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Why Vi?!?!?!

GoodLilRabbit·2/2/2016, 1:32:48 AM·2 votes·1,000 views

Okay, I'm gonna get a little persnickety now that Jihn is finally released. I feel like we have yet to receive a valid explanation for his choice of targets in the teasers.

Zed he has an established lore relationship with. Good. Sona is a competing artist, a public figure, and she shares a homeland with Jihn, so she's therefore an excellent star for his type of show. Good. Garen might have kind of a tragic love-story thing going with Katarina, and is also extremely high-profile. Oookay, kinda stretching here...

Vi has no plausible connection so far to either Jihn or any of the other three. She's from Piltover, not Demacia or Ionia. She doesn't have rivalries or friends or family from there (as far as we know), and would probably never run into the guy. WHY WOULD JIHN TARGET HER? EVER?

I want the explanation to be outside of gameplay, because that would be some frustratingly lazy writing, and I feel like it would seriously take away from the 'psychotic serial killer' persona that they're trying to create if the danger he poses is restricted to the Fields of Justice.

COME ON, RIOT. DON'T DO THIS TO US!

5 Comments

Courier Eight2/2/2016, 2:03:45 AM4 votes

I think a Rioter said on the forums that the teaser didn't represent actual targets, but how he'd conceptualize each of their deaths, should he ever make them the focus of his productions.

(Basically Riot picked champions that would look cool, but there's not really a lore connection between any of them.)

Protokai2/2/2016, 1:41:26 AM1 votes

this is my guesses im going to take a few paragraphs from Vis' lore
When she was six, a ragtag group of criminals took a shine to the young delinquent and brought her into their fold. By the time Vi was eleven, she had become a seasoned accomplice, and she relished the thrill of every heist. She was forced to decide between fleeing with her crew and trying to save the innocent mine workers from a collapsed tunnel. Vi chose to play the hero. While searching for a way to free the mine workers from the rubble, she discovered a damaged robotic mining rig. Improvising, she wrenched off its huge fists and modified them into makeshift hextech gauntlets. Fitting the heavy weapons to her tiny hands, the young girl flexed her arm and threw a powered punch at the rubble. The force of the blow blasted away the rock. With the workers free to escape, Vi fled the scene. so she went from villain to hero and since jihn thinks everyones most important moment in their life is how they die he wants to make hers spectacular because her story possibly reached him. and he enjoyed the story so much he needed to give her the perfect end.

GreenLore2/2/2016, 6:03:17 PM1 votes

Jhin is a psychopath. While he has some targets assigned to him by his higher ups or some people he wants to kill for personal reasons,he also likes to kill random people.

Vi most likely caught his interest and now he thinks about killing her one day,thats probably it.

Also since jhin seems to be sent to other city states from time to time it is not unlikely that he had trouble with the piltovian policeforce once.

Blodjägare2/2/2016, 7:23:09 PM1 votes

Better question would be why Shen wasn't included if you think of Jhin's quotes towards him. I think the answer to your question is that there simply isn't one. He is a psychopathic killer after all.

GoodLilRabbit2/3/2016, 11:23:33 PM1 votes

I missed the explanation that the teasers were showing what he would ideally do for his chosen victims, as opposed to something he was actually doing. That does make a lot more sense! And GreenLore was right in that he does reference traveling to put on 'performances,' so he could have run into her at some point.

I still feel like Vi is a bit of a random pick, though. Both from a nationality perspective and from his self-declared 'artist' status there are other people who might make equally appealing and more sensible targets.

  • Draven- Stemming from a mix of rivalry as a fellow performer and disgust at his lack of finesse. The taunt says it all- 'So you yell and throw machetes?'

  • Lux- Her magic is completely unique last I checked. Jhin seems like the type of guy who would appreciate destroying/memorializing the only extant member of a species. Ahri, Soraka, and a few others might fall into this category, too.

  • Katarina- Jhin will specifically taunt Garen and hint that 'his finale will be a duet.' So why didn't Busty McShunpo make an appearance? Bonus points: having prominent players on either side of the Noxus/Demacia rift die (maybe even orchestrating it to look like the lovers perished at each others' hands) would fan the flames of war. I can imagine Jhin enjoying that.

  • Fiora- Again, her fighting style is another form of art, which might be sufficient motivation for Jhin to target her. Not to mention that, without Fiora, House Laurent would be in serious trouble! Her removal would create a potentially deadly power-vacuum.

  • Pretty much any other Ionian- Jhin's taunts include a certain disdain for how little his homeland's culture has advanced.

  • People in POWER- Jarvan IV, Illaoi, Darius, Swain, Caitlyn, Jayce, Viktor, Ashe, Tryndamere... Again, you remove the leader of a faction and utter chaos is unleashed. (Look at what happened in Bilgewater after Miss Fortune's little stunt.) Not to mention that the shadowy council members who ostensibly freed and now employed him would probably have a vested interest in seeing other world powers weakened or entirely destabilized.

Just my thoughts, but I still think that Jhin could have picked a more relevant fourth target.