Everyone calm down,Deadeye/Jhin didn't kill anyone

GreenLore·Jan 1, 2016·25 votes·7,755 views

Seriously so many people are flipping out thinking that & got killed by Deadeye/Jhin,but I really doubt that any of them died.

I mean it would be a really stupid decision from a writers standpoint to kill off these 4 champs without resolving any of their plotpoints,before they even got a relevant role in any story,just to hype the upcoming champion.I mean VI never found out anything about her past,Zed was never confronted by the kinkou trio,etc. Not only that,but why would the shots be presented in such a mystical way if all they do is kill their target?There is clearly a deeper meaning behind them.

EDIT: It would also be especially jarring because those 4 would be the first real deaths in the story and it would set a really bad sign if the first deaths are anticlimatic deaths that are just there to hype a new champ.

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Deep Terror NamiJan 1, 201618 votes

What if; Deadeye is killing them in a dream world to inflict real world pain on them, and the teasers are of the dream?

http://orig04.deviantart.net/4748/f/2011/104/1/c/haunter_megapokedex_093_by_alexsbabybear-d3dykmp.png

LeadpaintchipsJan 1, 20166 votes

so, Nocturne ?

SkelenthJan 1, 20161 votes

I just saw the similarities between Nocturne and Haunter O__O

Deep Terror NamiJan 1, 20163 votes

Dar dar darkness!

Over InnsmouthJan 1, 20169 votes

You go with a Pokemon to depict Dream-World suffering and you PICK HAUNTER!?

http://orig00.deviantart.net/dba9/f/2012/340/8/0/darkrai_vector_by_fallingcomets-d5n7jlx.png

Deep Terror NamiJan 1, 201620 votes

I don't know what newfangled digimon that is.

ModKnightsKemplarJan 1, 20161 votes

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Over InnsmouthJan 1, 20161 votes

You win.

kaltenashesJan 1, 20162 votes

lol me too, i only know the pokemons that made appearance in the gba games

Spicy RiceJan 2, 20161 votes

Haunter is bae. He friggin licks people to death

RendarkanJan 2, 20161 votes

The last of the actual original creations and arguably the most OP Dark Type...

Devilmon

rtbf206105905Jan 1, 20164 votes

Not killed, wounded or enlit in some way. Perhaps he made them face their inner demons?

Think about it.

Zed's Ninja nature. Sona's muteness. Garen's love for Katarina. Vi's origin, as someone who turned her back on Zaun.

captainkaigerJan 1, 20163 votes

It isn't so much the death of the champions but rather where this mystical "shot" is centered.

With Zed, he looked into the figurative Pandora's box, gaining power at the cost of his life. The teaser makes one think that Zed is either blinded by Deadeye/Jhin, or he is forced to look inward at himself.

Sona has a stream of magic and light coming from her throat. She is also without her etwahl, which she uses to express herself with. What one can get from this is that she might be able to talk now and directly convey her thoughts.

Garen is heart, body, and soul Demacian. But he loves Katarina which is causing him internal conflict. He is breaking apart at the heart, and my guess is that Deadeye/Jhin is forcing him to choose between his loves.

And finally Vi (my jungling main). She is confidence and violence in equal parts. But she doesn't know who she really is, and for her entire life violence has been the only answer to most of her problems. Perhaps Deadeye in destroying her gauntlets and opening her heart has forced her to think of different solutions.

I think Deadeye/Jhin isn't trying to kill these champions in a literal sense, but rather trying to show each of them a truth about their particular existence. He is forcing each of them to showcase an inner struggle, and perhaps come to terms (maybe even peace) with themselves. Vi might not completely give up her life, but maybe her first option won't always be punching her problems.

666zodiarch666Jan 28, 20161 votes

give this guy some honour he deserves it [slayer-jinx-wink] [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

captainkaigerJan 29, 20161 votes

I thought this was accurate from the teasers, but now we know the Jhin is simply incredibly narcissistic/psychotic which is incredibly more mundane.

Lithium RosaJan 1, 20162 votes

I sincerely wish the REAL DEATH happens to Teemo

Shroom JunkieJan 2, 20162 votes

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I sincerely wish the REAL DEATH happens to

As a Teemo main... I wholeheartedly agree. Kill that bitch, he deserves it.

666zodiarch666Jan 28, 20161 votes

seriously to become evil/stop evil, you must become evil in other words, play some teemo matches, you will instantly become less aggressive and understend his weakness a lot better its... like therapy!

Eternal 7 Jan 2, 20162 votes

What if hes like A Genie , because well his names jhinn.. Djinn, but instead of granting our greatest desires through wishes , ( ͡O __ʖ ͡O) , takes them away for his own power , since you know .... all of the pictures has something being taken from them , with something else

67019198_DELJan 2, 20162 votes

meh, you can kill off garen because i hate garen players.

GenoXxJan 1, 20161 votes

Idk...its convincing. If not killing, then its more likely there are unconscious. But then again who knows yet.

Biff ManlyJan 1, 20161 votes

Ha ha, "resolving plotpoints"

There have been maybe THREE instances of this, all of which were in the past year with the Bilgewater stories.

GreenLoreJan 2, 20161 votes

Isn't that a good sign that these happened recently? It means that they are actually willing to move the stories of the individual champions forward.

Biff ManlyJan 2, 20161 votes

I think the new lore team is still feeling out where they want the world to go. I mean, the organization they named the game after no longer exists in the lore, so I'm not expecting any big moves until they get that weirdness sorted out.

AbyssionKnightJan 2, 20161 votes

I agree with the theory he's meant to represent an actual Djinn, and the champions shown / the specific locations each were struck represent a wish Djinn granted for them.

I'm assuming it's a typical Djinn and therefore a trickster. So it gives you what you want, but with a catch.

So the impacts aren't meant to deal damage or kill, but a snapshot showing Djinn's magic in the process of granting (or twisting) their wish.

EvilMerodachJan 2, 20161 votes

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I mean it would be a really stupid decision from a writers standpoint to kill off these 4 champs without resolving any of their plotpoints,before they even got a relevant role in any story,just to hype the upcoming champion.I mean VI never found out anything about her past,Zed was never confronted by the kinkou trio,etc.

http://lovelace-media.imgix.net/uploads/949/acde5fc0-ec41-0132-6498-0ecefe7c2201.gif [slayer-jinx-unamused]

RendarkanJan 2, 20161 votes

GoT be trollin' the fanbase before it was cool.

ADepressedLeonaJan 2, 20161 votes

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Seriously so many people are flipping out thinking that & got killed by Deadeye/Jhin,but I really doubt that any of them died.

** I mean it would be a really stupid decision from a writers standpoint **to kill off these 4 champs without resolving any of their plotpoints,before they even got a relevant role in any story,just to hype the upcoming champion.I mean VI never found out anything about her past,Zed was never confronted by the kinkou trio,etc. Not only that,but why would the shots be presented in such a mystical way if all they do is kill their target?There is clearly a deeper meaning behind them.

EDIT: It would also be especially jarring because those 4 would be the first real deaths in the story and it would set a really bad sign if the first deaths are anticlimatic deaths that are just there to hype a new champ.

Must not make comment about how salty I am over the old lore.

RozzetaJan 2, 20161 votes

I actually don't know what will happen: From one side, I think Riot's Lore team has enough talent to not have to resort to "darkier and edgier" storitelling in order to make a new hero interesting, yet at the same time they have done things similar to that in the past, like how Jinx eludes VI and Cait like they were nothing, and the infamous Jayce lore.

We'll have to wait and see. If they actually kill off 4 character in order to make a new one's preview, it will mark the limit of the Lore team's storywriting abilities. We can call the game's lore over at that point.

GreenLoreJan 2, 20161 votes

While before they didn't hesitate to make a champ look inferior to another one,killing off another champion just to hype the new one would take that to a whole different level(especially if they killed 4 different champions) and I think they learned from their previous mistakes to not overdo it,I mean they did change the jayce lore pretty quickly.

OsarMar 28, 20161 votes

Jhin is into theater the obvious answer is that he killed them in some sort of theater show non real deaths

GreenLoreMar 28, 20161 votes

Jhin is a former serial killer who is now a professional,so he does kill people for real(and I dunno why these champs would work in a theater with him,especially Zed who has been traumatized by jhins actions)

Though by now we know that these pictures show how jhin imagines their deaths.