You're all overthinking this Jhin thing.

Zero Shingetsu·1/1/2016, 4:39:21 PM·1 votes·845 views

Everyone's flipping out about these teasers and what they mean for the lore. Like any investigative individual, I started trying to connect the dots on what the champions in the promos had in common in the lore. The answer is... Nothing. Literally, no two of them are linked in any way in the lore. So then I started thinking from another angle; a more practical one.

Zed is generally mid. Garen is usually top. Vi is pretty much always in the jungle. Sona is almost universally a support.

Clearly, the promos are just Riot letting us know that Jhin has the means to take on any champion in any role. Because the only way to make a champion cool at this point is to make them a literal Mary Sue.

(PS: It's not a gunshot, it's thunder. The electricity helps give that away, but just the sound itself... That's definitely not a gunshot. At best, it's thunder made to sound VAGUELY like a gunshot.)

5 Comments

Sharjo1/1/2016, 4:54:26 PM4 votes

Nah I disagree. Champion teasers and promos are always lore centric nowadays and I'm happy because of it. In reality we're actually not thinking deeply enough about the teasers, as the links here are far more subtle than we're generally used to.

Also as a tip; this is the Story, Art and Sound board. Coming in to tell us we're bad and shouldn't discuss the lore implications of a teaser won't sit well here. We're here to talk story, not whine about champions apparently not being cool unless they're OP as sod in game as you not so subtly put it.

You want my name1/1/2016, 5:13:56 PM1 votes

idk about every role. cuz if you think about the past champions that came out, Ekko - top, mid, jg. then TahmKench top, supp. then Kindred pretty much made for jg. Illaoi top lane, sometimes jg but idk how well it is. So we need a ADC. on the zed teaser i thought it was thunder but clearly on the garen and sona teasers its a gunshot. it shows the bullet coming out of garens chest. and i dont think they are supposed to be linked in the lore just for them to all have something in common that deals with jhin