Arcane "Enemy"; League of Legends "Get Jinxed", "Warriors", & "Seconds" Cinematics reaction & review

[@MrCoolAttitude]

17:08 Just want to add that from what we've seen in Arcane, it seems Jinx needs loud noises to cover her own internal voices to "calm" herself down. So the monkey making that noise helped her sleep and when it stopped, it brought her back to real life.

[@bridgethaines7127]

In Arcane, she silenced those voices in the final scene. Once Silco tells her she's perfect, there are no more scratchy overlays, no whispers, she's fully in her own head and her own person. Everything she does from that moment is without the voices in her head.

[@filipeoliveiraladislau4533]

@@bridgethaines7127 what you are saying that we will have more trauma stored to her on season 2..... good....

[@LadyDoomsinger]

@@bridgethaines7127 You can't really conclude that from the ending of Season 1 - Just because the voices went away, doesn't mean they won't come back. Besides, the "voices" were always a reflection of her own chaotic mind and tumultuous emotions, they were her own doubts and fears given voice - those feelings aren't likely to go away, even if the voices themselves aren't there anymore.

[@MrCoolAttitude]

I've played as Jinx in league for so many seasons but now after Arcane it just doesn't feel the same. Baby Powder melts my heart.

[@cacerespiedrabuenahugoramo5028]

Wow it's interesting i started playing LoL for like a month ago and I love it, and then I found out it has an animated series, now I love both

[@cacerespiedrabuenahugoramo5028]

Sorry I mean impressive

[@filiptopolovec4510]

@@cacerespiedrabuenahugoramo5028 just wait for s 1,2 u be miserable and corny af 😂

[@RenegadeSamurai]

Jinx was the reason I started playing League when she came out. Instantly fell in love with her :D

[@cacerespiedrabuenahugoramo5028]

Wow you guys are impressive, I just started playing not so long ago like I already say but when you started playing? I'm just curious

[@buinugget6912]

Love how the show brought Jinx’s gestures from Get Jinxed to Arcane like the lip biting and finger gun

[@dajointcf4803]

fun fact the get jinxed music is playing in arcane episode 4 when jinx is in her hide out and silco shows up

[@benns9673]

See a girl going around with Vi and have a sniper "i don't know if she is Caytlin" See a mage summoning magic sword against an army in a icy region "i think this is vander"

[@tennoyamamoto1800]

Vander is not a character in league (theory says he turns into Warwick, the season 2 teaser gives a audio queue hinting Warwick showing up so we'll find out "soon" enough) The guy in the trailer is Sylas, he's from Demacia which is basically on the opposite coast of the continent

[@lockekappa500]

It's more than a theory by this point. You don't play the Warwick theme at the end of your teaser by accident. ;)

[@IgnisDev]

It's not a theory. Just listen to ww audio to jinx and vi

[@demonic_myst4503]

Not just mysic warwicks own lore he reacts to both vhi stating zaun needed you and to jinx having a memory of jinx crying as a little girl so story wise he knee jinx as a child and believes whi betrayed zaun so its pretty much 100% vander

[@J1ntu]

I still love how Jinx pops up twice in Enemy. The first time is with the firelight and the second was of course the enforcers Damn, I never thought Jinx is protecting her inner Powder this whole time

[@RenegadeSamurai]

I wonder why Harley Quinn is the first thing that comes to mind :D When she in fact was primarily influenced by the Joker, Gollum and Helena Bonham Carter (actress of Bellatrix Lestrange from Harry Potter) Maybe it is because she's a girl :D Btw, after Jinx was released, on the official site from League of Vi and Cait, there were some graffiti at some point over the text...from SOMEONE :D Vi's title was overwritten with "FATHANDS" which is what Jinx calls her in the game ^^ Also Jinx never had a really big backstory, which always seemed a bit weird for League characters, since they are usually pretty solid and fleshed out. The only thing we knew was that she at some point showed up and created chaos everywhere and she was obsessed with Vi, but nobody knew exactly why

[@toamszkozak8822]

So a few informations for you. The world of runeterra (that's what the world in league of legends is called) is very big and have very big lore it's far bigger than just Piltover and Zaun and many of the champions didn't even met each other in the lore so you will see many characters that weren't in Arcane . Runeterra have 12 regions and league have 159 playable champions if I'm not wrong (and we still getting a new ones), so these regions are Piltover, Zaun, Noxus, Demacia, Shurima, Ionia, Ixtal, Bilgewater, Shadow Isles, Targon, Bandle city City and Freljord. In warriors cinematics you saw 3 of these regions Zaun(you already saw this in Arcane, Demacia (it was that location with the castle) and Shurima (that egypt looking region) and you saw 9 of champions Vi Caitlyn 20:56 Lux: lady of luminosity 20:58 Garen: the might of Demacia (he and Lux are siblings 21:15 Ezreal: the prodigol explorer 21:29 Sylas: the unchackled 22:08 Kai'sa: the daughter of the void 22:18 Urgot: the dreadnought 23:51 Galio: the colossus (and yes this big thing is also a champion that you can play in the game

[@filipeoliveiraladislau4533]

"Get Jinxed" was animated by the same studio of arcane (Fortiche) and actually the first of many collaborations that culminated in the joint project of "Arcane". Its also the first music video and got so popular that created a joke about riot games being a music studio uses a game as advertisement. At first they didn't have a lore they just worked on a concept make a visual and a few paragraphs background. i think that was around 2015-2016 they decide revamp all the lore from the ground up and tackle new industries (comics, books, animation, etc) but was already so big that even with the new things being launched already in line with the new lore many older parts still not updated. one of this parts is the parts relevant to arcane(my conjecture: is that they hold purposefully this part to show through arcane) so in a scene arcane conflicts with the canon(but i believe that will be the new canon when arcane is finished and they move onto other stories in universe).

[@lockekappa500]

Just to clarify, Get Jinxed was Fortiche's first video with Riot. The same people who did Arcane. So that's why there's such a similarity between the two.

[@insaneone7560]

" THE SHOW " is 1% of the whole story ( literally) ..and the story of arcane ( 10/10) is a 7/10 one...imagine what their 10/10 story will be rated?? 20/10

[@gabrielvr940]

League of legends has a GIGANTIC lore (backstory) it's so well written and amazing. Fans of the game have been bagging for a tv show for ages, and that's where Arcane comes from. They chose one of the most liked characters to focous the story around (Jinxs) and yeah there are a lot of new aspects of the story for the show. Just so u can imagine how big the League story is, arcane only focus on a city of the entire world that is the runeterra, and yet still we just have like half of the characters that we know from the city in the show. (We as league fans have been reading those stories for years and where very happy to see this world on tv). And just to answer your question at the end ( the mais game [league of legends]) is not very story-based, u can read it as a plus

[@Karanthaneos]

To be perfectly fair, they took one of the more token and simple characters there were and fleshed the heck out of her. Both Ekko and Singed were probably the better fleshed out in-universe, and I'm kinda glad they left them on the sidelines, just because they're already well written and fleshed out, using this opportunity to improve on the other characters really helped cementing those characters in people's hearts, giving them the depth I felt they originally lacked.

[@bryanclaveriaofficial]

Piltover and zoun are the least interesting regions in all of runetera as far i know the ark of most charters in piltover and zoun is allmost over jinx full cary singed experiment on Warwick victor hasn't yet Been in glorious evaluation Jayce as well will separate With victor silco don't exist in canon universe himedeng has No lore. EEko Caitlin and jayce dont even know each other in lore victor does not the void thing cait her parents should die next season by Camille killed them orianna the camical spill maybe jhin ? Blits crank oeveryone else not real Riot should be in other region Of runetera

[@bryanclaveriaofficial]

And jinx and vi canon we dont even jinx and vi are sisters And jinx is just a crazy person

[@1993MovieMan]

@@bryanclaveriaofficial Caitlyn:"Piltover`s better off without you, Jinx, but Vi."

[@aspieanarchist5439]

@@bryanclaveriaofficial Nobody`s just "a crazy person" for no fucking reason! That ain`t how human psychology fucking works!

[@Oscar-mf4od]

League of Legends has over 157 playable characters, only 9 were portrayed in Arcane first season and just 2 were in "Warriors". Canonically Vander died in Arcane to introduce Warwick (what he becomes ) in League of Legends, but no one knew who was Vander until Arcane came to light.

[@spiritofchaos58]

Oh wow. That's...a lot of characters. Golly

[@endruler8625]

So the Warriors cinematic came out a while before Arcane did, so there aren’t supposed to be any characters from the show minus the champs meant to be in it. The guy with the chains is not Vander, as Vander isn’t a champion in League. That’s Sylas, and was imprisoned in Demacia for being a mage, as magic is heavily outlawed there. The other champs in the scenes with him were Lux, the blond girl, Garen, the big guy with the sword (who is Lux’s brother) and Galio, the giant statue Lux summons. The blue Crystal that the blonde dude picked up wasn’t hextech, but an unrelated magical artifact called Tear of the Goddess, which is an in-game item. The blonde dude who grabbed said artifact is Ezreal, an explorer who actually is from Piltover, but wasn’t in arcane. The girl that helped him is Kai’Sa, who was kidnapped by the Void at a very young age and had her body fused with a parasite to survive in the void, and now uses it to fight the void creatures. Yes, those two were Caitlyn and Vi, but the official league lore for them is slightly different than arcane since Arcane itself isn’t technically canon, but an alternate timeline. The big guy they were fighting is Urgot, who was sent to Zaun by Noxus, a warmongering country that is mentioned in Arcane, only to be ambushed and imprisoned by the chembaron Baron Voss until he busted out and took over the mine he was imprisoned in, and then replaced parts of his body he thought were weak with chemtech that he took from other people that needed them to survive. And since you mentioned it, No, League of Legends looks nothing like the Warriors cinematic. The game was released in 2010, it’s WAY less graphically advanced. It’s definitely improved over the years, but it’s nothing like the cinematics.

[@maxarcher21]

League have more than 150 characters, but on Arcane You can see only a few Of them, Jinx, Ví, Victor, Jayce, Heimerdinger, Caitlyn, Singed and one more but on Arcane have a diferent name and also a diferent body aspect im not going to Say the name cause on season two he Will appear and i not gonna spoil you (maybe another one if the mage who saves jayce was a character but is not confirmed)... So yes, they created a hole pool Of new characters for the show... This is very positive cause they can work Really deep the characters, if you put so Many, they Lost so much time on screen, and that is a common error for most shows based on videogames Arcane was on production for 6 years... Another videos: "tales Of runaterra piltover and zaun true Genius" "wild Rift Target practice" have characters You know, and also "wild Rift You Really got me" have jinx but only she and is not Arcane related"... Jinx have 2 more videos on pararels universes like being a Pilot like guardiana Of the galaxy and the other like a magical girl with sailor moon Styles...

[@TurokRevolution]

League of Legends doesn't have a story mode, it's a competitive multiplayer game. But Legends of Runeterra (the card game spin-off) tells you a lot more of the world and there is a singleplayer RPG called Ruined King which I can recomment. Otherwise, most of the universe is shown in the cinematics, comics and short stories. Arcane is not a part of the main universe. It changed the story of almost every character, but keeps the overall world building the same, which I really like. The person in the Warriors video isn't Vander, it's Sylas. Vander isn't directly a character in League of Legends, at least not as we have seen him until now.

[@1993MovieMan]

Vander`s basically a composite of the bartender who raised Vi and Warwick though.

[@dwaynejohnson4727]

Really enjoy all your Arcane Reactions. Thanks. Also, another insight into the backstory in the video is how the lyrics are synergiyzing with what's being depicted: Particularly, the portentous intercut scenes of Vi pillow play fighting Powder/Vi admonishingly real fighting Powder after theirs and the others' accosting by the Enforcers, consequent of THIS: the scene sequence indicates that as the Enforcers did what is likely a routine display of authority in the Lanes, the more streetwise kids affected submission/indifference as they passed, but they noticed the "Not looking out for Herself" Powder's smoldering defiance and her subsequent blatant miming shooting them in their backs. And subsequently, Jinx's aegis stance behind Powder in the menacing mob of Enforcers conveying lesson learned, having become her own Vi and now "Looking out for Herself."

[@BananaPengu1n]

Okay, wall of text ahead, not sure if you are interested in all of that, but I'll just write it all instead of splitting it over your next reactions, so you can come back to this: A lot of people get into the rabbit hole that is LoL cinematics and songs after watching Arcane so: Arcane has only a handful of 150+ champions in it (yet) and all of those have interesting if not even better stories to tell. While you don't need to know anything to play the game and if you don't care for it never have to come in contact with any lore while playing, every chmapion already has a background story and maybe even comics/other stories released for them. If you wanna keep going (and most of these won't have any champions from LoL in them) I'd recommend going with more season start cinematics or music (NONE of this EXCEPT WARRIORS (2014) and maybe IGNITE (2016) should give you copyright claims): Warriors is the season start cinematic (a LoL season most of the time starts in january and ends in november after the world championship - while the 2 months left are used for bigger changed in the game and where it doesn't interrupt proplay if something goes wrong) for the year 2020 (aka season 10). Other "hype" cinematics are: Awaken (2019), Ruination (2021) and The Call (2022). To enjoy Ruination, as it's part of a whole story that was told over a longer period of time, I'd recommend checking out in order: "The Climb", "Shadows Embrace", "Ruination", "Absolution". An older cinematic that is less about lore and more about showing the 5v5 aspect of the game is "A new Dawn" from 2014. If you enjoy the artstyle (yes Get Jinxed was Fortiches first work for Riot) I'd recommend the most viewed video on the KZbin LoL channel: K/DA - Popstars. As the game is free to play the way to make most of their money is to sell skins (aka a champion in a what-if scenario and putting it into an alternative universe). For this project they used 4 champions (Ahri, originally a ninetailed foxdemon, devouring essences of her prey, Akali - originally a ninja parting ways with her clan to bring her "own" balance to the world, Evelynn - a succucbus-like demon taking form of things that are attractive to humans and Kai'sa - a champion that got trapped in the void [something like the big bad evil in the LoL world - think of thanos from Marvel] as a little child and now uses a symbiotic void armor to fight against the void since she is back) and put them into a kpop band. While the video was literally to advertise the 4 skins it got their biggest hit and like Arcane people from every genre who didn't even play the game came in contect with LoL. Cuz of it's success Riot gave K/DA a comeback in 2020, releasing 5 more songs with it, making a twitter account for K/DA, releasing interviews as if they were a real band. So if you enjoyed Popstars check out: The Baddest (Akalis song, lyrics video), More (group song like Popstars), I'll Show You (Ahris song), Villain (Eves song) and Drum go dum (Kai'sas song, choreography video). Another nice cinematic series is the one for Legends of Runeterra, their in 2020 released card game. There you choose 2 regions of Runeterra (how the lol world as we know it is named) and build a deck with its available cards/theme. Every video introduced the viewer to one region, so maybe start out with Piltover (and Zaun) and go from there - here is the playlist: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXzXZmuYbKaqgMU Want more Jinx? Check out "Odyssey" - a skinline where she among other champions is in a Guardians of the Galaxy-like universe. Wanna listen to Vis release Song, even though she sadly doesn't have a music video like Jinx? Check out "Here comes Vi". Want more Ekko? There was no K/DA in 2019 but Akali, one of the members, took her time to make a side project, bringing some of her friends (in that alternative universe) into the spotlight. So she helped found True Damage with their song Giants. People also enjoy when reactors visit the LoL website and go to the champions tab, there you can scroll through the 150+ champions and look at 1000+ skins. Warning that this is going to spoil what happens with Viktor (but we still don't know how it exactly happens, Arcane could mix it up a bit). Every year there is a ~month long world championship (worlds in short) where all the pro teams of the world come together to compete and for the final best of 5 there always is an opening ceremony, using the songs from videos that got released in that same year. Also every worlds has a worlds song connected to it, focusing more on the players instead of the game. So the original Warriors is the 2014 song for worlds. Starting from there there is a music video for all the worlds songs: Worlds collide (2015), Ignite (2016), Legends never die (2017), Rise (2018), Phoenix (2019), Take over (2020) and Burn it all down (2021). You could listen to those but the -in my opinion- cooler thing is watching the opening ceremonies, starting in 2017 (small spoiler why thats interesting: they use augmented reality to bring the game to life - imagine having these virtual characters of K/DA in real life? Better check out what Riot does with those opening ceremonies ;) - and 2021 has more of Arcane stuff in it - the final was one day before we got to see the first episode on 6th november so no1 knew what to expect). 2017: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4GWl3qhpdKJg5I (Song: Legends never die) 2018: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYq2e3ylms16p5I (Popstars and Rise) 2019: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bIKniJWBo9yFmcU (Awaken, Giants and Phoenix) 2020: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZnYmKlmeKebY6c (K/DA, different versions of older worlds songs, Take over) - first covid year so while changing stuff around as best they could and not having technicians travel there i still enjoy this 2021: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4DdoHmnabZmlcU (Welcome to the Playground, Enemy, Burn it down) People will probably tell you stories about the champions in those cinematics as soon as you react to them, so I'm not going to start here (also, you can imagine the huge text there would be to write for Jinx/Vi alone - and those videos show like 50 different champions with their own huge stories). ALSO: There is a meme if you wanna call it like that, to not start playing LoL cuz of the music or Arcane and these people will often bring up that the community is toxic. While the game looks and plays totally different from those cinematics (it's a 5v5 PvP game) the rest is really just an environment where humans compete with each other. As in real life sport it can get hectic at times and when something doesn't go your way, but LoL isn't the biggest game for years for no reason. But there are other Riot Games games that you could enjoy and use the same characters/universe: Teamfight Tactis is an Auto battler, Legends of Runeterra is a 1v1 cardgame but also has a story mode (including a Vi/Piltover one). tl;dr of "play the game?": Really just look at game footage or just try it yourself - it's free to play (like all of their games). Without supporting LoL we would've not gotten Arcane, so I really think it's not wise to make new people stay away from ways to support Riot cuz they want some easy meme upvotes/karma. Enjyoed your Arcane reaction and I hope to see some more LoL stuff on your channel, have a nice day o/

[@TheKrislaf]

The guy on the battlefield wasn't Vander, his name is Sylas. He is a mage in Demacia, a country where magic is essentially outlawed. Magic is obviously frowned upon in Piltover too at the start of the series and is probably still distrusted when it isn't connected to technology, but Piltover doesn't imprison people for simply having the ability to channel magic. Demacia does. Sylas isn't necessarily a good guy either though. Btw, there is no champion in League of Legends called Vander. He is an original character for the show, same as Silco.

[@bridgethaines7127]

Soooort of. There is a rumor he is a character. ;) but no, he isn't in Warriors.

[@xxlCortez]

Vander: Fuck y'all, I'm a wizard now.

[@carlospena8967]

The playable characters from League in Arcane are: Jinx, Vi, Cait, Jayce, Viktor, Heimerdinger, Ekko and Singed (the shimmer scientist). There are hints for more characters for season 2, but we will have to wait ):

[@ChevaliersEmeraude]

I hope Lux and Garen gets in there. Lux is my main when I go mid or support, so I'd like to see her on the show! Plus, the whole "anti-magic" stance that exists in her city and all, it could fit with what's already in the first season.

[@jRoy7]

Vi has her own theme song too, "Here Comes Vi". There isn't a music video for it, just the in-game loading screen, but it's great song worth checking out. :)

[@nathannelson463]

Heh . . . glad you enjoyed Warriors! But the only two characters from Arcane are Vi and Caitlyn. :-) Riot has REALLY done a lot of work in the last 5 or 6 years to build up the lore of Runeterra (the world where all these characters live) and these videos really highlight all that work. Two things: 1) The game is nothing like the videos! :-) You might enjoy it, but League's worldbuilding and the game itself are two VERY different beasts. I love both, but one has almost nothing to do with the other. 2) You might really enjoy looking up lore about League and its characters, but . . . you WILL come across spoilers. Such as which characters have "plot armor". (For example, we know there's at least a few people that survive Jinx's rocket at the council chamber . . . because they're game characters.). Also, some knowledge of League lore made Episode 3 WAAAY more tense than it already was . . . and I suspect some of the fallout from that event still hasn't really been revealed fully. Your reactions are quite fun, and I'll definitely be back for not only more League content, if you get into it, but other reactions. Thank you for all the time and love you've put into Arcane!

[@greywarden5513]

Powder and her “Little Hero” Those who know ☺️

[@toamszkozak8822]

It wasn't Vander, Vander was never a League of legends character, Vi, Jinx, Ekko, Caitlyn, Jayce, Viktor (you'll never guess what Viktor looks like in the game haha) Heimerdinger and Singed (the doctor who worked for Silco) these are playable characters from the game, other characters such as Mel, Marcus, Silco, Sevika, Mylo, Clagger or Vander are characters that were created especially for the series and we have never seen them before

[@aleksandra4702]

well... vander may or may not be in league, just looking different 😏

[@kervala]

Your reactions are amazing

[@jdogx211]

That rhino was actually in Arcane. When she was fooling around with the Gemstone for the first time, I saw it fall out of q box that got knocked over.

[@xxlCortez]

All we knew about Jinx's backstory that she was a sweet child and something happened to her. After that, her first appearance is wreaking havoc in Piltover. However Jinx in the game is much like what you've seen in Get Jinxed. Everyone who died in the show aren't game characters (well, sorta). Neither are Mel and her mom.

[@demonic_myst4503]

Well saying that its im9lied that warwick is vander Warwick in game lore he knee jinx as a child and remembers her crying he alao knew vhi And is imolied ro be the bartender who taught her to punch

[@JJR93]

The firefly/moth thingy is mechanical/robotic so it's actually not quite as gross/horrifying as it looks when it crawls out of Powder's mouth...she didn't put a bug in her mouth but a little robot, basically. Probably tastes metallic.

[@rednova2212]

'Lil baby gamer' Don't worry or get put down. Some day pretty soon, you'll be going through the Souls series and Elden Ring. Also do be sure to record that if you want to do it. However, if you don't feel like doing the Souls Series, record your reactions to it's stories. I'd suggest the VaatiVidya channel for it. He's real good with going into detail on the world and capturing and interpreting the lore.

[@Epok17]

One thing to note is that Piltover, the City where Arcane takes place is just one small city out of a huge world of LoL. The showed only 8is out of over 150 characters in the game.

[@cookie31989]

To clarify a bit for you :) Even though League of Legends are not a story game per say, all the characters that they release and are in the game have a backstory that intertwine with other characters in different ways and are set in both different time periods and locations in Runeterra (the LoL-world). You can read the lore of all the character on League of Legends webpage. So the base story of Jinx was written when she, as a character, was released for the game in 2013. So what I think Riot did was that they picked some characters with interesting stories and made a bad ass series about it. It's kinda been a running gag in the League community that the cinematics and music videos Riot makes are so good that they should make a Netflix Series, and little did we know, behind the scenes, for 6 year they have been doing just that :p Great reaction! Dying to see more!

[@ClockMonsterLA]

League Jinx differs from Arcane Jinx primarily in that League Jinx isn't suffused with all the heart-breaking tragedy that Arcane Jinx is. It is difficult to imagine Arcane Jinx ever adopting the same carefree, manic pixie dream girl, Harley Quinn personality you see in "Get Jinxed" (or the game). BTW, in Arcane episode 4, Jinx is listening to "Get Jinxed" (the song) while she is working with the mechanical butterfly.

[@1993MovieMan]

They`re called Firelights(A radioactive insect native to Zaun Ekko`s vigilante/community service group is named after, in the "Enemy" music video it`s basically symbolic of those remnants of Powder`s innocence and dependence in Jinx).Also, contrary to popular belief Jinx has very little to do with Harley Quinn outside of being a pale-skinned, energetic, anarchistic crazy girl who likes to shoot people and blow stuff up. Also Jinx had the whole pink and blue color scheme before Harley and kept it after they stopped using it for Harley and reverted to the red, white and black!Jinx was actually based on Gollum, Heath Ledger`s Joker and Helena Bonham Carter`s characters in "Harry Potter" and "Fight Club". This is even reflected in the way she speaks and looks in the Games.

[@Drudenfusz]

Even though there are over 150 characters in the game, the Arcane show nevertheless got some new characters, like Mel and Sevika, which I both hope to get eventually in the game too! Anyway, the Jinx song in in the show too, Jinx listen to it while working on the Hextech gem. And no, that guy in the Warrior video is Garen not Vander. Vander is not directly in the game, even though there exist a fan theory that Vander is Warwick in the game, but if that is true we probably have to wait for the second season of Arcane. But yes, that was Caitlyn there! Garen and his sister Lux world fit well into Arcane, since they both are tied deeply to the theme of the show about the dangers of magic.

[@Shizar7]

None of the scenes of the *Enemy* video are in the main series, they were made specifically for the music video

[@1993MovieMan]

Yes, "Warriors" is "Imagine Dragons. They`re League fans and they`ve been collaborating with Riot since 2011.(The Game`s been out since 2009,Vi was released in 2011, Caitlyn, Viktor and Jayce in 2012 and Jinx in 2013.)

[@uniquename82]

Fortiche, the animation studio behind arcane also did the get jinxed video, which probably explains a lot of the similar look you feel they have.

[@jdogx211]

18:00, they spent ALOT MORE $$$, on how she looked in Arcane, then they did early on in LoL. They were still just starting out, Jinxed came out like 9 years ago.

[@buinugget6912]

Music videos like Warriors contain other champions/characters from the game, apart from Caitlyn and Vi. The world of Runeterra is huge with multiple regions and Piltover and Zaun are two of them. Noxus, where Mel comes from, is also a region. Caitlyn’s dad looks a bit like a Eastern Asian, and there is also a region called Ionia based on Eastern Asian culture. It’s not confirmed but maybe Caitlyn’s dad is from there. Arcane added other regions as a way to introduce audience to the LOL’s world, and after Arcane they will expand to other regions and make new shows for them.

[@aspieanarchist5439]

Katie Leung who voices "Caitlyn" in Arcane is also Korean-Scottish IRL and was given racist death threats on the set of "Harry Potter" as Cho Chang when she was younger. She had to get therapy for years.

[@keyronkathrynekathrynkeyron]

Melissa: vi is amazing Riven: are sure about that?

[@gappy9574]

Characters that were shown in Warriors Lux (the one who fired the light beam) Garen (the dude with a big sword, big brother of lux) Sylas (the one with chains that you think is vander) Caitlyn (that is caitlyn) VI (you already know) Urgot (the one with crab legs and got punched by vi) Ezreal (the boy who took the rune) Kai'sa (the girl wearing purples suit on)

[@saldirgan02]

So you think Vander got an evil smirk on his face while fighting with medieval warriors and big stone giant, alongside with ice mages and half naked dudes? " Is that supposed to be Vander?" Is he?

[@Gandorhar]

idk who told you to wait with "enemy" until you watched the season, the perfect time for anyone new to the universe is between episode 6 and 7.

[@jdogx211]

When Silco was pissed at Jinx in episode 4, THIS is what she was listening to on the phonograph

[@connerb5617]

Definitely not Vander in the Warriors video. Vander was an original character for the show. The man in the trailer is named Sylas. He is from Demacia (where the trailer fight is occurring). Demacia also has a prejudice against mages, much like Piltover did in the show, and Sylas was born with the gift. There's more to his story but he was oppressed by the Demacian government, and is using his abilities now to attempt to free mages from Demacian oppression.

[@ninjatoriumnova2483]

To be honest, it's almost 100% we'll see Vander again... except he won't look like Vander and won't be called Vander anymore.

[@1993MovieMan]

"Hat Lady"(As Jinx likes to call her) is indeed Caitlyn although she`s usually just called "Sheriff Caitlyn"(By her fellow Enforcers aside from Vi, yes Vi is an Enforcer in the Game even though she hates Enforcers in "Arcane", hey that rhymes!), "Cupcake"(By Vi.)and "Hat Lady" by Jinx.

[@3LastSon]

IDK If this has been mentioned but that one scene where Powder is pointing a finger gun at the enforcers... for a single frame it switches to adult Jinx.

[@sergioacebedo8761]

Hi thats not Vander, thats Sylas, another champion xP theres lot of lore behind each of those scenes ^^ u should check it all its rly amazing.

[@tamalchakraborty5906]

oh hi!!! i remember watching your reactions on the witcher show if i remember correctly.....good to see u are doing arcane and LoL related content

[@jmilla321]

"i think that is vander" hmmm have you met this half dead scary wolf friend of mine?

[@Sinewmire]

Enemy: I think we're seeing a little self-contained story about Powder. Powder is thinking about how it all went down, sat in The Last Drop. The gang hang out, watching Vi box, then Vi's little gang get a job. They're staking out the market and the food stall - Powder and Ekko are having a good time, but Vi is scowling, keeping watch for something. It goes bad, and someone's getting beaten up (I think it's Mylo), and the enforcers spot Powder, remembering her from riding around with Ekko. Vi and Powder get picked up, just to scare them, and let go. Vi blames Powder for it, and the two have a flaming row in their room which ends with Powder falling backwards, scared (Vi didn't hit her) and Vi storming off. I don't know who the other characters in Warriors are (definately not Vander, that guy is too young, too thin, fights differently and is in the wrong part of the world) but I think we might be seeing some of them in future seasons. I've never played League, but I think given how foreshadowed Noxus is (where Mel is from) we might be seeing Noxus and the characters from them next season.

[@berkaycoskun311]

in Warriors cinematic, blue stone is Tear of the Goddess, ancient relic. ^^ It has massive story

[@Specter177]

Melissa, don't let the cinematics fool you, the game looks nothing like that.

[@JJR93]

If you've never seen the League of Legends in-universe K-Pop band K/DA perform "Popstars" (music vid), you definitely should....it's an amazing music video.

[@SuDaixi]

The story of season 1 is supposed to be a prequel to the vi and jinx we know in league although not exactly accurate to everything we know in league. Also the fans always guessed that those 2 were sisters because of some of their lines but the show was the confirmation. Until then we could only guess at jinx's backstory and why vi and caitlin are the enforcers always on jinx's tail, also why fiddlesticks (a demon of fear) always hinted to a dark backstory for jinx that we didn't know while jinx always seemed so carefree, crazy, and having fun. Also who was the sister that jinx refers to sometimes who she thinks is worse then her. Arcane basically answered a lot of questions but they also rewrote parts of the story of some of the characters like jayce and victor so it's not fully canon.

[@JenniferFuss]

As for Warriors, only Catelyn and Vi were displayed, the other champions were from other parts, I think. Not sure for Ezrael (the shorthaired bow guy), I thought he is from Zaun, but might be off?

[@petty2579]

Since u mentioned u wanted to react to more music and called this Video "bonuses" I would suggest watching last years Opening Ceremony for the League World Championship Finale as it was basically a 15(?)min long Video including multiple songs from Arcane as well as animated and real life scenes based around the shows themes

[@gintarebaskeviciute5672]

All ~150 champions in the have lores, some even have extra short stories and comics

[@1993MovieMan]

Here`s the lore for Jinx that gave us "Arcane":" Though most look at Jinx and see only a mad woman armed to the teeth with explosives and firearms far larger than herself , some older folks in Zaun remember a very different person matching her description, a relatively innocent tinkerer from Zaun who didn`t fit in and came to a bad end. What happened to turn that sweet child into a chaotic mad woman with a love of explosions and firearms no one quite knows but once she exploded onto the streets of Piltover, her talent for sowing anarchy became the stuff of legend."

[@MelissaHime]

That's really interesting! Thanks!

[@aspieanarchist5439]

@@MelissaHime No prob.

[@IgnisDev]

Oh my sweet summer child. You will see Wander...

[@ThiVasss]

We need mondays to be league reactions. The "Arcane fan reacts to league" is pretty popular right now.

[@gintarebaskeviciute5672]

"Tales of Runeterra: Piltover and Zaun. 'True genius' " is another one which has characters who you recognise. It's a more silly and not really cannon one, but I still think you'd enjoy it (if not for a video then just by yourself).

[@radwald189]

Arcane fans are so cute when watching Warriors and seeing Cait and Vi 😅

[@Cobrazay]

Hey Melissa I hope all is well with you! Please don't stop being awesome

[@jdogx211]

Don't know if you've heard, but your gonna wanna watch Warwick s video as well. Watch it, if you haven't then Google him, you'll understand why then; IF YOU ALREADY DONT.

[@SJPaladinHawk]

League of Legends fandom... "This is gorgeous!" Yes! "These characters are so cool!" Yessss "I wanna try the game-" Oh, honey, no

[@1993MovieMan]

So, like "Arcane" was in Development Hell for a long time, it was actually being developed since 2015 and was delayed twice, first due to creative differences between the creatives and corporate(Which in a rare instance the creatives won but not of course without a fuckload of blood, sweat, tears, edits and red tape bullshit along the way.)and then because of COVID.

[@MelissaHime]

I'm glad it finally came out! They did a great job!

[@kami_two]

Runettera is a big world it's not just piltover and zaun

[@ducris]

A couple more videos related to some of the Arcane Characters would be: Tales of runeterra Piltover Tales of Runeterra Noxus ( to see a bit of the background of Mell's home) Beyond the Bandlewood Wild rift -You really got me Burning Bright | Star Guardian (this showcase in game skins they are not part of the lore , its more like a paralele universe) Welcome Aboard | Odyssey Animated Trailer (same with this one . another "universe" )

[@gachalordnoobie4911]

Guy with chains is Sylas, not Vander.

[@neogetright7542]

Jinx voicelines are really funny in game. One of my favourite is, "In trying to care, but I just... Really can't.."

[@aspieanarchist5439]

I mean it`s hilarious in hindsight how long Riot tried to gaslight us into thinking Jinx and Vi were not related at all even though it was so obvious from the punk aesthetics, background, Jinx`s obsession with Vi and apathy or resentment towards anyone else around her and similar personalities, dispositions and voicelines that they were!

[@1993MovieMan]

Vander`s not really in the Game, he`s referenced in the lore of two champions but whether he is whom we think he is won`t be confirmed until Season 2.

[@HaughtBreakerNic]

I played League for all of 5 minutes. I have no commentary on the game mechanics or anything so I can't tell you how good of a game it is. I'm sure it's a fine game or it wouldn't have lasted this long, but I was lured in by how amazing the cinematics and character designs and lore were and then when I got in game I was appalled at how horrendous the game looked. As a person obsessed with character designs and only playing games that are pleasing to the eye, it was like a betrayal I couldn't forgive and because of it, I almost didn't watch Arcane. It took a friend repeatedly badgering me to watch it and now it's my current hyperfixation. I even bought the Caitlyn statue they sell in Riot Games' store because she's adorable but, still not going to reinstall LoL. Vi's looks are definitely more male-gaze oriented in the cinematics and character design for the game then she is in Arcane (although her game character design totally has a mullet and I'm so glad they changed her hair) and she's also taller than Cait which is the opposite of Arcane lol. I think the Jinx in the video is far more Harley Quinn-like than in Arcane. In Arcane, I feel like she's significantly more traumatized and not as carefree with more of a mean streak. Arcane basically solidified some theories that were revolving around the LoL lore, like Jinx and Vi being sisters and also the Cait/Vi speculations (yes Vi does call Caitlyn Cupcake in the game lol) Anyway, enough rambling from me. I'm so glad you watched the series and I look forward to s2.

[@morrays1996]

The guy in the battlefield isn’t vander, vander doesn’t necessarily exist in league in the way that the show had him in. I’ll leave it at that lol

[@nokronis]

If you watch anymore of them "Awaken" is really good!

[@SCharlesDennicon]

I don't understand, this is a reaction to the image only? I couldn't hear the song playing.

[@karimmohamed6905]

No copy right on riot vedios ..

[@hentacletentai2160]

Madam, how the hell did you see Vander from that dude

[@JulzLX97]

You should definately check out more cinematics! The Call is a really good recent one. Also might be fun to check out Riot Games' K-Pop band, KDA!

[@OrdemDoGraveto]

You missed the runeterra video about piltover and zaun hehe And no, there is no story mode in LoL. Most of the story is told outside of the game.

[@henriklindberg1646]

sad to see someone broken..i guess happy when they rise up from it

[@jdogx211]

Roosterteeth Deathbattle!!!!!! DC Harley Quin VRS. LoL JINX!!!!!!!!!!!

[@lechristine1372]

This is what happens when a Legend GAME makes a Show out of its Lore, . . . people are going crazy, . . . The show, was the cry of all gamers because of the Excellent Lore of the Game, . . . even normal people who doesnt even read the lore , just watched the Movie will be attracted to the lore 😅🤣🤣🤣

[@acenimatic8493]

i like to see more reaction like this and i love it.

[@Jokexuz]

FYI, Arcane is pretty barren and dry when it comes to story telling and lore if you compare it to the whole of Runeterra, playing the game WILL NOT give you anything regarding the lore, the best way is either playing Legends of Runeterra, Ruined King or going to the Universe webpage and reading, it's massive and very hard to cover everything

[@keyronkathrynekathrynkeyron]

I love and play her since her release october 10 2013.. until now i still playing lol... And i also pick her as a champ in a game... She is easy to play... And i love of her stuff skins graffiti all about her 🥰🥰 im her fans until now

[@kamakaarchangel9301]

YES!!! Please react to more League of Legends! They have cinematics, music videos and a whole bunch of content. If you want to learn more about lore check out Necrit on KZbin!!!

[@bridgethaines7127]

The game looks nothing like the cinematics, sadly. It's a top down MOBA. It's fun, especially non-competitive stuff like ARAMS/Howling Abyss but the playerbase can be extremely toxic. I play only ARAMs now 10 years into playing it, and I keep 'all chat' turned off. There are over 140 champions in League of Legends, and only a handful from Piltover and Zaun, most of which are already in Arcane :D Vi, Jinx, Caitlyn, Ekko, Heimerdinger, Singed, and Viktor. With a very brief appearance of what may be another one.

[@Fionalah]

Please do a reaction video for KDA 'Popstars' too!

[@gachalordnoobie4911]

NOT HEXTECH. Not everything magical is hextech XD

[@crowl3146]

im not gonna surprise if she sees the real vander looks like but lets appreciate how sylas abs so perfect jk no homo lololololol

[@jediburrito]

You should watch other League videos there are tons of great ones they even have KPOP music videos (the group is called K/D/A).

[@melina_0455]

And you looked at us (thanks but no need really. We want your reaction to the video not the camera ;)) just at the wrong time and I think you missed the micro-second when Powder turned into Jinx for the first time. At 7:53

[@Luan-zw6tp]

why the actual fuck arcane fans just straight think ''thats vander, thats blah blah blah'' not everything from league is arcane

[@kokitrees7394]

Arcane lore/runeterra does not connect to the actual gameplay. The real gameplay is just pvp on a battlefield trying to break the opposition's crystal. The characters' backstories are where the lore comes into play, but it doesn't connect to/affect the real game

[@bigfrankfraser1391]

not everything will be "in the show"

[@_Wolfsbane_]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4e4dmqLmpitntk -ish,, you missed Jinx in there didn't you? Found in Elijah's reaction to the video. I didn't see it either

[@アキコ2003]

Vander hahahahah

[@hentacletentai2160]

Madam, how the hell did you see Vander from that dude