Thread 715866225

S1 was great

yes bae I will main you until the game is sunsetted 9 months after launch

sorry mate don't play inferior roles

I don't care about women

probably 10k hours across all MOBAs
I don't regret a second of any of them except for LoL, which I regret every second I ever pissed away
fuck LoL, fuck Riot, fuck Arcane S2, fuck redditors, fuck trannies, and fuck lolniggers

>>715866225 (OP)
Sorry, it's Zac or nothing (at least when I used to play this game)

I dont watch TV
But i also dont play LoL

>>715866587
bobr

>>715866225 (OP)
I do not like the "harley quinn" archetype, so no.

>>715866674
are you gay or something

>>715866745
are you in the closet or something

>>715866225 (OP)
If I would even go back to this dogshit game and play such a dogshit role, why the fuck would I play such a dogshit champ?

>>715866842
no

>>715866353
Based take, honestly. Spent a few years bouncing between Dota and LoL, and the only thing LoL gave me was a shorter temper and a lower IQ. Riot can polish a turd all they want with flashy cinematics and Netflix slop, but at the end of the day it's still a corpse being paraded around by Redditor hype. Never again.

>>715866225 (OP)
of course

>>715866225 (OP)
I've never watched Arcane or played LoL, and never plan to, but I'm still going to jerk off to Jinx

>>715868825
I don't understand people who want to fuck jinx. She looks like an anorexic 14 year old corpse

>>715866225 (OP)
Yes, because the you in game isn't your god-awful Arcane nigger-loving variant.

>>715866745
Nah, just not into mentally unstable bitches.

>>715866225 (OP)
i played it for more than 5 years almost every day nonstop. now after i've stopped i've played new games and they are so much better than league

>>715869603
HHHHHHNNNNNNNNGGGGHHH

Isn't this race propaganda lady?
she's some slum rat with a nigger nah?

>>715866571
Zac was actually the only reason I came back a few times. Something about flinging myself across the map and body slamming ADCs into oblivion scratched a very specific itch. Dude's kit aged far better than half the roster.

>>715866225 (OP)
No you're really boring and static to play as

>release new champ
>most generic chinese mobile game kpop looking shit imaginable
>kit is the most boring thing imaginable (Q auto steroid, W poke, E dash, ult not even an ult just upgrades other abilities)
Are they AI generating this shit now?

>>715869603
It's the same people who want to fuck Eugenia Cooney. Severely mentally ill.

>>715866225 (OP)
jinx likes niggercock

>>715866225 (OP)
I still masturbate to you if that counts for anything

>>715866225 (OP)
I never played your shitty game.
And you were one of the worst parts of that shitty show.
I never even watched your second season.

I have, however fapped to a couple of your doujins and your music video is surprisingly decent.

>>715866225 (OP)
skinny pale girls are my type

>>715874625
I am the most mentally sound, white bread, college educated, tax paying, careful driving, 401k having guy you could possibly conceive of. And I am in absolute love with jinx

>>715872976
Her AU alternate personality was. Jinx has no canon ship

>>715869603
Young, damaged, cute tummy, will go full yandere for you, what's difficult to understand?
her sister is still better tho

>>715874959
>bread

>>715875030
>Her sister is better
No, but I want to constantly bully jinx by suggesting other girls are better than her while dating her!

Are there girls like Jinx IRL?

>>715874959
If it was the LoL version I could understand, but how can anyone love Arcane Jinx? She's an irreedeemable psycho who's also an incompetent idiot. She's not even good at being the shitty Harley Quinn knockoff.

>>715875093
Have you never heard that expression, anon?

>>715875156
sady not, most white women are obese and/or tanned

>>715875182
>Incompetent idiot
Take that back. One of the main differences between her and some IRL bpd chick is that she's a genius with a phenomenal ability to execute complex plans. She's extremely high agency.

>Irredeemable psycho
Yeah... It's so cute isn't it.

>Harley Quinn
Harley is a cuck for the Joker with zero personality beyond being his bitch. She's basically the most basic bitch white woman with hybristophillia.

>>715874948
She's not just pale but a sickly ash grey. She looks like she has a terminal disease but is moving around through sheer force of will.

>>715869603
Yeah. Who would want to fuck a lanky hag like her when Annie exists?

>>715875182
Don't lie. You'd love a gf who would wake you up in the middle of the night by cracking raw eggs on your chest.

>>715875495
>she's a genius with a phenomenal ability to execute complex plans.
She had a mental breakdown and tried to murder her sister because her enemy who she knows is trying to mess with her head said her sister is working with the cops and she just believes it wholeheartedly.

>>715875631
Fuck no. If I had to pick a gf from the show it would be Mel. Only character that isn't a complete tard. Maybe Vi if it's mid-season Vi before she had a lobotomy and turned into the exact opposite of what her character was established to be.

>>715866225 (OP)
Never mained this Temu Harley Quin in the first place

>>715866272
It really was.
I can't believe they dropped the ball so hard in S2.
Its like they completely forgot the Zaun vs Piltover conflict even existed.
The parts with Jinx were still enjoyable to watch though.
The Silco and her parents/Vander retcons were fucking retarded though and that more than anything is my biggest gripe with the second season.

i prefer her with blue eyes

>>715874959
Based.
>>715875182
Just look at her relationship with Silco. She's utterly devoted to him, and her devotion coupled with his confidence in her allows her to get over her own insecurities.
>>715875156
Still mad S2 made her cut her hair.
>>715876081
>sloppa

>>715874959
'white'
sure

too jew woman coded

>>715875993
He said she's a genuis, not mentally stable.

>>715875495
>Harley is a cuck for the Joker
Depends. Modern Harley is a lesbian for Poison Ivy because the writers are tumblr hacks.
Its kind of like the weird obsession with lesbianism that took over the second season of Arcane too.

we all need a jinx gf

>>715876131
>Just look at her relationship with Silco
I did, it sucked. The first thing she does is break a direct order from him and go do some dumb shit that gets the cops investigating Silco's business. Why? Because he didn't kiss her ass after she completely fucked up her job of protecting a shipment. She's an idiot. She's actually retarded for thinking that Silco woul love her more if she killed cops and raided the academy. It works in the show because the writers are incompetent and can't progress anything without insane coincidence, but Jinx is still a stupid retard who learned nothing from Silco.

>>715866225 (OP)
No I main top despite my lane having zero impact and being much harder to carry. I can go 16/4/4 and its irrelevant because WOOPS my adc and support fed the enemy bot lane 25 kills and they insta kill people

I still play Lina despite the show being utter dogshit

>>715866225 (OP)
As someone who hates everything LoL, it felt so good to hear that s2 sucked and everyone stopped talking about this

>>715876349
>He said she's a genuis
But she's not. She sets a bomb off in the room next to where she knows her friends are and gets surprised when they die. She's assigned to guard a shipment of highly flammable drugs and the first thing she does is start chucking bombs around. She's a clinical retard.

>>715876664
I refused to watch that show because they kept calling it an "anime" in all of their marketing.
Instantly ignoring any garbage that tries to ride off the anime popularity train when its not anime.

>>715876714
She made those bombs as a child.

jinx needed more XD le randumb :) in arcane tbqh, she is funny in game but just an edgelady in the show

>>715866225 (OP)
League of Legends is terrible and I'm glad I quit. Nothing about it is good

>>715866225 (OP)
Jinx stocks fell hard after they canonized her and Ekko being a couple

>>715876753
>She made those bombs as a child.
No she didn't, she failed to make bombs, and then just used magic bombs that fell into her lap.

>>715876720
((((((Netflix)))))) does that with all animated shows and my autism always gets ticked off by it

>>715876691
I was never the biggest fan of the first season but the drop in quality was severe. It felt like the show was intended to be 5 seasons long and they were suddenly forced to shove in 4 seasons of plot and character development into one, that obviously results in a garbled mess.

>>715876065
>The Silco and her parents/Vander retcons
Well that and the Ryze retcon.

>>715876826
Yeah. Because they know it will boost its popularity if they call it an anime. And other retarded westerners have started to do the exact same shit. Its fucking pathetic, and I will continue to immediately dismiss anything that does it.

So what do you anons think of the new champ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG09J6Vxbgo

>>715876845
And the viktor retcon
And blitz retcon
And ekko retcon
And Vi retcon
And Warwick retcon
And… pretty much all league retcon

Fuck the french

>>715876845
>Well that and the Ryze retcon
Huh??? Am I forgetting something?

>>715876714
Yes, that's called having high int but low wis

>>715876984
Well honestly I think the "arcane" universe should be separate from the league game universe anyway, since magic is much rarer in the show anyway. But for the Ryze one I'm specifically referring to the change/retcon from S1 to S2.
>>715877029
In season 1, the person who saves Jayce and gives him that rune/stone was clearly intended to be Ryze. But in season 2 it was changed to be alternate timeline/reality whatever Viktor.
The writers even stated that their original intention was for it to be Ryze if I recall, but that idea was later scrapped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDZrov7Z5-g

>>715877250
Pretty sure this in development image of the original Ryze concept for this was also released at some point.

>>715866225 (OP)
>studio stops tard wrangling the writers
>they immediately start ditching every compelling plot thread to pursue shipping faggotry
I feel bad for you, but not enough to even consider playing ADC.

I'm in love with Hailee Steinfeld and I can't see/hear about her without wanting to off myself.

>>715877250
Ryze would have been way better, Viktor made zero sense (hell 99% of season 2 made zero sense, you need braindamage to understand it)

>>715877383
This happens to every show, why do writers always want to insert their fanfiction, HOW FUCKING HARD IS IT FOLLOW THE ORIGINAL CANON

Why are they like this

>>715877453
There were some aspects of S2 I liked, but it was a major letdown after the S1 high I was riding on.
Such a shame.
Honestly, I really feel like real world politics and pandering had a bigger impact on season 2 as well, and for the worse.

>>715875993
>It would be Mel
Ironically I know a lot of women in my family/social group like Mel. Straight arrow, high achieving, directors/government officials/politicians/bankers. Were straight A students, scholarship full rides, basically these straight as an arrow, perfect people. Even dated one before. And I think one lock of Jinx's hair is worth more than all of them put together.

>>715876057
Harley is Temu jinx. Jinx is like the Mona Lisa of the archetype.

>>715876806
I think the real seethe was that it was beautiful. Just so beautiful. Timebomb basically won. They could never make a scene as beautiful as this with Sheida or Lux or whatever other crackship there is.

>>715877540
They actually had some of the OG writers in S1. S2 was plagued by a lot of things, not the least of which Riot wanted a wide variety of league shows to shill other characters. But the canon was always far, far too thin to make a whole show out of. I do love some details though
>Jinx's young self is called Pow Pow officially
>So Get Jinxed's line or "what would Pow Pow think" means her young self

>>715877739
It was an alright scene, but so pandery. That episode in general was severely overrated/hyped by shipfags more than anything.
Him having a childhood crush on her, I can get. But honestly him letting that go so fucking quickly just didn't sit right with me. Even if I put aside the actual reasons they went through with this pairing. It just makes no sense to me how he was suddenly completely okay with the Jinx in his timeline.

>>715877739
>I think the real seethe was that it was beautiful. Just so beautiful.
only a tranny would think that

>>715876806
So? If Jinx simps truly loved her, wouldn't they try and project themselves onto Ekko?

>>715876131
Her short hair is cute too! Although her long hair she could play with, the monster face she makes with her hoodie and long bangs (which is it's tongue), so cute.

Also the hair thing was symbol of letting go. If you work out the math - 4ft long hair, 7 years, about 0.7 feet/year of hair growth, she stopped cutting her hair completely after Vi leaves her.

>>715877847
Pow Pow is her machine gun

>>715876984
But the French only did the animation, and it was still fucking great. I knew Season 2 would be shit when they showed that the lesbian writer became more prominent in their team, you really can't let these people touch anything, they are like a cancer.

>>715877603
>I really feel like real world politics and pandering had a bigger impact on season 2 as well, and for the worse.
Oh for sure, and whats even funny is that all posturing is fake. They censored the gay shit in china for example, these fags have zero integrity

>>715866225 (OP)
>playing League
Incredibly massive KEK.

>>715877881
The whole thing about compressing seasons into episodes aside (esp what he said after jinx decided not to explode herself), Timebomb wasn't the worst ship there is if you wanted Jinx to have at least some romance (basically no other character could've done it well story wise).

The actual theme of the music video (which inexplicably is more detailed than the show) about the bittersweet reminiscing about an alternate life, and how they're bitter enemies in this one, is really intense and an incredible concept. i like to think of that as the real arc between them.

>>715877889
I get some people here really hate niggers, but admit it, if you didn't love jinx you wouldn't care so much.

>>715878015
>Her short hair is cute too!
Its way too fucking short.
I don't care if its a symbol of "letting go" a woman shaving her head never looks good.

>>715866225 (OP)

>canonically gets with Ekko

You honestly couldn't get me less interested in the character or IP at this point.

>>715878048
Yes, that was the in game name. But in the show, Vi also calls her Pow Pow a few times. The OG S1 writers were really deep into her lore, and clearly set it up, everything from giving her the name Powder to confirming they're sisters.

People shit on S2, but the level of detail lore wise and commitment to continuity is one of the greatest ever in adaption history
>Get Dherv (who made Get Jinxed) to make Rebel Heart
>Get Jinxed is also in Arcane
>Use Fortiche, who has a long history with LoL, to animate
>Get a lot of great writing talent (in S1 at least)
>Incredible details like Ekko's 4s rewind, each dance being 4 seconds long at 4fps
>And of course writing an incredible descent into lunacy to explain Jinx as a person

>>715878295
Jeez it's not even that short. It's like neck long. It's actually just normal hair
>>715878307
If you care about that, POWDER gets with Ekko in an AU. It's not even Jinx in an AU.

>>715878235
I don't think Jinx NEEDED any romance though. And her x Silco is better anyway.
>The actual theme of the music video is about the bittersweet reminiscing about an alternate life
I can get behind this. I would have actually been totally good with this if that didn't carry over to him completely forgiving literally everything the instant he gets back.

>>715877847
>They actually had some of the OG writers in S1.
Weren't they just like the bad yurishitter ones who were only interested in pushing Vi and Caitlyn as an item and other such tumblr-y shit?

>>715866745
Harley Quinn enjoyers are almost exclusively bipolar whores who feel validated by mental illness in fiction.
You would know this if you fucked.

>>715878307
Who would you have shipped her with? Jhin? Lux??

>>715866225 (OP)
I will never play 2XKO

>>715878449
>Jeez it's not even that short. It's like neck long. It's actually just normal hair
She cuts it further after that when she gets that hoodie.
Rewatch those last episodes. Shoulder length would have been fine.

>>715878542
Silco

>>715878475
Jinx and Silco were wild. I'll admit, the syringe scenes are genius. The intimacy, the closeness. And yeah not just Ekko but so many people. Jinx was Piltover's bin Laden, then by ep 4 that completely ended.

tfw no jinx to sit on my lap and inject me with things, I don't even have any diseases

>>715878673
Nigga he dead. What she gonna do, fuck his corpse? Finger his bullet holes?

>>715878765
>Nigga he dead.
That didn't seem to stop the season 2 writers from being retarded. Though maybe that's result of the leftovers being insane shippers instead of people who'd care about the plot

Viktorbros...

>>715878530
Yes, but they could write really well. Which I care far more about than making whatever Caitvi carpet munching. I mean if you want her, Mel and Jayce was like a stunning woman and himbo fucking, you should be happy with that.

S1 were glorious fucking writers. Every scene and line of dialogue was precise and complex. I had a whole video essay I'm going to watch called Analyzing Arcane's Efficient Writing (yes being a white bread college educated 401k basedboy, I am obligated to watch YouTube video essays). But there's no denying in S1 they got so much done with so little. Jinx for example, speaks very few words in S1. But you remember every twitch of her face and every movement. You don't know if she's going to kill someone or huf them.

>>715877739
>Eko x Jinx still makes people mad.
lol

>>715876916
It's because they've so thoroughly destroyed the reputation of an entire genre of media they need to pretend to be from another country. It's kind of insane.

>>715879002
>>715878530
Nerding out about jinx and her writing more, but she is an incredible example of actual psychopathy. Jinx shows textbook symptoms of real world psychopathy (serial killers, murderers etc)
>Killing animals for fun, a common childhood trait for psychopaths
>Being indifferent to others fear, suffering, etc (she often causes pain and panic in others which she has no response to)
>Unusual responses to pain, the scene she staples herself and laughs
>Disregard for own safety - she blows herself up when Ekko has her pinned, for no real reason

>>715879002
She was so much better in S1. God damn.
Also how did yuri go from a fetish for straight men to see two cute girls together to a fetish run by American activists who are explicitly anti men?
At least in Japan it still retains what it was I guess.

>>715879316
>Killing animals for fun, a common childhood trait for psychopaths
When does she ever do this?

>>715877739
It really was an achievement in snapping the bones of absolutely everything that had been previously established between them in order to lock their ship.

Jinx is a happy-go-lucky fun-loving maniac who gives no shits about anything. Not a depressed emo shitter

>>715879429
Honestly the biggest reason I hate it.

>>715879438
In the game, sure.

>>715879394
She senselessly kills a crow in the arcade.

>>715879316
Adding on: most movie psychopaths are jokes. Hannibal Lecter for example, any psychiatrist would laugh. He's actually quite unrealistic, the closest real disorder he has is a dramatic portrayal of sadism. Anton Chiurgh is what psychiatrists agree on is the most realistic psychopath portrayal, but he has really stupid reasons for killing people. Nolan's Joker is a not a super detailed psychopath portrayal, but it's alright too

>>715879614
I think I recall that. Wasn't she freaking out around then though? Either way, for some reason its hard to find that scene online without scanning the netflix episodes for some reason. So I'll just take your word for it.

>>715879394
She stares at a crow in the arcade, mimics it's head movement then shoots it. It's very well written because it clearly shows she doesn't shoot because she's startled nor poses any threat to her, and you think she has some empathy with it when she mimics it. Jinx also has some association with crows in the series (she's a crow in the Ekko/Jinx fight). There's also the more basic association that crows IRL and in show herald misfortune.

>>715879578
In her original trailer from 2013 too. Arcane is a complete rewrite of her character.

>>715879316
don't psychopath not truly care about others though? Jinx clearly does care about some people
she's just a broken mess due to what happened to her and Silco's direct-indirect influence

>>715866225 (OP)
I "mained" shaco, ap blitz jungle and ap Jax jungle before I un-installed. Jinx was always doodoo and overhyped.

>>715879316
And then S2 happens, and all of the symptoms of her shimmer-infused mental illnesses only ever seems to manifest whenever the writers remember.

>>715879856
Oh thats right. I recall that now.
Also found the scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbyz5LbLPHg
>>715879978
She was actually insanely busted not long ago.

>>715879787
Arcane S1 Episode 5, around the middle. She wasn't freaking out at the moment (well more than usual), she very calmly killed the crow. Which is a very accurate depiction of psychopathy. They have no empathy for other creatures.

Clip here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbyz5LbLPHg

I still liked S2 even if less than 1
i felt it was a bit less honest and too fan pandering but it still was good
extremely well animated and banger soundtrack

>>715866272
No, it was pozzed propaganda for faggots.

>>715879896
At this point psychiatry isn't super precise. Psychopaths have a general lack of concern for others, but it doesn't have to be they have no ability to care for someone. Especially since this is trauma induced psychopathy and she formed bonds pre psychopathy

>>715866225 (OP)
Season 1 is kino, but the show wasn't profitable.
That's why they rushed season 2.

>>715877739
tranny-coded comment. It was woke coalburner bullshit.

I hate the French for giving Warwick a half human face the entire time

>>715880272
>Pozzed
>Has super manly man white man bang a hot rich girl in a long sex scene
>>715880306
Riot has a shit ton of money and Arcane did insanely well. The states reason the CEO gave was that it was always a 2 season plan, because they wanted to move on from Zaun/Piltover. And because only Fortiche can make it (since they're basically synonymous with LoL animation now), Arcane fans must suffer. Jinx will people come back tho. She's far too popular

>>715880384
It was coalburner sure but hardly about race or anything. I mean it's Runeterra, this giant multicultural setting. If you want to complain, go back 15 years.

>>715880436
>white
lol

>>715880405
was asked by riot
teaser War had a wolf face and was more game accurate
S1 wasn't really made with a S2 in mind,

>>715880187
There were aspects of S2 I liked, but much like watching Legend of Korra after loving Avatar the Last Airbender, the longer it sits with me, the more I dislike it.
Was well animated with a great OST though.
But unless they can channel the talent they had for season 1 again and reign in their urges to pander, I'm very worried about whatever area in leagues world they plan to target next.
>>715880272
No, season 1 was actually great.
>>715880436
>Jinx will people come back tho. She's far too popular
Yeah, another example of poor writing decisions that will undermine impacts of previous seasons. Its definitely going to happen though.

>>715880187
I think it definitely suffered from the success of S1. It's a really good show in itself. The real seethe people has was they instinctively knew what it COULD have been but didn't get.

Just to remind people, Arcane is by far the best adaption of a game we ever got. It was award winning and even made tons of normies/non league players watch it. 30 years of shit adaptions, from Doom to Mortal Kombat, has led to this

>>715880665
>S1 wasn't really made with a S2 in mind
I am pretty sure they had wanted as season 2, but it definitely comes across like they never had any initial plans for it, thats for sure.

>>715880668
>Poor writing decision
Stfu I want more Jinx. I want my emaciated psycho pixie corpse. I don't care about whatever Noxus Mel Black Rose Black Ass drama.

>>715880807
Jinx is far and away the best part of season 1 and season 2 of arcane. But milking her and constantly undermining their own writing just to keep dragging her back is not a good thing.
Additionally, I'm afraid of what they will do to her if they do bring it back, after the decline in quality of S2. Unless they get the original S1 team back with rail guards against the pandering they did in S2, I don't think it will end well.

>>715880665
>>715880751
It's somewhat complicated. S2 was always planned. But a bunch of writers left. And because of covid, they had to meet virtually only. And you can check the writing credits, in S1 they had more writers per episode on average and all writers except Yee and Linke (who are critical) wrote one episode. In S2 you have random people writing an episode themselves. Yee and Linke are straight from Riot, while that bint Amanda Overton (some random ass writer), wrote a ton in S2 while having no exp with League

>>715881059
Explains a lot honestly.

>>715880751
They planned it but the execution was shit. Yee and Linke are THE driving force behind Arcane. OG riot guys, been there since the beginning of League. This was like the culmination of 15 years of work for them. But Linke mostly left for S2, Yee did what he could, a bunch of basic bitch tv drama writers like Amanda Overton snuck in and had huge influence.

>>715881201
Why did Linke leave?

For me, it was the dog shit Scott Pilgrim fight scene where Sevika is forced to use a gay gimmick version of her chemtech prosthetic.

Favorite Arcane song?
>Mfw get Jinxed plays

>>715881779
In season 2? I thought most of her fights were pretty cool in both seasons.
The early Zaun parts of S2 were the only parts that really "felt" like the same show as season 1 to me. I did think the "slots" thing on her arm was a bit goofy though.

>>715881962
OMG SO CUTE SAVED

>>715881779
You loved that scene don't lie
>Mfw Renegade starts playing
>Then get jinxed

>>715882179
Not really, the choreography and scoring of season 2's fight scenes were a serious downgrade overall.

>>715881018
Ikr? Like no one is watching Arcane because they want to see Mel's and Ambessa's stupid drama, or the still unexplained random shit going on between Jayce and Viktor. There's a reason all promo materials of Arcane has Jinx on it. The best part? Word count and screen time analysis of Arcane shows Jinx isn't even the top. She has the 2nd most screen time and 4th most dialogue.

Linke is supposed coming back hard, so I'm optimistic on that front. BUT it's really clear they're shilling Noxus hard for the game (like that expansion trailer that had the most views ever because people thought it was Arcane S2's trailer). So in between introducing a shit ton of new characters, Noxus being unrelated to Jinx, etc, even if she does, she has minimal screentime.

But if I turn the valve on my copium tanks to max and inhale deeply, I believe that Jinx surviving + crow flocked airship leaving Piltover means she's heading to Noxus. And we'll see our adorable murderer again.

>>715882325
Jinx and Sevika vs Vi and Cait was really good though in my opinion.
Also kind of marks the moment that things really started to go down hill for S2.
Does make me laugh that Jinx was almost winning that fist fight with Vi until Cait shot her finger off.
Awesome fight theme though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj-jmBi0aK8

>>715882590
>Noxus
I'm fine with this, if they can provide season 1 levels of quality.
I think the world of league is interesting, even if they have a tendency to squander it. Exploring Darius and Draven could actually be awesome assuming they don't turn their pandering bullshit up to 11 again like S2.
I'll huff the copium for a bit, but I won't be surprised if I'm let down.
I liked the Jayce Viktor story line a lot in season 1, but it wasn't the primary reason for watching for me. Zaun vs Piltover and Jinx vs Vi was.
>most views ever because people thought it was Arcane
Holy shit 178 million. Didn't even realize lol. Was a cool cinematic though.

>>715883054
My problem with Noxus per se is that it's no Piltover/Zaun. Piltover/Zaun had this incredible Tale of Two Cities dynamic, which was incredible and exploited incredibly. And it really fit perfectly with Jinx. I do love JaVik's story in S1, and in no small part because it folded beautifully into the wider Tale of Two Cities direction. To our limited knowledge of Noxus, its some kind of fighting culture/empire. There are some historical dynamics they could go - Mortal Kombat style grand tournament for the world, or Korra/Avatar style conquering epic. BUT Mel is soooo out of place in these directions. But we'll see.

Honestly I only care about Jinx, I miiighht watch the Noxus one if I'm bored. And funnily enough about the cinematic, if you look at the comments people STILL think its about arcane.

>>715877896
They don't want to be a negroid wake the fuck up

>>715883852
>it's no Piltover/Zaun
I agree with you there, but S2 basically forgot about Piltover vs Zaun after the first few episodes anyway unfortunately. One of its many issues I guess.
There is enough Noxus lore to go off of, but I imagine it will focus on Swain, and LeBlanc/Vlad and the Black Rose cult that is basically fighting from the shadows for control of Noxus over its actual leaders.

>>715881278
He largely abandoned writing probably to do other producer things. But I think alot of it was Riot shat a giant requirement to shill Noxus in S2, so they were scrambling to squeeze that. It ticks me off to no end that the Zaun/Piltover conflict just DISAPPEARED by like ep 4. It just becomes magic slop and hexcore slop. We literally do not even see Zaunites (other than Jinx/Isha/Vi) until the end, where they come out of fucking nowhere to attack Ambessa's forces. Then suddenly Sevika gets a place on the council.

>>715883991
Then they're not committed enough. They should understand Silco - you have to do whatever it takes. Even if means doing mental blackface.

bros...

>>715884123
Well, you made me laugh at least.

>>715884175
This is a ship I can get behind. It actually, unironically makes sense.

>>715866272
S2 was even greater

>>715884258
It wasnt.

>>715883996
>Two more seasons of magic slop
It's not fair. Magic slop has 2.5 seasons at this point. Personally I like Ionia's lore more than Noxus, and I think in general the LoL crowd does too. But Riot gonna Riot

>>715884175
I can't stop thinking if Jinx will revert to powder during sex and be a moaning girl or will still be jinx and laugh and constantly fidget

>>715884390
I like it more too, but I think Noxus is also neat.
Honestly would be impressed if it some how had a bigger focus on Darius and Draven and was done well. I think that would be really cool.
Ionia could also actually be roped in with the Noxus story if they pivoted focus to Riven and maybe some Yasuo as well. But not sure if that would stretch things too thin like S2 of Arcane.
I also don't want them to ruin Riven or Yasuo, so maybe they should stay away from them.
>>715884549
Both

>>715876806
ALTERNATE TIMELINE POWDER and Ekko are a couple. Jinx doesn't care much for Ekko.

>>715884626
She definitely "cares" for him to some extent. As a "another life" kind of thing. But they should not be a couple. It genuinely does not make sense at all. Not for Jinx, and not for Ekko to suddenly be okay with all the people Jinx hurt and killed, and almost killing him as well.
He has not seen or known her for years other than her being a literal psycopathic terrorist, and him seeing "what could have been" and remembering riding a bike with her when they were 12 shouldn't suddenly make him forget all of that.

>>715884029
>"Yeah, let's nominate the enforcer of a notorious fucking drug kingpin to represent Zaun on the council! Girl power!"
Another example of S2's writers not resonating with any of the intrigue or class warfare shit that was present in S1.

>>715884605
I hope they focus on them too. Unfortunately they seem to be heavily invested in Mel. I have the same feeling they'll use Riven/Yasuo and/or some Noxus/Ionia conflict to segue into Ionia after the Noxus seasons wraps up. BUT Jinx is most likely tot have went to Bilgewater. So its bad news for jinxies.

I don't think they'll ruin them, because Jinx was ruined for screentime reasons. If they get a shit ton of screen time, its going to be good.

>>715885032
In their defense, Sevika was the closest thing to Silco's replacement. Vi was too busy munching Kiranman bush to lead Zaun.

>>715884246
Yes, but for reasons NONE of us want to think about.

>>715885010
Pity the justified animosity between them instantly dried up as soon as it became time to do a trite, capeshit-tier team-up during the S2 finale.

>>715885223
If they focus on Black Rose, then Mel will absolutely be a main character. I don't hate Mel, but I liked her better in S1 before she became magic Mary Sue.
>Riven/Yasuo to segue to Ionia later
I could see that.
Give me this Riven in Draven's coliseum. They won't. But I can dream.
>>715885528
Just one of S2's many issues.

>>715884605
my dream: no one gives a shit about Noxus, Riot panics, pulls the plug, and we get Jinx in Bilgewater ASAP.

GET OUT NOXIAN FUCKING SHITS

>>715885712
>muscle tomboy
... Maybe I will watch it after all

>>715885310
She's getting outvoted by Pilties regardless.

>>715885721
I just don't think they should milk Jinx to death. They already kind of messed her up in the second half of S2.
If they do it, and do it actually well like in S1, obviously I won't mind though.
Bilgewater could be neat though, even though personally I don't care about most Bilgewater champs. The setting could be pretty cool. And I DO actually like some Shadowisles characters a lot, and being close in proximity could be pretty interesting. Shame they neutered Viego because he was too well liked.
>>715885809
I don't think they'd make her that pretty sadly. And I worry because of her aggressive/tomboyish appearance they'd make her a lesbian or something.

Really though want I want to see is Xayah and Rakan, but not until I'm 100% certain they won't retcon and ruin their dynamic.

>>715884175
Jinx wouldn't take it like that. She'd be on top. Definitely no follower in bed

>>715876720
>>715876826
>>715876916
It was animated by a korean studio, the same way japan outsources tons of work to korea and china. Why can it not be considered anime?

>>715886872
Shut up retard. Absolutely NO work was done in Japan on it. Its not an anime. I'm not going into this retarded argument that only low IQ individuals who want to water the terms down for their own gain partake in.

>>715886168
My genius take is they should send Jinx to Ionia.

But you're right. Jinx's whole story and personality is in Zaun. I doubt she'll be even a fraction as writeable outside. What are they gonna do? She can't be batshit insane terrorist like in S1. She's probably more of a jokester like in S2 moping around.

or they could indulge in crackships. Yasuo x Jinx anyone?

>>715887071
If the writers don't change, I honestly wouldn't be too shocked if they somehow bust out Lux and make their ship cannon also.

>>715887663
>lightbomb
Fucking kill me if it becomes canon. I mean Timebomb is not even canon, it's AU, but fucking hell.

>>715877739
>hijacks someone else's body to fuck a girl he doesn't know but looks like his psychpathic childhood friend
>Arcanefags call this romantic

>>715887663
>>715887747
I actually still play league to this day and didn't know about the Lux/Jinx ship until after all the retards came out about Ekko/Jinx. All because of some off lines in the mobile game. Fujofags have really gotten terrible in the west in recent years.

>>715866225 (OP)
Why is she so ugly now? She used to be a manic pixie dream girl and now she's sad and ugly.

>>715879002
>Every scene and line of dialogue was precise and complex
They had a dude illegally throw a teenage girl in prison for life for literally no reason.

>>715866225 (OP)
I dropped this on the first episode when the pink haired tranny beat up the "bad" white blonde guy

>>715887887
>40 year old grooms vulnerable girl who sits on his lab and cuddles with him
>Woman orphaned by brutal police force gets on her knees and eats out member of said force

Timebomb isn't even the most uncomfortable thing in Arcane.

>>715888042
>No reason
Silco wanted her killed, Marcus had conflicting emotions. It's not a super complex story but it's pretty alright

>>715887926
Technically it's yurifags. But the sheer absence of any real story does create ships on the flimiest of reasons.

>>715887979
Everytime you're mean to Jinx online she feels sad...

>>715888082
Only delusional porn addicts think there was anything sexual about Silco's relationship to Jinx.

>>715887887
The only thing that matters to them is that the showrunners really went out of their way to pound a square peg through a round hole on their behalf.

>>715866272
Both are good

>>715887979
Anon it's not her fault. She's got bags because she can't sleep because of the voices. And only drinks the orange juice Vander used to give her, so she has the body of a flat crackhead

>>715888146
>Silco wanted her killed, Marcus had conflicting emotions.
So drop her off at an orphanage somewhere. Or send her on a boat to another country. Literally anything would be better than what he did.
>has to protect Vi from cops and Silco goons
>puts her in a place where the only people she sees are cops and Silco goons
Not only is it a horrific environment for a young girl, it's one of the easiest places Silco could find her. It's retarded that he didn't. For fuck's sake, the guy from the boat that she beats up was one of the goons who fought her in the warehouse, there's no way he wasn't going to recognize her and tell Silco.

S1 was shit and people who think the writing is good are retarded.

>>715887979
This bad postured, ashy grey skinned, emaciated, bags under her eyes, crackhead looking, flat as an ironing board girl is everything one could ask for. Silco was right. She is perfect

morbidly obese jinx...

>>715888613
Vi would come back. He specifically put her in the prison so she would be alive but Silco would not see her again

>Silco's goons
She's in solitary confinement, and Silco's goons generally dont get arrested. Only the guards are aware of her and don't beat her up.

Where's Ezreal, Ziggs, Urgot and Zac?

>>715888227
>yurifags
See >>715879320 Hard to differentiate now that its been overtaken.

>Hype up Warwick for S2
>Get this crap instead
I didnt care about anything else, I just wanted to see cool werewolf. I didnt mind the initial manwolf look but I expected it to progress to his normal design and instead we end up with this shit. The whole ending felt like a blur of the show being too far up its own ass.

>>715888857
>Vi would come back
After how many years? And she has no hope of getting out, she has to trust a cop.
>She's in solitary confinement, and Silco's goons generally dont get arrested.
We see it happen right when we catch up with her. She has a rep in the prison for beating people up.

>>715889148
Based you're brown poster is back

>>715889148
>>715889274
>m-maybe If I call you what I am first, you won't call me it anymore
Arcane is a tranny show and you're niggers

>>715888042
>for literally no reason
He's a cowardly corrupt cop. Maybe he thought that prison would be the only place where he could stow her without Silco immediately catching wind of it.

>>715889343
Well seether we'll see who wins the Jinxbowl eventually. Hell might even be some anthro like Ziggs

>>715889450
>Maybe he thought that prison would be the only place where he could stow her without Silco immediately catching wind of it.
And it's unfathomably retarded that anyone would think that.

>>715889519
It doesn't matter, the writers have no respect for the source material and only use it as a vehicle for cancerous idpol shit.

>>715889887
the source material in question: a gay videogame

>>715889887
>Writers have no respect for the source material
Nigger the producers and two main writers, Christian Linke and Alex Yee, worked at Riot for over a decade and are well known in the community. This isn't some bullshit Netflix adaption like Cowboy Bepop/Halo where they makers didn't even watch the show.

>>715890056
>worked at Riot for over a decade
when did they start though? because league's team went to shit more than a decade ago.

>>715890056
They still shat the bed

>>715889758
>too much of a pussy to kill her
>too much of a pussy to turn her over to silco
>too much of a pussy to arrange a long term solution that might risk reprisal from silco
Off federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison she goes!

>>715866225 (OP)
built for yuri

>>715890150
>>715890184
Yee was there in 2009 when League dropped. Christian was there in 2010, although he only became invovled i think in 2011. They were planning it since 2015. These people basically helped create League, Arcane is the manifestation of ~15 years of work to put actual lore into LoL. I mean people shit on it, but think about the difference between Arcane and Halo/Super Mario/Sonic the Hedgehog. If you think about it objectively, Arcane is by far the best video game adaptation ever made. Sure there are some cheesy fun ones like the OG mortal kombat movie, but nothing close.

>>715890286
Literally just put her on a random boat going out of the country.

>>715890184
Yes, but this is like Michael Phelps shit the bed and won silver instead of bronze. Not like how the MK movie shit the bed and is a giant turd.

>>715890551
>15 years of work to put actual lore into LoL
that's when they ruined it though. removing League judgements and then retconning all the characters was the worst thing they did to league's "lore". it was better when it was some fantasy world sport where heroes, villains, and the damned all competed for some vague reason.

>>715890837
>saves up and comes back

>>715890861
>retconning
The writers were incredibly detailed with existing lore. Existing lore was very thin, but they knew basically all of it. Like down to naming young Jinx Powder and nicknamed Pow Pow because of one line in her Djerv Get Jinxed cinematic song.

What you mean is that they were forced to create a lot of (now canon) lore. It's a direction they took, and the scale and success of it cannot be doubted. Yeah you can shit on Ekko x Powder or the lack of continuity of the Tale of Two Cities plot, but the fact that you can have these high level criticisms shows how elevated it is. Not like Halo, where the only criticism you can say is "What the fuck is this"

>>715890837
You don't think a chem baron wouldn't have eyes and ears at every port or put a bounty on Vi's head?

>>715890859
>silver
M8 Arcane doesn't come close to placing, it's a total embarrassment

I really loved S1, then watched S2E1 and hated it, it felt rushed and worse written than anything S1 and made me stop watching.
This thread made me consider at least watching some more episodes for the cool fights, which one do you recommend anons?

MOBAs are dogshit and as bad for vidya as battle royales.

i have zero idea on any of the multiplayer games since i exclusively played single player games my entire life

is this woman popular? I really liked her in the show especially her royal outfit

>>715890929
Yeah and that would be her choice to do so. What the fuck is his plan? Keep her locked away forever?

>>715891403
ep4 is great, best in s2 imo

>>715891612
Marcus would be the type of asshole to mindfuck himself into believing that committing a teenager to life in jail would be a mercy.

>>715866225 (OP)
Arcane season 2 was the greatest disaster in video game adapation history.

>>715891612
Marcus cares much more about getting Epstein'd by Silco because he didn't follow his orders to kill Vi, than Vi's freedom

>>715891396
Yeah, it does. Like Arcane doesn't even compete in the video game adaptation league, because everything else is so dogshit. It competes with and is compared to shit like Love Death Robots, ATLA, No Country for Old Men, Nolan's Joker etc

>>715891756
>the type of asshole to mindfuck himself into believing that committing a teenager to life in jail would be a mercy.
What the fuck kind of asshole is that?

Who the fuck genuinely thinks that being jailed in pseudo-solitary for life is an acceptable fate for a young girl? There's an argument to be made that death would be preferable.

You can't have a guy make a horrible decision like that for essentially no reason, particularly if you're trying to make him into a sympathetic and complex character.

Marcus is morally worse than any other character on the show and writers completely fail to understand that.

>>715892278
He's supposed to be a scumbag. How pissed you are at him shows how well the writers nailed him (and with just ~50 words of dialogue). He pushes Vi into a horrible fate to maintain some feeling that he's not a total monster.

>set up a dictator arc for Cait
>it gets abandoned almost immediately
Wack.

>>715892048
It's exactly on par with other vidya adaptation horseshit. I can't see how anyone takes it seriously. It's comically bad.

>before watching show
>jinx is hot
>after show
>jinx is no longer hot
what is this phenomenom called

>>715892668
blacked

>>715892440
>How pissed you are at him shows how well the writers nailed him
I can't get pissed at him because I don't believe him as a character. He's a mustache-twirling caricature of a villain. He's goofy and ridiculous. I can't take any of the scenes with him seriously.

>>715892668
Jinx is perfect, now and forever

>>715892668
post nut clarity

>>715877453
s2 was just fanfiction of based on s1

>writers make most popular female character get with a nig for clout with woke crowd
>character and show's popularity drops significantly

>B-BUT AKSHUALLY
Stop with this pathetic cope. It's like saying a movie about a guy that has dreams of his wife getting fucked by other dudes, with said dreams played out in the screen, isn't cuck propaganda because it's not happening "for real".

>>715892668
Terminal homosexuality. Or possibly shit taste. Probably both

>>715884175
I feel bad for Silco. Jinx's boobs squeezed by a corset tight bra, gives her an inch of sideboob. If she takes it off she must have zero tits. She's so flat you can use her as an ironing board

>>715893162
He's a spineless coward who's in way over his head with a ruthless gangster and the narco state which he operates. He didn't have the stomach to do what's expected of a bent enforcer, and it blew up in his face once Cait discharged Vi from Stillwater.

>>715891523
she's a fairly popular character because she's not that difficult to play, has a noob-shitting-on basic attack range and can do a few tricks
before they asian-ed her up with the arcane rework, she was more of a coombait skin-selling-platform comparable to a lara croft type (sexy british aristocrat doing action shit) and her outfit was goofy steampunk focused

>>715893835
>He's a spineless coward who's in way over his head
Nah, a spineless coward would have given her to Silco (like he was willing to do half an episode ago) or just not have gotten involved.

Marcus is a plot device. He exists to make contrived events in the story occur.

>>715894021
I think Arcane Cait mogs original. Original looks (like you mentioned) kind of goofy.

shes both cute and hot at the same time. rare combination

>>715894434
She's also that rare combination of she might hurt you really bad, but you're fine with that

>>715891236
oh yeah, making Varus a couple of faggots fused together was definitely not a retcon compared to the guy who released an ancient evil and lost his wife and child in the aftermath!

sorry but I'll always main my foxwife

>>715894285
Those flat chins are made for me to kiss.

>>715894285
You got to be a woman or a fag

No other possible option

>>715895512
Original Cait looks like willy Wonka

>>715866225 (OP)
No cause you went from a crazy funny menace to a schizo sideshave roastie cause western devs seethe when they see long hair.

>>715894285
>>715895560
that was her OG OG look, she had gotten an update before arcane that was not quite but most of the way towards a middleground look

>>715895687
S1 Jinx was absolutely psychopathic and I love it

i want to rape jinx desu

I cried at Isha's death scene. The flashbacks, the running, and yes the Chinese song

>>715897205
Bold of you to think you'll be the one doing the raping

>>715897218
Who?

For me, it's Viktor.

>>715897638
Fuck this dogshit show they ruined viktor because of it. He looks like a gigafag ingame now

What they did to Viktor has been discussed to death but the direction they took Warwick is truly fucking baffling
>turned him into a mindless beast (when he's supposed to be wolfman punisher)
>when he's brought back he's now just a mindless magic golem
>NOT. A. FUCKING. WEREWOLF

Seeing in him action was what I was most excited about in season 2 and they completely fucked it up. Just look at how much better the champion trailer is compared to what we got
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsnDbealN9E

>>715898056
>ruined
Perfected. I want to rape his face.

>>715866225 (OP)
Sorry always main miss fortune though

>>715866225 (OP)
Too much niggerpandering. Ruined a perfectly decent show AND game. Unironically pushed me to quit league, even if I still like the idea of playing my main.
Motherfuckers who haven't even played the fucking game were creaming their pants over the series and let me tell you, they're the most obnoxious assholes you'll ever meet IRL.
The rule of thumb is to not take anybody that has anything good to say about S2 seriously.

this is jinx in real life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va-uFHQbwio

>>715866225 (OP)
NO TAHM
NO PLAY

>>715877250
>Well honestly I think the "arcane" universe should be separate from the league game universe anyway, since magic is much rarer in the show anyway. But for the Ryze one I'm specifically referring to the change/retcon from S1 to S2.
It was. It's Riot that decided to unify (retcon actual league lore based on Arcane) in an attempt to capitalize on S1's hype.

>>715894285
>I think Arcane Cait mogs original. Original looks (like you mentioned) kind of goofy.
Like >>715895874 said, Cait has already gotten a visual update years before Arcane was released. Caitlyn in League lore (before they retconned it all to unify with Arcane) is the exact opposite of Arcane's cait. She had the full support of her mother, who outright paid to have her trained and had already become an established enforcer. The dynamic between her and Vi in League was that of Agent K and Agent J. She was the professional and by the books chick, while Vi was the wildcard rookie. Arcane went with the Hollywood cliche of unlikely heroes that nobody believes in saving the day. Their relationship also wasn't gay... that was only a thing pushed by people in the fanbase and then Riot after it became political "cool" to do... like they've done with Diana and Leona...

>>715866272
>more action fights
>bigger stakes
>more dark and emotional moments
>more music videos
>bigger character development
>better music
>better art style
>better dialogue
S2 mogs it. Hard.

>>715897638
Based Viktor enjoyer. Honestly, he was the only one in Arcane who felt like he had real stakes and a moral arc that wasn’t just “muh trauma.” Dude saw the rot in Piltover and decided to transcend it, even if it meant dooming himself. Arcane Viktor > League Viktor > whatever mopey husk we got now.

>>715902352
>Their relationship also wasn't gay
I dunno mange, being so close to somebody that you even have a "cute" nickname for them is pretty gay.
Imagine two dudes hanging around and one of them says to the other "Hey wanna go watch a movie, sweetstuff?", I'd be weirded out.

>>715903696
Normal nickname. Would "dark killer" be more acceptable?

>>715903887
>Normal nickname
Dude, have you ever had friends?

>>715903696
>I dunno mange, being so close to somebody that you even have a "cute" nickname for them is pretty gay.
Cupcake is a joke based on her in-game traps. She used to use cupcakes as bait, which was a joke itself. There's also the fact that Cait is prim and proper, while Vi is not. Vi's character is pretty much 1:1, except she's far less conflicted about beating up her own kind. In fact, Ekko hates her because of what she's become. Vi just enjoys the chase and capturing criminals, not caring how much she hurts them (as mentioned, she enjoys doing it). This was before politics were able to overtake Riot and the idea of an abusive cop isn't allowed anymore, unless it's to be shamed. Vi is also supposed to be way taller than Caitlyn. I don't know why they made her so short. Maybe it's a lesbian thing.