Holy shit, found some next level deduction right here. To give a bit of an inside info, it's about the recent secret occurences of the four League champions (orderly placed by the order in which they were afflicted): Zed, Sona, Garen, Vi. This deduction has been posted on Reddit, on the Thai teaser post (which has since bee removed) and resolves about Zed, who was the only champion from the four mentioned above that didn't get some leakage. Creds to magicchatman2 on Reddit:
There's nothing for Zed. The other three are implied to have died. However, when Zed gets killed in-game, he disappears into a pool of shadow, leaving no body behind. Coincidence? I think not. Let's look further. Who else in League goes into a pool? Vlad. The tooltip for Vlad's pool reads:
"Vladimir sinks into a pool of blood, becoming untargetable for 2 seconds. Additionally, enemies on the pool are slowed and Vladimir siphons life from them. Vladimir sinks into a pool of blood for 2 seconds, becoming untargetable and slowing enemies above him by 40%. Vladimir deals 80/135/190/245/300 (+15% of bonus Health) magic damage over the duration and heals himself for 15% of that amount.".
Note that there are 26 occurrences of the letter "a". The same number as the letters in the English alphabet. Who was the 26th champion released? Anivia. Interesting that her name starts and ends with the letter "a" as well, right? This is clearly our next clue.
However, what exactly about Anivia links back to Zed? That's right, her ultimate is essentially a pool of ice. Zed's death animation is a pool of shadow. How are these two linked, you ask? Lissandra. Lissandra's ultimate is called "Frozen Tomb." If this isn't intentional, I don't know what is. Frozen Tomb has a range of 550 and cost of 100 mana. What is 550/100? 5.5....Patch 5.5! Who was released during 5.5? Bard.and sven
Bard was the 124th champion to be released for League. Alphabetically, the 124th champion is Zac. The word "Zac" is extremely similar to "Zed," and not by coincidence. If we assign each letter a number and add them up, we see that "Zac" = 26 + 1 + 3 = 30 and "Zed" = 26 + 5 + 4 = 35.
30 + 35 = 65. But wait. Remember in Vlad's tooltip, "a" occurred 26 times. If we add half of 26 to 65, we get a total of 78. What else sums to 78? Kassadin. 11 + 1 + 19 + 19 + 1 + 4 + 9 + 14 = 78. The champion is codenamed "Deadeye." Who was related to Kassadin and thought to be dead? Who has the community expected for a long time? RiotGypsy confirmed a new champion that had been taken out of the icebox. Kassadin's daughter, long thought to be abandoned, confirmed.