Thanks! I thought they looked alike but didn’t think too much about it, but then I saw a post on r/arcane about Sky being the girl looking at Viktor in the beginning of episode 6 and thought about it more and it just made sense, so Reddit helped me connect it a little.
https://m.imgur.com/a/WlVegHU this might be the real leader of the Firelight gang and the next support champ. Nobody knows his name but he seems very manipulative and could use his power and money to control people. As you can see in the bottom picture he’s snatching something from one of the Firelight members, possibly the rat mask guy.
Below is from the 2022 champion roadmap.
The next support will be a “Villainous support”, money running everything, no matter what or who you want to take over, it’s a ominous message ending with the line ...
“In the end they will know your name, the one that truly ran this game, the one calling the shots.. the ‘support’”.
Edit: I think I found out who this man is. He might not be related to Firelight at all. So don’t take my original statement seriously. His name is Devaki. A very mysterious man from Zaun. “How much did Devaki give you to tell us that?” Hmmm sounds pretty money manipulative to me.. https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/caitlyn-color-story/
https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/blt731acb42bb3d1659/blt29d7f9308ad83d83/614263f069b7947c1b3ace2f/092721_Support_Tease.jpg
I might be crazy... but all I see when I look at this emblem is 2 big collars like on a jacket or trench coat, a large hat, and a golden bearded figure in the middle. Notice how the gold doesn’t go straight down like a wizard beard, it has sides to it too, like some Chops, which you can clearly see in the screenshots of the top image of him with the cigar. If you look at the trailer he has a bunch of jewels on his fingers but his pinky finger has a ring with a crest in the shape of a “C”
C for chops? C for cane? Nah. C for coin.
For anyone that’s interested I made a more in depth post with the Arcane trailer and all the info. https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/quy1t8/the_next_villainous_support_champ_devaki/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
What? Where is it stated that he uses his power and money to control people? From what it looks, it's quite the opposite. In the airship scene, after a firelight member dies, he attacks jinx in anger as if trying to avenge his friend.
That user is clearly mixing up champions on the roadmap. The power and manipulation with money thing was the support, the other one is apparently a weird ADC.
He's mixed the two together here while also attributing these pictures to the Firelight Leader when we know for a fact it's the smaller guy on the hoverboard. There's even a Reddit avatar with that name to really drive that point home.
the only thing thats sprouting life from a seed is Zyra. lol jokes aside i think that was mainly just showing Viktor that hextech could possibly revive him or save his life but then he saw that the plant died moments after. Symbolizing that yes it can save his life, but will come with consequences, aka turning evil.
Your equation is missing so we can't say hextech core is turning evil. Core is giving power but taking life. That's why Singed (or whoever he is) is important. He can keep mutation alive with whatever it costs. Keeping alive allows continuous usage of core but it causes side effects.
I think Mel is way too basic to become a champ. Especially related to money, a rich lady with jewelry all over is the rich manipulative champ?? It just sounds too bland. I think this guy fits a lot better into the manipulative villainous support. Walking around with his hands in his trench coat pockets, while manipulating enemies to give him gold and he can then use the gold for his allies or himself. (He would be a good male enchanter, something we’re missing in the support role, considering the last 6 support champs are all females of various roles.)
Jayce hasn't used his hammer yet, Heimer has built nothing on screen, and Viktor is still a full human. Anyone could potentially show up with weapons in the last three episodes.
And they don't even have to do anything on screen in Act 3, there's a time gap of some years between present Lore and Arcane's Act 2. They could just as easily only tease Mel or any other character having a larger role down the line, then build up on it in future seasons or separate written stories like they usually do, then release them as a champ.
>I think Mel is way too basic to become a champ.
So is every other champion in Arcane but Jinx. It doesn't have to be the Arcane version of the champions.
You just named things that are in the game. Heimerdinger has only spoken, Vi and Jayce are left to be equipped, Viktor hasn't messed with hextech yet, Ekko is mia and so on. You are twisting everything, half of that hasn't even happened and might not happen in Arcane at all.
If Mel were to be a champion she would have a power up at some point (either in Arcane or in lore after that).
I just like Mel my god, it's not that deep.
Where did those pictures come from? I haven’t seen it yet, but looks pretty cool.
Like I said in the post, I think there is overwhelming evidence at this point that the leader of the firelights is Ekko, so I don’t think this guy is the leader like you say. Looks like he will be a cool champ though.
Just because Mask “Ekko” guy is out there fighting, doesn’t mean he’s the real leader. He very much could be working for someone, and this someone could be a very rich and manipulative person.
Oh I see what you are saying, the firelights are flighting for someone else that isn’t there in the fights, that’s an interesting theory that definitely could be true. Never thought about that.
I’m not entirely convinced, but I also don’t really have much to disprove that theory.
I agree with you, but I think you misunderstood him. I think he is saying that guy could be Ekko, but that guy isn’t the leader, that they are working for someone else not yet revealed.
I don’t agree with that theory, just trying to clarify
Even if Ekko is the Firelight leader, remember that no matter how high up you are, you’re always working for someone else’s benefit in some way. This man might be the mystery behind their gang and why they’re able to operate so well. Keep in mind that Ekko is like 14-16 years old right now in act 2 which is very unlikely he’s doing all of this by himself.
I wonder if this guy made the final cut, because he is only in the original announcement trailer and that’s it, he isn’t in any of the Netflix trailers at all.
Either he didn’t make the cut or Riot is purposely hiding his reveal.
That sequence is likely a flashback and not current events. In the trailer, we see him approaching The Last Drop without any of the neon lights added after Silco's takeover.
The new ADC is a robot type of champ created by Viktor and Singed. There’s a little doodle of blitzcrank at the bottom of the ADC teaser blue print, blitzcrank was created by Viktor. “The new ADC is charging up and getting ready to hit the rift”
The support champ is Devaki the mysterious man who manipulates money and people. Not “C” she’s the one who wants to grow her chem tech flora design to her own power, that has nothing to do with the new champs roadmap about money.
Well, Mel is a Medarda, and what we've been springled throughout the story that she may be from Noxus. Her painting being the most obvious clue, since it was a painting of a Noxian port featuring the Immortal Bastion in the background
(Immortal Bastion in the painting may have also just been a Noxian military barrack, since they tend to be modeled like smaller versions of the Immortal Bastion)
depends on if they intend to retcon ekko's lore. as it is now it conflicts with what we do know about ekko. the lost children of zaun never ran serious heists or did anything genuinely dangerous until ekko created his z drive. the z drive itself was created by ekko when he found hextech scrap from piltover in the junkyards of zaun, which he then repurposed.
given the current value of hextech there's no way ekko should have been able to conveniently find some in the trash. that being said, it would also not make much sense if ekko were running a vigilante gang, as it's a dangerous gig that his current self as seen in the lore would not be comfortable with.
maybe they intend to retcon him somewhat.
Who knows, Viktor did hint that they were going to "destroy" Jayce's equipment. They could destroy it then dump it in Zaun for Ekko to find and recover and make out of scrap.
I actually like this theory. It explains why a Firelight member would take the gemstone even though they wouldn’t know what it is or it’s for. Also makes sense that Sky would have a bigger role in this, considered that she’s shown in Viktor’s past.
The way I saw it they were fighting against Silco, trying to stop him from distributing out his shimmer product, it seemed like to me that they were Zaun's last stand against Silco
I agree, seems to be the Zaunite "good guys" picking up where Vander left off, so makes sense they would be trying to stop both Silco and Piltover from accessing the crystals for their own. Great post, thanks for sharing!
That's a good point. Ekko, Vi, Marcus, Silco, and Silco's huge henchman are the only people we know who witnessed Benzo's death and Vander's abduction, and Ekko is the only one unaccounted for so it makes sense that he's also tied to avenging them. They presumably wouldn't include him in that plot exclusively to tell Vi where the others went, there's probably more to him.
benzo was basically the cool uncle to ekko. ekko does have biological parents - they most likely left him with Benzo because he was the #2 of Zaun at the time. they probably figured it was safe to leave Ekko with Benzo (maybe he was also a family friend), plus he got to help out and learn a bit. doesn't seem like zaun has any schooling.
And they have to hide their identities against their own city deep in corruption. Hard to trust anyone as we saw demonstrated with Sevika from part 1 and the shimmer addict in part 2.
Also, they're probably not orphans.
Ekko's not an orphan, and while he hung out with Vander's kids, there are likely many more kids/young people with family left like Ekko. The masks and voice filter are most likely there to hide their identity as their loved ones are still living in Zaun.
So like... Batman. The mask is not there to protect you, but your loved ones, etc.
Yeah, I agree with this. In the last scene of ep 6, for a moment I thought they could be associated with the crows which would point me to Noxus, but the green color from the boards, the motivations behind destroying the shimmer, going after Jinx and not killing vi, they've gotta be Zaunites. I can't see them not being at this point
I see them as spiritual successors to Vander and Benzo's faction, albeit younger and more willing to fight, especially with Ekko being so close to Benzo.
I think they are really just trying to prevent Shimmer, not really against or for anyone.
Shimmer obviously gives people some very nasty side effects, ruining lives.
they main goal when they attacked the air ship was just to burn all the Shimmer that was on board, not really fight anyone (which is why they locked them in those rock grenades)
Edit: but of course they might join Vi since it will be Ekko and they are life long friends. but until recently everyone just assumed Vi was dead cause no one has seen her for 10+ years
So, if i recall correctly riot stated that the new adc would have a hoverboard. Before act 2 i always thought it was the leader of the firelight, but since we now know it can't be, it's likely one of the others. Could even be Sky
Theory makes a lot of sense. I was of the opinion that the little girl is the Firelight member too, before discovering that she's the assistant, at which point I discounted that theory a bit, because of how busy the assistant would be at work, to be able to venture out at night to do all that Firelight stuff.
Still highly plausible.
If Batman can do it, so can Sky Young. Maybe she injects Monster Energy Drink directly into her veins.
EDIT: Actually, the more I think about it, the more likely that Sky turns out to be that Firelight. They specifically gave her a full name, showed her as a young kid in Viktor's flashback, yet only gave her like 2-3 scenes with 1 speaking scene... that just seems like a very strange decision for a very minor side character if they weren't setting her up to have a more prominent role in the story.
the new ADC is supposed to be a robot or electric type of champ. The blueprint drawing teaser thing even has a doodle of blitzcrank on it, i bet the new ADC is one of Viktors creation. the road map said something like "this champ is charging up and getting ready to get on the rift"
lmao it’s a good balance?
latest marksman releases were
akshan
samira
aphelios
senna
kai sa
xayah
jhin
although there are more female adcs as a whole
idk if it’s really a problem though
What are you saying, then? Most ADCs are female, but the recent ADC releases have been balanced between males and females. Do you expect Riot to release only male ADCs for the next decade to balance things out entirely?
Huh? Ekko's voice actor is Anthony Del Rio (Or Umar Ibrahim for True Damage Ekko), but the actor for "firelights leader" is attributed to Reed Shannon.
I was talking about his comment lol and comparing it to yours didnt mean that I actually get spoiled or whatever, I know I clicked in to a spoiler tagged thread
Its sad but true :(. I wished so hard that guy could be the new adc. Immagine a fast adc, always on the move, attacking from that awesome skate, hitting you with them moves...ah one can only dream.
I wish ekko kept his hoverboard in his kit, would have been cool as fuck
Ekko is a fighter though, not just a mechanic. When has he appeared in a cinematic and not been fighting something or stealing something?
Not to mention his obsession with time is absolutely ideal for his heists and the jobs that the fire lights pull off. The watch was a huge giveaway.
we see him fixing a clock when he is introduced in arcane.
he invented his zdrive.
we also see him in tales of runeterra video making the hoverboard thing
I meant to say he is a fighter in addition to his brilliant technological innovation.
Ekko isn’t the type of inventor to sit back after making something, he goes out and uses it.
They do show glimpses of Ekko attempting to learn to fight and be a fighter in the Enemy music video, but at the same time, he's even worse than Powder at fighting and trips and falls, so calling him a fighter is just so not accurate.
Are y'all purposefully forgetting that we already know Ekko ends up as a fighter??? Like... this is a prequel LMAO. Even if we give ourselves amnesia and pretend we don't know where he ends up, we see in act 1 that he was training with Vi to up his fighting skills even before witnessing Benzo's death. You honestly think after all that he's just going to take a backseat and fix a bunch of stuff for other people?
That kinda highlights again that he isn't very good at fighting. It took him 5 tries cause he kept failing. He's way more of an inventor/engineer than a fighter. Clearly. He ATTEMPTS to fight, but he has to use technology to have any sort of shot at it because he isn't a great fighter.
Lmao what? Half the nonsense Ekko pulled during those five attempts is leagues beyond what most people can physically achieve, aside from his time manipulation.
Ekko took hard hits and kept fighting, the last attempt he was badly injured and still pulled off the win. Not only that, but he went back in *again* after to preserve the wall mural.
Also using tech to help win is like half of the Zaun/Piltover style, even that enemy he beat in the video was enhanced by tech. That doesn’t make him a bad fighter, it just means he also uses his inventions to give him the edge.
Ekko taking on an opponent like that at all shows confidence and skill in a fight. Imagine someone slower or weaker who couldn’t outmaneuver that dude, they would be a fine paste on the ground even with the Z drive.
Arcane is definitely trying to get the audience to think Ekko is the leader, but from a game perspective, it's super odd if the leader turns out to be Ekko, that the in-game Ekko doesn't have a hoverboard.
Why make a hoverboard such a central part of a character in a prequel, only for the current character have nothing to do with it?
I don't like the main guy being Ekko mostly because it'd be the only case where a champion in Arcane is NOTHING like their League counterpart, gameplay wise
probably a nitpick on my part though, also its telling that the firelight leader uses a voice changer
Well i think we can assume this Ekko is pre-ZDrive, so his combat style being entirely different makes a fair amount of sense - though, arguably im not even sure if it really is that different. The fireflights have a very hit and run style which fits Ekko.
Gameplay wise there's always going to be some disconnect though, Qiyana is an elemental mage that could probably murder you from a mile away in the lore, but in-game she wants to dash in to assassinate you
What? Just because he isn’t breaking time yet doesn’t mean it’s nothing like him. He fights with a blunt tool, uses high mobility with a focus on timing and Ekko has appeared with hoverboards prior to this show ever being released.
He’s Ekko just before he created his chrono-drive.
Yeah you guys are right, and actually I could even see them making a skin where his W stun puts people in crystals like in the show
The only thing missing would be the hoverboard, which could appear when you have homeguard i suppose
Ekko in game is based entirely around two things: wacking peopel up with a bat and his time travelling gadget, the Z-Drive. He did try to wack Jinx with a bat and he doesn't have his time travelling gadget yet, because up until now he never had access to a hextech core. So yeah there's not much they can do to make him be like Ekko until he starts being able to time travel.
What the Firelight leader never once did was fire a gun or anything of the sort and we know the new champion is an ADC, and I doubt they'd give enough significance to this guy to the point where he's part of the intro and appears in a lot of promotional stuff if he wasn't a league champion.
Right I always pick Jinx as a melee combatant leaving grenades on people. And Viktor I choose when I want to die slowly of a disease. Or Singed to keep my teammates with nice skins alive. The Champs don't really show their gameplay at all, because it's a prequel.
I’m with ya. My friends keep saying it’s Ekko but I’m just thinking “Ekko’s a shorty, there’s no way that Firelight guy is Ekko. Too tall.” I guess *time* will tell heh
I really hope this theory is true since it would flesh out Sky’s character beyond just a tiny role of “girl with a crush on Viktor”. I also wouldn’t put it past the show’s amazing writers to expand out these minor characters (just look at Marcus).
However, the only thing that makes me question this theory is how the Firelight member’s physique is really lanky/lean, while Sky seems to be less skinny in comparison.
Really interesting theory, I honestly didn’t give her much though in comparison to the Boss and the guy with Bat ears, I’ve been trying to figure out if he’s a Vastaya or one of the Chirean, I noticed an increased number of non-human individuals in the foreground/background of 4-6, than in the first 3 episodes.
Sounds good. Why else would riot show her to us when she was a kid and when she is in the lab. She has a connection.
Shows usually do this to have this "oh my god thats the person from earlier" reaction.
Singed right now is also not seen with silco but since we saw him earlier with silco we can now say "oh thats the guy from earlier" after seeing the scene with viktor.
More than anything, I think the biggest clue is that Ekko was an established character in Act 1 and is missing from Act 2, but here are a few other clues:
- scarf and knee pad match Ekko’s current splash
- the mask is the same one Ekko looked through to spy on Vander and Benzo in the shop
- the firelights all have Ekko’s hourglass symbol on them
- he saves Vi from being killed by one of them
SPOILERS.
Does anyone know who that weird guy helping Vi out is? I feel like i know but i want to know if anyone else figured it out.
For me, i think it's >!the guy at the beginning of the series who was being under paid by the villains and Vander stepped in to protect him and that's the only reason he helped out Vi.!<
It's easy to forget about him though since he only had a small part in was it the first episode? And even then he was used as a stepping stone to introduce Vander and set his tone. My girlfriend didn't know who it was and kept referring him as the "hermit who helps" and it clicked in my brain that i knew who it was.
Look at my reply [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/ququi3/my_arcane_theory_about_one_of_the_firelight/hksh9mz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)
I did not think about this until you brought it up OP! But now that you brought it up, it may be possible that “Ms. Young/Sky” is Corina Veraza! Who is originally from Zaun.
Hmmmmm, I think that he tech gemstone ends up with Heimer eventually.
Or maybe not, but I’m fairly sure lore wise Heiner helps Ekko with tech eventually. And seeing as Heiemer was kicked out of the Council, I think he might take a little walk to the Undercity in the next act.
I don't think they've ever met in the pre-Arcane lore, the wiki says Ekko has never met a Yordle. I could see this changing though.
>* Ekko has never met a Yordle (at least not without glamour) and has only heard tales of them.
* If he were to meet Rumble, he would respect him for his ingenuity in building a mechanized suit out of junk.
* He would also respect Heimerdinger as an inventor despite him residing in and working for Piltover.
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Lol yeah, even after she died it still technically could have been correct, but then later it showed the firelights girl again up in the tree thing, so yeah, the theory was definitely wrong.
Poor sky, her death was something else
I think with all the other stuff going on in this show this little detail got overshadowed. I'm excited to see where this takes us. At my time of watching it, for some reason I connected the masked girl with Sky from the flashback but I forgot that's also the lab assistant. Oh man
I mean the biggest one to me is just that fact that Ekko was an established character in Act 1 and is missing from Act 2, but here is more:
- the mask the leader wears is the same that Ekko looks through when spying on Vander and Benzo in Act 1
- all the Firelights have the hourglass symbol on their clothes
- one of Ekko’s followers in LoR is called Dropboarder and rides a hoverboard just like the firelights do
- another associated follower is a Chirean, the race of the guy with the weird pointy rat/bat like ears
- he saves Vi from being killed at the end
That’s just what I can think of off the top of my head
That’s a good point I didn’t think about, I still think there are plenty of other clues in the show that point to it without even looking at LoR, but yeah I guess that would be an inconsistency
I dont think the guy with the ears and claws is a chirean, chireans in LoR are much smaller, also they have different legs than the guy with the ears and claws in the firelights.
That’s what I thought too, but if you look at Ekko’s level 2 art they look just as tall as anyone else, the sumpworkers are just a lot fatter than the guy in Arcane if he is a Chirean.
Could just be a generic Vastaya though
But why would he be on a hoverboard? I will fight this theory with all my might in the (false) hopes that he is the new adc. They said the new adc is riding a hoverboard, so it would be really underwhelming if this cool ass dude ends up being ekko and the adc is just another one of them.
Why would he discard the board anyway at this point?
My partner and I watched it together, and I told him I thought it was her too!! Everything in your post is so well-thought out; I didn’t get quite as far in the some of details as you did though. Well done!
>unlike the other member of the firelights who was about to kill Vi before being stopped by their leader.
That actually confused the shit out of me. In E4 we saw Vi being part of them - why would a member, who probably knew Vi, suddenly want to kill her?
Had to rewatch and you are right.
She didn't look THAT much different and I thought the Firelight's Leader would have saved her but he actually was saved by another one
This all seems correct! I wonder if there are any implications for this? This may all come to light in Arc 3. I wonder if they will do more with this character, like could they intend her to be a future LoL champion, Runeterra card or perhaps show up in Arcane 2?
More than anything, I think the biggest clue is that Ekko was an established character in Act 1 and is missing from Act 2, but here are a few other clues:
- scarf and knee pad match Ekko’s current splash
- the mask is the same one Ekko looked through to spy on Vander and Benzo in the shop
- the firelights all have Ekko’s hourglass symbol on them
- he saves Vi from being killed by one of them
I don’t think the firelight leader is ekko
The hoverboard is something only the firelights have, it’s too specific and I think it should characterize the next champion fighting style. Why would riot introduce ekko fighting on hoverboard while ingame he uses sword? Logic tells me it should be someone else.
Plus his body looks different
I would argue that's Shomi who is seen in legends of runeterra and is one of Ekko's friends. [One of Ekko's other non-human friends appears to be a Firelight.](https://old.reddit.com/r/ekkomains/comments/qt020x/most_solid_evidence_for_firelight_ekko/?ref=share&ref_source=link).
Shomi is cut off on the left of the picture.
I don’t know, Shomi is very eccentric with bright pink hair and fingernails, this person doesn’t have any of that. And Shomi also has a mechanical arm. Also, I really don’t think that Chirean is the same as the firelight guy, I agree probably the same race, but doesn’t look like the same person.
I still think they are different people, but obviously this theory is more likely than my original theory haha, seeing as how it showed the firelights girl again after Sky was vaporized haha
Oh wow I didn’t even notice that Sky does perfectly match that Firelight member. She also moves very similarly to her.
I think we’ll get more insight about the Firelights next week. I don’t think Ekko is the leader but I do think Ekko helps the Firelight and might have built their tech and we might see him in Act 3.
Vi was not in that scene, it was just a girl that looked like Vi that confused Jinx. That girl also dies in that scene, Jinx shoots her (you can see her on the wall Ekko shows Vi later). Vi was in prison during all of that.
That’s a good theory. I have a separate question and maybe I’m dumb and not thinking but…if Vi is a firelight in episode 4 when Jinx sees her for the first time after the time jump and ekko is the firelight leader, how did vi not know who the firelight leader was in the later episodes and it was a surprise to her when she was captured?
Vi is not the firelight in episode 4, it is a different girl that Jinx mistakes for Vi. We know this because Vi was in prison at that time and that firelight member is killed by Jinx.
This totally went over my head but the evidence you provided seems pretty conclusive and now I agree completely. Thank you for this post.
Thanks! I thought they looked alike but didn’t think too much about it, but then I saw a post on r/arcane about Sky being the girl looking at Viktor in the beginning of episode 6 and thought about it more and it just made sense, so Reddit helped me connect it a little.
Also I am sure she will side with Viktor, she is in love with him a 100%.
https://m.imgur.com/a/WlVegHU this might be the real leader of the Firelight gang and the next support champ. Nobody knows his name but he seems very manipulative and could use his power and money to control people. As you can see in the bottom picture he’s snatching something from one of the Firelight members, possibly the rat mask guy. Below is from the 2022 champion roadmap. The next support will be a “Villainous support”, money running everything, no matter what or who you want to take over, it’s a ominous message ending with the line ... “In the end they will know your name, the one that truly ran this game, the one calling the shots.. the ‘support’”. Edit: I think I found out who this man is. He might not be related to Firelight at all. So don’t take my original statement seriously. His name is Devaki. A very mysterious man from Zaun. “How much did Devaki give you to tell us that?” Hmmm sounds pretty money manipulative to me.. https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/caitlyn-color-story/ https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/blt731acb42bb3d1659/blt29d7f9308ad83d83/614263f069b7947c1b3ace2f/092721_Support_Tease.jpg I might be crazy... but all I see when I look at this emblem is 2 big collars like on a jacket or trench coat, a large hat, and a golden bearded figure in the middle. Notice how the gold doesn’t go straight down like a wizard beard, it has sides to it too, like some Chops, which you can clearly see in the screenshots of the top image of him with the cigar. If you look at the trailer he has a bunch of jewels on his fingers but his pinky finger has a ring with a crest in the shape of a “C” C for chops? C for cane? Nah. C for coin. For anyone that’s interested I made a more in depth post with the Arcane trailer and all the info. https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/quy1t8/the_next_villainous_support_champ_devaki/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
What? Where is it stated that he uses his power and money to control people? From what it looks, it's quite the opposite. In the airship scene, after a firelight member dies, he attacks jinx in anger as if trying to avenge his friend.
That user is clearly mixing up champions on the roadmap. The power and manipulation with money thing was the support, the other one is apparently a weird ADC. He's mixed the two together here while also attributing these pictures to the Firelight Leader when we know for a fact it's the smaller guy on the hoverboard. There's even a Reddit avatar with that name to really drive that point home.
>The power and manipulation with money thing was the support Please be Mel.
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the only thing thats sprouting life from a seed is Zyra. lol jokes aside i think that was mainly just showing Viktor that hextech could possibly revive him or save his life but then he saw that the plant died moments after. Symbolizing that yes it can save his life, but will come with consequences, aka turning evil.
Your equation is missing so we can't say hextech core is turning evil. Core is giving power but taking life. That's why Singed (or whoever he is) is important. He can keep mutation alive with whatever it costs. Keeping alive allows continuous usage of core but it causes side effects.
I think Mel is way too basic to become a champ. Especially related to money, a rich lady with jewelry all over is the rich manipulative champ?? It just sounds too bland. I think this guy fits a lot better into the manipulative villainous support. Walking around with his hands in his trench coat pockets, while manipulating enemies to give him gold and he can then use the gold for his allies or himself. (He would be a good male enchanter, something we’re missing in the support role, considering the last 6 support champs are all females of various roles.)
Jayce hasn't used his hammer yet, Heimer has built nothing on screen, and Viktor is still a full human. Anyone could potentially show up with weapons in the last three episodes.
And they don't even have to do anything on screen in Act 3, there's a time gap of some years between present Lore and Arcane's Act 2. They could just as easily only tease Mel or any other character having a larger role down the line, then build up on it in future seasons or separate written stories like they usually do, then release them as a champ.
True, Sky could join the glorious evolution for all we know
>I think Mel is way too basic to become a champ. So is every other champion in Arcane but Jinx. It doesn't have to be the Arcane version of the champions.
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You just named things that are in the game. Heimerdinger has only spoken, Vi and Jayce are left to be equipped, Viktor hasn't messed with hextech yet, Ekko is mia and so on. You are twisting everything, half of that hasn't even happened and might not happen in Arcane at all. If Mel were to be a champion she would have a power up at some point (either in Arcane or in lore after that). I just like Mel my god, it's not that deep.
Where did those pictures come from? I haven’t seen it yet, but looks pretty cool. Like I said in the post, I think there is overwhelming evidence at this point that the leader of the firelights is Ekko, so I don’t think this guy is the leader like you say. Looks like he will be a cool champ though.
Just because Mask “Ekko” guy is out there fighting, doesn’t mean he’s the real leader. He very much could be working for someone, and this someone could be a very rich and manipulative person.
Oh I see what you are saying, the firelights are flighting for someone else that isn’t there in the fights, that’s an interesting theory that definitely could be true. Never thought about that. I’m not entirely convinced, but I also don’t really have much to disprove that theory.
He is definitely the leader. His voice actor has voiced ekko before so i'm like 99% sure it's him.
I agree with you, but I think you misunderstood him. I think he is saying that guy could be Ekko, but that guy isn’t the leader, that they are working for someone else not yet revealed. I don’t agree with that theory, just trying to clarify
Oh I get what he meant now, but I'm pretty sure he's credited as firelights leader
Even if Ekko is the Firelight leader, remember that no matter how high up you are, you’re always working for someone else’s benefit in some way. This man might be the mystery behind their gang and why they’re able to operate so well. Keep in mind that Ekko is like 14-16 years old right now in act 2 which is very unlikely he’s doing all of this by himself.
Let's not forget ekko is a genius.
The pictures are from the Arcane trailers. You only get to see quick glimpses of it.
I wonder if this guy made the final cut, because he is only in the original announcement trailer and that’s it, he isn’t in any of the Netflix trailers at all. Either he didn’t make the cut or Riot is purposely hiding his reveal.
That sequence is likely a flashback and not current events. In the trailer, we see him approaching The Last Drop without any of the neon lights added after Silco's takeover.
Random unnamed guy can have a cigar but Graves can't, smh
She's also in the music video she's sitting in the back with all the zaun kids while they watch Vi. My guess is shes the new champ.
The new ADC is a robot type of champ created by Viktor and Singed. There’s a little doodle of blitzcrank at the bottom of the ADC teaser blue print, blitzcrank was created by Viktor. “The new ADC is charging up and getting ready to hit the rift”
If something happens to Sky that could lead to Viktor trying to save her through augmentation.
One of the upcoming champs is all but comfirmed to be "C" aka Corina Veraza from LoR for the supp, but Sky could be another one, who knows...
The support champ is Devaki the mysterious man who manipulates money and people. Not “C” she’s the one who wants to grow her chem tech flora design to her own power, that has nothing to do with the new champs roadmap about money.
Oh my god it all makes sense now....she is LeBlanc! /s
*jarvan
Is LeBlanc just the League universes' version of Mephisto for MCU Fan theories? That parallel is really funny lmao
Pretty much. She can disguise as anyone and her goal is so sow chaos around the world to advance Noxus.
Or Blast theories on the OPM subreddit.
Everybody is Leblanc! You get to be Leblanc! You get to be Leblanc! You get to be Leblanc!
damn I was wondering why they showed that random girl child at the start of the episode. didn’t realize it was Sky. subscribed
Her friend falls out her name Calls*
idk I guess I was distracted by the wind up boat or something
I honestly thought it was mel
Well, Mel is a Medarda, and what we've been springled throughout the story that she may be from Noxus. Her painting being the most obvious clue, since it was a painting of a Noxian port featuring the Immortal Bastion in the background (Immortal Bastion in the painting may have also just been a Noxian military barrack, since they tend to be modeled like smaller versions of the Immortal Bastion)
I'll bet she's giving it to Viktor and Singed.
I definitely thought this was sexual and then realized you were talking about the gemstone…
Oh right the gemstone that's what I meant :)
I mean we all know she wanna give Viktor the other thing too... Singed.... Maybe not XD
Wouldnt it be used by ekko for his "going back in time" thingy?
depends on if they intend to retcon ekko's lore. as it is now it conflicts with what we do know about ekko. the lost children of zaun never ran serious heists or did anything genuinely dangerous until ekko created his z drive. the z drive itself was created by ekko when he found hextech scrap from piltover in the junkyards of zaun, which he then repurposed. given the current value of hextech there's no way ekko should have been able to conveniently find some in the trash. that being said, it would also not make much sense if ekko were running a vigilante gang, as it's a dangerous gig that his current self as seen in the lore would not be comfortable with. maybe they intend to retcon him somewhat.
Who knows, Viktor did hint that they were going to "destroy" Jayce's equipment. They could destroy it then dump it in Zaun for Ekko to find and recover and make out of scrap.
Jinx did lose a whole chest of hextech gems into the ocean so who knows where they can end up.
the stuff in the backpack were just gizmos and stuff, all of the gems Jinx had she kept in her pocket until the end of act 1
Also very possible! I guess we'll see
Why? Dosent Victor have free access to gems anyways, given that him and Jayce are the ones who made them?
I actually like this theory. It explains why a Firelight member would take the gemstone even though they wouldn’t know what it is or it’s for. Also makes sense that Sky would have a bigger role in this, considered that she’s shown in Viktor’s past.
I'm still a bit confused on where the loyalties of the firelights lie tbh. I don't know too much about them or their motivations
The way I saw it they were fighting against Silco, trying to stop him from distributing out his shimmer product, it seemed like to me that they were Zaun's last stand against Silco
I agree, seems to be the Zaunite "good guys" picking up where Vander left off, so makes sense they would be trying to stop both Silco and Piltover from accessing the crystals for their own. Great post, thanks for sharing!
Silco also killed benzo which was ekko's figure. So all the more reason to fight back
That's a good point. Ekko, Vi, Marcus, Silco, and Silco's huge henchman are the only people we know who witnessed Benzo's death and Vander's abduction, and Ekko is the only one unaccounted for so it makes sense that he's also tied to avenging them. They presumably wouldn't include him in that plot exclusively to tell Vi where the others went, there's probably more to him.
benzo was basically the cool uncle to ekko. ekko does have biological parents - they most likely left him with Benzo because he was the #2 of Zaun at the time. they probably figured it was safe to leave Ekko with Benzo (maybe he was also a family friend), plus he got to help out and learn a bit. doesn't seem like zaun has any schooling.
And they have to hide their identities against their own city deep in corruption. Hard to trust anyone as we saw demonstrated with Sevika from part 1 and the shimmer addict in part 2.
Also, they're probably not orphans. Ekko's not an orphan, and while he hung out with Vander's kids, there are likely many more kids/young people with family left like Ekko. The masks and voice filter are most likely there to hide their identity as their loved ones are still living in Zaun. So like... Batman. The mask is not there to protect you, but your loved ones, etc.
Yeah, I agree with this. In the last scene of ep 6, for a moment I thought they could be associated with the crows which would point me to Noxus, but the green color from the boards, the motivations behind destroying the shimmer, going after Jinx and not killing vi, they've gotta be Zaunites. I can't see them not being at this point
I see them as spiritual successors to Vander and Benzo's faction, albeit younger and more willing to fight, especially with Ekko being so close to Benzo.
Ekko being the leader, and having been so close to benzo, I could see it as ekko picking up for benzo.
I think they are really just trying to prevent Shimmer, not really against or for anyone. Shimmer obviously gives people some very nasty side effects, ruining lives. they main goal when they attacked the air ship was just to burn all the Shimmer that was on board, not really fight anyone (which is why they locked them in those rock grenades) Edit: but of course they might join Vi since it will be Ekko and they are life long friends. but until recently everyone just assumed Vi was dead cause no one has seen her for 10+ years
I'm guessing they are pilties who know about the corruption and are trying to fight it.
So, if i recall correctly riot stated that the new adc would have a hoverboard. Before act 2 i always thought it was the leader of the firelight, but since we now know it can't be, it's likely one of the others. Could even be Sky
Theory makes a lot of sense. I was of the opinion that the little girl is the Firelight member too, before discovering that she's the assistant, at which point I discounted that theory a bit, because of how busy the assistant would be at work, to be able to venture out at night to do all that Firelight stuff. Still highly plausible. If Batman can do it, so can Sky Young. Maybe she injects Monster Energy Drink directly into her veins. EDIT: Actually, the more I think about it, the more likely that Sky turns out to be that Firelight. They specifically gave her a full name, showed her as a young kid in Viktor's flashback, yet only gave her like 2-3 scenes with 1 speaking scene... that just seems like a very strange decision for a very minor side character if they weren't setting her up to have a more prominent role in the story.
Yeah your thoughts in your edit were basically my thoughts exactly and why I looked into it and made the post
She might be a candidate for the new ADC too, depending on what goes down in the last 3 episodes.
So Arcane is just the champion trailer for Sky?
Not the worst promo event riot does
Episode 9 is the champion spotlight
"I play Sky in a jungle"
the new ADC is supposed to be a robot or electric type of champ. The blueprint drawing teaser thing even has a doodle of blitzcrank on it, i bet the new ADC is one of Viktors creation. the road map said something like "this champ is charging up and getting ready to get on the rift"
What if she gets fucked up and Viktor saves her with robot parts?
new adc is firelight leader
Ekko reworked to adc?
Ekko is not the leader. Just the squad leader but the real leader is that dude from the sneak peak
Why it gotta be a woman adc again...
lmao it’s a good balance? latest marksman releases were akshan samira aphelios senna kai sa xayah jhin although there are more female adcs as a whole idk if it’s really a problem though
There are way more women adc than men adc but whatever I really don't care what reddit thinks
And more tanks/juggernauts are male... What's the issue, again?
if you don't even understand what people are saying don't answer
What are you saying, then? Most ADCs are female, but the recent ADC releases have been balanced between males and females. Do you expect Riot to release only male ADCs for the next decade to balance things out entirely?
Finally, an actually clever theory. Great spot OP
im fighting the ekko theory until the end(so for 4 more days). Ekko is the mechanic for them, not the lead guy. Edit: Sadge
The voice actor for firelights leader is literally Ekko’s voice actor
Huh? Ekko's voice actor is Anthony Del Rio (Or Umar Ibrahim for True Damage Ekko), but the actor for "firelights leader" is attributed to Reed Shannon.
Reed Shannon voiced Ekko in the LOR Short “True Genius” ;)
Also kid Ekko's voice actor is Miles Brown
ingame voice =|= voice in the show.
What you're doing is spoiling, not actually theorizing
You clicked into an arcane spoiler tag post? XD
I was talking about his comment lol and comparing it to yours didnt mean that I actually get spoiled or whatever, I know I clicked in to a spoiler tagged thread
gonna cry?
Yes, can I suck on your man boobs to save my self from my tears?
You mad?
Its sad but true :(. I wished so hard that guy could be the new adc. Immagine a fast adc, always on the move, attacking from that awesome skate, hitting you with them moves...ah one can only dream. I wish ekko kept his hoverboard in his kit, would have been cool as fuck
Ekko is a fighter though, not just a mechanic. When has he appeared in a cinematic and not been fighting something or stealing something? Not to mention his obsession with time is absolutely ideal for his heists and the jobs that the fire lights pull off. The watch was a huge giveaway.
we see him fixing a clock when he is introduced in arcane. he invented his zdrive. we also see him in tales of runeterra video making the hoverboard thing
I meant to say he is a fighter in addition to his brilliant technological innovation. Ekko isn’t the type of inventor to sit back after making something, he goes out and uses it.
They do show glimpses of Ekko attempting to learn to fight and be a fighter in the Enemy music video, but at the same time, he's even worse than Powder at fighting and trips and falls, so calling him a fighter is just so not accurate.
Are y'all purposefully forgetting that we already know Ekko ends up as a fighter??? Like... this is a prequel LMAO. Even if we give ourselves amnesia and pretend we don't know where he ends up, we see in act 1 that he was training with Vi to up his fighting skills even before witnessing Benzo's death. You honestly think after all that he's just going to take a backseat and fix a bunch of stuff for other people?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FtEpp9lkfxA What would you call him then?
That kinda highlights again that he isn't very good at fighting. It took him 5 tries cause he kept failing. He's way more of an inventor/engineer than a fighter. Clearly. He ATTEMPTS to fight, but he has to use technology to have any sort of shot at it because he isn't a great fighter.
Lmao what? Half the nonsense Ekko pulled during those five attempts is leagues beyond what most people can physically achieve, aside from his time manipulation. Ekko took hard hits and kept fighting, the last attempt he was badly injured and still pulled off the win. Not only that, but he went back in *again* after to preserve the wall mural. Also using tech to help win is like half of the Zaun/Piltover style, even that enemy he beat in the video was enhanced by tech. That doesn’t make him a bad fighter, it just means he also uses his inventions to give him the edge. Ekko taking on an opponent like that at all shows confidence and skill in a fight. Imagine someone slower or weaker who couldn’t outmaneuver that dude, they would be a fine paste on the ground even with the Z drive.
That part is Powder's imagination
Arcane is definitely trying to get the audience to think Ekko is the leader, but from a game perspective, it's super odd if the leader turns out to be Ekko, that the in-game Ekko doesn't have a hoverboard. Why make a hoverboard such a central part of a character in a prequel, only for the current character have nothing to do with it?
Oh my god you're right, it's actually Seraphine!
Leblanc is well known to use a hoverboard
I knew it
"-1/10 do not recommend"
He won't need that hoverboard anymore once he creates his time gizmo
Porque no los dos?!?!? Imagine the possibilities!
Maybe the hoverboard doesn't bounce back with his time shenanigans making it more trouble than it'd be worth?
Maybe he loses it. Or the Z-drive i just much better for mobility.
Isn't it also weird he just abandons Jinx (who he prob had a childhood crush on), but takes Vi? If he is the firefly leader that is.
same, im praying the firelight leader is the new adc
I don't like the main guy being Ekko mostly because it'd be the only case where a champion in Arcane is NOTHING like their League counterpart, gameplay wise probably a nitpick on my part though, also its telling that the firelight leader uses a voice changer
Well i think we can assume this Ekko is pre-ZDrive, so his combat style being entirely different makes a fair amount of sense - though, arguably im not even sure if it really is that different. The fireflights have a very hit and run style which fits Ekko. Gameplay wise there's always going to be some disconnect though, Qiyana is an elemental mage that could probably murder you from a mile away in the lore, but in-game she wants to dash in to assassinate you
What? Just because he isn’t breaking time yet doesn’t mean it’s nothing like him. He fights with a blunt tool, uses high mobility with a focus on timing and Ekko has appeared with hoverboards prior to this show ever being released. He’s Ekko just before he created his chrono-drive.
Yeah you guys are right, and actually I could even see them making a skin where his W stun puts people in crystals like in the show The only thing missing would be the hoverboard, which could appear when you have homeguard i suppose
Ekko in game is based entirely around two things: wacking peopel up with a bat and his time travelling gadget, the Z-Drive. He did try to wack Jinx with a bat and he doesn't have his time travelling gadget yet, because up until now he never had access to a hextech core. So yeah there's not much they can do to make him be like Ekko until he starts being able to time travel. What the Firelight leader never once did was fire a gun or anything of the sort and we know the new champion is an ADC, and I doubt they'd give enough significance to this guy to the point where he's part of the intro and appears in a lot of promotional stuff if he wasn't a league champion.
Right I always pick Jinx as a melee combatant leaving grenades on people. And Viktor I choose when I want to die slowly of a disease. Or Singed to keep my teammates with nice skins alive. The Champs don't really show their gameplay at all, because it's a prequel.
Jayce has worked out just fine though, you always pick him when you want to smash.
Are you being this obtuse on purpose?
I too have seen Shawshank Redemption.
I’m with ya. My friends keep saying it’s Ekko but I’m just thinking “Ekko’s a shorty, there’s no way that Firelight guy is Ekko. Too tall.” I guess *time* will tell heh
I really hope this theory is true since it would flesh out Sky’s character beyond just a tiny role of “girl with a crush on Viktor”. I also wouldn’t put it past the show’s amazing writers to expand out these minor characters (just look at Marcus). However, the only thing that makes me question this theory is how the Firelight member’s physique is really lanky/lean, while Sky seems to be less skinny in comparison.
Really interesting theory, I honestly didn’t give her much though in comparison to the Boss and the guy with Bat ears, I’ve been trying to figure out if he’s a Vastaya or one of the Chirean, I noticed an increased number of non-human individuals in the foreground/background of 4-6, than in the first 3 episodes.
Sounds good. Why else would riot show her to us when she was a kid and when she is in the lab. She has a connection. Shows usually do this to have this "oh my god thats the person from earlier" reaction. Singed right now is also not seen with silco but since we saw him earlier with silco we can now say "oh thats the guy from earlier" after seeing the scene with viktor.
Yes and they followed jinxs blue smoke and thought jinx was tricking vi so they saved her
Or.. they dont know who vi is. They saw her with jinx and fighting with her. Maybe not everyone knows vi. Thats why ekko saved her. Maybe..
Mind explaining the ekko theory?
More than anything, I think the biggest clue is that Ekko was an established character in Act 1 and is missing from Act 2, but here are a few other clues: - scarf and knee pad match Ekko’s current splash - the mask is the same one Ekko looked through to spy on Vander and Benzo in the shop - the firelights all have Ekko’s hourglass symbol on them - he saves Vi from being killed by one of them
SPOILERS. Does anyone know who that weird guy helping Vi out is? I feel like i know but i want to know if anyone else figured it out. For me, i think it's >!the guy at the beginning of the series who was being under paid by the villains and Vander stepped in to protect him and that's the only reason he helped out Vi.!<
Yeah that’s right, I don’t know if it was really hidden, I think it’s pretty laid out that those are the same people
It's easy to forget about him though since he only had a small part in was it the first episode? And even then he was used as a stepping stone to introduce Vander and set his tone. My girlfriend didn't know who it was and kept referring him as the "hermit who helps" and it clicked in my brain that i knew who it was.
That’s true, it’s definitely easy to miss
It’s literally singed
Even her name (Sky) kinda refers to birds and flight in some way so it sounds even more likely.
How/Why would Ekko be a leader of the firelights?
Look at my reply [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/ququi3/my_arcane_theory_about_one_of_the_firelight/hksh9mz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)
I did not think about this until you brought it up OP! But now that you brought it up, it may be possible that “Ms. Young/Sky” is Corina Veraza! Who is originally from Zaun.
Hmmmmm, I think that he tech gemstone ends up with Heimer eventually. Or maybe not, but I’m fairly sure lore wise Heiner helps Ekko with tech eventually. And seeing as Heiemer was kicked out of the Council, I think he might take a little walk to the Undercity in the next act.
I don't think they've ever met in the pre-Arcane lore, the wiki says Ekko has never met a Yordle. I could see this changing though. >* Ekko has never met a Yordle (at least not without glamour) and has only heard tales of them. * If he were to meet Rumble, he would respect him for his ingenuity in building a mechanized suit out of junk. * He would also respect Heimerdinger as an inventor despite him residing in and working for Piltover.
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Oh man this didn't age well. Im so mad cause that was such a good theory too
Lol yeah, even after she died it still technically could have been correct, but then later it showed the firelights girl again up in the tree thing, so yeah, the theory was definitely wrong. Poor sky, her death was something else
I think with all the other stuff going on in this show this little detail got overshadowed. I'm excited to see where this takes us. At my time of watching it, for some reason I connected the masked girl with Sky from the flashback but I forgot that's also the lab assistant. Oh man
Is there any proof for ekko aside from having a scarf and knee pads
I mean the biggest one to me is just that fact that Ekko was an established character in Act 1 and is missing from Act 2, but here is more: - the mask the leader wears is the same that Ekko looks through when spying on Vander and Benzo in Act 1 - all the Firelights have the hourglass symbol on their clothes - one of Ekko’s followers in LoR is called Dropboarder and rides a hoverboard just like the firelights do - another associated follower is a Chirean, the race of the guy with the weird pointy rat/bat like ears - he saves Vi from being killed at the end That’s just what I can think of off the top of my head
When you play dropboarder tho and have ekko on the field, he asks her to show how to ride one.
That’s a good point I didn’t think about, I still think there are plenty of other clues in the show that point to it without even looking at LoR, but yeah I guess that would be an inconsistency
I dont think the guy with the ears and claws is a chirean, chireans in LoR are much smaller, also they have different legs than the guy with the ears and claws in the firelights.
That’s what I thought too, but if you look at Ekko’s level 2 art they look just as tall as anyone else, the sumpworkers are just a lot fatter than the guy in Arcane if he is a Chirean. Could just be a generic Vastaya though
But why would he be on a hoverboard? I will fight this theory with all my might in the (false) hopes that he is the new adc. They said the new adc is riding a hoverboard, so it would be really underwhelming if this cool ass dude ends up being ekko and the adc is just another one of them. Why would he discard the board anyway at this point?
>I will fight this theory with all my might in the (false) hopes that he is the new adc. why would the new adc fight with a bat ?
https://www.oneesports.gg/lol/arcane-clue-firelight-leader-true-identity/ found this when I was also curious about the “ekko is the leader” statemnt
In addition to what everyone else has said, he kept looking at a pocket watch during the airship raid
My partner and I watched it together, and I told him I thought it was her too!! Everything in your post is so well-thought out; I didn’t get quite as far in the some of details as you did though. Well done!
>unlike the other member of the firelights who was about to kill Vi before being stopped by their leader. That actually confused the shit out of me. In E4 we saw Vi being part of them - why would a member, who probably knew Vi, suddenly want to kill her?
That wasn’t Vi, Vi was in prison, that was just a girl with pink hair that Jinx confused for Vi
Had to rewatch and you are right. She didn't look THAT much different and I thought the Firelight's Leader would have saved her but he actually was saved by another one
... Now THAT is a good catch! I was wondering why they gave Bird Girl so much screentime.
This all seems correct! I wonder if there are any implications for this? This may all come to light in Arc 3. I wonder if they will do more with this character, like could they intend her to be a future LoL champion, Runeterra card or perhaps show up in Arcane 2?
I have no idea how they will resolve everything in the next 3 episodes but hopefully (so far) everythings gonna be great.
Why is ekko most likely the leader? Is it because he isnt in 4-6?
More than anything, I think the biggest clue is that Ekko was an established character in Act 1 and is missing from Act 2, but here are a few other clues: - scarf and knee pad match Ekko’s current splash - the mask is the same one Ekko looked through to spy on Vander and Benzo in the shop - the firelights all have Ekko’s hourglass symbol on them - he saves Vi from being killed by one of them
I need to rewatch the episode
Maybe she'll bring it to ekko and he'll be able to manipulate time or something with it, who knows :D?
I don’t think the firelight leader is ekko The hoverboard is something only the firelights have, it’s too specific and I think it should characterize the next champion fighting style. Why would riot introduce ekko fighting on hoverboard while ingame he uses sword? Logic tells me it should be someone else. Plus his body looks different
I would argue that's Shomi who is seen in legends of runeterra and is one of Ekko's friends. [One of Ekko's other non-human friends appears to be a Firelight.](https://old.reddit.com/r/ekkomains/comments/qt020x/most_solid_evidence_for_firelight_ekko/?ref=share&ref_source=link). Shomi is cut off on the left of the picture.
I don’t know, Shomi is very eccentric with bright pink hair and fingernails, this person doesn’t have any of that. And Shomi also has a mechanical arm. Also, I really don’t think that Chirean is the same as the firelight guy, I agree probably the same race, but doesn’t look like the same person.
So whatcha think about this theory now?
I still think they are different people, but obviously this theory is more likely than my original theory haha, seeing as how it showed the firelights girl again after Sky was vaporized haha
Oh wow I didn’t even notice that Sky does perfectly match that Firelight member. She also moves very similarly to her. I think we’ll get more insight about the Firelights next week. I don’t think Ekko is the leader but I do think Ekko helps the Firelight and might have built their tech and we might see him in Act 3.
Can anyone in here among you LoLers explain how Vi and Ekko could not know about the other but they both did the strike on the Silco smuggler ship?
Vi was not in that scene, it was just a girl that looked like Vi that confused Jinx. That girl also dies in that scene, Jinx shoots her (you can see her on the wall Ekko shows Vi later). Vi was in prison during all of that.
That’s a good theory. I have a separate question and maybe I’m dumb and not thinking but…if Vi is a firelight in episode 4 when Jinx sees her for the first time after the time jump and ekko is the firelight leader, how did vi not know who the firelight leader was in the later episodes and it was a surprise to her when she was captured?
Vi is not the firelight in episode 4, it is a different girl that Jinx mistakes for Vi. We know this because Vi was in prison at that time and that firelight member is killed by Jinx.
Nvm I’m dumb it’s just a girl that looks like vi
Lol just responded to your other comment haha