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What we can learn about Zaun from Ekko Trailer

GenoXx··5 votes·7,589 views

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Ok so I'm sure everyone has seen the Ekko Trailer. It's a bad ass trailer I want to add in. But Clearly you can see the setting is in Zaun. The Alley guves off impressions of a city. Not to mention the Technology, but it's also but less clean looking so it's not piltover. Just from this trailer I snipped off some extra things about Zaun. It's not actually a lawless cesspool of mad scientist doing experiments. You have some people like Ekko. Who is actualyl a good person from zaun. I mean there's Janna and Zac also. So that's confirmed.

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People in Zaun actually have blue hair, Natural that is. Just look at the Mural in the background. Some of the people depicted have blue hair. So This Also confirms that Jinx is from Zaun. Now that we know! Jinx is a Zaunite who uses hextech from Piltover. And it's not just a whole bunch of factories and buildings, there's houses here too. There may be neighborhood's here, a few ghettos seems likely judging Janna's lore.

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With that being said, It seems very likely that there are gangs here as well. Not to say Ekko was in one, but he had a group of friends that he was very close to. The bigger face depicted must have been his closet friend. There probably have this group they were always with. Kinda like the game Jet Set Radio Future? You guys have to know that game.

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it's seems that there are a lot of people who have been mechanically experimented on. Like the guy(Who is not Singed or Urgot) is, he has a giant mechanical arm. So you mean to tell me that Zaun is like a more chilled, not tidy Piltover? I'm starting to like this place.

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I can't wait to see Ekko's skills AND his lore.

24 Comments

Sharjo6 votes

I wouldn't say that we learned too much new from Ekko: Seconds, but I would say that it greatly embellished what we already did know. We're seeing Zaun and seeing it's people, we're seeing the extent of the techmaturgy and how liberally it's used and abused. We can literally see the gunk, grime and gas.

I'm really digging it.

GenoXx1 votes

lolz, i mean to say that there's possibility it's not all gunk, grime, and gas.

Tesla Effect3 votes

Im starting to hate Zaun even more. They have good people there that are treated like crap or even like expendable resources, its disgusting.

GenoXx1 votes

It's alright to me. You have some unnoticed scientific activity going on here that can be very cool

Tesla Effect2 votes

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It's alright to me. You have some unnoticed scientific activity going on here that can be very cool

Well it is kinda cool, but the moral thing is just messed up. Then again, that is Zaun in a nutshell.

GenoXx1 votes

I'm going to go ahead and admit that i am a very immoral person.

Helmight2 votes

I'm actually assuming that Mr. Power Fist was an enforcer sent to find and kill Ekko, possibly to retrieve the time device. I doubt your average Zaunite citizen would be that heavily augmented, and as we know from the Zac teaser images, the Zaun government is very interested in preserving assets for future use.

Tesla Effect2 votes

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I'm actually assuming that Mr. Power Fist was an enforcer sent to find and kill Ekko, possibly to retrieve the time device. I doubt your average Zaunite citizen would be that heavily augmented, and as we know from the Zac teaser images, the Zaun government is very interested in preserving assets for future use.

A good point. Probably the same person or group that took his friend away.

GenoXx1 votes

Yeah, and his friend looks like he was someone big also. When the wall crumbled, it looked like a storage was in there

Helmight1 votes

To be honest, I just saw that as being an empty warehouse. If Riot had really been interested in hinting at something inside the building, they would have been more explicit. The memorial was the important part, not what was within the building.

Who's "friend" are we referring to here? Ekko's?

Tesla Effect2 votes

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To be honest, I just saw that as being an empty warehouse. If Riot had really been interested in hinting at something inside the building, they would have been more explicit. The memorial was the important part, not what was within the building.

Who's "friend" are we referring to here? Ekko's?

Vi, Jinx and probably even Viktor. Remember, Ekko has that device, so he may not even be aging as all the rest of his ragtag orphan associates.

Helmight1 votes

P sure Ekko still ages. The device lets him travel back in time, yes, but it doesn't appear to stop physical injuries. This means that the physical affects of aging will still proceed as normal. Additionally, the device looked like he has to set a "return point" before he can use it. So normally Ekko is living a common human life, but when he gets into trouble he can create a temporal anchor that gives him an edge.

And I'm still not sure what exactly Genocider is talking about when he referenced Ekko's friends. In what context are we talking about friends? And why?

Tesla Effect2 votes

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P sure Ekko still ages. The device lets him travel back in time, yes, but it doesn't appear to stop physical injuries. This means that the physical affects of aging will still proceed as normal. Additionally, the device looked like he has to set a "return point" before he can use it. So normally Ekko is living a common human life, but when he gets into trouble he can create a temporal anchor that gives him an edge.

And I'm still not sure what exactly Genocider is talking about when he referenced Ekko's friends. In what context are we talking about friends? And why?

Dude, just go the the thread Sharjo made, I posted the whole link and everything there. Man that piece of information got me so excited.

GenoXx1 votes

......yes

kitcat3001 votes

I'm more surprised at how attached people are to the guy he is fighting and screaming "OMG SINGED/URGOT REWORK!!!" Did it ever occur to them that this just be a random baddie, and that Zaun is a city where mutants are common place?

They did the same thing with previous vids. People thought the general in Bards video was Darius, or that the guy who was OBLITERATED was someone important. Even with last years harrowing, they thought that the puppeteer was a new champ.

But yeah, we may not necessarily know anything new, but it is nice to actually get a glimpse of the world these characters live in, which is something league needs more of badly.

GreenLore1 votes

About natural blue hair: Actually it was confirmed in the jinx Q&A that jinxs hair color isn't her original one.

kitcat3002 votes

Zaun is full of body altering things, and hair dye is just the tip of the iceberg.

"One example of the denizens' love for freedom of expression is the unlawful synthesis of "Shimmer", a corrosive techmaturgical waste substance that is popular among Zaun's rebellious youth. When slathered onto the skin the Shimmer stimulates intense emotions in its subject. The Shimmer then creates an assortment of shining colors that corresponds to the emotion the subject is feeling. Though frequent application of the caustic glop can result in progressive degeneration of the skin and muscle tissue, a rumor that Shimmer can grant its wearer unnatural abilities has simply increased its demand."

GenoXx2 votes

Ohhh, so Jinx must of been pretty strung up on this stuff. I wonder if there will be any special interactions with jinx and Ekko

Tesla Effect2 votes

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Ohhh, so Jinx must of been pretty strung up on this stuff. I wonder if there will be any special interactions with jinx and Ekko

I would be pretty upset if there arent any between him and Jinx, Vi, Zilean, Ezreal, Janna and Urgot (or at least hte first three I mentioned).

willcarry4gold1 votes

The kid in the moral kinda looks like rumble if he was a human, so maybe he was similar to him (not personality, just in his use of technology.) maybe he even made the device that ekko is using!

Valaran Nara1 votes

Though I somewhat doubt it was just me that got the idea up, but lawd. I love how the moment I said, "Hey, that girl looks like Jinx" everybody "freakin" everybody, "WAIT! Jinx X Ekko confirmed!"

But yeah. I would love to see some kind of interaction between them like Ekko saying, "Jinx, what have they done to you?"

Hell, I'd love to see Vi recognizing the kid somehow. Because, if I remember correctly, it was neither confirmed or denied whether or not Vi does in fact recognize Jinx. It looks like one of those moments that Vi doesn't want to claim affiliation in the least.

GenoXx1 votes

Gypsylord said that Vi suffered a trauma when she was younger that causes her to not remember much of her very young self

Valaran Nara1 votes

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Gypsylord said that Vi suffered a trauma when she was younger that causes her to not remember much of her very young self

Aw there it goes. I forgot about that tidbit. Wasn't there also major discussion on whether or not ekko really ages?

Some people say no because it looks like he "keeps his injuries", but some say he is young because he doesn't age normally. Effects of the device, of course.

I'd say he ages normally, but it doesn't really look like he "keeps the wounds." He just keeps the "memory" of it which will still hurt like hell. It'll even tire you out, mentally.

Kinjishi1 votes

"it's seems that there are a lot of people who have been mechanically experimented on. Like the guy(Who is not Singed or Urgot) is, he has a giant mechanical arm."

Actually, it is Singed. It is Augmented Singed. This clip would seem to make that skin cannon.

Augmented Singed

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