. This spell's channel time and cooldown depends on the on the duplicated spell's base cooldown. ABILITY PIERCES IMMUNITY? CAST POINT CAST RANGE : TARGET HERO : NO : 0.01 + 0.0 : 900 (150020) Base Channel Time Duplicated Spell's CD added to Channel Duplicated Spell's CD added to Cooldown Recollection Duration MANA COOLDOWN : 0.1 : 10% (0%) : 100% (0%) : 15 : 60 / 40 / 20 / 0 : 14+ / 10+ / 6+ / 2+ A powerful mind-reader and a fast learner, she can replicate anyone's abilities just by visiting their thoughts. NOTES : Spell Duration : UNDISPELLABLE Charges only refer to spell charges that are used to cast spells. Other kinds of charges (i.e. Soul charges for Requiem of Souls) will use the number of charges the enemy has when it was stolen. Base cooldown: the original cooldown of the spell not modified by cooldown reductions nor talents. The recollected spell last until cast or the recollection duration timed out, whichever is shorter. The spell is not earned if the channel is interrupted. The level of the borrowed spell depends on the level the target had it when it was borrowed. Unlike Rubick, Satori keeps the spell's original cast points.

[D] Recollected Spell Slot Satori's recollected spell goes here.

[F] Recollected Spell Slot The sub-spell / 2nd spell of Satori's recollected spell goes here. (if any)

[R] Death God's Contract PASSIVE: Reduces Satori's respawn time. ACTIVE: Resurrects a fallen allied hero after a channel, summoning them in front of her. That hero's respawn timer pauses but is treated as alive for the duration. If that hero or Satori dies, the pact ends, instantly killing whoever is the other one alive. If Satori dies this way, her respawn time increased by the contracted ally's remaining respawn time. The resurrected hero's return to death is NOT subject to any on-death triggers; they will simply resume their respawn time from before. Can target living allies, which are just teleported to Satori and nothing else. ABILITY CAST POINT CAST RANGE : TARGET POINT / UNIT : 0 + 0 : Global Respawn Time Reduction Channel Time Spawn distance Pact Duration 15Resurrected bonus stats MANA COOLDOWN : 10% / 20% / 30% : 4.5 : 150 : 20 / 25 / 30 : 10 : 300 / 450 / 600 : 160 / 150 / 140 (110 / 100 / 9025) While already having left underworldly matters, she remain to have a great influence on the rules of death.[1] NOTES : Targeting method: Ground target - Targets the dead ally with closest death location. Unit target - Can directly target living heroes (except herself); the effects depend only if the target is alive after the channeling. Can target allies from the topbar. Cannot target resurrecting allies. Like from Aegis of the Immortal or Supernova. The contracted ally, when contract ended or is killed, will NOT trigger on-death effects, which includes, but are not limited to: kill experience, gold loss, Aegis of the Immortal reincarnation, Bloodstone charge loss, Bloodrage heal, and many others. If the target ally respawned before the channeling ends, the effect treats the target as living, and thus, teleports them to Satori with no contract made. If Satori dies because the contracted ally is killed, Satori's killer will go to whoever killed that ally. Satori won't die if the pact naturally ended its duration or if she manually ended the contract.

[R] End Contract Ends the current contract, resuming the hero's death from before. No one is credited for the re-death of that hero as it will not trigger on-death effects. ABILITY CAST POINT : NO TARGET : 1.5 + 0.0 MANA COOLDOWN : 0 : 0 NOTES : This ability replacesDeath God's Contract so long as its effects are active.

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Talents LVL 25 LVL 20 LVL 15 LVL 10 : : : : Concentration Cracker 120 Mana Break +400 Memory Vice cast Range +60 Attack Speed +150 Health || OR || || OR || || OR || || OR || -50s Death God's Contract cooldown +600 Recollection cast Range Death God's Contract resurrected hero +10 all stats +8% Spell Amp NOTES : Concentration Cracker 120 Mana Break ▼ Mana break on illusions : 60 Mana burned as damage : 80% Applies the mana loss inflation debuff first, then the mana loss.

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AGHANIM'S SCEPTER Upgrades Recollection. Allows targeting of enemy heroes. Targeting allies resurrected by Death God's Contract removes the increased Channel Time and Cooldown. Also upgrades recollected spells to their Agh's Scepter level.

AGHANIM'S SHARD Upgrades Memory Vice. Reduces cast point and improves re-dealt Time. Also upgrades recollected spells to their Agh's Shard level.

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COMMENTS / ADVANCED DISCUSSION :

Memory Vice is her most basic ability. Basically a reverse Time Walk. It has low cooldown for mediocre range but has very expensive mana cost for a spell whose damage is so unreliable. Something noteworthy: IfMemory Vice got less than 1.4 cooldown, she can technically re-deal the damage fromMemory Vice itself again and all over again! Got a juicy 1000 damage from the first cast? Now you can reliably deal 1000+ damage every 3 seconds from now on!
Memory Vice is not as powerful as you think as easy it is for you to dismiss. We must consider the fact that (look back at the notes) it re-deals the damage as it was received by the enemy after all reductions. For example, 800 total burst magic damage is strong, yes? Subtracting it from 25% magic resist is 600. This means Memory Vice deals 600 raw magic damage, it will be reduced by another 25%. This makes an exponential feedback the more resistances an enemy has. Simply getting Cloak makes this 600 Memory Vice damage into 510 damage, which will then be reduced again. Furthermore, actual situations where a team deals 800 damage in 3 seconds is decently scarce. Either your team can already kill it without you or you're just on your way to killsteal, which won't be appreciated since Satori is a support.

Concentration Cracker has a mechanic that I have never seen used in a concept before (though I'm confident I'm not the first to do this). Modified cast points! Although we can just call it a "non-interrupting stun on every ability cast". It'll definitely ruin a player's experience but hopefully not by too much. I personally think the value is too low but I believe the pros can abuse this. Overall, this ability can disrupt casters and right-clickers alike.

WithRecollection, she becomes the 3rd Rubick, (because Morphling was the 2nd). Some spells will be better than others, as she primarily depends on allies so the effectiveness of this ability varies from draft to draft.

Death God's Contract is designed against trolls focusing the punishing effects on Satori herself for resurrecting their ally in a bad way, one of the reasons why the resurrected ally cannot trigger on-death effects. The other reasons that this ability ignores death triggers are: problem interaction with Reincarnation, prevents insta-double-kills 'cause Satori will already die with the ally, and the motto "you can't kill a dead person."
You might think that this spell might be too powerful if a 6-slotted carry was resurrected "there's no way! We worked hard killing that carry! Now we need to kill him again!?" Remember: 1, That is exactly the power fantasy of this ability; 2, or just kill Satori herself; 3, or don't make her finish that channeling in he first place, if Satori wants to get her carry back into action ASAP, then she must be nearby; 4, Or just retreat until the pact naturally ends, if done right, you've just successfully added up to 35 seconds to his respawn time!

End Contract has a deliberately long cast point to prevent last second denies by Satori once she finds her resurrected ally is in danger. So a little bit of prediction and risk assessment is a must-have skill should you dared to use her.

GAMEPLAY :

Satori is best suited to a life of a position 4-5. She'll need mana, due toMemory Vice being an expensive ability on a 6 second cooldown.

Satori's whole idea is to be the all-round combo hero. She can directly combo with any core hero she so chooses.Memory Vice,Recollection, andDeath God's Contract is a testament to the way she uniquely enables an ally and perhaps the entire draft! Dealing damage depending on the draft's damage, recasting abilities depending on the draft's abilities, and extending an ally's prowess depending on their capabilities!

ITEMIZATION :

CORE : Your standard support items, but focused on life saving and mana.

• Aether Lens ~ Pretty much the most core item she'll ever need. She needs to keep her distance. It also boost some stolen spells byRecollection.
• Arcane Boots ~ self-explanatory.
• Glimmer Cape ~ A cheap basic support item that allows her to escape and save an ally, which is important forDeath God's Contract.
• Medallion of Courage ~ Another life-saving item and gives durability for herself as well.
• Force Staff ~ Another generic support item for survivability of herself and ally.

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CHANGELOGS:

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CREDITS:

• Head image illustrated by きぃら～☆３日目Z35b
• Icons all from game-icons.net
• "The past beats like a second heart" is a quote by John Banville, in his book, "The Sea". Link to quote
• Satori Komeiji is a character of the Touhou project, property of Team Shanghai Alice.
• Many of the "custom heroes" in the Recollection table are not mine! They're from other fellow concept creators. You should check out at least some of them.

[1] There's no canonity to her ability to manipulate death, but since she lives in what used to be THE hell, she must hold some influence prior. Just a head-canon.