Spiral Knights - Introducing Gratom !

Introducing Gratom !

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Mon, 07/07/2014 - 12:18

Gigaslash

Before I begin, this is my first suggestion thread, so please do tell me if I'm doing something wrong...
Well then, without further ado:-

Introducing the mysterious Gratom!!!

Well then, without any more ado (is that even grammatically correct? XD ) lets get on to specifics, shall we?

GRATOM
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The Gratom is a mysterious battle sprite, who focuses on buffing knights around it while debuffing it's foes.

Gratom is practically a little blue blob with big cute eyes and a single ring (representing the orbit of an atom) around it. Gratom's name if you were wondering is a combination of gravity and atom :P As mentioned in its description, it focuses on buffing the player. Let's get into his skills now, shall we?

Power Ring
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Gratom summons the ring around his body and throws it forth unto enemies, providing his knight with buffs.

Well, not much more to that eh? The ring thrown would be able to go through multiple enemies (much like the lasers from those turrets in the Winterfest mission). Its range would be equivalent to that of the Seraphynx's Ray of Light skill, its range becoming equivalent to the Drakons fire ball when its range is fully upgraded. Unlike RoL, it can only hit an enemy once. For each enemy hit, your knight gets a small 8 second buff ( if one enemy is hit, you get a defense buff. 2 enemies=defense and attack buff, and 3= all 3, defense speed and attack. ) The ring can go on and hit as many enemies as there are in its range, but will provide only the 3 mentioned buffs.

Lets move on to its augments.

Focus
Reduces time for cool down of skill.
Range
Increases range of the ring.
Potency
Increases the time you get your buffs for ( from 8 seconds to 11 seconds to 14 seconds )

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DEBUFF FIELD
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Gratom manipulates both the gravity around and the molecular structure of those foes in its range, debuffing their stats.

This skill ... debuffs :U
What happens here is Gratom unleashes a sort of "haze" in a cone shaped radius in front of it. This haze debuffs the enemies attack stat.
I still haven't worked out the cone's coverage, so please do excuse me...

Now then, augments

Focus
... you know what this does :U
Extra Debuff
Adds another debuff to the enemy:- if upgraded once, the enemy also gets a defense debuff, and if upgraded twice a speed debuff too. The third upgrade would increase the debuff time I guess :/ )
Range
Further increases the range of the field.
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You also ought to know how its look changes when it evolves eh?

Upon evolving at level 15, Gratom acquires a second ring or orbit around it, its 2 orbits now making an "X" around its body.

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GRAVITATIONAL FLUX
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Gratom uses all of its molecular and gravitational power, completely distorting the power of gravity and magnifying it by an alarming amount around itself.

Practically, all enemies within a certain radius around our little round friend have their speed reduced to 55% because of the power of gravity ( good job Newton :U ). The Gravity...is...too...strong...

Augments:-

Focus
Reduce cool down etc.etc... you've heard it enough times eh?
Gravitational Power
Increases the radius of the skill.
Gravitational Grasp
Increases the duration of the skill.

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Once again, how it looks after evolution

We're gonna go ahead and give the fellow a third ring, this one going though the center of him.

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But wait! We're not done yet guys! Time for the Ultimate skills (echo: skillz skillz skillzzzz...)

Heck ya, lets get to it.

Power Ring
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Lifesteal Ring

Restores 1 heart per enemy hit. (Gives Gratom prismatic glow eyes.)

Explosive Ring

Marks all enemies hit, and after the ring reaches the end of its range and explodes, all marked enemies do too. (Gives it a sorta iron ring oround it.)

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Debuff Field
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Debuff Vector

Makes the debuff "contagious", leading it to be spread from enemy to enemy. To make this not so OP, the time of the debuff is constant (i.e , a slag with 5 seconds of Debuff left will spread 5 seconds to other monsters, not the full amount of time.) This skill gives Gratom prismatic plasma wings (aw ya).

Explosive Debuff

After the monster's debuff is over, it (surprise) explodes. Why so many explosions? Cuz Gratom is an atom. Ya know, atom bomb? Atom? Ah, nevermind ._. This skill gives Gratom anti personal spikes. (aw ya again).

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Gravitational Flux
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Gravitational Aura

Even after exiting the radius of gravitational doom, enemies are still slowed down , until the skill ends. This skill provides Gratom with a sorta Atomic Aura, giving him 2 semi transparent rings which constantly revolve and rotate about him.

Extreme Flux

All enemies in the radius don't slow down. They stop moving all together (they still do attack, so its like a mini freeze).
This skill provides out little buddy with a... how do i explain...
You know that aura around Gran Faust and Divine Avenger? Ya, it gives Gratom something like that. But prismatic. Yay.

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Gratom eats Moon/atomic(don't know which sounds better ._. ) Food (from moonstone) \(._.\)

How do we obtain this little fella? I was thinking maybe you could get him bound from Brinks in return for say 300 Jelly Gems (since he kinda looks like a round blob of jelly with rings etc). I'm not sure though. Why don't you tell me in the comment section ;)

Welp. Hope ya like my idea. I WOULD post a picture of him but I won't for 2 defined reasons :-

1) I'm a horrid artist XD
2) I have no idea how to post pictures on the forum ._.

Suggestion? Love em. Please do leave em. btw, I also have an idea for a valestone sprite, known as the Fennect... if you liked Gratom, I'll go on and post him up too :D

Have a great day guys.

- Gigaslash :D

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 07:49

Gigaslash

Bump

Tue, 07/15/2014 - 06:33

Dracora-Speaking

I like it in general

Rather well thought-out. There's lots of sprite ideas out there, and I'm sure SK has their own ideas - but these abilities/skills are certainly something that could be added to the game via other non-sprite means (new weapons/pickups etc.), if SK doesn't take this particular sprite idea.

I won't bother talking balance, since I can't give a very legitimate opinion on that sort of thing without actually using the item in the field.

I like the design in general. I like blue and I like round things. (This means I get a pokeball in XY).

IMO, it would be nice if SK had a "sprite design" competition and then did a "bracket tournament" voting system of the submitted ideas with the player community. I like to feel involved, ya know?

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 05:59

Gigaslash

Yesh

I feels good to know you like the it :)

And I agree, it would be cool if 000 made a sprite contest :D

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 06:42

Flame-Shinobi

Very good Idea! I would definitely try to get one. Unless they cost a metric ton of cash. Then I won't. I think the jelly gem obtainment is a good idea. But it might need to cost more that 300 I dunno.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 07:15

Gigaslash

I m glad you like it :)

I m glad you liked it :)
300 jelly gems is 100 runs, so I m fairly sure it would be a good amount ;P perhapse I could make it 350 :o

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 15:36

Pandafishie

The name reminds me of Pokemon.

Thu, 07/17/2014 - 06:26

Gigaslash

Perhaps because like most

Perhaps because like most Pokemon names, gratom is a combination of 2 words :P

Fri, 07/18/2014 - 12:31

Ra-Horakty

More ideas!

Perhaps for one of his ultimates, you get him to death mark enemies? That would be cool.

Fri, 07/18/2014 - 13:04

Ra-Horakty

Maybe this will help?

Through your description, I drew Gratom as I imagined him through an app on my computer.

Sat, 07/19/2014 - 06:12

#10

Gigaslash

Hey ra
Deathmarking foes actually would be cool! Which ultimate were you thinking of replacing for it?

Also...that picture?
It looks exactly 100% like how I imagined him o.o
Credits to you my friend :)

Sun, 07/20/2014 - 10:12

#11

Ra-Horakty

For the death mark, the 3rd

For the death mark, the 3rd ability would fit. Maybe you could replace one of the ultimate for that? Maybe gravitational aura? Instead of keeping them slowed, you could just deathmark all enemies in radius of gravitational field? Description could be like: "Along with slowing enemies down, Gratom rearranges their bodies on a subatomic level, rendering them completely defenseless for a short time." Description sorta pulled from description of Dark matter bomb, which rearranges gremlins on a subatomic level.

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Introducing Gratom !