the reason jinx looks different is cause yes its an alternate universe where shes basically in a guardians of the galaxy style crew. those are just different skins of characters in league. this happens to be the odyssey skinline. same thing with the light within cinematic. she is the girl with the staff named lux. its just a skin that she has ingame
The odyssey stuff is essentially just popular characters re-imagined in a different setting or universe, usually with different backstories. Consider it separate from canon stuff like the game and arcane
@@HannaHsOverInvested this is a promo for in-game cosmetics. There are different skin lines which are set in different universes: Odyssey explores space opera setting, Star Guardians explore mahou shoujo anime setting, Battlecast is a humans against machines Terminator-ish universe and so on and on.
@@HannaHsOverInvested Which mean in the future riot could also explore some skinline as storyline and new series to be told . Which means we could have an happy jinx :')
@@TTMILKYTT I don't really think it would be heavily explored like in marvel or dc where they meet their alternative versions but they definitely have made backstories for some of the skins that only make sense in alternative universes.
@@TTMILKYTT yeah they have, that’s what the pulsefire skins have confirmed- that each skinline is it’s own universe/timeline and the PF skins can/do travel between them
@@TTMILKYTT Pulsefire Ezreal has voice lines for most skin lines as he has traveled to their actual universes, this in and of itself confirms that there is a multiverse within League lore
That last trailer, "the light within," advertised an "ultimate" skin whose gimmick is that you can decide at a couple of key points within a single match how to evolve Lux, picking an initial element (Fire, in the trailer) and then later a second that combines with the first, for a total of 10 possible colors/elements you can wield over the course of the game. As with all skins, it's purely cosmetic, but it's a fun little minigame.
The reason those last two might seem weird is that they're basically promotional videos for "skins", costumes you can buy for your characters in the game. So it's not part of the story, but just some cool alternate aesthetics. The woman in The Light Within is actually an alternate version of Lux, the little sister from earlier!
that jersey is fuckin' sick. really pops love that youre starting to recognize the characters at a glance now. Most of us have the luxuary of a having tens to hundreds of hours looking at them so we know how they operate like the back of our hands but youre starting to hit that point too. jinx is obvious, little sister light magic is lux, pony tail swords man is yasou and big rocky mountain man is malphite, and the first three get used a lot, and malphite gets used as a stand in for "big tall guy" a lot
"Adjacent alternate universe" is the correct call for the Odyssey skin line. It's just like Star Guardian and others in the sense that they take the same characters and use them in different settings in a comedia del arte style reapplication.
In so far as Jayce and Caitlyn, I always read their relationship as being found siblings, where their has always been the potential for that relationship to evolve into more but their actions in the lore push that possibility away. Jayce is the face of Piltover and Caitlyn is its sheriff, they both protect it but the politics of their situations is reflected in their actions. Jayce can never be seen as anything less than the exemplar of Piltover while Caitlyn is willing, and has been willing, to do whatever is necessary to protect the city and catch the criminal. This is in direct contrast to Vi, who's relationship with Caitlyn isn't restricted by the politics of Caitlyn's situation, Vi will always encourage Caitlyn to do whatever she needs to no matter what the rules may be, as opposed to Jayce who's support always reflects the politics and who's actions are limited by his great house patrons. Great reactions though, these are definitely some of my favorite animations for League and I'm so happy you enjoyed them.
The orb in The Light Within shows her status like in a game. She starts as light - white, as game progress she can choose one element (fire, air, water or nature) and later she can choose another one and mix it with the previous one. Here she chosen fire and than water which made purple Darkness/Chaos. When I saw cinematic myself at first I was confused aswell, but after learning the mechanic it becomes more clear what is happening. Secondly, there was nice reference from one video to another. In the The Light Within You see Lux fighting Malphite who is closer to his lore form as mountain-monster, she did her signature move - light laser towards targer. In the "You Really Got me Now" while Lux is studying she takes a break to look at the picture where she laser beam Malphite, later they meet on the battleground and fight once more. Nice little detail :D
You're right on the money on the "Welcome aboard" trailer. Most skins that come with a shared thematic are usually placed on an alternative universe :) Jinx is also featured in the Star Guardian universe (that you already reacted to, iirc), and the Project one. Also the last trailer is about the Elementalist skin for Lux (Garen's little sister), in which she starts in her light form as seen in the beginning of the trailer but as the game progresses she's able to switch into a new element (Air, Fire, Water, Nature) and then combine that element with one of the remainings to create a new one (in the trailer, she switched to Fire and then mixed it with Water to create Darkness)
You recognising characters and being hyped up by it...that right there is why these cinematics and music videos exist, and why they work for the game(s) they promote. Welcome to the club.
12:08 "Uhh that looks ni...NO hannah, no more" :D YES HANNAH. MORE. I enjoyed this a lot, especially "welcome aboard" is one of my favourites. It feels like its an alternate universe Jinx where she is happy and has a nice and loving family on this ship
The Light Within is a skin trailer for Elementalist Lux, which could change forms while in game just like other ultimate skins do. The only thing that separates Elementalist Lux from the rest of the Ultimate skins is because you could only change forms by filling a meter above her portrait in-game HUD by hitting your enemies with your abilities, while others could just choose randomly (Except Pulsefire Ezreal who could change form depends on your Level). Plus, you have 10 forms in one skin, but you could only use 3. The Light one which is the default, A Primary Element (Nature, Fire, Water, Air), and a Secondary Element which combines with the Primary Element. There are: Ice: Water + Wind Magma: Nature + Fire Mystic: Nature + Water Storm: Wind + Air Dark: Nature + Air / Fire + Water Hope This Helps! ;))))
Most of the skins are based off as alternate universe, so the jinx from "Welcome Aboard" is different than the Jinx that we know, same with the Elementalist Lux from "The Light Within"
The Jinx thing was an AU. Since league is a free game they go all in to promote skins when they come out, and some of the more fancy/inspired lines IE the Odessey and Lux trailers you watched get cinematics and what not. Now since you got a lil tug at the end there, all of the Star Guardian stuff is amazing and they have a few that go through the generations of the groups it's very cool
Hannah, the girl in "The Light Within", is Garen's younger sister Lux (blondie with the light powers from the Warriors video). The Light Within was a trailer for her Elementalist skin, which in-game you can combine different elements to make others. Fire and Air for Storm for example.
Odyssey is a skin line. Like a costume. There are more of them but the ones in the cinematic where the first of their kind. It consists of Jinx. Yasuo(the captain, you often call him the big haired guy in other cinematics). Malphite( big blue guy. His the rock giant in the "You really got me" cinematic). The eye patch guy with the scythe was Kayn, and lastly the lady in hood was Sona. Similarly " Light within " is a Skin for Lux, the blonde haired magic girl in "You really got me" whom you also called the little sister.
Lore Drop: In the Odyssey universe, Jinx used to work as an asteroid mining technician but she got fired after she blew the asteroid in half by using too much explosives. For some unknown and very questionable reason, Captain Yasuo(big ponytail guy) hired her to pilot his ship. Now, she is living the best days of her life exploring the galaxy.
@@Jay-kx4jf "Kiramman Clan originally sponsoring Jayce, he would often interact with the daugther of the main clans leader, Caitlyn. During their childhood days they became close friends, with Jayce seeing her as his little sister." Took me 5 seconds to get this by the way
@@Jay-kx4jf That's their age when we first meet them but how long have they known each other before that? Her family might have been sponsoring him since just after his childhood flashback for all we know, possibly before she was even born considering he's a good 10 years older than her and looked about that age in the flashback.
Just to be clear. "Welcome aboard" is just a trailer to promote skins. The thing is that each and every single skinline (there's lots of 'em) has a lore made specifically for it, which doesn't interfere with normal lore. It's sort of like a multiverse thing and this one specifically is the "Guardians of the galaxy"-like universe😊
TBF Odyssey was more than just a skin line--they had a whole event with a new game mode that introduced a whole skill system that did all kinds of funky things to the gameplay. They put a whole lot more effort into Odyssey than any other event I can think of. (I mean, I guess Ruination technically had a lot more lore stuff and videos, but the in-game event was just 'play the game and tick boxes' missions.)
@@wjhull yes, naturally. I didn't wanna mention all that because it's all in-game stuff and she just kinda doesn't play games at all, it wouldn't have been of interest to her, so yeah, I didn't mention it on purpose😊
Im so GLAD you are really enjoying the league cinematics and you got to feel that feeling of "OMG I know these characters they look so cool!" and getting to see their interactions and what not
The video that you wanted to watch on the third vid but didn't (I commend your self control haha) is the first video of the Star Guardian skin line (an alternate universe much like Odyssey where Jinx is also included). The Star Guardian skins currently has 3 videos which we currently call the Star Guardian Trilogy. The videos are (in order) Burning Bright, A New Horizon, and Light and Shadow. Its the magical girl anime genre skin line of League of Legends. Its one of the most famous skinlines in League which is why they expanded it complete with short stories (which you could read in the LoL website) which explains events occuring in between the three videos I mentioned earlier. I'm a big fan of your reactions to League and seeing you light up when you said you recognized most of the champions in that video made me happy knowing you reacted to League in the past.
The Odyssey cinematic was for an event within the game ^_^ Its basically just a story for the skins of the champions during that event(Jinx, Yasuo, Malphite, Sona, Kayn). Theres also the cinematics for the project ksins ^_^ its so amazing :D
Star Guardians, K/DA, and Odyssey (what you just watched), are a set of skins for certain champions that give them an entirely new background and theme. They're essentially "Alternate Universe" versions of those champions. Most skins are technically "alt universe" (don't align with the characters original theme), but the sets I specifically mentioned have their own alternate origins and story behind them. The League of Legends website itself actually hosts all of its lore in the form of comics, art, short stories, and champion biographies. They even have an interactive map of Runeterra that you can explore to get a very immersive perspective of the world everything takes place in.
If you plan to get started on Star Guardian stuff (the video you pointed out as looking interesting in the end) then you should know there are a few videos around the Star Guardian universe that are preferably watched in chronological order to make the most sense - "Burning Bright" (2016), "A New Horizon" (2017) and then "Light and Shadow" (2019). All are rather short though, less than 4 minutes each. Most of the story background for the star guardian universe is sadly only in written form but it is the most (story-wise) developed alternative universe in League of Legends when not including KDA and similar band-stuff. The Star Guardian universe is rumored to make another appearance in League of Legends later this year.
basically league of legends is free game, and developers earn money by selling alternative wardrobe/image "skin" for their champions. Some of this skins is from original universe of the game, some from "alternate" worlds, like Sailor-Moon themed, Cyborgs, Guardian of the galaxy-like, Pop-Stars world and many other. "Welcome abroad" is trailer for one of this alternate universe
definitely watch the star guardians ones. Burning Bright, a New Horizon and Light and Shadow. They aren't all the same story, and the 2nd is more of a "cut scene" but they are all solid. You may recognize some of the champs as well from other things you've watched.
The odyssey video was promo for an in-game event at the time. Some champions got new skins and there was even a limited time game mode you could play. These are usually just one offs unless there’s a LOT of popularity, at which point riot may bring back the event
Any time you see an environment that seems different than what you expect from Arcane/League of Legends, its an alternate universe they created for skin lines. The one with Jinx as a space pirate thing was a skin line called Odyssey where they basically took a "guardians of the galaxy" vibe and put their own spin on it to make skin collections for characters you love to play. The same was true with the last one you watched.. it was for a singular skin that can transform and change colors to match different elements during the match.
Trailers like odyssey are Skins trailers basically.. they promote new in-game looks for the characters. it´s funny because you showed 3 trailers with maplphite (the giant rock guy, the space blue guy and again the giant lava mountain), 2 with yasuo (samurai guy, space samurai), and 2 with jinx and also 2 with Lux. Love it!!!
Yoo she recognized multiple characters! I don't remember when I was the last time I didn't recognized someone in the trailers. What's insane is the fact that even when you know who is the character, Riot will introduce them in coolest way possible.
Odyssey is a skinline for some of the charakters. the ones in the trailer where Malphite, Yassuo (Samurai guy) Kayn (the assasin), Sona (the mute girl at the end) and ofc Jinx. it has nothing to do with the original universe where Jinx has blue hair. it´s more like the same chars with a different lore. the light within is similar as it features a skin. this time for Lux, garens sister. she was also the blonde girl in the "you got me" trailer and as you noticed, appeared in "warriors" as well. as others said: her skin can evolve during the game. you always start with light, as seen in the trailer. She then took the fireform and later merged with water (the fireglobe submerged in water) to form into darkness
Hey Hannah about last video, it was Elemenalist Lux, Lux's ultimate skin wich has 10 forms and also in second animation (you really got me) that was Lux with yellow hair, the one with books and she's in star guardians (one with pink hair singing about them and jinx)
Happy to see you enjoying the videos and getting excited to see the characters. I'm definitely one of those people who is driven by interesting characters whether through design or otherwise. Mostly design. It's what draws me towards certain games sometimes. :P
The star guardian video you almost clicked on also had jinx in it. So there are many skins for champions that show them as if they were in a different universe like odyssey.
Hi Hannah, there a Netflix series called Dota: Dragons Blood, which is based in the game Dota 2. I dont know anything about the game, but I really enjoyed the series and I think you might like it too.
The Light Within cinematic is all about a teaser of Lux's Ultimate rarity skin named, Elementalist Lux. where in game, she can change physically and change her element. but it doesn't affect her gameplay.
So Odyssey is its own contained universe with its own lore and storyline. Champions have alternate skins as cosmetics to purchase as a customization option. Odyssey is one such skin line that’s like a space opera and in this one, Jinx’s hair is orange. Also, yes that is “sister” aka Lux. She’s also the one in the last video.
Yes the blonde girl (lux) is the little sister of garen from the 2020 cinematic Aslo the girl in the light within is also lux but a skin(alternate costume) which depict her as more mature
League of Legends is big on lore, and they release new skins for characters all of the time. Each skin is basically it's own universe with it's own lore and storyline. Red-haired Jinx is from the Galaxy skins, which has that Guardians of the Galaxy vibe to it. The Arcane version of Jinx is the most up to date one of her.
The "Welcome Aboard" is a trailer for the Odyssey Skins. Skins in legends have their own universe which has nothing to do with the main one. Think of the Marvel Multiverse where we have Peter Parker's spider man, Gwen's spider woman, Miles Morales spider man... etc. She is still Jinx, but in this universe she is a space pirate and that's her crew, like a mix of Guardian of the Galaxies and Star Wars. The main universe is the one you know, but in each new skin they are re-imaginated in another universe. Jinx for exemple has already been a jewelry thief in the 80s, exploded some stuff at Chinese new years festival, a zombie huntress, a magical girl, a elf helper of Santa Claus, a space pirate, a cyborg, and some kind of cupid. Oof, so many jobs it almost made Barbie jealous.
That Jinx is from a skin line similar to Guardians of the Galaxy. A lot of skin lines are line alternative timelines where the main theme of the skins are the factors of why those characters looks like that now. That's why the last video shows the mage (Lux) changing forms so often, because that skin line is "Elementalist" Btw Elementalist Lux is a legendary skin on the game, due to the fact that you can choose s lot of variations!
As others have said, it's about selling skins, basically their mainform of income. KDA for example is just that, a whole lot of music videos to sell skins. I'm not somebody that generally buys something from free to play games but that last video for Lux and having seen it in the game made me seriously have to hold back. It's an amazing skin imo. Just so many options.
It's probably already been said, but in the game, each character has their base model, and then they also have 'skins' that modify their look. A lot of the times each skin will have its own lore as well. The think with League is that continuity isn't really a priority. You just kind of have to roll with it and say, "I guess this is what we're doing now."
you propably know this alredy because this video is old but there are skins for characters and this movie promoting Odyssey skins. Jinx has also violet, pink, plack hair in other skin styles, just like other characters. There are many different skin options.
Riot reeeeally invests hard on their champions "skin lines", that are basically different costumes for them. It's cool that they'll build entire alternate universes for these reimagined characters with completely new story and plots for the sole purpose of selling those skins to the players. And it works, a lot. PS: I super recommend you to see more of those!
A lot of league's trailers are for costumes or events. Since it's free to play they make money off people buying new costumes for champions, and these champ skins are usually part of an event they promote with animations.
Also if ur interested in characters that will very likely be in arcane season two you should look into camille and renata glasc. Camille is from a very rich piltovan family and renata glasc is a chem baroness from zaun. There are no cinematics about them but you could look into some gameplay trailers to get a look gor there characters. Two VERY interesting individuals.
3:12 Lol, I also like think Cait and Jayce have more of a sibling relationship but at the same time Jayce is still a red blooded man. I like to thing that when Cait made that crazy trick shot and sensually blew the smoking barrel of her rifle he was so caught up in how hot that action was that he momentarily got lost at the sight, then when he remembered who he was looking at he had to literally shake himself to clear his head. I can just imagine his thoughts at the time going something like "Damn that's hot....wait, what? No. Bad Jayce. Off limits."
You got it right with your second guess! Alternate universes! The different character skin lines all are different universes...Project, Star Guardians, and Odyssey to name a few. There are VERY few skin lines which are actually canon (like Sylas' Frejlord skin which came out with the Warriors cinematic but is actually canon).
Hey, looks like I'm the first person here for once XD Now onto the explanations: The first one I think you basically understood, but it was interesting to hear you digging into your thoughts on there relationship The second one is a trailer that focuses more on giving you a idea of what it feels like to play the game over giving you lore information, and is not cannon. Its similar to "A New Dawn" (witch I think you have watched, but if not you should) but for the mobile game Wild Rift not the base LoL game witch is only on PC. The third trailer is, I think, your first skin line trailer. Because LoL is a free to play game, Riot has to make money some how. They do that mostly by selling skins (basically a cosmetic to change how your character looks while you are playing the game). LoL does a really cool think with their bigger skin lines where they have there own, entirely separate, lore (like you said, alternative universe). This one was for the Odyssey skin line, so think something like guardians of the galaxy if you have seen that film. The Light Within is another skin trailer, but only for Lux this time (Lux is the little sister of Garen, you have seen her in a few cinematics). Elementalist lux (the skin this trailer is for) is probably Riot's most ambitious skin, because it give the player the ability to transform it in different ways throughout the game. You get to pick elements thought the game and that effects your look with a total of 10 skins in 1. I'm so glad you are starting to recognize more characters. You can maybe start to understand how hyped we get when we finally get to see some of our favorite characters show up in a cinematic (like how I got when Ornn was in The Call XD). But either way, I'm glad you are having fun figuring out the amazing world of the LoL lore. If you have any more questions (or if I missed anything), feel free to comment and ill try and answer if I can.
Odyssey is a skin line with its own lore, league writing team always put lore to the skins, though i think only fiddle has skins thats almost all canon
Odyssey - is a skins trailer and "the light within" too. Basically it's a promotional video for in-game cosmetics. They are not canon, more like alternative versions of the champions from the game, that's how they make money sinse the game is free-to-play. :)
Odyssey is a skin line and Welcome aboard was the advertisement video just like Popstars was for KDA. League considers skin lines cannon alternate universes
the girl who was making her own clothes is lux, the one who was bored in the chair and jinxy teleports and is also the sister of that big guy in another trailer
If you see a character looking different it means its a skin. All skins have lore behind them. This skinline is called odyssey. Kindve a star trek/star wars type vibe
Odyssey is a skin line, That video was promoting the new skins for different characters and one of them is jinx. And yeah, you can think of it as an alternative universe. 😊
The "skins" that people are talking about are like costumes for the characters in the game, you pay for the skin and you can see the character with another appearance, as the game is free to play this is the way for Riot to obtain money. To promote the skins Riot creates a new backstory and even a whole new universe for those characters, (and trailer like the last 2). In this case Jinx, Malphite and Yasuo are in a universe like Guardians if the Galaxy having a ship, Kayn is the bad guy and the girl that appear at the end is Sona. With the pass of the time Riot continue creating skins fir the new universes, for example latter the added Zed (the red ninja of the second trailer) to the Odiseay world as a new bad guy and enemy of Jinx crew
Now that everyone else has explained skins, I’ll just say you should definitely check out that Star Guardians trailer you were eyeing there. In my opinion one of the best skins in the game.
The most simple way to describe the Odyssey thing is that it's just a skin release or just another costume. Notice her eyes were actually green? So that's what that is. Don't think too hard about the multiverse talk some people are doing lol
I think if you re-watch some of cinematics you watched before seeing arcane and actual Khow the World of Runeterra, you would have a very diferent reaction! BTW I suggest seeing The Elder Scrolls Cinematics they are pretty cool and very realistic Animation too!
Hi Hannah! Just started watching your reaction videos and loving them. You have such positive energy and good vibes! I hope you get to the As We Fall- Varus video soon, if you haven't already, and maybe dive into K/DA :). One can only hope XD.
Also, no they def have more of a sibling relationship. But people do wanna run with the romance stuff because its "playfulness" and that can often be seen as "flirty" as well.
The league universe is so huch, you got something for all, you like pirates, you got bilgewater, the same for the other universes of league, if you like to see Jinx as a zombie slayer you got it, all the skins made a universe that tells another history of your favorite champ (character), i recommend you the Star Guardian or the Proyect universe, those are so cool
At the rate you are going, you will became a LoL lore fan. I recomend you to watch The Mind of the Virtuoso, a very short but interesting character trailer
I you wanna be wowed you gotta give the war for cybertron and the two fall of cybertron trailers as they’re incredible and thx for posting amazing content
All these videos are for new game modes and in game skins so sometimes recurring characters look different. It doesn't change the original lore for any of the characters in them, more like branching paths for promotional purposes and hype.
I didn't see anyone else say it in the Comments, but there actually was a bit more to the target practice trailer, where it shows the score, and Jayce was one target away from evening the score. Also, Caitlyn was represented by a cupcake.
the reason jinx looks different is cause yes its an alternate universe where shes basically in a guardians of the galaxy style crew. those are just different skins of characters in league. this happens to be the odyssey skinline. same thing with the light within cinematic. she is the girl with the staff named lux. its just a skin that she has ingame
The odyssey stuff is essentially just popular characters re-imagined in a different setting or universe, usually with different backstories. Consider it separate from canon stuff like the game and arcane
Thats pretty cool!
@@HannaHsOverInvested this is a promo for in-game cosmetics. There are different skin lines which are set in different universes: Odyssey explores space opera setting, Star Guardians explore mahou shoujo anime setting, Battlecast is a humans against machines Terminator-ish universe and so on and on.
@@HannaHsOverInvested Which mean in the future riot could also explore some skinline as storyline and new series to be told . Which means we could have an happy jinx :')
@@NitroOfficiel nah
league of legends skin line have different lores. League of legend's story also has their Multiverse thingy.
afaik they haven’t actually confirmed a multi verse for League, they have confirmed 2 parallel universes for Valorant tho
@@TTMILKYTT I don't really think it would be heavily explored like in marvel or dc where they meet their alternative versions but they definitely have made backstories for some of the skins that only make sense in alternative universes.
@@TTMILKYTT yeah they have, that’s what the pulsefire skins have confirmed- that each skinline is it’s own universe/timeline and the PF skins can/do travel between them
@@TTMILKYTT Pulsefire Ezreal has voice lines for most skin lines as he has traveled to their actual universes, this in and of itself confirms that there is a multiverse within League lore
That last trailer, "the light within," advertised an "ultimate" skin whose gimmick is that you can decide at a couple of key points within a single match how to evolve Lux, picking an initial element (Fire, in the trailer) and then later a second that combines with the first, for a total of 10 possible colors/elements you can wield over the course of the game.
As with all skins, it's purely cosmetic, but it's a fun little minigame.
Also with that element changes comes new voices, new lines and ect...
And a new, exciting price tag never seen before.
@@mojolotz wasnt Ezreal 1st before her? and also udyr and sona iirc
@@Pinnster yes lol
The reason those last two might seem weird is that they're basically promotional videos for "skins", costumes you can buy for your characters in the game. So it's not part of the story, but just some cool alternate aesthetics. The woman in The Light Within is actually an alternate version of Lux, the little sister from earlier!
I thought it was sona?
@@skyicy7383 Sona is in last moments of odyssey trailer not in the last trailer witch is about lux elementalist
that jersey is fuckin' sick. really pops
love that youre starting to recognize the characters at a glance now. Most of us have the luxuary of a having tens to hundreds of hours looking at them so we know how they operate like the back of our hands but youre starting to hit that point too. jinx is obvious, little sister light magic is lux, pony tail swords man is yasou and big rocky mountain man is malphite, and the first three get used a lot, and malphite gets used as a stand in for "big tall guy" a lot
"Adjacent alternate universe" is the correct call for the Odyssey skin line. It's just like Star Guardian and others in the sense that they take the same characters and use them in different settings in a comedia del arte style reapplication.
The odyssey trailer is a skin trailer. Riot also creates stories for the skins they develop, creating a new universe for the game's characters.
In so far as Jayce and Caitlyn, I always read their relationship as being found siblings, where their has always been the potential for that relationship to evolve into more but their actions in the lore push that possibility away. Jayce is the face of Piltover and Caitlyn is its sheriff, they both protect it but the politics of their situations is reflected in their actions. Jayce can never be seen as anything less than the exemplar of Piltover while Caitlyn is willing, and has been willing, to do whatever is necessary to protect the city and catch the criminal.
This is in direct contrast to Vi, who's relationship with Caitlyn isn't restricted by the politics of Caitlyn's situation, Vi will always encourage Caitlyn to do whatever she needs to no matter what the rules may be, as opposed to Jayce who's support always reflects the politics and who's actions are limited by his great house patrons.
Great reactions though, these are definitely some of my favorite animations for League and I'm so happy you enjoyed them.
It's very strange to see them in a romantic relationship, since Jayce is more than twice Caitlyn's age almost
The orb in The Light Within shows her status like in a game. She starts as light - white, as game progress she can choose one element (fire, air, water or nature) and later she can choose another one and mix it with the previous one. Here she chosen fire and than water which made purple Darkness/Chaos. When I saw cinematic myself at first I was confused aswell, but after learning the mechanic it becomes more clear what is happening.
Secondly, there was nice reference from one video to another. In the The Light Within You see Lux fighting Malphite who is closer to his lore form as mountain-monster, she did her signature move - light laser towards targer. In the "You Really Got me Now" while Lux is studying she takes a break to look at the picture where she laser beam Malphite, later they meet on the battleground and fight once more. Nice little detail :D
You're right on the money on the "Welcome aboard" trailer. Most skins that come with a shared thematic are usually placed on an alternative universe :)
Jinx is also featured in the Star Guardian universe (that you already reacted to, iirc), and the Project one.
Also the last trailer is about the Elementalist skin for Lux (Garen's little sister), in which she starts in her light form as seen in the beginning of the trailer but as the game progresses she's able to switch into a new element (Air, Fire, Water, Nature) and then combine that element with one of the remainings to create a new one (in the trailer, she switched to Fire and then mixed it with Water to create Darkness)
You recognising characters and being hyped up by it...that right there is why these cinematics and music videos exist, and why they work for the game(s) they promote. Welcome to the club.
12:08 "Uhh that looks ni...NO hannah, no more" :D YES HANNAH. MORE. I enjoyed this a lot, especially "welcome aboard" is one of my favourites. It feels like its an alternate universe Jinx where she is happy and has a nice and loving family on this ship
The Light Within is a skin trailer for Elementalist Lux, which could change forms while in game just like other ultimate skins do. The only thing that separates Elementalist Lux from the rest of the Ultimate skins is because you could only change forms by filling a meter above her portrait in-game HUD by hitting your enemies with your abilities, while others could just choose randomly (Except Pulsefire Ezreal who could change form depends on your Level). Plus, you have 10 forms in one skin, but you could only use 3. The Light one which is the default, A Primary Element (Nature, Fire, Water, Air), and a Secondary Element which combines with the Primary Element. There are:
Ice: Water + Wind
Magma: Nature + Fire
Mystic: Nature + Water
Storm: Wind + Air
Dark: Nature + Air / Fire + Water
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5:21 yes, she is
11:47 "Oh no nevermind sorry" hahah i cant hahahah
Most of the skins are based off as alternate universe, so the jinx from "Welcome Aboard" is different than the Jinx that we know, same with the Elementalist Lux from "The Light Within"
“No Hannah, no more” 😭😭😭 me after I’ve watched 8 cinematics and try to find a 9th
The Jinx thing was an AU. Since league is a free game they go all in to promote skins when they come out, and some of the more fancy/inspired lines IE the Odessey and Lux trailers you watched get cinematics and what not. Now since you got a lil tug at the end there, all of the Star Guardian stuff is amazing and they have a few that go through the generations of the groups it's very cool
Hannah, the girl in "The Light Within", is Garen's younger sister Lux (blondie with the light powers from the Warriors video).
The Light Within was a trailer for her Elementalist skin, which in-game you can combine different elements to make others. Fire and Air for Storm for example.
Odyssey is a skin line. Like a costume. There are more of them but the ones in the cinematic where the first of their kind. It consists of Jinx. Yasuo(the captain, you often call him the big haired guy in other cinematics). Malphite( big blue guy. His the rock giant in the "You really got me" cinematic). The eye patch guy with the scythe was Kayn, and lastly the lady in hood was Sona.
Similarly " Light within " is a Skin for Lux, the blonde haired magic girl in "You really got me" whom you also called the little sister.
I read siblinghood in the show as a runeterra lore buff and riot player. And similarly read siblinghood in the video for Jayce and Cait
Lore Drop: In the Odyssey universe, Jinx used to work as an asteroid mining technician but she got fired after she blew the asteroid in half by using too much explosives. For some unknown and very questionable reason, Captain Yasuo(big ponytail guy) hired her to pilot his ship. Now, she is living the best days of her life exploring the galaxy.
Jayce and Caitlyn are childhood friends, it's literally in Arcane
childhood? jayce was 25 while she was barely 16 lol
@@Jay-kx4jf yeah but they never were in romance, like I don't know who tallt her that there was something between
@@Jay-kx4jf "Kiramman Clan originally sponsoring Jayce, he would often interact with the daugther of the main clans leader, Caitlyn. During their childhood days they became close friends, with Jayce seeing her as his little sister." Took me 5 seconds to get this by the way
@@Jay-kx4jf That's their age when we first meet them but how long have they known each other before that? Her family might have been sponsoring him since just after his childhood flashback for all we know, possibly before she was even born considering he's a good 10 years older than her and looked about that age in the flashback.
This is what happens when you hop on a pop culture wagin with zero reference
Just to be clear.
"Welcome aboard" is just a trailer to promote skins. The thing is that each and every single skinline (there's lots of 'em) has a lore made specifically for it, which doesn't interfere with normal lore. It's sort of like a multiverse thing and this one specifically is the "Guardians of the galaxy"-like universe😊
TBF Odyssey was more than just a skin line--they had a whole event with a new game mode that introduced a whole skill system that did all kinds of funky things to the gameplay. They put a whole lot more effort into Odyssey than any other event I can think of. (I mean, I guess Ruination technically had a lot more lore stuff and videos, but the in-game event was just 'play the game and tick boxes' missions.)
@@wjhull yes, naturally.
I didn't wanna mention all that because it's all in-game stuff and she just kinda doesn't play games at all, it wouldn't have been of interest to her, so yeah, I didn't mention it on purpose😊
Tbh need more odessey stories!!!!! TωT
@@wjhull Star Guardians also had the same level of effort put into it
Im so GLAD you are really enjoying the league cinematics and you got to feel that feeling of "OMG I know these characters they look so cool!" and getting to see their interactions and what not
for the odyssey one it's a skin trailer so more of a alternate universe type of deal doesn't exist at the same time and place as arcane jinx
doubt she knows what you mean by skin, shes not a gamer.
I don't but I get the gist
The video that you wanted to watch on the third vid but didn't (I commend your self control haha) is the first video of the Star Guardian skin line (an alternate universe much like Odyssey where Jinx is also included). The Star Guardian skins currently has 3 videos which we currently call the Star Guardian Trilogy. The videos are (in order) Burning Bright, A New Horizon, and Light and Shadow. Its the magical girl anime genre skin line of League of Legends. Its one of the most famous skinlines in League which is why they expanded it complete with short stories (which you could read in the LoL website) which explains events occuring in between the three videos I mentioned earlier. I'm a big fan of your reactions to League and seeing you light up when you said you recognized most of the champions in that video made me happy knowing you reacted to League in the past.
That jersey is so insanely cool it might be illegal for you to wear it in public. People will just die in awe of the pure level of swag.
The Odyssey cinematic was for an event within the game ^_^ Its basically just a story for the skins of the champions during that event(Jinx, Yasuo, Malphite, Sona, Kayn). Theres also the cinematics for the project ksins ^_^ its so amazing :D
Star Guardians, K/DA, and Odyssey (what you just watched), are a set of skins for certain champions that give them an entirely new background and theme. They're essentially "Alternate Universe" versions of those champions. Most skins are technically "alt universe" (don't align with the characters original theme), but the sets I specifically mentioned have their own alternate origins and story behind them.
The League of Legends website itself actually hosts all of its lore in the form of comics, art, short stories, and champion biographies. They even have an interactive map of Runeterra that you can explore to get a very immersive perspective of the world everything takes place in.
If you plan to get started on Star Guardian stuff (the video you pointed out as looking interesting in the end) then you should know there are a few videos around the Star Guardian universe that are preferably watched in chronological order to make the most sense - "Burning Bright" (2016), "A New Horizon" (2017) and then "Light and Shadow" (2019). All are rather short though, less than 4 minutes each. Most of the story background for the star guardian universe is sadly only in written form but it is the most (story-wise) developed alternative universe in League of Legends when not including KDA and similar band-stuff. The Star Guardian universe is rumored to make another appearance in League of Legends later this year.
basically league of legends is free game, and developers earn money by selling alternative wardrobe/image "skin" for their champions. Some of this skins is from original universe of the game, some from "alternate" worlds, like Sailor-Moon themed, Cyborgs, Guardian of the galaxy-like, Pop-Stars world and many other. "Welcome abroad" is trailer for one of this alternate universe
definitely watch the star guardians ones. Burning Bright, a New Horizon and Light and Shadow. They aren't all the same story, and the 2nd is more of a "cut scene" but they are all solid. You may recognize some of the champs as well from other things you've watched.
The odyssey video was promo for an in-game event at the time. Some champions got new skins and there was even a limited time game mode you could play. These are usually just one offs unless there’s a LOT of popularity, at which point riot may bring back the event
Any time you see an environment that seems different than what you expect from Arcane/League of Legends, its an alternate universe they created for skin lines. The one with Jinx as a space pirate thing was a skin line called Odyssey where they basically took a "guardians of the galaxy" vibe and put their own spin on it to make skin collections for characters you love to play. The same was true with the last one you watched.. it was for a singular skin that can transform and change colors to match different elements during the match.
That Odyssey one is their skins/costumes, and yes, skins are treated as alternate universes, it even has its own lore.
Trailers like odyssey are Skins trailers basically.. they promote new in-game looks for the characters. it´s funny because you showed 3 trailers with maplphite (the giant rock guy, the space blue guy and again the giant lava mountain), 2 with yasuo (samurai guy, space samurai), and 2 with jinx and also 2 with Lux. Love it!!!
Yoo she recognized multiple characters! I don't remember when I was the last time I didn't recognized someone in the trailers. What's insane is the fact that even when you know who is the character, Riot will introduce them in coolest way possible.
Odyssey is a skinline for some of the charakters. the ones in the trailer where Malphite, Yassuo (Samurai guy) Kayn (the assasin), Sona (the mute girl at the end) and ofc Jinx. it has nothing to do with the original universe where Jinx has blue hair. it´s more like the same chars with a different lore.
the light within is similar as it features a skin. this time for Lux, garens sister. she was also the blonde girl in the "you got me" trailer and as you noticed, appeared in "warriors" as well. as others said: her skin can evolve during the game. you always start with light, as seen in the trailer. She then took the fireform and later merged with water (the fireglobe submerged in water) to form into darkness
Hey Hannah about last video, it was Elemenalist Lux, Lux's ultimate skin wich has 10 forms and also in second animation (you really got me) that was Lux with yellow hair, the one with books and she's in star guardians (one with pink hair singing about them and jinx)
Happy to see you enjoying the videos and getting excited to see the characters. I'm definitely one of those people who is driven by interesting characters whether through design or otherwise. Mostly design. It's what draws me towards certain games sometimes. :P
The star guardian video you almost clicked on also had jinx in it. So there are many skins for champions that show them as if they were in a different universe like odyssey.
Hi Hannah, there a Netflix series called Dota: Dragons Blood, which is based in the game Dota 2. I dont know anything about the game, but I really enjoyed the series and I think you might like it too.
The Light Within cinematic is all about a teaser of Lux's Ultimate rarity skin named, Elementalist Lux. where in game, she can change physically and change her element. but it doesn't affect her gameplay.
So Odyssey is its own contained universe with its own lore and storyline.
Champions have alternate skins as cosmetics to purchase as a customization option. Odyssey is one such skin line that’s like a space opera and in this one, Jinx’s hair is orange.
Also, yes that is “sister” aka Lux. She’s also the one in the last video.
Yes the blonde girl (lux) is the little sister of garen from the 2020 cinematic
Aslo the girl in the light within is also lux but a skin(alternate costume) which depict her as more mature
League of Legends is big on lore, and they release new skins for characters all of the time. Each skin is basically it's own universe with it's own lore and storyline. Red-haired Jinx is from the Galaxy skins, which has that Guardians of the Galaxy vibe to it. The Arcane version of Jinx is the most up to date one of her.
The "Welcome Aboard" is a trailer for the Odyssey Skins. Skins in legends have their own universe which has nothing to do with the main one. Think of the Marvel Multiverse where we have Peter Parker's spider man, Gwen's spider woman, Miles Morales spider man... etc. She is still Jinx, but in this universe she is a space pirate and that's her crew, like a mix of Guardian of the Galaxies and Star Wars.
The main universe is the one you know, but in each new skin they are re-imaginated in another universe. Jinx for exemple has already been a jewelry thief in the 80s, exploded some stuff at Chinese new years festival, a zombie huntress, a magical girl, a elf helper of Santa Claus, a space pirate, a cyborg, and some kind of cupid. Oof, so many jobs it almost made Barbie jealous.
That Jinx is from a skin line similar to Guardians of the Galaxy. A lot of skin lines are line alternative timelines where the main theme of the skins are the factors of why those characters looks like that now. That's why the last video shows the mage (Lux) changing forms so often, because that skin line is "Elementalist"
Btw Elementalist Lux is a legendary skin on the game, due to the fact that you can choose s lot of variations!
Odyssey Animated Trailer was just a video to promote the Odyssey skins.
Hey Hannah!
Usually when Riot promotes some series of skins, they create a paralel lore to them.
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Odyssey is an alternate skin line from the game. Yes they like to flesh them out with a backstory and alternate universe
As others have said, it's about selling skins, basically their mainform of income.
KDA for example is just that, a whole lot of music videos to sell skins.
I'm not somebody that generally buys something from free to play games but that last video for Lux and having seen it in the game made me seriously have to hold back. It's an amazing skin imo. Just so many options.
Somebody needs to tell Hannah that she has watched the same champion (Malphite)in three different cinematics, in three different skins.
When i see skins and trailers like this, I see League like a multiverse.
It's all about what could have been.
9:35 yup, the Odyssey story isn't canon in the main universe
It's probably already been said, but in the game, each character has their base model, and then they also have 'skins' that modify their look. A lot of the times each skin will have its own lore as well. The think with League is that continuity isn't really a priority. You just kind of have to roll with it and say, "I guess this is what we're doing now."
The last was Lux the little sister with just a elemental skin promotion from the games, since her powers is based purely from light
The last Lux trailer show her Ultimate Skin, is a skin that changes colors and animations in-game. Pretty expensive xd
Oh my gosh, your Star Guardian reaction tease at the end... I really do want to see your reaction to that!
you propably know this alredy because this video is old but there are skins for characters and this movie promoting Odyssey skins. Jinx has also violet, pink, plack hair in other skin styles, just like other characters. There are many different skin options.
Riot reeeeally invests hard on their champions "skin lines", that are basically different costumes for them.
It's cool that they'll build entire alternate universes for these reimagined characters with completely new story and plots for the sole purpose of selling those skins to the players.
And it works, a lot.
PS: I super recommend you to see more of those!
There are plenty of alternative universes in league, as you've guessed. They are mostly used to make the champion skins they sell more contextualized.
A lot of league's trailers are for costumes or events. Since it's free to play they make money off people buying new costumes for champions, and these champ skins are usually part of an event they promote with animations.
if you read the titles of the videos you can often know wich character it refer, even if it's a skin represented one
Also if ur interested in characters that will very likely be in arcane season two you should look into camille and renata glasc. Camille is from a very rich piltovan family and renata glasc is a chem baroness from zaun. There are no cinematics about them but you could look into some gameplay trailers to get a look gor there characters. Two VERY interesting individuals.
3:12 Lol, I also like think Cait and Jayce have more of a sibling relationship but at the same time Jayce is still a red blooded man. I like to thing that when Cait made that crazy trick shot and sensually blew the smoking barrel of her rifle he was so caught up in how hot that action was that he momentarily got lost at the sight, then when he remembered who he was looking at he had to literally shake himself to clear his head. I can just imagine his thoughts at the time going something like "Damn that's hot....wait, what? No. Bad Jayce. Off limits."
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You got it right with your second guess! Alternate universes! The different character skin lines all are different universes...Project, Star Guardians, and Odyssey to name a few. There are VERY few skin lines which are actually canon (like Sylas' Frejlord skin which came out with the Warriors cinematic but is actually canon).
Hey, looks like I'm the first person here for once XD
Now onto the explanations:
The first one I think you basically understood, but it was interesting to hear you digging into your thoughts on there relationship
The second one is a trailer that focuses more on giving you a idea of what it feels like to play the game over giving you lore information, and is not cannon. Its similar to "A New Dawn" (witch I think you have watched, but if not you should) but for the mobile game Wild Rift not the base LoL game witch is only on PC.
The third trailer is, I think, your first skin line trailer. Because LoL is a free to play game, Riot has to make money some how. They do that mostly by selling skins (basically a cosmetic to change how your character looks while you are playing the game). LoL does a really cool think with their bigger skin lines where they have there own, entirely separate, lore (like you said, alternative universe). This one was for the Odyssey skin line, so think something like guardians of the galaxy if you have seen that film.
The Light Within is another skin trailer, but only for Lux this time (Lux is the little sister of Garen, you have seen her in a few cinematics). Elementalist lux (the skin this trailer is for) is probably Riot's most ambitious skin, because it give the player the ability to transform it in different ways throughout the game. You get to pick elements thought the game and that effects your look with a total of 10 skins in 1.
I'm so glad you are starting to recognize more characters. You can maybe start to understand how hyped we get when we finally get to see some of our favorite characters show up in a cinematic (like how I got when Ornn was in The Call XD). But either way, I'm glad you are having fun figuring out the amazing world of the LoL lore.
If you have any more questions (or if I missed anything), feel free to comment and ill try and answer if I can.
Well, I was the first, but writing this all out put me at about 900th in line XD
Odyssey is a skin line with its own lore, league writing team always put lore to the skins, though i think only fiddle has skins thats almost all canon
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Odyssey - is a skins trailer and "the light within" too. Basically it's a promotional video for in-game cosmetics. They are not canon, more like alternative versions of the champions from the game, that's how they make money sinse the game is free-to-play. :)
Odyssey is a skin line and Welcome aboard was the advertisement video just like Popstars was for KDA.
League considers skin lines cannon alternate universes
You can also watch Honkai Impact cinematics (and they have captions)
the girl who was making her own clothes is lux, the one who was bored in the chair and jinxy teleports and is also the sister of that big guy in another trailer
Fun fact: that yellow robot in the second video its actually a Viktor creation
Im always happy for a surprise Hannah video
If you see a character looking different it means its a skin. All skins have lore behind them. This skinline is called odyssey. Kindve a star trek/star wars type vibe
Odyssey is a skin line,
That video was promoting the new skins for different characters and one of them is jinx.
And yeah, you can think of it as an alternative universe. 😊
The "skins" that people are talking about are like costumes for the characters in the game, you pay for the skin and you can see the character with another appearance, as the game is free to play this is the way for Riot to obtain money.
To promote the skins Riot creates a new backstory and even a whole new universe for those characters, (and trailer like the last 2). In this case Jinx, Malphite and Yasuo are in a universe like Guardians if the Galaxy having a ship, Kayn is the bad guy and the girl that appear at the end is Sona.
With the pass of the time Riot continue creating skins fir the new universes, for example latter the added Zed (the red ninja of the second trailer) to the Odiseay world as a new bad guy and enemy of Jinx crew
The fact it's coming out in about a month I recommend Elden ring story trailer. George RR Martin wrote the premise of the story.
Now that everyone else has explained skins, I’ll just say you should definitely check out that Star Guardians trailer you were eyeing there. In my opinion one of the best skins in the game.
The most simple way to describe the Odyssey thing is that it's just a skin release or just another costume. Notice her eyes were actually green? So that's what that is. Don't think too hard about the multiverse talk some people are doing lol
Odyssey is a line of skins for those characters. Sort of "what if?" scenario, if they were bunch of space adventurers.
I think if you re-watch some of cinematics you watched before seeing arcane and actual Khow the World of Runeterra, you would have a very diferent reaction!
BTW I suggest seeing The Elder Scrolls Cinematics they are pretty cool and very realistic Animation too!
Any plans to finish watching the Final Fantasy 14 cinematic trailers?
Different seasons, mini games or events, many champions get specialty skins (minimizes game) or get people to buy me champs to get the skin.
Hi Hannah! Just started watching your reaction videos and loving them. You have such positive energy and good vibes! I hope you get to the As We Fall- Varus video soon, if you haven't already, and maybe dive into K/DA :). One can only hope XD.
Also, no they def have more of a sibling relationship. But people do wanna run with the romance stuff because its "playfulness" and that can often be seen as "flirty" as well.
The league universe is so huch, you got something for all, you like pirates, you got bilgewater, the same for the other universes of league, if you like to see Jinx as a zombie slayer you got it, all the skins made a universe that tells another history of your favorite champ (character), i recommend you the Star Guardian or the Proyect universe, those are so cool
At the rate you are going, you will became a LoL lore fan. I recomend you to watch The Mind of the Virtuoso, a very short but interesting character trailer
The first one was the trailer for wild rift.. the Mobile counterpart of league PC
I sometimes think that Jinx might be one of the poster children for League of Legends.
I you wanna be wowed you gotta give the war for cybertron and the two fall of cybertron trailers as they’re incredible and thx for posting amazing content
All these videos are for new game modes and in game skins so sometimes recurring characters look different. It doesn't change the original lore for any of the characters in them, more like branching paths for promotional purposes and hype.
Huzzah for more content
Yes, league loves to create universes revolved around their skins. My favorite so far has to be coven and star guardian.
I didn't see anyone else say it in the Comments, but there actually was a bit more to the target practice trailer, where it shows the score, and Jayce was one target away from evening the score. Also, Caitlyn was represented by a cupcake.
Odyssey is an alternate universe of league champs, it's a universe where there's a happy Jinx. :>