Shouldn't Ekko have some knowledge of/interaction with Janna?

Syllin·6/23/2015, 5:19:48 PM·11 votes·1,839 views

preface: this discussion is under the assumption that at LEAST a portion of Janna's original lore is staying the same.

In Janna's lore it says that a large majority of her character motivation comes from correcting the insanity that zaun has become. This seems almost identical to Ekko and his own motivators. while i can see certain amounts of conflict between the two since Janna is considered an indirect ally of Piltover, i think thats more a title that was given to her rather than a self proclaimed status.

I mean really all of this is irrelevant if they decide to completely destroy Janna's old lore (which is a distinct possibility) but honestly i think her character could work just fine and fit into the world well if they leave in certain elements of her current story.

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Sona Ping6/23/2015, 6:02:32 PM2 votes

Should they know each other? Not really.

Janna is an adult who became an avatar of the air element long ago. Echo is just a child and a street rat (riff-raff, do you buy that?). I don't see an occasion for them knowing each other.

And that's not a bad thing! Making everyone know each other and have a history with everybody tends to just make a world seem small.

Sharjo6/23/2015, 5:45:08 PM1 votes

If memory serves it was said that if Ekko does know Janna he'd be highly disapproving of her because she "abandoned" Zaun. She left behind her old life and started anew with the intention to right wrongs in the world at large, so despite being someone who could've helped Zaun grow and develop as a society she chose not to, and that doesn't sit right with Ekko, who does still believe in Zaun.

The Soulforged6/25/2015, 2:44:17 AM1 votes

He doesn't because the riot lore team forgot that Janna was from Zuan.

Solideus6/25/2015, 11:45:10 AM1 votes

Janna was the first champion I played a lot, so I'm pretty attached to her.

But, Janna being from Zaun always felt like a random "trivia" they just slapped on. If they can make it work in her favor, sure, but the important thing for me is for her origins to make sense for what Janna is. She should be from the place that makes the most sense for who she is as a character; having her shoe-horned into Zaun just because all change is the devil isn't a good way to go about it.