it would be really cool if zeri was a hidden unlockable character for convergance. obviously idk exactly how the time mechanic would work but, gameplay-wise, it doesnt seem like too much of a stretch to have her as like a new game+ type of character where she'd zap back to a previous location (sliding on surfaces like she can do in league) or something like that in place of ekko's time rewind. again, that depend on exactly how time is implemented but I think it'd be a neat idea
BANANAQUE????? OMG THIS MIGHT BE THE FIRST TIME I OPENED MY EYES REALLY WIDE WHEN I HEARD SOMETHING! I love how they subtly made Zeri a Filipino, first on the "oi" and now on the bananaques and pointing trough their lips.
When you mentioned "banana cue" I had to double check if I heard it right. That's our 🇵🇭 delicacy right there 😮 Our beloved merienda is now canon in Runeterra 🤣
Man, I'm heartbroken and sad after reading pantheon's story. It's... it's deep. Like I couldn't wait for Necrit to make a video, but damn, ruination living up to its name.
Yeah, I'm really interested to see how Atreus will forge himself from bottom up. He is my inspiration and this is nice and heartbreaking to see him desperate, but I'm sure he will find a way
I like how not only was her voice actress filipina. Her mannerisms are as well. Banana Cue and Pointing stuff with her mouth are stuff that filipinos encounter in their everyday lives. Happy to see South east based characters in runeterra
@@DXGraveman is food that is in a skewer and fried with caramelized sugar.. and pointing something with your mouth is literally that. Pointing something with your puckered lips..(it’s strange now that I think about it, but it’s a common gesture)
The way they incorporated Ruination in Zeri's story is like how a natural disaster affects real life. Its cool because filipinos experience typhoons every year.
Caramelised bananas is a famous snack in the Philippines Shes definitely inspired by Filipinos Especially her saying pssst and hoy (it means calling someone in a distance)
Yes, Philippines is like Zaun Very very uncanny similarities With the rich people getting fatter and greedy while the poor die and starve 😭😭😭 And the middle class goes extinct
It's nice to know there's now a Filipino champion 😚 Edit: BananaCues are a Filipino delicacy. Made from skewered sweet plantains deep fried with brown sugar to be carmelized
I wholeheartedly believe they forgot to show the model to the artist that made the splash and also to tell them she is filipina because the splash looks nothing nothing like all the others arts of her :x
They did work on darkening her skin in it later on , but it was a bit late since a lot of people already used the 1st version in a lot of Zeri related content
@@K_tYes The only place I saw the new splashart was in her release song video, there I only noticed small differences on the face, not enough but way better) but couldn't see difference on the skin tone, I just hope it is a work in progress and they deliver a splash that makes justice to her actual appearence
oh the artist did a great job, the splas concepts are amazing, 3 out of them are with zeri being on motion, one has her even give a girl back a teddy, and she looks like she is a filipina in all of them.. and then riot "adjusted" the splash art
This may be a bit speculative and nutty, but honestly, I feel like if riot wanted to start bringing things from arcane into actual league, ekko and zeri would be the start of the firelights
@@neutralplayeroflol5722 thats what im saying, from the sounds of it those two are going to form an actual group to help people called the firelights, arcane is different yes but riot needs to realize they can get a lot of good shit if they take what people liked in arcane and make it canon in actual official lore one way or another
I actually think they already started to invest in an multiverse and that's the relationship arcane has with the written lore, just like the MCU is for it's comics.
I dunno if ur reading this but mixing arcane's music with narrative in background really gets me feeling of MORE arcane! Keep telling more stories of zuan
In all honesty, Zeri seems heavily inspired by FIlipino culture from the setting of a slum to the food, aka Bananaque (highly recommend) even in the emphasis of community in her story
It's also been confirmed to be true in the League Subreddit and in a paragraph about cultural inspirations in Zeri's dev blog. I wasn't sure at the beginning as well, but having read through it, it made me really happy to see that she's actually filipina coded :)
Zeri IS heavily inspired by Filipino culture, it's a cornerstone of her design, personality, accent, electricity/neon themes, even the fact that she may make lights in entire districts go off is another reference to Filipino culture, it's all described pretty nicely in one of her blogs
Filipino mannerism and banana que is now officially part of the universe! 🇵🇭 That really puts a smile on my face. I'm really really happy her VA is also Filipina, it really does make me happy.
I cant get over just how filipino zeri is written. Over bearing lolas, pointing with lips and fried bananas back-to-back, someone was clearly having fun.
From what I can gather from the Ruined King interview, Viego wasn't the first thing they thought on making a story. They just started to write about it since it was interesting, and Riot just took that story and made the Ruination event. (I think, I'm not sure about this) Thinking along this lines, Zeri and the next champion (Baroness) might've been added to LoL since they were added in C O N V / R G E N C E So, the chances that both of them would be seen in the C O N V / R G E N C E game is pretty likely to happen. The Baroness might even be the main villain of the game.
10:35 I believe i now how Echo's rewind works, rewinding time and him knowing what happens. But has he ever just rewind his own time, like his upt in the game(rewinding him self but everyone else stays the same the same)
Nah, its just a game feature, in fact iirc Ekko's original plan for the ult WAS to rewind everyone (or atleast one person) but scrapped it for game balancing, so nah I dont think he can rewind time just for himself
@@RuzYT Unless he made another thing specifically for that purpose, just like he made a thing that slows time in an area, that or they hard nerfed Ekko in lore.
is zaun considered a place people from other provinces go to to have a better life, earning the zaun dream? zeri's based on filipino, ekko's black, viktor's strongly eastern europian, not to mention captain farron's race and yordles sounds like zaun is an immigrant country
Ekko some how sounds way younger than in arcane, here he sounded excited, but in arcane he sounded much more grown up, also i think rito should give him an asu, cause the guy has grown up and that tomahawk shheshh
@@pedrobraganca3115 We don't know. There's plenty in Arcane that would be nice to be in Universe lore, but there's also elements that directly contradict either current storylines (Why hasn't C kidnapped Cait's parents yet?) or stories that fundamentally and thematically don't work as well in Arcane (Camille's story is contradicted by Arcane, and any attempts to fix it retroactively make The Weakest Heart a worse story, either by making her sacrifice not representitive of her emotional state at that time, or by making the character have no future conflicts due to the fact we know she survives to a later date), and also stuff I just personally don't want canon (the hints that the Hexcore is void-related do Viktor's story of his point of view not being an agent of evil a diservice).
I don't get it. Ekko's time travel is working like it does in game which goes against how it actually works in the lore. His time travel is greatly nerfed in the game for fairness and game stability. If he's the same boy the lady was looking for, they nerfed it the same way here.
Unless it's another of Ekko's devices, one that operates a little different from the z-drive so it works like his in-game ult, just like he has the zone that slows time he could have other things, at least I hope they didn't just outright nerf him in lore.
This strengthens the fact that Arcane's Lore is not canon to the LoL universe's Lore. Ekko's LU Lore still didnt change and even continued thru Zeri's Collar Story...
Damn Riot loves Philippines Food. Bananacue, Fried banana with sugar on stick and Marinated Chicken (I'm just guessing feel free to correct me) I think is Adobo Chicken, because usually grandmothers make them really good.
So Riot ages 16 year old Taliyah into her early twenties but somehow after all these years, Ekko is still just 'a teenager'? Riot's getting kinda fucky with his age. Hell, even Arcane aged him up to 19-20.
i thought taliyah was always in her mid late 20s, and jinx/ekko were in their teens in arcane IMO the small changes they make for creative purposes arent canon
@@austeyen5628 Nah. Taliyah was 16 when she was first created. And Amanda Overton made a tweet saying that Ekko is around 19-20 in the third act of Arcane. You can kind of look at Ekko and tell he's no younger than 17. His age really shows in the final act.
@@onceuponagamemaster1588 The thing is, Thalia was 16 around the time noxus first invaded Ionia, if I remember correctly she was around 19 when she trained with Yasuo so it still makes sense
@@eduardokerber2931 For that to actually make sense that would mean that they were stating Taliyah was 16 *in the past* when she first dropped. Because that WAS her listed age. She would have had to have been 16 BEFORE the events of Ekko making the Z-Drive *actually* being 19 in the current timeline when she was released. Which actually is a really fucking stupid thing to do. Why even mention her age of 16 in the first place if she's older in the current continuity? If none of you remember, she released after Ekko btw. So this how this is a little fucky. Even if we factor in that she's 19 when Ekko is 16-17, Ekko is... *bare minimum* 19-20. And that's not really teenaged anymore. Like I'm convinced they're trying to Peter Pan/Ash from Pokemon him and just keep him the same age because it's convenient to keep him a boy. But it REALLY makes no sense.
I think if they really want to hold onto the Ruination they need to rewrite the entirety of it. What I tought about is if they put it into the upcoming lol MMO, maybe as an expansion. It wouldn't be a horrible idea for the lol MMO to start in the past. Whatever will happen, they need to retcon the Ruination into something better, because currently it is so bad on a fundamental level that it just doesn't fit into League's actually quite good story.
riot did a good job on making a character which is based on a filipina, beacause we see how zeri acts as one, to the stuff being pointed out by the mouth, being helpful to others which is also a filipino trait and referencing filipino culture such as the food which is banana cue
I knew it! I knew a new video is coming today! Ah, and now let's watch and see ya next time when you will probably be talking about Pantheon's new story
