Overview
created during
Issue 6,
City of Heroes, 2005-10-27
- Name:
- Ying Yan / @cohRock
- What:
- level 42 magic hero on the Pinnacle server
- Archetype:
- scrapper: dark melee / invulnerability
- Created:
- ~ October 2005
- Super Group:
- Deadly Dudes since 2009-02-01
- Battle Cry:
- It is time to yin their yang.
hits since 2012-12-29
last modified 2013-02-07
Commentary
I have another long-time scrapper here, Ion Quest. He had been created several months before, and was a complete endurance hog to play. So with Ying Yan, I wanted someone who could finish a big fight in one round.
I went into the character creator just knowing, "scrapper, not end-hog". Invulnerability was considered fairly endurance-light, so I took it. Dark Melee offers both a heal attack and an AoE attack that buffs your endurance while it drains the foes around you.
His name came to me while creating him. Simple enough – move the 'g' in the phrase "yin-yang". That further inspired a somewhat Asian look. Experimenting on different costume options, I chose the horns, then the top-knot hair style. I really liked the way the three balance each other. It is almost to say, sometimes there is a third factor, yin, yang, and something else.
I teamed him off and on with members of the Lethal Ladies SG coalition (of which Deadly Dudes was a part), but more often than not he either soloed or was part of random pick-up teams.