You might wanna spoiler tag it. Also, I want the kid to live too but I know what sort of show this is. Game of Thrones by way of Harry Potter. Anyone Can Die.
It is poetic now that Jinx is the big sister.
Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Nov 9th 2024 at 7:28:52 AM
You’re Gonna Carry That Weight.Bumping with a video on what the villains of this show would be charged with if they were tried.
@ Vladimir:
Vlad is a millennia-old Hemomancer who learned blood magic from the Darkin (corrupted man-made gods essentially) when they got bored and decided to entertain themselves by teaching a human their ways. He is so old he's suffering Death of Personality and memory decay from his immortality. He part of the Black Rose cult run by LeBlanc, but goes into hiding a lot to conceal that he's immortal and comes out again when he thinks history is getting interesting. He has a lot of cultists in Noxus who follow him. I don't quite think the timeline lines up for Vlad (he'd be in hiding right now, he only came out after Swain took over because it intrigued him that someone not handpicked by LeBlanc managed to get control of Nouxs).
I think what's more likely is Marcus du Couteau is involved. He at the time would have been one of LeBlanc's preferred assassins.
Edited by PhiSat on Nov 10th 2024 at 12:04:05 PM
Oissu!Thing is the du Couteaus seems like more of a cloak and dagger type assassin, if Katarina and Talon’s fighting styles are anything to go by. The blood pooling/possessions/illusions we saw feel more like Vladimir and Le Blanc, though the “teleported to the Blood Dimension” thing that happened to Mel and Elora took me by surprise.
I’m really worried about the pacing this season, especially with the Viktor and Noxus subplots. I can’t buy Jayce just letting Viktor fuck off like that right after he literally came back from the dead and is now merged with Hextech, and I could really use some fleshing out on how Viktor’s experiences with the core sudden’y turned him into Robot Jesus. Not to mention we’re now dropping multiple types of magic into a setting that up until now has only dealt with one specific type of magic. I’m just worried we’re going to get a lot of PLOT STUFF this season without a really sense of coherence.
Edited by DrSleep on Nov 10th 2024 at 12:36:13 PM
I expect Jayce will be busy with whatever magic thing happened to him, Ekko, and Heimerdinger and then come back when it's too late
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Yeah, I'm also worried about the pacing. It does seem like they bit a little bit more than they could chew with the character arcs. But I'm a Hazbin Hotel fan, so rushed pacing doesn't really bother me too much.
Okay, that was all beautiful. Not sure where to start.
I like both Jinx's chance at redemption with the girl, and Cait's going down a darker path. She's definitely going to get pulled off it at the last minute—she's one of the most popular character in a relationship with one of the other most popular characters, they're not letting her go full evil. Still, it's going to be interesting to watch.
I hope Janna becomes a thing. This would be solid foreshadowing for the next arc, if they choose to go that route.
Ambessa's trick was well done. It was easy to predict most of it, and in hindsight her dumping Sola makes perfect sense. He's been obviously in bed with her the entire time, so the city would never accept him, and by choosing someone else, Ambessa countered Mel's reaction. Though I wonder if she noticed that Mel was missing. It makes sense not to mention it, it would have undermined her own speech, but still, it's emphasized over and over how much she cares for Mel and how she's intentionally leaving her out of her schemes.
I really should have just not watched any of this until it was all out, because now I'm obsessed and have to wait, again.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.Oof, there’s a lot to digest.
Some predictable (Viktor not being too pleased to be saved by the core, the kingpins fighting each other, Ambessa advancing her plot in the midst of chaos, CaitVi becoming official), others more surprising (Jinx adopting a munchkin, Vi accepting the uniform, Viktor becoming mecha Jesus, that Black Rose cult thing or… whatever the fuck happened with the Arcane). The end of episode 3 sent chills down my spine, although I saw Ambessa proposing Cait instead of Salo coming from a mile away. That slow buildup though… tension so thick you can cut it with a knife.
Now I do thing the whole Black Rose kerfuffle would have needed more of an introduction, because I wasn’t sure where the fuck that came from or what it did exactly.
PS: Using the airvent to poison the underground was pretty fucked up even by Pacifier standards, I must say. >.>
Edited by Lyendith on Nov 11th 2024 at 5:24:10 AM
Unfortunately no. I've seen some comparisons to Braum
, but the similarities are superficial and he's too busy in the Arctic to be an enforcer.
I'm pretty sure I read that one of the characters is likely to become a champion in the near future (Ambessa), so this makes it even harder to look at it only from a "if in LOL then safe" perspective.
Plus I do not know exactly what the lore of LOL is regarding what happens in the game (ie how those heroes end up fighting each other), but they could even be extra-bold and decide to kill off one of the champions and say that whatever happens in the TV series is akin to a parallel timeline.
I'm pretty sure Sevika is going to be a champion in the future. That new arm is blatantly designed as a fun gameplay mechanic, and it provides plenty of opportunities for amusing voice lines.
[Jinx's theme plays] "I really need to figure out how to mute this thing."
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.I thought the same.
Then I realized it was a slot machine, and that's the kind of random element that is an absolute, utter, total and complete pain in the ass to balance in a competitive game with dozens (or in LOL's case, hundreds) of options for the players.
The two MMO I have played the most are Final Fantasy XIV and Dofus - and I only ever did PVE, I never touched PVP - and both had one class/job designed with RNG in mind (Astromancer for XIV, Ecaflip for Dofus) which since released has had its random elements reduced little by little until they all but disappear.
So in a PVP competitive game that makes people angry like LOL, adding a champion who can get a kill (or deal huge amounts of damage) out of nowhere because she gets a miraculous slot combination sounds like a recipe for making players even more toxic (if that is even possible).
Plus, if there are such thing as "optimal combinations in the right situation" on a skill, it would increase the odds of a player ragequitting because he doesn't get the one he wanted.
If Sevika becomes playable, I think she might get another upgrade that allows her to actually control the arm's options.
Edited by Bexlerfu on Nov 11th 2024 at 4:21:19 PM
Lo L canon got countless rewrites.
It started with the formerly titular League Of Legends being an institute that hosted war games which took the place of real wars in the setting. The heroes came from all sorts of backgrounds and countries.
Gradually over the years they scrapped the League because they wanted to tell progressive stories with conflicts and it was too static of a status quo for that.
Then they gradually fleshed out the biggest of the nations which were shared among the existing heroes and consolidated all other characters into them, some of which got redesigned / rewritten / race-swapped to fit.
I don't think it's an accident that we don't see Sevika using that function in the fight against Cait. It's too unreliable to use except as a Hail Mary. But it is still a big metal arm with a snapping shark on the end.
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I could see her arm having a similar mechanic to TF’s Pick A Card where it’s about timing the ability to get the right effect - one combo has CC, one combo has extended range, one combo is a dash because every fucking champion needs a dash now yes I will never not be buttmad about this. The big shark Hail Mary can be her ultimate.
Oh God, I just thought what if they pull an Aphelios and completely change her HDU to be a jackpot window.
Edited by DrSleep on Nov 11th 2024 at 8:56:35 AM

So anyone have any hope that the little girl Jinx BASICALLY adopted will make it to the end of the series? At this point, I feel like it could go either way.
You’re Gonna Carry That Weight.