Ekko has two entirely different origin stories... AND THEY'RE BOTH AMAZING || Casual Champion Review 

Naafiri’s W does indeed invalidate a huge list of champions

@@wren5413 TO keep this short, thats kind of the point, she is a fundamentals assassin who you should never be caught alone against, if you do, and she is equal or ahead, you're probably fucked. In teamfights she struggles cause about 1/3 of her dmg comes from passive who can only hit 1 target at a time.

@@OldandAbandonedHarcorte Being an assassin does not validate having a Malphite ult with a 14 second cooldown in a class with access to so much AH that she can get it down to 6 seconds in the late game. It actually makes it way worse. Literally every assassin is good at catching people who are alone but Naafiri is the only one that literally invalidates entire classes of champions. Like what the hell are you supposed to do with a mage or marksman when the assassin outranges you?

@@wren5413 if you're a mage/marksman you should be hiding behind your tanks so they can body block naafiri's w...

@@wren5413 first of all, naafiri does not outrange most champions, her q has average range and slow projectile speed. Outside of that all naafiri can do is go in, with a highly telegraphed engage. Like the other person said, what you should be doing as a squishy ranged dps class is hiding behind your team so they can tank naafiris damage, and then your team can counterattack and kill her. If she has built tankidr she won't be able to really hurt your tanks, and if she has built full damage she will pop like a balloon. Naafiri has real exploitable weaknesses,she has awful early game which is why you see so many people snowballing her and destroying games in low rank, where she can reach that late game. But early she is a melee champion with low slow damage, very little healing and almost no defensive mobility besides a very short dash on an average cooldown. Also lacking any cc of any kind in her base kit beyond the short slow on her w. People somehow dont seem to understand you just wait for her to w, then use your movement? Like yeah you're gonna take some damage, but her q and e have long enough cast times she that she wouldn't be able to hit you with both that quickly after her w animation quickly. This only becomes a problem once she has seryldas, which is 2nd item at the earliest. Also a lot of mages/marksmen have self peel tools that can be very effective against a naafiri, see syndra E, varus ult, vayne E, ahri can lead her E Since packmates are untargetable until they hit something during her W,Veigar can stand in his own cage, etc Theres a lot you can do with that 1 second wind up plus travel time if you think fast. And sure naafiri is really strong against squishys who have no cc, but is that not the point of an assassin? Sure naafiri has a significantly lower skill floor, but as a lucian are you really gonna be able to consistently outplay a good zed, talon, leblanc, rengar,kha'zix or katarina who catches you alone? Obviously you can sometimes but consistently the answer is typically no,at least naafiri has to hit mid to late game before she really becomes a threat, her movement remains limited and primarily offensive unlike the other examples I listed who can get in and get out with resets or leblanc W , and if you're not behind, you just need to dodge one of her daggers to avoid a good chunk of her damage, in and out of team fights.

huh wuh? Huh?! who?

@@RottenHeretic You know? Lewis!

@@ninjatoriumnova2483 I don't. That's why I'm asking.

@@RottenHeretic Lewis the gator

@@krok2112 I'm gonna have an aneurysm

also, it could be the difference between him rewinding time for everyone else and him rewinding just himself int time. no? idk if that makes sense, but rather than rewinding the entire battle, he only rewinds himself to his state a few seconds ago.

​@@luckas221a Kinda like that. Time Travel is a can of worms that is very complex if the writter didn't set in stone very specific rules for the scenario. The cinematic shows Ekko returning to a fixed point in time: The start of the fight against that mechanical menace, so that is probably the point where he anchored a nexus that he can return to square one of the fight. Every pull of the Z-Drive makes him return to that point where both combatents are at their peak condition physically, but while the chemtech monstrosity goes back to square one both physically and mentally, Ekko, despite rewind his injuries back, still need to have his cognition from said rewind intact from the point he got injuried, so while his body is back to a "prime condition", the nervous system still have the damage inprinted his subconsciousness. An easier example of this case would be if Ekko got a paper cut and used the Z-Drive to rewind it so he doesn't have the cut anymore, the injury is healed but he would probably still have the feeling of the sting from the cut.

well they literally just did that

@@zephaniahofgod1673 yeah, hopefully Lullaby is still canon

thinking punk rock and anarchist vibes coming from his upbringing and views

yeah the mohawk really calls back to the old british punk movement which honestly fits piltover and zaun so much considering they're both inspired by britain and the places colonized by them

I get that it's more stylized than practical but c'mon, he painted a giant hourglass on his face the man's got style. I like his punk elements.

Yeah the mohawk just adds more to his punk flavor and I love it, dreads would be easier to cosplay though lol

Oh and also they confirmed on a discord Briar's not getting a color story because it's not engaging enough, apparently.

@@reno9821 oh my god seriously? If Riot tosses me a DM I'll write one for them in an afternoon, GOD what b.s

It's just too bad that they turn Viktor into a supervillain again, after his short story established that he doesn't force the augments on anyone.

I get giddy when there's a new one

Im just shocked that anyone talked about Liam O’Brien and brought up a Sonic Character over Critical Role loll

If I remember right, that was the original idea for his ult, but it was deemed too disruptive. Also was probably a coding nightmare.

Yeah I personally think Antony is > Shannon Even if he sounds like Dark Pit

​@@Keurgui1i was talking about the gragus

I think you cant find it because Elon deleted old tweets

It ruins the moral dilemma of using them if they aren't the Brackern's souls. It definitely does affect it

​@@ethanstyant9704 true, but I guess that now shifts the region's dilemma being Piltover abusing Zaun for it's resources and chembarons. Pretty much, we still get the corporate abuse, but more towards the people rather than nature; like Arcane.

Technically, they're not removing hextech, they're just removing that they come from the Brakern (Skarner). Take that as you will. Frankly, I feel like they're putting more work trying to dance around the topic, rather than just accept it and work with it.

@@patrickcarter2829 honestly, very corporate of them

thats the comment i was looking for

I think they wanted camille to be a good guy

That's what Project L is for

@@notimeforcreativenamesjust3034 Shame that the story ended up kinda messy, Camille was just Caitlyn in disguise

Huh?!