Ekko

A Z-Drive Built From Zaun’s Streets

Ekko came up on the harsh streets of Zaun, where he developed the Z-Drive, a contraption of his own design that lets him probe alternate versions of a single moment. Instead of accepting whatever happens first, he can run through possibilities until one turns out in his favor, then live that version exactly as he wants, on the first attempt.

Freedom With Limits

Ekko enjoys that liberty, yet the moment the people he cares about come under threat, it stops being a playground. Working alongside the Firelights, he will draw on everything the Z-Drive offers to keep them safe, and that is the only situation where his easygoing approach to risk vanishes completely. His long-standing friendship with Jinx is one of the few personal bonds rooted in that same Zaun childhood.

His kit follows the same cycle of trying and adjusting. Z-Drive Resonance, his passive, rewards repeated hits on one target with bonus damage and a burst of speed when fighting champions. Timewinder hurls a grenade that slows on impact, then rewinds partway back toward Ekko and strikes again on the way. Parallel Convergence splits the timeline to slow enemies trapped in a delayed anomaly, while Phase Dive sends him rolling out of danger into his next empowered attack. Chronobreak, his ultimate, shows his power most clearly: he fractures his own timeline, becomes untargetable, and rewinds to a safer spot a few moments earlier, healing as he goes back. Players use it offensively as much as defensively, since the damage it deals can be considerable. Once Chronobreak is spent, Ekko is noticeably weaker for a stretch of time, and the stun zone from Parallel Convergence needs a few seconds before it becomes active, so a sharp opponent can read the warning and move out before it closes. Ekko, in every sense, is a fighter who will not treat one bad result as the end.