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| “ | Rules are made to be broken... like buildings! Or people! | „ |
| ~ Jinx |
Jinx (real name: Powder), also known as The Loose Cannon, is a playable champion in the MOBA game League of Legends. She is the younger sister and archenemy of Vi and the adoptive daughter of Vander and later Silco, as well as one of his enforcers. Originally a kindhearted and sweet girl that always wanted to help her friends, a catastrophic tragedy she herself caused left Powder's mind and heart utterly broken.
Going by the name of Jinx years later, she was the top if immensely unstable enforcer of Chem Baron Silco. In time, Jinx would inadvertently cause yet another dire tragedy in her life, which would be the final straw. Her mind irrevocably shattered, Jinx would cast her past away forever and embark on a dark and crazed path of evil. An utterly insane anarchist with a love for chaos and destruction, Jinx wreaks havoc across Piltover using her explosive arsenal of weapons, spreading panic, death and destruction wherever she sets foot.
The 116th champion added to the game, Jinx was released on October 10, 2013, and is one of the most popular characters to be played in the bot lane.
She is voiced by Sarah Anne Williams in all video game appearances and by Mia Sinclair Jenness and Ella Purnell in Arcane.
Biography[]
Lore[]
The girl who would become Jinx grew up as an orphan in the streets of Zaun, and many remember her as a young tinker girl who was an outcast from normal society. At some point, she suffered a psychotic meltdown
Jinx became notorious for pulling pranks on the wealthy, causing stampedes, destroying public property, and even switching around street signs to cause confusion and traffic jams across the city. While these antics led to anarchy across Piltover, many simply brushed it off as a dumb joke that probably came from the chem-punk gangs of Zaun.
Jinx was furious, and hoping to be recognized for her work, decided to make more public appearances, spray-painting "JINX WAS HERE" at every crime scene as a calling card. Rumors quickly began to circulate about a pale, blue-haired Zaunite girl carrying heavy weapons and explosives wreaking havoc throughout the city, and soon the Piltover police caught notice of this crime spree. To stop this dangerous criminal, the Sheriff of Piltover dispatched her powerful new ally: Jinx's own sister Vi, armed with gauntlets and brute force.
As Jinx's reign of mayhem continued, her name became famous throughout both Piltover and Zaun. In Piltover, she was regarded as a lunatic; a criminal who should be dealt with accordingly for her reckless endangerment of the city. But in Zaun, many regarded Jinx as a hero for sticking it to the upper-classes of Piltover. Still, many Zaunites were left worried that Jinx was creating an unnecessary escalation of tensions between the two cities and feared that her actions could invite the retribution of the Piltover police in the streets of Zaun.
Jinx didn't care about any of this, for she was only interested in getting Vi's attention. To answer Vi's search, Jinx sent a spray-painted message for her on the walls of the Ecliptic Vaults: at a specified date in the future, Jinx would break into the treasury, and Vi wouldn't be able to stop the robbery.
Vi was skeptical that Jinx would even have the guts to show up on the date with the entire police force waiting, but nonetheless, she and Sheriff Caitlyn dispatched their best officers to guard the vault doors. But what they didn't realize was that Jinx had already smuggled herself into the vaults days earlier, and by the time Vi realized the trick it was too late, as the vaults exploded to rubble and Jinx had gotten away yet again.
To this day, Jinx remains the thorn in the side of Vi and Caitlyn, inspiring other chem-punk troublemakers across Zaun and constantly wreaking havoc wherever she goes. As the crimes pick up more steam, Vi doesn't know if she will be able to keep up, and Jinx relishes every moment of that.
Gameplay[]
In the game, Jinx is a marksman-type character, dealing high damage from the back lines. Her passive, Get Excited, increases her movement and attack speed dramatically whenever she kills a large enemy in a hyperactive adrenaline rush. With Switcheroo, Jinx can swap between her minigun and rocket launcher to change her basic attacks, utilizing the different parts of her arsenal. With Zap, Jinx shoots and stuns enemies with a shock pistol, and with Flame Chompers, Jinx throws snare grenades that explode on contact. Her ultimate, Super Mega Death Rocket, launches a long-range missile that can fly anywhere on the map and explodes on impact.
Weapons[]
- Pow-Pow: A pink minigun with rabbit ears.
- Fishbones: A shark-mouthed rocket launcher.
- Zapper: An electric shock pistol.
- Chompers: Chemtech snare grenades that can trap enemies in place and light them on fire after exploding.
- Super Mega Death Rocket: A long-range missile that explodes on contact.
- Mister Sparkles: A hextech cannon that Jinx powered with Heimerdinger's stolen hextech core, and is currently missing in the Northside Heap of Zaun.
Personality[]
Criminally insane, Jinx has a love for wanton chaos, destruction, and anarchy, and gets easily bored if these reckless urges are left unsatisfied for too long. Jinx isn't shown to think much about the consequences of her behavior and generally acts before thinking, which can lead to people getting hurt easily when around Jinx. While she is clearly a gifted inventor, Jinx is also extremely scatterbrained, forgetting scientific terms and instead imitating gun noises while she constructs her weapons.
Jinx is often portrayed to be hyperactive and very childish, complaining when she doesn't get what she wants and calling others by immature names, giving Vi nicknames such as "Fat-Hands" and "Stupid". With her carefree, self-centered attitude, Jinx doesn't care about money, order, or what others think about her and just destroys what she wants when she wants. Despite this, she still likes to get recognition for her many crimes and is capable of showing off to the Piltover police, knowing that no matter what goes down, she will always get away.
Despite her immature and silly demeanor, Jinx is still a significant force of evil and malice, even if in her crazed mind she sees it as a game. She murders indiscriminately and without a second's hesitation, causes mass destruction regularly, and if her dreams are anything to go by, also harbors a desire for the complete destruction of everyone and everything. The only person Jinx has shown any kind of friendship towards is Ziggs, and even then this is because she believes the Yordle is merely a fragment of her imagination. Jinx is also a sadist to the point where chaos and destruction arouse her. After a night of mayhem with Ziggs, she turned to look at him and asked him "Was it good for you?", showing rather explicit implications. Jinx is also completely incapable of holding onto any feelings of remorse or guilt; Even when she does sometimes feel it, in her own words the longest she's ever felt such things is "8 seconds".
Trivia[]
- Jinx is the archenemy of Vi, the Piltover Enforcer.
- They were often speculated to be long-lost sisters, which was confirmed in Arcane.
- She is also enemies with Caitlyn, blaming the Sheriff for Vi leaving Zaun, and by extension, her.
- In a poll in 2018, female participants ranked Jinx as "The most visually appealing champion in League".
- Developers stated that Jinx was inspired by the Joker, Gollum, and Helena Bonham Carter, who played Bellatrix Lestrange in Harry Potter.
- Jinx's quotes about her guns are multiple pop culture references, including Scarface, The Untouchables, and Love Story.
- Jinx's death sound "Blegh..." is a reference to Red vs. Blue.
- Jinx starred in two League of Legends music videos: Get Jinxed! and Enemy.
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