Imani

Imani
Summary
Title:	The Last Warder
Class:	Damage
Side:	Resistance
Group:	Warders
Release Date:	January 16, 2019
Cost:	60000 or 300
Voice lines:	Imani voice lines
Voice Actor:
Statistics
Health:	2200
Movement Speed:

Imani is one of the Champions in Paladins.

Lore

Long ago, there was chaos and war. The dragons ruled the Realm, and mankind was left to fight over the scraps. But one wise mage learned the dragon's secrets. She became the first Warder, the first to command a dragon. It was that Warder's actions which paved the way for the Paladins' golden age of peace. The Warders were thought to be dead and gone, a relic of a bygone age. But a beacon was lit in their ancient homeland, an alarm signal that the Warders were needed once again... If there were any left. Imani answered that call. Little is known about the Last Warder's past before she appeared in Dredge's treasure trove to recover her relics, but one thing is sure: She will uphold the legacy of her lineage, and stand against the darkness.

Summary

Imani is a complex yet versatile Damage Champion, capable of devastating enemies at all ranges and providing effective crowd control against both individual and grouped up enemies. Imani shifts between her Ice Stance and Fire Stance, altering her strengths and weaknesses and allowing players to be very diverse in their playing styles. Her attacks and abilities all generate mana that, when filled, will cause her next primary attack to be instant without the usual charge up. The instant shot can be performed in either stance regardless of which stance her mana was filled in. With her Ice Stance, Imani shoots frost bolts that slow enemies and cause average damage, effective at all ranges if timed properly. While in Ice stance, Imani can also fire her Frost Bomb, a huge lobbed orb of ice that gradually floats and descends through the air. Upon impact or when reactivated, the bomb will explode, causing damage and both crippling and rooting all enemies near its explosion. While in Fire Stance, Imani's primary attack switches to pyreballs, an attack that, when fully charged, does huge damage and can be extremely effective at long range and for finishing off injured enemies. Pyreball can be released and shot at any point during its charge, with its damage output increasing the longer it is charged. Her Fire stance alternative to the Frost Bomb is her Inferno Cannon, a constant billow of fire that locks Imani in place and does large gradual damage that is effective up to medium range and can be aimed in any direction during its duration. Her mobility ability, Frost Glide, can be used in any stance and combines her powers to allow her to surf through the air on a piece of ice. This ability has limited vertical movement and is slow while turning, so it must be effective maneuvered to avoid getting stuck on a wall and cancelling the ability. Her ult, Dragon's Call, summons a massive dragon to be controlled by the player while Imani's character remains immobile at the casting sight. The Dragon can fly throughout the battlefield, breathing a combination of fire and frost that has such a high damage output that very few champions can last longer than two seconds in its path. If Imani is found and killed while she is ulting, both her and the dragon will be defeated. Effective Imani players are incredibly destructive and intimidating, but her complexity is also her weakness if you can catch the player in close combat while they are in the wrong stance or on cooldown. Both Imani and her dragon are susceptible to the bulldozer item while ulting.

Skills

	Dragon Gauntlets Direct Damage [Frost] Frost Bolt – Sling a Frost Bolt that deals 650 damage and slows every 0.8s. [Fire] Pyre Ball – Charge a Pyre Ball over 1s that deals 1,000 damage at max charge. [Passive] Clearcast – As Imani deals damage she generates mana. When her mana is full, the next Frost Bolt or Pyre Ball she casts is instant.
Details When mana bar is full, it will fully decay over 20 seconds if Clearcast is not used. Pyre Ball does a minimum of 100 damage when not charged. Fully charged Pyre Ball generates ~20% of mana bar. The projectile hitbox of Pyre Ball gets bigger the more charged it is. Frost Bolt generates ~ 30% of mana bar. Has reduced accuracy while airborne. Pyreball has 1s charge time and 0.5s post-fire.

	Frost Bomb/Inferno Cannon Area Damage [Frost] Frost Bomb – Release an orb of Frost that deals 800 damage at max range, and roots enemies hit for 1.5s. Reactivating this ability mid-air detonates it. [Fire] Inferno Cannon – Unleash a torrent of piercing fire forward, dealing 110 damage every 0.09s over 3s.	20
Details Inferno Cannon locks your vertical position. Inferno Cannon without Swift Sear loadout card also prevents you from moving. Each damage tick of Inferno Cannon generates ~1.36% of mana bar. Frost Bomb locks you out of all other abilities until it detonates. Frost Bomb generates ~4% of mana bar per 100 damage dealt.

	Elemental Shift   Shift your elemental alignment, gaining access to new abilities.	10
Details Has a 1s cast time.

	Frostfire Glide   Imani channels both elements, gliding through the air for 3s.	12
Details Can be cancelled early by reactivating the skill. Travel speed is reduced while turning. Has limited upward movement. Other abilities can be used to cancel the ability 0.5s after the ability was activated.

	Dragons Call (Ultimate) Area Damage Summon and control a FrostFire breathing Draconic Avatar. The Draconic Avatar has its own control scheme. This ability is not affected by your elemental alignment.
Details Control scheme: LMB: FrostFire Breath Q or Space: Fly Up RMB or F: Fly Down Draconic Avatar has 7500 health. Draconic Avatar is a deployable, active for 20 seconds. Draconic Avatar is immune to crowd control. Draconic Avatar cannot strafe. Draconic Avatar cannot push the payload. Draconic Avatar cannot be healed. Draconic Avatar can be canceled by pushing the ultimate button again FrostFire Breath deals 170 damage very .1s. Summoning the dragon while Imani is standing on the payload, Imani moves on with the payload. Killing Imani will end the ultimate, killing the Avatar.

Talents

Splitting Ice

Default Talent

Frost Bolt bounces to an additional enemy.

Details

• Bounced Bolt deals 350 damage and does not slow.
• Bounced Bolt does not generate mana.

Pyromania

Unlocks at Mastery Level 2

Hitting twice with Pyre Ball will make your third Pyre Ball explode in an area.

Mana Rift

Unlocks at Mastery Level 8

After standing still for 1s, create a Mana Rift around you that generates Mana. Leaving the Mana Rift destroys it.

Details

• Generates mana by applying a 2s buff.
• Buff grants ~21% of mana bar per second.
• Buff allso heals you for 25 per second.

Cards

This is a list with all cards available to Imani:

Name	Image	Description	Cooldown
Affinity		Reduce the Cooldown of Elemental Shift by {1|1}s.
Ancient Duty		Increase your base maximum Health by {50|50}.
Arcane Flame		Increase Inforno Cannon's Mana contribution by {15|15}%.
Arcane Ice		Increase Frost Bomb's Mana contribution by {15|15}%.
Cooling Runes		Dealing damage with Frost Bolt reduces the Cooldown of Inferno Cannon by {0.5|0.5}s.
Discipline		Elemental Shift reduces the Cooldown of Frostfire Glide by {1|1}s.
Draconic Will		Elemental Shift reduces the Cooldown of Frost Bomb and Inferno Cannon by {1|1}s.
Elemental Barrier		Using Elemental Shift heals you for {100|100} Health.
Elemental Grace		Dropping to or below 50% Health grants a {100|100}hp Shield for 3s.	30
Heat Sink		Dealing damage with Pyreball reduces the Cooldown of Frost Bomb by {0.5|0.5}s.
Ice in her Veins		While in Frostfire Glide heal for {50|50} Health every second.
Mystic Fire		Generate {4|4}% Mana every second while in Frostfire Glide.
Permafrost		Increase the root duration of Frost Bomb by {0.2|0.2}s.
Pilgrimage		Increase Frostfire Glide's duration by {0.5|0.5}s.
Pyretic Momentum		Frostfire Glide travels {5|5}% faster.
Swift Sear		Increase your movement speed while casting Inferno Cannon by {20|20}%.

Pre-Built Loadout

All of the following cards are in Imani's pre-built loadout (every card in this deck is set to Level 3):

Warder's Duty

Elemental Grace

Dropping to or below 50% Health grants a 300hp Shield for 3s.

3

30

Affinity

Reduce the Cooldown of Elemental Shift by 3s.

3

Pilgrimage

Increase Frostfire Glide's duration by 1.5s.

3

Ice in her Veins

While in Frostfire Glide heal for 150 Health every second.

3

Ancient Duty

Increase your base maximum Health by 150.

3

Voice Packs

If you own the default Voice Pack, you can access any Voice Packs for skins you currently own or purchase in the future.

Imani

(Common)

Imani Voice Lines

200

Omega

(Epic)

Omega Voice Lines

Cosmetic Items

These are the Cosmetic Items currently available for Imani:

Champion Skins

Default

Warder

(Uncommon)

60000 / 200
(Warder Imani Collection)

Snowdrift

(Rare, Limited)

Season Pass 2019
(Snowdrift Imani Collection)

Omega

(Epic, Unlimited)

End Times Event: Collect 240
(Omega Imani Collection)

Golden Imani

(Legendary, Mastery)

Rewarded at Mastery Level 50
(Golden Imani Collection)

Weapon Skins

Default Dragon

Warder's Dragon

(Uncommon)

60000 / 200
(Warder Imani Collection)

Snowdrift Dragon

(Rare, Limited)

Season Pass 2019
(Snowdrift Imani Collection)

Omega Cyberwing

(Epic, Unlimited)

End Times Event: Collect 240
(Omega Imani Collection)

Golden Dragon

(Legendary, Mastery)

Rewarded at Mastery Level 50
(Golden Imani Collection)

Emotes

Default

Chuckle

(Rare, Exclusive)

End Times Event: Collect 220

Breath Of Fire

(Epic, Exclusive)

MVP Poses

Default

Sovereign

(Rare, Exclusive)

Incarnate

(Legendary, Exclusive)

Battlesuit Battle Pass
Level 38
(Animated MVP Pose)

Trivia

• Imani believes guns are more primitive than the raw power of elements, suggesting she looks down on anyone who utilizes these weapons.
• Imani is the first champion that was released after the fourth talent was abolished.

Changelog

Paladins Release Version 2.4.3113.12 (March 27, 2019)

• Bug Fixes

• Frost Bolt / Pyre Ball now Properly affected by Haven
• Frost Bomb cooldown now properly affected by Chronos
• Fixed an issue where Imani’s “surfboard” would get stuck on her model in the next round if she used Frostfire Glide as the round ended
• Fixed an issue where the Burning debuff icon would persist on screen if Imani’s dragon died while it was burning
• Fixed an issue where Imani would not have a silhouette or a health bar while she was channeling her Ultimate
• Fixed an issue where Imani’s health was not being displayed on her dynamic HUD portrait during her Ultimate
• Fixed Snowdrift Imani skin missing a number of sound effects

Paladins Release Version 2.2.3058.5 (February 13, 2019)

• Abilities

• Pyre Ball

• Reduced charge time 1.6s → 1.2s
• Reduced damage 1100 → 1000
• Reduced mana regeneration rate

Paladins Release Version 2.1.3013.17 (January 24, 2019)

• Abilities

• Dragons Call

• Ultimate Charge Rate Reduced
• Using Frostfire Breath now slows the Avatar’s movespeed
• Duration reduced 25s → 20

• Frostfire Glide

• Removed the functionality where flying into an obstacle and coming to a complete stop would cancel the ability.

Paladins Release Version 2.1.3013.12 (January 16, 2019)

• Imani has been added to the game.

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