Stuke's God Ideas (#3): Sha Wujing

Sha Wujing, "The Sand Monk"
Chinese
Physical/Melee/Warrior
Lore: Before the "Journey to the West" Sha Wujing was know as the Curtain-Lifting General because his immense power when he's angered. During one of his fits of rage, he knocked over a valuable vase to the Jade Emperor and have been stabbed 800 times with rods and reincarnated as a man-eater sand demon exiled to Earth. Every day seven swords would come down from Heaven and stab the sand demon until he fled into the Sand River. When Xuanzang came along the river the demon resided in and ask if he wanted to take part in the "Journey to the West". He agreed and became the luggage carrier for the Buddhist and his disciples. When the Buddhist collected the sutra, Sha Wujing was awarded the title of Arhat for his good nature and his goodwill during the quest. When the Monkey King took off to fight in the battle of the gods, Sha Wujing headed out to help in the fight to protected those he cares about.

Passive: Golden Child: Sha Wujing gains physical power for 20% for his protection. Every kill or assist he gets on an enemy god gives him a stack of protection.
10% Physical Protection converted to power.
10% Magical Protection converted power.
10 Physical and Magical Protection per Stack (Max. 9 Stacks)

Ability 1: Sand Trap: Sha Wujing can move sand in an area and root any enemy god that stand in the circle of the sand trap when activated for the duration. Duration .8/ .9/ 1/ 1.1/ 1.2

Ability 2: Monk Spade: Sha Wujing swipes his spade forward creating a water blade that fly's forward. The water blade can go thought player generated stuctures and crippling any enemy hit for a duration. Damage: 80/120/160/200/240 (+60% of your physical power) Duration: 2

Ability 3: Water Bomb: Sha Wujing slams down a ball of condensed water, creating a wave of water surrounding his area. The wave knocking up any enemy and heals him for the number of enemy gods hit by the wave. Damage: 80/140/200/260/320 (+60% of your physical power) Healing: 40/ 45/ 50/ 55/ 60 per enemy max of three.

Ability: Curtain-Lifting Rage: Sha Wujing gets worked into a rage, his protections are increased by 20% and is cc immune for a duration, the duration of Curtain-Lifting Rage is increased the more he gets attacked. Duration: 6 seconds Protection: 10/12/14/16/20

I like the passive idea, stacking protections that give him some power as well.

The root feels too short, and that ability can do something a bit more instead of just a basic CC.

Ability 2 seems too weird for me and idk why. Give me cripple duration or change the CC to something else. Maybe stacking a slow on it as well would make it better. (Dont go overboard though)

3 sounds nice as well. Does it knock up all enemies in an area around you or an area that you choose? Also you might want to reduce the healing by just a bit.

4 works well with his passive, but could be a bit more in my opinion. Sounds like a buff, could be made into an aura? Like he gives protections to his allies?

Im assuming the niche is a warrior that can effectively box? Or chase? Cause all the CC sounds like it fits that category.

Passive is interesting, Vamana-y but with a nice additional passive of passive stacks that seems cool. He sounds more or less balanced, although as GGF said, the ult seems to be a bit lacking, although if you give it a low enough cooldown it'd be viable.

Only thing about this concept is that the abilities and passive all feel really similar to things already in smite :/ The main idea here that I really like is the cripple on his 2 since with all the escapes in the game, we could use more cripples, and the ultimate since it feels like what Ravana's ulti should more closely be.

Overall it's a solid concept but it feels like most of the abilities take their ideas from abilities already in the game. I do like how the abilities and passive play into the character's lore though ^^

I agree with what you're saying, and I designed both Wujing and Wuneng under the idea of if SWK was more damage oriented (Wuneng) or more defensive oriented (Wujing) and I took some liberties in their kits because they either have similar abilities to SWK from Journey to the West or almost useless for the game.

Ah, well I suppose that makes sense then. You ever played Enslaved: Odyssey to the west? Was a fun SWK inspired game, your comment just made it come to mind.

I played that one a bit. Didn't finish it, but was a very pretty game.

Interesting takes based off of swk, Stuke. I'm so horribly non-creative that I probably could never up with this stuff.

I have it on my shelve from my PS3 actually. I like it, but I got distracted with other games.