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** An OffscreenMomentOfAwesome for Powder as well. When Caitlyn complains that trying to follow Vi "almost got [her] killed," Vi casually dismisses her with "My little sister could do that when she was seven." For all that Powder may have been the least valuable member of Vi's team, she is still a true denizen of Zaun.
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* Jinx going up against the sparring robot and managing to get on the leaderboard. This is sadly soured by her placing second but still, considering that Vi's a natural boxer and had 8 out of the top 10 spots, it ''definitely'' deserves to be mentioned. And this is before she gets injected with shimmer, mind you.

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* Jinx going up against the sparring robot and managing to get on the leaderboard. This is sadly soured by her placing second below Vi, but still, considering that Vi's a natural boxer and had 8 out of the top 10 spots, it ''definitely'' deserves to be mentioned. And this is before she gets injected with shimmer, mind you.
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* Jinx going up against the sparring robot and managed to place second on the leaderboard. Ths is sadly soured by her placing second but still, considering that Vi's a natural boxer and had 8 out of the top 10 spots, it ''definitely'' deserves to be mentioned. And this is before she gets injected with shimmer, mind you.

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* Jinx going up against the sparring robot and managed managing to place second get on the leaderboard. Ths This is sadly soured by her placing second but still, considering that Vi's a natural boxer and had 8 out of the top 10 spots, it ''definitely'' deserves to be mentioned. And this is before she gets injected with shimmer, mind you.
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* Vi takes time to look at Caitlyn's crime board from Episode 4, impressed that Cupcake was able make as much progress on the case as she did before setting foot in Zaun.
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* Similarly, Silco being able to loosen his bonds and grab Jinx's gun via sheer determination. This is also the first time we see him use a firearm onscreen, and he still manages to shoot Vi in the shoulder a second after being riddled with holes.

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* Ekko manages to beat Jinx with a [[NeverBringAGunToAKnifeFight melee weapon against her pistol]] despite having to rush across a bridge with no cover. He's shown having lost this sort of thing when it was just a fun game as a kid, only highlighting how much he's grown.
** The visual representation of their younger selves playing the 'same game' only for younger Ekko to lose and then time 'rewinding' back to their future selves in the starting position is similar to Ekko's TimeRewindMechanic from the games, only its being done with Ekko's acute visualization of Powder's shooting habits. It's implied that Ekko intentionally recreated the setup for their childhood activity so he could trick Jinx into adopting a shooting posture he was familiar with and could predict the trajectory of her bullets, allowing him to win where he failed before. It shows that Ekko doesn't need to manipulate time to be a TimeMaster.


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* Jinx launches an attack on the bridge checkpoint by releasing a huge swarm of mechanical firelights. Nobody realizes that these are bombs until they detonate.


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* Ekko manages to beat Jinx with a [[NeverBringAGunToAKnifeFight melee weapon against her pistol]] despite having to rush across a bridge with no cover. He's shown having lost this sort of thing when it was just a fun game as a kid, only highlighting how much he's grown.
** The visual representation of their younger selves playing the 'same game' only for younger Ekko to lose and then time 'rewinding' back to their future selves in the starting position is similar to Ekko's TimeRewindMechanic from the games, only its being done with Ekko's acute visualization of Powder's shooting habits. It's implied that Ekko intentionally recreated the setup for their childhood activity so he could trick Jinx into adopting a shooting posture he was familiar with and could predict the trajectory of her bullets, allowing him to win where he failed before. It shows that Ekko doesn't need to manipulate time to be a TimeMaster.
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** Claggor his weight and fighting prowess to take down not one but ''two'' of Deckard's goons.

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** Claggor uses his weight strength, weight, and fighting prowess to take down not one but ''two'' of Deckard's goons.
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** Claggor his weight and fighting prowess to take down not one but ''two'' of Deckard's goons.
** While Mylo may have needed help with taking down his respective opponent, he still gets a mention for two reasons: First, he lands a few good blows on his said opponent, showing he's not just all talk. Second, tying into the first reason, one would assume that someone as braggy and jerkass as Mylo would just act like a DirtyCoward, but he doesn't. He stays to help his siblings against the opposing gang. He may be something of an asshole, but he is ''not'' a coward.


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* It's a quick moment, but when Jinx fire on Vi and Caitlyn, the ''first'' instinct they have is to protect each other.
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* Caitlyn managing to untie herself via a broken dinner glass, getting Jinx's mini-gun, and threatening her with it. Yes, it ends with her getting knocked out by Jinx but kudos on her ingenuity.
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* Jinx going up against the sparring robot and managed to place second on the leaderboard. Ths is sadly soured by her placing second but still, considering that Vi's a natural boxer and had 8 out of the top 10 spots, it ''definitely'' deserves to be mentioned.

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* Jinx going up against the sparring robot and managed to place second on the leaderboard. Ths is sadly soured by her placing second but still, considering that Vi's a natural boxer and had 8 out of the top 10 spots, it ''definitely'' deserves to be mentioned. And this is before she gets injected with shimmer, mind you.
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** One has to give Silco credit for the absolutely ''brutal'' shutdown he gives the treacherous Renni, whose reason for betraying him is because her son got killed during the raid.
--> '''Silco''': I would have had your son killed for this. Although I suppose we're ahead on that account. ''Get out''.

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** Credit where it's due, Mylo gets the cuffs off of Vander and Claggor ''smashes a hole in a wall''. They all contributed their skills to rescuing Vander

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** Credit where it's due, Mylo gets the cuffs off of Vander and Claggor ''smashes a hole in a wall''. They all contributed their skills to rescuing Vander Vander.


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* Sevika knocks Silco out of the way of the Hextech explosion, trying to save her employer [[TakingTheBullet at the risk of her own life]] and ultimately costing her an arm.
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* Vi's gang gets ambushed for their loot, after they just ran for their lives from the Enforcers. They then proceed to ''demolish'' their opponents. At the end, the leader won't even stab Vi when he has a knife and she's unarmed. She even impresses upon him what a bad idea trying to use it would be
-->"Wanna see how ''that'' ends?"

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* Vi's gang gets ambushed for their loot, after they just ran for their lives from the Enforcers. They then proceed to ''demolish'' their opponents. At the end, the leader Deckard won't even stab Vi when he has a knife and she's unarmed. She even impresses upon him what a bad idea trying to use it would be
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-->'''Vi:''' You wanna
see how ''that'' ends?"that ends?
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** It also became the first animated streaming series to win an Emmy award.
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* After a surprise visit from Vi, Jayce takes the Lanes girl and a squad of enforcers to bust a Shimmer production plant. It goes well, until one of the young workers summons the guards- a pack of [[LightningBruiser Turbo Chemtanks]] that tear through the Enforcers like wet tissue paper. However, when Vi and Jayce face off, newly armed with Atlas Gauntlets and a Hextech Hammer, they absolutely wipe the floor with the Chemtanks, with them being unable to stand up to the sheer speed and viciousness of Vi and the raw power of Jayce’s hammer. However, this gets horribly subverted once Jayce [[DeathOfAChild kills a child worker]].

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* After a surprise visit from Vi, Jayce takes the Lanes girl and a squad of enforcers to bust a Shimmer production plant. It goes well, until one of the young workers summons the guards- a pack of [[LightningBruiser Turbo Chemtanks]] that tear through the Enforcers like wet tissue paper. However, when Vi and Jayce face off, newly armed with Atlas Gauntlets and a Hextech Hammer, they absolutely wipe the floor with the Chemtanks, with them being unable to stand up to the sheer speed and viciousness of Vi and the raw power of Jayce’s hammer. However, this gets horribly subverted once Jayce [[DeathOfAChild accidentally kills a child worker]].
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* Jinx going up against the sparring robot and managed to place second on the leaderboard. Ths is sadly soured by her placing second but still, considering that Vi's a natural boxer and had 8 out of the top 10 spots, it ''definately'' deserves to be mentioned.

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* Jinx going up against the sparring robot and managed to place second on the leaderboard. Ths is sadly soured by her placing second but still, considering that Vi's a natural boxer and had 8 out of the top 10 spots, it ''definately'' ''definitely'' deserves to be mentioned.
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* Jinx going up against the sparring robot and managed to place second on the leaderboard. Ths is sadly soured by her placing second but still, considering that Vi had 8 out of the top 10 spots, that's saying something.

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* Jinx going up against the sparring robot and managed to place second on the leaderboard. Ths is sadly soured by her placing second but still, considering that Vi Vi's a natural boxer and had 8 out of the top 10 spots, that's saying something.it ''definately'' deserves to be mentioned.
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* Jinx going up against the sparring robot and managed to place second on the leaderboard. Ths is sadly soured by her placing second but still, considering that Vi had 8 out of the top 10 spots, that's saying something.
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** This is compounded if you consider the possibility that, contrary to what she said, Sevika ''hadn't'' made up her mind about who she was going to kill yet, and it was Silco's speech about loyalty that swayed her to his side. He wasn't just talking to make a point to Finn and Renni, he was literally arguing for his own life- and it ''worked''.
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* The opening scene, with the mage saving Jayce and his mother by teleporting them to safety.

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* The opening scene, with the mysterious mage saving a younger Jayce and his mother during a violent blizzard by teleporting them to safety.safety. This marks the moment when Jayce becomes fascinated with magic, and it's easy to see why.
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* Viktor, who's spent most of his life unable to walk without a cane, running with his newly augmented leg for the first time. He drops his cane, starts walking without it, and gradually breaks into a sprint; the fact that he does this down at the harbor and is able to run past the boats mirrors his childhood flashback in Episode 6 where he couldn't even keep up with the toy boat he made. The yell he lets out as he runs is likely just as cathartic for him as it is for the audience.
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* The portrayal of Jinx's mental instability is up there with ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' in terms of realism, with great attention paid to minor details and helping portray just how ''frightening'' it would be to deal with them on a daily basis.
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** Though Vi gets the first shot, Sevika turns the tide when she hurls her shawl off (In slow motion, no less, to emphasize how badass it is) and reveals a ''mechanical arm''. She then starts tossing Vi around, sending her flying into the wall with a single abdominal punch and performing an effortless NeckLift. Even when Vi puts her on all fours, Sevika doses herself with a bit of Shimmer and keeps control, showing shocking intelligence by lifting a barrel with one arm and sending it flying toward Vi.
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* Vi beating her own high score on the arcade sparring robot, demonstrating her genuine skill at boxing, both offensively and defensively. Even better? She holds the top 10 places.

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* Vi beating her own high score on the arcade sparring robot, demonstrating her genuine skill at boxing, both offensively and defensively. Even better? She Of the top 10 spots, she holds the top 10 places.''8'', with Claggor having the other two.
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* After Mylo complains about Powder one time too many, Vi shuts him up by [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech pointing out]] the mistakes ''he'' made during the heist, like picking fights with the group when they needed to focus and [[WhatAnIdiot telling a passerby that they had a nice haul]], and tells him that he needs to learn when to shut the hell up. BigSisterInstinct in action!

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* After Mylo complains about Powder one time too many, Vi shuts him up by [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech pointing out]] the mistakes ''he'' made during the heist, like picking fights with the group when they needed to focus and [[WhatAnIdiot telling a passerby that they had a nice haul]], haul, and tells him that he needs to learn when to shut the hell up. BigSisterInstinct in action!
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* The show got nominated for nine individual achievement categories in the Annie Awards and ''won every single one of them.''

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