Seen like 25 comments at this point about cutting the vids.... People keep saying there's no copyright, yet when I tried to upload in full and the platform had issues. Ok? 🤣🤣 I don't know why, but STOP telling me it's fine to upload in full 🤣 It's not RIOT, it seems to be YT maybe, IDK! But stop commenting why do you keep cutting it... It's either, I had to cut it for those reasons above, or I'm just blankly staring at the screen wondering WTF is going on and looking like this... 😵💫 Alright lads? Good, enjoy the vid ✌🤣
I know it's very frustrating damn Copyright, there's nothing you can do about it except find a compromise. Claudie do what you can, we appreciate the effort you put in. 😉
No problem, the video is great! I think this is the first time I’ve seen you like 🤬 lol I don’t mean that in a bad way. I’m sure YT is frustrating as hell! Plus you gotta put people in their place sometimes, right? 😉
Sorry I commented this before I saw the pin. One thing that may help is separating the videos. I've heard that having multiple different copyright materials, such as songs, like league videos generally have, can make it harder to avoid copyright. That being said, I've also seen people do the entire set in one video and not many pauses so who knows with YT.
The whole "I don't want them to be oversexualized.... however...😏" is the Claudie equivalent to Jane Lynch's comments on sports illustrated "Can I just say, as a feminist, I am appalled by these images... and as a lesbian, I am delighted!"
3:58 - That's the Caliber Net, it is one of Caitlyn's core abilities in the game and that's what Vi used in 2x6 to trap Ambessa. 5:10 - Yes, Kai'Sa as expected hahaha
The character at 18:00 in the armor is Leona and she is our favorite Sun Lesbian, she had a thing with Diana another League character and there's a whole official story about them on the league of legend website called "Rise With Me" and thereisa Necrit video about their history too . If you thought Caitand Vi went throughdrama wait until you learn about our Sun and Moon lesbian, we love drama (maybe you could readboth Diana and Leona Biography before to have a littleideaofwhat is going on ! Also love you videos !!
Not only are there 170 champions (only 11 of which were in Arcane) but like Ekko's situation there are several crazy alternate universes that Riot have backstories for. A Sailor Moon anime universe called Star Guardians. A Guardians of the Galax universe called Odyssey. Both of those have Jinx there. A Music Universe where the champions are in KPop, Heavy Metal, and Hip Hop bands. A Futuristic technology universe where all the champions are cyborgs. An Academy universe where all the champions are high school students and teachers (this is where alternate Ekko's outfit comes from). So there is loads of story for Riot to use. Definitely think you should check out the Star Guardian videos.
Claudie - this is off topic, but I just wanted to thank you for being so engaged with your community! This is undoubtedly the reason your channel has grown so quickly. I love that you spend the time and effort to acknowledge everyone’s comments. Even a simple heart makes people feel heard. Too often other creators ask for comments and then never give any sort of feedback. This may become unsustainable as your channel grows, but I know that you’ll always try to interact with your subscribers in some way. I’m so glad for your success thus far and wish you all the best going forward!
Firstly thank you! Yeah it's already getting super tricky to keep up with haha as things have just grown so much, which is why I aim to do a lot of community polls, that way its comments off of the videos, and I can look at them more!
@@ClaudieTV sounds good. Looking forward to all the content, as always. Started watching Blue Eye Samurai a few days ago. Love it so far, can’t wait for your reactions 😉
Ask Tencent about that... i bet they do not want to even think about it, after all the censoring they ended up with to make it legal for their home market in China. If they, as parent company, allow more, they will make sure that Riot isn't going right after another CaitVi situation... 😅
9:07 100% understandable about the Caitvi brainrot. Also love how you fangirl about them. 12:06 that is one of the champions called Sion 13:43 yea that champion is called Kennen 18:10 that is Katarina 19:33 that is Zyra and currently at the time of writing this there are 169 champions. 20:11 No that is not Warwick, that is Rengar. 22:15 Nautilus and at 22:28 that is Graves. 23:05 Ahri is a mysterious fox-like vastaya. Vastaya are chimeric creatures of Runeterra whose lineage contains both human blood and the spiritual magic of a pre-human race. 14:22 YES JUST CAITVI. domestic life. Also I dont comment everything in 1 comment and leave multiple. Is that alright or do you prefer that I do everything in 1 comment?
If all the future shows are like Arcane you don't have to worry about the characters being overly sexualized, Caitlyn's original in-game design was a straight up porn-star outfit, the one in the cinematic was a redesign, then Arcane made it even better.
Red hair is Katarina, she's a Noxian assassin, she has a lot of personal conflicts and some drama with her dad, but she's loyal to Noxus. White hair girl is Riven, an exile and former Noxian soldier, she is given a cool sword with rukon runes, the same used by Ambessa in Arcane -afaik-, she has a lot of regrets and personal conflicts. Cat girl is Ahri, her race is called Vastaya, she's from Ionia, she's the same race as Lest in Arcane, you are right. Purple girl is Kai'sa, she fights "the void", an otherworldly dimension that threatens runeterra, she's also part the void, and she's from Shurima (to the south of piltover), her lore is more complicated that the rest. Girl with the floating blades is Irelia, from Ionia, i think she fights/fought against the Noxian invasion of Ionia. Blonde girl in the first video is Lux, she's royalty, from Demacia a region that is magic-phobic, but it happens she was born a mage so she hides, in Arcane 2x02 you see Mel and Lest talking in a theater, the play is about the coronation of Jarvan III, king of Demacia and father of Lux. The enforcer girl with 3 legs is Camille, a cyborg girl from another high born family in piltover, like the Kirammans. man i could go on all day and i'm really trying to just type sound bites... 😹anyways you get the point, they all have complex and interesting backgrounds. I'm betting some money that the next show is gonna be about Noxus and I hope it goes to Demacia which is my favorite region. I hope you react to the 5 songs of K/DA at some point, i think you will like them
> Cat girl is Ahri, her race is called Vastaya, she's from Ionia, she's the same race as Lest in Arcane, you are right. Ahri is a "fox girl", not cat. Her character design is rooted in Japanese mythology wherein kitsune (foxes) were believed to shapeshift and trick humans (typically through seduction in the form of a human female, hence Ahri's charm ability). Rengar -- also seen in this video and repeatedly mistaken for Warwick by Claudie -- is also a Vastaya. They're all descended from the Vastayashai'rei, who communed with the Spirit Realm and gained powers from merging with nature spirit entities there. The Vastaya are their descendants in the present.
There are two different type of cinematics, the ones with worlds in the title are for the tournaments and dont often include characters but more the pro players that play the game. The two first ones are cinematics they release in january every year (except for 2023) but the playlist doesnt include a lot of the newer cinematics, aka 2021, 2022 and 2024
They do include characters! The pro players are just "cosplaying" as them usually and have anywhere from a few of their attributes to their full outfits to show what character they are representing
@@mathies3598 Yeah, didn't know how to explain that but cosplaying is a good way of describing it haha. Just meant that the people in the rise video werent actually characters, just players with characters weapons 😌
I love your reactions! Especially the ones involving CaitVi, 😂. I confess: I love both of them too. Greetings from Brazil. I've already subscribed to your channel.
1:43 most of them will almost definitely be in the future shows. The hooded girl in the ice fortress is Lux, a mage who has to hide her powers because Damacia is even more anti-magic than Piltover was. The big dude in armor is Garen, her brother. Paragon of Demacian Society. They get attacked by a man named Sylas. The big Golem they summon at the end is Galio. Complicated story, will not spoil. We might not see this exact conflict play out, or maybe we will. The characters will definitely be around though. We have Ezreal stealing an artifact from a tomb, triggering an eruption of the Void. The woman that helps him escape is Kai'sa. Probably not gonna see that, because I think this is around Shurima, which has not been confirmed as an active setting for the show yet. The man/creature that Vi and Cait fight is Urgott. He is of Noxian origin, imprisoned in Zhaun, probably won't see that play out since we're done with Piltover/Zhaun as a main setting. Might get some references to it during the Noxian run of the show though. 11:59 That IS in fact a piano in a concert hall in Piltover, nice catch! That's Jhin, self proclaimed master artist and definitely a mass murderer. The cyborg lady hunting him is Camille. Very much built with Hextech. This happens after the current point in time where Arcane leaves off. Hextech is still gonna be a thing, the show writers have confirmed. And yes, that is Noxus. The Gladiator is Riven, the initially bored guy who ends up challenging her is Draven. Again, won't spoil much because it's very possible we might get to see parts of this story play out in its own way when the show gets to Noxus, or we get references to it. The next part takes place in Ionia, during the first Noxian invasion of that subcontinent. We will DEFINITELY see that play out in some way during the show. On the Ionian Side we have Irellia, the woman with the sword fans, Karma, a spiritual leader an mage, coming in with Akkali, then Yasuo, the swordsman who conjures the whirlwind, and finally Kennen, the Yordle. On the Noxian side, that big behemoth Zombie is Sion. The Noxians don't seem to want to let him rest in piece, as he is really really good at killing their enemies. The bird is a link to Noxus, you can see it follow Mell there when she leaves Piltover. Might already be relevant there, might still need to establish itself, I'm not terribly certain of the timeline, but it will definitely be someone/thing we will see more of. Gonna ignore the rest because this comment is already way to long and also the other videos aren't so much telling a story as they are showing a cinematic rendition of an actual game of LoL, which narratively has nothing to do with the characters themselves.
Hello Riot Games. You see? 9:50 Claudie approved the Cait and Vi spin off. So you are allowed to do it. Plus the other ones as well. I think we all approved. It would be cool if you announced it soon. We can also hold out for a few more years with fan fiction. But the announcement would be great. Thank you. 😅
This is partially correct, it's part animal part human regardless. Doesn't have to be part fox part human. Just any animal + human that're also spiritual beings of sorts.
Claudie, you may be interested in watching Necrit's videos on LOL lore breakdown on the different regions and characters the creators of Arcane are looking to feature in their spinoffs. Necrit interviewed Christian Linke for confirmation of future characters as well. Love your videos.
You're so different from any other reactor I've so far seen to league cinematics, your faces, your reaction to the characters, adorable with a hint of nerdy that I just chuckle and adore and relate. It's the same vibe I get when watching something with a friend and we are both like "woha, did you see that!" and such. Like that genuine wonder and excitement
I don't know if you're interested but the champions have some voice lines and special interactions with each as well as for different skins and there are youtube cobilation videos for those
Congrats on reaching 2k! I don’t know much about the game characters so this vid helped with some introductions. Very cool analysis when you “slowed down” the vid, specially when Vi throws the rifle to Caitlyn and keeps an eye on her to make sure she catches it…you are good at pointing out the small details.
Congrats on 2k. I hope it continues to soar. Also loved breaking the magicians code when I was young. Great show! I think I prefer the bad ass muscled up VI, kind of like the bright pink hair though.
5:13 the "The Call" cinematic also features her, alongside the it following "All That Will Ever Be" cinematic 12:06 I think that guy's from the Grey Legion which is part of Noxus. The land they are currently is fighting at is Ionia and Noxus is invading (I learned that from Nectrit's lore video). 13:29 100+ characters, maybe around 140? 17:00 these are the game players dressed as their characters, like in the "Gods" LoL video which is also really cool imo 23:37 it's not but there are also Warwick cinematics
The white-haired woman in the second video is called Riven, and if I remember the little lore I read about her, she is connected to Noxus in some way. Based on the sequence from this video alone, I really hope she features in any spin-off show they decide to make.
12:50 completely off topic but Ty so much I used to watch that show when I was younger and I am not joking I have been trying to find it again for literal years like 6 years and I never found it thank you so much my search can finally end XD
The common consensus in the community is that the show is going to go to Noxus. They can go a lot of routes with that but the most iconic one is the war between Noxus (characters like Darius, Swain, Draven), and Ionia (Irelia, Yasuo, Akali). This is what you kind of saw in the "Awaken" cinematic. I would suggest something that would be cool besides the cinematics is to dive into the character teasers, MV's and voicelines because those are VERY entertaining to watch plus us to see reactions as well. Also PS. you're likely to be confused about this later, all the Star Gaurdian, K/DA, and stuff you watch are all alternate universes in the game which are playable skins that the characters can wear. They are not part of the main Runeterra lore but are like what ifs rather. The worlds cinematics are promotion for the Esports championships which is one of the biggest esport events in the world. Songs like Rise, Legends never Die, Phoenix, etc use a mix of both popular players and in-game characters that they mainly prefer to use in their games. They also have highly Augmented live performances with holographic visuals effects. Again, something MASSIVE to check out lol
5:14 "Oh, please tell me *she* shows up" I felt that. Also, I completely agree on wanting to see Caitlyn and Vi fighting together, like that moment when Vi throws Caitlyn her gun 😍
It's always fun as a league of legends fan watching arcane fans see warriors for the first time and geek out over things we did as league fans 5 years ago before arcane was a thing officially
Lol vs Arcane characters really is male vs female gaze. Female video game characters have historically been overly sexualised (cough Lara croft cough) and put in incredibly stupid outfits for their circumstances, so it was refreshing that Arcane corrected these issues while still keeping true to the essence of the individuals
I have heard that they've being updating some of the characters looks, I saw a comparrison of the one of the female Champions appearence and it went from an armoured bikini to actual armour so hoepfully that continues but yeah it's definetly still a thing in gaming sadly, mabey not as much as it once was but it's still definetly not perfect YET.
6:12 I agree! Seeing Vi and Caitlyn fight together in the finale would have been amazing! But I understand why it wasn’t feasible for the time they had and they prioritised the dynamics of Vi x Jinx and Caitlyn x Ambessa. At least we got to see a bit of Piltover’s Finest action in S2 Ep1 when Renni attacked and also a tiny bit in S2 Ep6 when they were fighting the noxians (Caitlyn shoots Noxians trying to attack Vi from afar while Vi is punching in the thick of it) Loved your reaction to these cinematics btw! 💖
Also not sure if anyone's mentioned it yet but League of Legends has a playlist on RUclips with all 190 videos of cinematics/music videos (There's lots of music videos with the characters in them with real artists singing as the characters but are not actually the voices of the characters)/Legends of runeterra (short stories that show more lore and characters) and to answer your question about how many characters are there? There's 169. You've only met like 10 of them in Arcane and seen hints of a few others that weren't mentioned by name but hints were there that they were watching/involved.
5:26 so she is basically Venom just for a quick overview of her character. Kai'sa fell into the Void and lived there for years, adapted to it, and formed a symbiotic bond. The blonde guy with her is Ezreal, think young Indiana Jones with magic abilities. Cait and Vi here are in the future in contrast to Arcane (though who knows anymore Arcane diverged a good bit now.) They are hunting one of their big cases, Urgot (chemtech crab man) The guy you think is cute, that is Sylas, he is pretty much leading a rebellion against Demacia, a city that is very anti-mage. The blonde is the sister of the big guy in armor, Lux and Garen, they are from a pretty high ranking family there and Garen is the head of the army if im not mistaken. Lux is secretly a natural born light mage, she keeps her power hidden but has to reveal it here to save her brother. 11:00 good eye, that is Piltover. Jhin, the guy on the piano, is a serial killer who has come here to do what he does... make "art"... uh yea he kills people and makes art with the bodies, he is nuts and obsessed with the number 4. The lady who shows up here is Camille, she is a particularly brutal enforcer. The second scene is not Noxus, but close, those are the Noxian fighting pits in Ionia, basically fantasy Japan. The Noxians invaded here as they typically do to take land and resources, this is very likely to be one of the Arcane spin offs honestly. The lady in the fighting pits is Riven, and the guy is Draven who if I am not mistaken is in control of the fighting pits at the time. Draven is very full of himself and is the brother of one of the big leaders in Noxus, so he is up there. Irelia is the lady seen on the mountains, she is a blade dancer sort of character form Ionia. This is showing a bit of the conflict there. 12:07 that, is part of the gray legion, an army of undead soldiers one of the factions of Noxus, maybe Black Rose I think, controls. That guy in particular is Sion, once a general in the Noxian army who did some pretty impressive things if you ever look into the history of Noxus. 13:44 yes that is a yordel, Kennen, a ninja yordel. 23:38 that video is a bit old, really just a random fight with lots of champions, doesnt necessarily have a lot of story going on, but no that is not Warwick, that is Rengar, basically the Predator if it was a tiger thing. The lady is Ahri, one of the Vastaya a race of animal-human hybrids, I think Rengar is one too honestly, but she is a kitsune basically. She has a lot more lore in the spin off game Ruined King.
just so you know : the "Warriors" 2014 clip was animated by a small french studio... that would later becomne Fortiche, which animated Arcane. They also animated the "Get Jinxed" video in 2013. Fortiche also animated the "Rise" 2018 Worlds video (as well as the KDA Pop Stars clip) in 2018 while Arcane went back into re-writes for the scrip and they had to keep people employed. As a result, those two clips are probably the best animations you'll find in any Riot music video. In my eyes, coming close is the World 2024 clip "HEavy Is The Crown" video, it's not Fortiche but it's also another french studio (apparently Riot likes them)
16:44 those are LOL Esports players depicting their in game characters/champion in matches which they played in the tournament. When the title of a vid says "worlds anthem" mostly its about the Team or players and their moments from the previous championship, for example, "Worlds anthem 2024" is about the team or player that won the Worlds 2023. "Worlds" is a championship tournament held every year which aare the teams are represnting their regions/countries, basically its like FIFA, only that Worlds is held every year. Anw just stumbled your vids from the algoorithm of Yt and youve gained a subscriber haha
6:20. I hope in the future if they appear on screen again during the spinoffs. If that would happen they can Adapt the "Child of Zaun" story line. You can read it actually it's a short story. Them together investigating and catching the guy they are fighting for the first time. In this cinematic they are fighting his subordinated because they are trying to free Urgot.
Hey ! I love watch Arcane fan react to League of Legends cinematics, always fun to see the pov of peoples who don't know the game 😊 When you say "It's so odd to see Cait acting like that / it's so unlike Vi" I understand your feeling. Arcane has bring some changes into the story of some characters of the game, more depth and all. Keep in mind that for some of them were release almost 10 years ago and you see them like players did before Arcane. Also you see some characters from Piltover and Zaun but weren't on the show, like Urgot and Camille
Wooo! I'm so glad you're delving into the world! It's a wide and diverse universe, with all kinds of characters. You saw some of the best combat-oriented cinematics already, I'm hoping the playlist also includes the story-oriented ones, I'm sure you'll love them! oh, and do check the date on these before watching. The lore of the game has varied a TON over the years, so most of the early stuff doesn't really have any story per-se. The more recent ones are really good about it, you correctly recognized the colors of Noxus (also, _great_ eye with the green glowing stones, that is indeed the same kind of magic), and you will start to recognize some other places as they start appearing.
Yes "She" is sorta like the same thing Lest is. They are Vastaya. Also the next "Who is she?" is Leona of the Sun Tribe. She becomes even more later(what we see here is her very begining self).
The Lady with the tails is named Ahri. She is a Vestaya. This an race of humanoid animal-hybrid(basically actually furries :P). They are a mulitude of different tribes. For example Lest, but she is not the only one we have seen in Arcane. The goat scientiest(who got evaporated in S2 ep4) or the Bat man (his name is btw. Scar) from the Firelights. The buddy from Ekko. They are another Vestaya Champions in LoL. For Example the two birdpeople Xayah and Rakan. The big Lion with Dreadlocks in the last cinematic is called Rengar. He is a Vestaya as well. They vary of how "humanlike" they appear. In case of Rengar, he is just a bipedal Lion. Ahri is more "human" looking. etc. They are living scattered around Runeterra. In the lore (maybe the retconning this), an old race of magical animals called Vastayashai'rei "mated" with humans and therefore created the Vestaya.... Yeah "zoophilia" is cannon in Runeterra XD
21:56 Katarina, she's a big part of Noxus so you might see her in the next Arcane show which is rumored to be set in Noxus based off the hints at the end of Arcane. Also if you're losing it at the cinematics from like a decade ago wait till you see KDA and the more recent cinematics lol
Character at 11:29 is Irelia! She's the Resistance leader (a real William Wallace type) against Noxus. She has some pretty cool potential as a main character (she gets into power when she nearly kills the head general of the Noxian army, and rallies Ionia into a more cohesive force) and Amanda Overton has expressed interest in her region. We might get to see more of her in the future. Riven (Character at 11:44) is a Noxian Invasion of Ionia Veteran. She fought in the Invasion (same one as the one that Got Irelia to her seat in leadership) and committed war crimes. When Singed's (yes that Singed) chemtech weapons destroy both Noxian and Ionian forces and nearly kills Riven, Riven shatters her sacred blade (the one that gets tossed to her in Awaken) and decides to go on a redemption arc. She gets arrested by Noxus for desertion hence why she's in a fighting pit here. She's likely going to appear in a Noxus show, or even in the alleged Ionia show.
to clear up some confusion, League of Legends world and story went through phases. Originally from the games start to around late 2014 - the game itself was part of the story, which was centered around random groups of champions fighting each other in a special tournament. This is why cinematics like New Dawn and Twist of Fate have characters together with seemingly little reasoning. Then Riot wanting to branch out and seeing their setup would limit them, did a hard story reset basically from 2014 Removing the game from the story and creating a unified planet where all the original champions live called Runeterra ... which is where the current state of things and where Arcane takes place. if you want to see how the world looks you can go to Riots Universe page which has an interactive map. Originally Arcane was supposed to be to the ongoing story of Runeterra what the MCU is to the Comic books a cinematic separate universe That is until end of 2023 when Riot announced that they are merging their main story line and Arcane into one cannon ... doing basically a soft reset, as now they have to change thing to fit in with the changes to characters and story done in Arcane ... which in my opinion was a mistake, but is where we are, they are in the process of resolving of conflicts and such but we have no idea what the state of things really is right now. They have changed 2 champions to fully fit with the Arcane induced changes .... Victor and Skarner, we are waiting on the rest and how the changes will ripple into connected stories
15:10 I swear to god the League World's lore deserves its own show. The whole rise and fall of Faker/T1, just Faker himself as a person, it's inspiring as fuck. Edit: Faker is the most cutest patootie teddy bear ever AND he was a prodigy that burst onto the scene, who has shown the League world time and time again (7 YEARS OF STRUGGLE!!!) that he is not just fancy tricks/solo player. He has evolved into a team player that has insane purview over macro play and shot calling, he is humble and disciplined yet ambitious still. I just... ugh. I can't believe he is a real person and we're lucky enough to have him be the face of league of legends the game.
In Awaken, the theater has Jhin and Camille. The gladiator arena has Riven and Draven. The battle is in Ionia and has Irelia, Sion, Karma, Akali, Yasuo, and Kennen.
I'm always game to watch LoL cinematic reactions, hope you do tons of them (don't miss out on the cinematics from Tales of Runeterra or Wild Rift, spinoff games also sharing LoL's lore). But a couple recent videos for Teamfight Tactics that I think people are sleeping on are: Nightmare on Reroll Street: Part 1 | Into the Arcane Launch Cinematic - Teamfight Tactics Nightmare on Reroll Street: Part 2 | Into the Arcane Launch Cinematic - Teamfight Tactics Promoting Arcane skins/etc in TFT. It's done in the Arcane art style, with the Arcane version of characters. It's silly but good fun and I bet you'd enjoy them!
A few bit of information for you since you seem to be really interested in these characters : No that is not Warwick, his name is Rengar. He is what we call a Vastaya (basically half-human, half-animal like Lest in Arcane) It is stated that the next regions that are going to be the focus for next shows are Noxus, Demacia and Ionia. In this video we saw a bit of all 3 with characters that will most likely be in the center of these stories. I will describe the character instead of naming them because I'm pretty sure that dropping their names wont mean anything to most who don't know League. For Noxus, the 2 guys chasing the fox lady in A New Dawn (axe dude and the gladiator from the previous video) and the red haired girl will definitely have a main role as well as the blonde girl that fought in the arena. For Demacia, the 3 characters we saw in the snowy castle in Warriors are very important, so will also most likely be main character material. So the blonde girl, the dude with the huge sword and the one with the chains. And for Ionia, it is the region we saw that was attacked by Noxus in Awaken (when the lady with the blades got knocked away by the giant dude with an axe). This girl as well as the black lady, the yordle, the green ninja lady and the samurai who showed up to aid her are important. Tho some of them will most likely just have a supporting role like. Oh and to answer your question, there are 169 playable characters in League of Legends and a lot more non-playable too from others games and such.
I’ll always be thankful for these cinematics since we’d never have gotten Arcane without them, but boy does it give me whiplash seeing some of these character designs knowing how much better they turned out in Arcane 😂 I’m so incredibly glad with how they changed their style for the show, because like you I don’t think I ever could’ve loved it as much if they hadn’t. I hope that whatever they decide to do after Arcane just gets as much love and care from a storytelling perspective, even if that means we only get to see a fraction of these characters make it to the small screen. I believe there’s over 150 of them in total, so it feels almost impossible to adapt all of them with the same level of care that Arcane had. Mostly I’m just not ready to say goodbye to Cait and Vi yet, because it feels there is still so much more to explore with them. But at the same time I can understand them wanting to branch out to other regions and develop their world further. I guess I’m just afraid that with a broadening of the scope it’ll almost necessarily mean the more personal, emotional and small scale elements will receive less attention, but of course that doesn’t have to be true.
Well, first at all, english it's not my first language, so... if I mistake some words, sorry, I'll write what I'm learning until now 😅 Asking some of your questions, not in order (sorry): That girl that looks like Lest... yes, they are the same race (Vastayas), her name is Ahri This "big cat" that you saw, it's not Warwick. Btw, he's also a Vastaya 😅 Vastayas are races half human half animals, and they dont have a standard designs. Thay can be more looking animals or more looking humans. This redhair girl name is Katarina, she's from noxus. Btw, this New Dawn cinematic represents more how the game looks like, a 5v5 game. So, there's no lore at all, it's just a bunche of random characters fighting. A little fun fact... you know why Riot decide to start a show in Piltolver/Zaun? Well... it's because is the less interesting and more easy region to tell a story in Runeterra (the world of League of Legends) 😅 Yeah, I know, it's crazy! But the lore that the game show us it's the simple one. Arcane give us a more details about the Piltolver and Zaun lore, so... Piltover and Zaun is the more complex story right now because of the show. But there's SO MUCH to tell! (League has 169 characters 😂) To give you an ideia, all we know of Piltolver and Zaun story before Arcane was: Jinx and Vi are sister that hate each other, but we dont know why. Vi is a enforcer. Cait and Vi are a couple. Warwick was just a creation of Singed, he have some lines in game that give us an ideia that he was a man before. But we NEVER know who he was, and we have some theoryes that he was Vi and Jinx father (but not confirmed until Arcane). Mel, Ambessa, Vander and Silco... we never know they existed before Arcane. The story about Jayce and Viktor is very different and similar at the same time, is hard to explain 😅 There's a bunch of other things, but the more relevant is that. Well, I can speak about League lore all day 😅 I'm gonna stop here because I use all my brain cells to write this in english the best as I can. Anyway, I love your channel! Congrats for your 2k subs!!! 🎉🎉🎉 They are more than deserved, much love from Brazil!!! ❤🇧🇷
18:09 There are three characters from Noxus but that's Katarina and she's an assasin. You didn't realize but in Ambessa's video you can see Katarina Behind Her with a Gold armor🤯
The first two videos you watched were probably suggested to you because they visit the areas of Runeterra the next show by Riot will likely take place in. Noxus, Demacia, and Ionia are hinted at as the next regions to look forward to, according to the interview of Christian Linke. I hope they continue the stories, I personally love Ionia because of the Eastern aestetic.
19:23 She used a charm skill, which she has in game. This whole video actually showcases their playstyle and how a normal battle round would look for the characters.
What a throwback, I used to watch magician's assistant after school with my family when it used to air in germany. I liked to know how magic worked and I remember when he did the face reveal. Great show! Thanks for making me remember it.
BTW when you get around to watching the music video for Get Jinxed, I suggest you also pull up Vi's theme "Here Comes Vi". Vi's song has no music video, it's just the animated loading screen from the game client, but it was one of the very first League songs with lyrics and so it blew players minds back in the day when they loaded up the new patch and had that song waiting for them. (I was one of those players.) "Here Comes Vi" doesn't get enough attention from reactors. :)
15:47 The whole point of Rise is to show the hard and long journey that pro players do to be winners, the characters in the video are actual pro players mixed with it's main lol champions at that time
One thing to keep in mind about the Worlds MVs is that the characters therein are the teams of players that actually made it to worlds, with the gear they sport being that of the characters the played during the matches.
05:25 Kai'sa is already part of K/DA together with Ahri, Evelynn and Akali. All four are absolute Badass Characters and Riot went and made a K-Pop Style thing out of it. Kai'sa has a very interesting Background and i too hope to see her in a Series. 11:11 People are actually speculating, if the guy that closes the Piano in Arcane is the same guy here just years later. 18:37 Katarina Du Couteau, Assassin and Noxian Noble, another Dauther of another General so, we already went there, i guess you could say it like that. 19:47 We are now at 169 Characters. 23:48 Ahri, a Nine tailed Fox... Probably the one, with the most people simping over.
17:06 This, the previous Warriors worlds one, KDA POP/STARS, Get Jinxed, the Ekko conematic I forgot the title of, and a bunch more, is animated by Fortiche. So yeah, you'll like them the most lol. Rise used to be _THE_ league MV. One of Fortiche's magnum opus.
Btw, correct me if I'm wrong, I don't think you need to cut because of copyright issues when it comes to cinematic reactions, full reactions are okay I think, apology if I'm missing something
Yeah I think it's fine but just do it to be sure, still had a slight issue with it when uploading, but also my screen recording lagged so I had to tweak edit in post
There are like 150+ champions in league and just as a fyi the ones we got in Arcane are more on the "Boring" side pre-arcane. ;) Really insane what they pulled of with them and how they fleshed them out but that just shows how much more could be possible. It's really just scratching the tip of the iceberg. Also, an insane amount of badass female characters, so don't worry about that aspect.
Idk if anyone alr commented this but the fourth video you watched is actually not in-game lore or anything but rather real people's lore. That one was for telling the story of a pro-player of a team that became the champion of the previous year tournament. As you can see, he carried three weapons and those weapons are from different champs in the game. Just want to put it out there so you don't confuse it with the ones that tell in-game lore. Riot does this a lot, putting pro-players in their music videos when it comes to Worlds (the annual grand championship of League) music videos. Love how you just kept getting stunlocked whenever there is a "hot" character shows up because that is how I would have reacted to
Woo! Love that you're reacting to these! I have seen people speculate that needle-leg-lady (a.k.a. Camille Ferros) already has briefly appeared in the background of Arcane. In a few of the scenes in the council room, a family of platinum blonde people dressed in white shows up, likely House Ferros. Though, Arcane diverges enough from the previous League timeline enough that it's unclear whether Camille is the younger woman there or the older one (or not there at all).
In that first video- the blonde girl is Lux and she's a part of the Crownguards a prominent family that is probably going to get a show eventually. She's shipped with Jinx (pre-arcane) due to ONE interaction in a jinx music video and I have to say that'd be a great way to show Jinx is still alive is all I'm saying. No hate to timebomb shippers but all I'm saying is in arcane-verse it would be a great easter egg....
Ok here's your quick note on who are all these hot people : (If that's too much, just check the end of this comment, but if you have the time, enjoy !) Warriors : There are 3 scenes : the one in the snow is based in Demacia, the one underground is probably in Shurima, the last one obviously is in Zaun. For Demacia you have 4 champions : the blonde girl is Lux, and her brother, the big sword warrior is Garen. They are both from the Crownguard family, tasked with the protection of the royal family. Unfortunately, Demacia is very harsh on mages, hunting them and putting them in prison to kinda torture them, and as you can see, Lux is a mage, which make her a very tragic character. Sylas, the man with chains was a mage imprisoned for it who broke free and started a revolution against the mage ostracism with fellow mages (if you're curious about that there are official comics relating that, and a single player game called Mageseeker). The moving/flying colossus that helps Lux is Galio, a living statue that protects Demacia and id friend with Lux. Fun fact : there is a very popular fanmade sapphic ship between Lux and Jinx called Lightcannon For Shurima you have 2 champions : the blonde playboy is called Ezreal, he's an adventurer from Piltover traveling across the world looking for artifacts and his missing parents (former archeologists who gifted him his magic gauntlet). The pretty lady is called Kai'Sa, she's a human abducted by the Void (another dimension where the spiderlike creatures come from) when she was young and whose body fused with a voidling that is living in symbiosis with her as her armor (hence why she has the IronMan like helmet removal and can shoot purple shit). Fun fact : there is a very popular fanmade ship between Ezreal and Lux, and I believe Kai'Sa might have some ship possibility with another woman named Kai'Sa (see 'The Call' cinematic for more on that) For Zaun you have 3 champions : well, you already are familiar with Piltover's finest, our babygirls, but just so you know, the half-crab man they fight is an undercity criminal named Urgot (which is a playable champion). Awaken : There are 3 scenes : the one in the theater is in Piltover, the one in an arena is in Noxus, the last one is in Ionia during the Noxian invasion. For Piltover you have 2 champions : the pianist is a psychopath named Jhin who is obsessed with the number 4 (his weapon only has 4 bullets in the chamber) and who likes to make artwork out of his victims body. The doll-like lady is Camille, the head of the Ferros clan (season 1 Elora mentions to Mel they are her biggest sponsor ; season 2 we see them in the noble houses since they all have the same white hair). She has a full augmented hextech body with blades for legs and cables to move around like in Attack on Titan or Legend of Korra For Noxus you have 2 champions : the cocky man is Draven, the brother of Darius who is one of the 3 leaders of Noxus in the current days (maybe not yet in Arcane). The woman in the arena is Riven, she was fighting in the Noxian army during the Iionian invasion but deserted after seeing the atrocities of the war. The blade is indeed a runic artifact similar to what Riktus/Ambessa use in Arcane, and these artifacts are likely made by the Black Rose (which I suspect is one of the reasons they are after Ambessa in Arcane). After deserting, Riven tried to break her blade, killing in the process Yasuo's master (see the next paragraph) and was then captured by Noxus and brought back as a prisoner, which is why she's fighting in the arena. For Zaun you have 6 champions : the girl dancing with blades is Irelia, the (in the lore very young) head of the Ionian resistance against Noxus. She's getting smashed by Sion, an old Noxian warrior brought back to death as a zombie by the Black Rose. Irelia is then saved by the shield from Karma, a woman inhabited by a powerful spirit (think like Avatar TLAB). She's helped by Akali, a brilliant Ninja and Yasuo (my fave character
Seen like 25 comments at this point about cutting the vids....
People keep saying there's no copyright, yet when I tried to upload in full and the platform had issues. Ok? 🤣🤣
I don't know why, but STOP telling me it's fine to upload in full 🤣
It's not RIOT, it seems to be YT maybe, IDK!
But stop commenting why do you keep cutting it...
It's either, I had to cut it for those reasons above, or I'm just blankly staring at the screen wondering WTF is going on and looking like this... 😵💫
Alright lads? Good, enjoy the vid ✌🤣
I know it's very frustrating damn Copyright,
there's nothing you can do about it except find a compromise.
Claudie do what you can, we appreciate the effort you put in. 😉
No problem, the video is great! I think this is the first time I’ve seen you like 🤬 lol
I don’t mean that in a bad way. I’m sure YT is frustrating as hell! Plus you gotta put people in their place sometimes, right? 😉
Sorry I commented this before I saw the pin. One thing that may help is separating the videos. I've heard that having multiple different copyright materials, such as songs, like league videos generally have, can make it harder to avoid copyright. That being said, I've also seen people do the entire set in one video and not many pauses so who knows with YT.
Everything related to Imagine Dragons is copyrighted.
Imagine dragon shit is copyrighted only
I think she will faint when she sees KDA 😂
subbed just for that
Game is sucks but their lore is top tier all of their creativty were sent to making lore and skin
Omg, I agree. 100 % 😂😂😂
I mean there's literally a song by Madison Bear starring a female succubus 😭
@@fathurrahman9355 why does the game suck
The whole "I don't want them to be oversexualized.... however...😏" is the Claudie equivalent to Jane Lynch's comments on sports illustrated "Can I just say, as a feminist, I am appalled by these images... and as a lesbian, I am delighted!"
lmao
It's not a claudie video without a "hang on" and a full rewind and discussion for the next 5 minutes 😭
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I find the "Look. Loook. Loooook" as iconic
@@kevinroelofs3837 Yes, i love it too
@@ClaudieTVIs great to watch or react to this video from Necrit.
League's Universe Explained For Arcane Fans
Cait and Vi interact and Claudie just melts haha!
"There's More Hot Characters?" oooo you are in for a TREAT.
3:58 - That's the Caliber Net, it is one of Caitlyn's core abilities in the game and that's what Vi used in 2x6 to trap Ambessa.
5:10 - Yes, Kai'Sa as expected hahaha
90 caliber net is the name of that ability :)
The character at 18:00 in the armor is Leona and she is our favorite Sun Lesbian, she had a thing with Diana another League character and there's a whole official story about them on the league of legend website called "Rise With Me" and thereisa Necrit video about their history too . If you thought Caitand Vi went throughdrama wait until you learn about our Sun and Moon lesbian, we love drama (maybe you could readboth Diana and Leona Biography before to have a littleideaofwhat is going on ! Also love you videos !!
Not only are there 170 champions (only 11 of which were in Arcane) but like Ekko's situation there are several crazy alternate universes that Riot have backstories for. A Sailor Moon anime universe called Star Guardians. A Guardians of the Galax universe called Odyssey. Both of those have Jinx there. A Music Universe where the champions are in KPop, Heavy Metal, and Hip Hop bands. A Futuristic technology universe where all the champions are cyborgs. An Academy universe where all the champions are high school students and teachers (this is where alternate Ekko's outfit comes from). So there is loads of story for Riot to use. Definitely think you should check out the Star Guardian videos.
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Claudie - this is off topic, but I just wanted to thank you for being so engaged with your community! This is undoubtedly the reason your channel has grown so quickly. I love that you spend the time and effort to acknowledge everyone’s comments. Even a simple heart makes people feel heard. Too often other creators ask for comments and then never give any sort of feedback.
This may become unsustainable as your channel grows, but I know that you’ll always try to interact with your subscribers in some way. I’m so glad for your success thus far and wish you all the best going forward!
Firstly thank you!
Yeah it's already getting super tricky to keep up with haha as things have just grown so much, which is why I aim to do a lot of community polls, that way its comments off of the videos, and I can look at them more!
Yep, gotta appreciate her effort to engage
@@ClaudieTV sounds good. Looking forward to all the content, as always. Started watching Blue Eye Samurai a few days ago. Love it so far, can’t wait for your reactions 😉
"I think we should keep it to just Vi and Cait...."
*Sees other characters*
"Where's my other shows with these characters, Christian!"
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Ask Tencent about that... i bet they do not want to even think about it, after all the censoring they ended up with to make it legal for their home market in China. If they, as parent company, allow more, they will make sure that Riot isn't going right after another CaitVi situation... 😅
Just a few minutes in; can we appreciate that Claudie has analyzed and knows how Vi and Cait stand and fall XD
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Yeah, it's refreshing seeing a reactor being so analytical. I'll definitely check out more reactions
Those 2k subs are more than deserved!
Thank you!
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@@UniBlue1000 Absolutely
Yes absolutely, great series of reactions on Arcane, more than deserved keep going.
@Domy-i4w You will not be missed
It's so sweet to watch the reactions of someone completely new to this :)
9:07 100% understandable about the Caitvi brainrot. Also love how you fangirl about them.
12:06 that is one of the champions called Sion
13:43 yea that champion is called Kennen
18:10 that is Katarina
19:33 that is Zyra and currently at the time of writing this there are 169 champions.
20:11 No that is not Warwick, that is Rengar.
22:15 Nautilus and at 22:28 that is Graves.
23:05 Ahri is a mysterious fox-like vastaya. Vastaya are chimeric creatures of Runeterra whose lineage contains both human blood and the spiritual magic of a pre-human race.
14:22 YES JUST CAITVI. domestic life.
Also I dont comment everything in 1 comment and leave multiple. Is that alright or do you prefer that I do everything in 1 comment?
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21:59. There is another character in the game that have very flirty voice lines with Vi. Miss Fortune. The redhead is Katarina.
Ooooo ok
MF may send her over the edge…hopefully we get to witness it 🤣
If all the future shows are like Arcane you don't have to worry about the characters being overly sexualized, Caitlyn's original in-game design was a straight up porn-star outfit, the one in the cinematic was a redesign, then Arcane made it even better.
It's so fun seeing people who discover that Arcane is just the tiniest tip of the iceberg that is the world of League of Legends.
Red hair is Katarina, she's a Noxian assassin, she has a lot of personal conflicts and some drama with her dad, but she's loyal to Noxus. White hair girl is Riven, an exile and former Noxian soldier, she is given a cool sword with rukon runes, the same used by Ambessa in Arcane -afaik-, she has a lot of regrets and personal conflicts. Cat girl is Ahri, her race is called Vastaya, she's from Ionia, she's the same race as Lest in Arcane, you are right. Purple girl is Kai'sa, she fights "the void", an otherworldly dimension that threatens runeterra, she's also part the void, and she's from Shurima (to the south of piltover), her lore is more complicated that the rest. Girl with the floating blades is Irelia, from Ionia, i think she fights/fought against the Noxian invasion of Ionia. Blonde girl in the first video is Lux, she's royalty, from Demacia a region that is magic-phobic, but it happens she was born a mage so she hides, in Arcane 2x02 you see Mel and Lest talking in a theater, the play is about the coronation of Jarvan III, king of Demacia and father of Lux. The enforcer girl with 3 legs is Camille, a cyborg girl from another high born family in piltover, like the Kirammans. man i could go on all day and i'm really trying to just type sound bites... 😹anyways you get the point, they all have complex and interesting backgrounds.
I'm betting some money that the next show is gonna be about Noxus and I hope it goes to Demacia which is my favorite region. I hope you react to the 5 songs of K/DA at some point, i think you will like them
> Cat girl is Ahri, her race is called Vastaya, she's from Ionia, she's the same race as Lest in Arcane, you are right.
Ahri is a "fox girl", not cat. Her character design is rooted in Japanese mythology wherein kitsune (foxes) were believed to shapeshift and trick humans (typically through seduction in the form of a human female, hence Ahri's charm ability). Rengar -- also seen in this video and repeatedly mistaken for Warwick by Claudie -- is also a Vastaya. They're all descended from the Vastayashai'rei, who communed with the Spirit Realm and gained powers from merging with nature spirit entities there. The Vastaya are their descendants in the present.
Jarvan is not Lux's father. Both Lux and Garen are from Crownguard family. They are siblings in fact
Lux is not royalty. Her and her brother Garen, big dude with the sword in the same scenes as her, are close friends with royalty; namely Jarvan IV.
@@caladbolg777 They're royalty, just not crown blood.
I think Claudie has a type.... anyone she lays eyes on in lol
😂
Now now... no need to be so loud!
@ClaudieTV Says the woman panting into her microphone 😆
There are two different type of cinematics, the ones with worlds in the title are for the tournaments and dont often include characters but more the pro players that play the game. The two first ones are cinematics they release in january every year (except for 2023) but the playlist doesnt include a lot of the newer cinematics, aka 2021, 2022 and 2024
They do include characters! The pro players are just "cosplaying" as them usually and have anywhere from a few of their attributes to their full outfits to show what character they are representing
@@mathies3598 Yeah, didn't know how to explain that but cosplaying is a good way of describing it haha. Just meant that the people in the rise video werent actually characters, just players with characters weapons 😌
I love your reactions! Especially the ones involving CaitVi, 😂. I confess: I love both of them too.
Greetings from Brazil.
I've already subscribed to your channel.
Ah great to hear!
Ei, bem-vindo a bordo :)
1:43 most of them will almost definitely be in the future shows.
The hooded girl in the ice fortress is Lux, a mage who has to hide her powers because Damacia is even more anti-magic than Piltover was. The big dude in armor is Garen, her brother. Paragon of Demacian Society. They get attacked by a man named Sylas. The big Golem they summon at the end is Galio. Complicated story, will not spoil. We might not see this exact conflict play out, or maybe we will. The characters will definitely be around though.
We have Ezreal stealing an artifact from a tomb, triggering an eruption of the Void. The woman that helps him escape is Kai'sa. Probably not gonna see that, because I think this is around Shurima, which has not been confirmed as an active setting for the show yet.
The man/creature that Vi and Cait fight is Urgott. He is of Noxian origin, imprisoned in Zhaun, probably won't see that play out since we're done with Piltover/Zhaun as a main setting. Might get some references to it during the Noxian run of the show though.
11:59 That IS in fact a piano in a concert hall in Piltover, nice catch! That's Jhin, self proclaimed master artist and definitely a mass murderer. The cyborg lady hunting him is Camille. Very much built with Hextech. This happens after the current point in time where Arcane leaves off. Hextech is still gonna be a thing, the show writers have confirmed.
And yes, that is Noxus. The Gladiator is Riven, the initially bored guy who ends up challenging her is Draven. Again, won't spoil much because it's very possible we might get to see parts of this story play out in its own way when the show gets to Noxus, or we get references to it.
The next part takes place in Ionia, during the first Noxian invasion of that subcontinent. We will DEFINITELY see that play out in some way during the show. On the Ionian Side we have Irellia, the woman with the sword fans, Karma, a spiritual leader an mage, coming in with Akkali, then Yasuo, the swordsman who conjures the whirlwind, and finally Kennen, the Yordle.
On the Noxian side, that big behemoth Zombie is Sion. The Noxians don't seem to want to let him rest in piece, as he is really really good at killing their enemies.
The bird is a link to Noxus, you can see it follow Mell there when she leaves Piltover. Might already be relevant there, might still need to establish itself, I'm not terribly certain of the timeline, but it will definitely be someone/thing we will see more of.
Gonna ignore the rest because this comment is already way to long and also the other videos aren't so much telling a story as they are showing a cinematic rendition of an actual game of LoL, which narratively has nothing to do with the characters themselves.
Hello Riot Games. You see? 9:50 Claudie approved the Cait and Vi spin off. So you are allowed to do it. Plus the other ones as well. I think we all approved. It would be cool if you announced it soon. We can also hold out for a few more years with fan fiction. But the announcement would be great. Thank you. 😅
I adore your channel! It’s becoming routine for me to look forward to your videos each day! Also I love your hair style in this video it’s very cute 😊
Ah thank you :)
the fox lady is called ahri and she's apart of a tribe called the vesani and they're all this species called vastaya that look part humane part fox
This is partially correct, it's part animal part human regardless. Doesn't have to be part fox part human. Just any animal + human that're also spiritual beings of sorts.
Claudie, you may be interested in watching Necrit's videos on LOL lore breakdown on the different regions and characters the creators of Arcane are looking to feature in their spinoffs. Necrit interviewed Christian Linke for confirmation of future characters as well. Love your videos.
Ooo ok, if you have a link would you leave it below :)
ruclips.net/video/-DuOZjTIbbQ/видео.htmlsi=_y8muPYOnGTK39mh Necrit - Lore for Arcane Fans
ruclips.net/video/lpTX7VDvlaA/видео.htmlsi=OCO41tv1M-iTb7ea Necrit and Christian yapping for nearly 2 hours
I can literally hear them say:
Vi: here you have cupcake, you dropped this babe!
Caitlyn: thank you my love
You're so different from any other reactor I've so far seen to league cinematics, your faces, your reaction to the characters, adorable with a hint of nerdy that I just chuckle and adore and relate. It's the same vibe I get when watching something with a friend and we are both like "woha, did you see that!" and such. Like that genuine wonder and excitement
Aw thank you haha, that's very sweet
I don't know if you're interested but the champions have some voice lines and special interactions with each as well as for different skins and there are youtube cobilation videos for those
Congrats on reaching 2k! I don’t know much about the game characters so this vid helped with some introductions. Very cool analysis when you “slowed down” the vid, specially when Vi throws the rifle to Caitlyn and keeps an eye on her to make sure she catches it…you are good at pointing out the small details.
There are 169 champions so a lot to explore 11:55
Oh fuck really? LOL
@@ClaudieTV LOL. Pun intended?
@@ClaudieTV Yes, and the 170th is confirmed to be Mel Medarda
@@CyrusMarcHLames Nah hahahha
@@geriellindemannvhaseyar3513 Ah cool!
Congrats on 2k. I hope it continues to soar. Also loved breaking the magicians code when I was young. Great show! I think I prefer the bad ass muscled up VI, kind of like the bright pink hair though.
Yeah I hear you on that, why do I feel like she would try and pull Caitlyn out of her top hat haha
@ClaudieTV Hahaha, I think Caitlyn could wear anything, and VI would be trying to pull her out of it honestly
@@Cjmm22 LOL
There it is, THE duo..."Piltover's Finest"😎🔥 I need to watch that dinamic some day 🙌🏻
Yeah because fortiche made the Rise video if you remember from watching briding the rift! Thats why it looks likes arcane
Not fan of killing eve but I’m gonna stay here waiting for blue eye samurai reaction 🙏 and flea bag, pure gold!
5:13 the "The Call" cinematic also features her, alongside the it following "All That Will Ever Be" cinematic
12:06 I think that guy's from the Grey Legion which is part of Noxus. The land they are currently is fighting at is Ionia and Noxus is invading (I learned that from Nectrit's lore video).
13:29 100+ characters, maybe around 140?
17:00 these are the game players dressed as their characters, like in the "Gods" LoL video which is also really cool imo
23:37 it's not but there are also Warwick cinematics
The white-haired woman in the second video is called Riven, and if I remember the little lore I read about her, she is connected to Noxus in some way. Based on the sequence from this video alone, I really hope she features in any spin-off show they decide to make.
Yeah, her and Talon's story would be gripping
13:32 There are around 155-160 playable characters and a few dozen non-playable ones.
I haven't finished the newest vid yet....but I must chant: KDA, KDA, KDA! (That is all) Cheers, and welcome to the Cinematics/lore of LOL!
12:50 completely off topic but Ty so much I used to watch that show when I was younger and I am not joking I have been trying to find it again for literal years like 6 years and I never found it thank you so much my search can finally end XD
Hahaha no worries lol
The common consensus in the community is that the show is going to go to Noxus. They can go a lot of routes with that but the most iconic one is the war between Noxus (characters like Darius, Swain, Draven), and Ionia (Irelia, Yasuo, Akali). This is what you kind of saw in the "Awaken" cinematic.
I would suggest something that would be cool besides the cinematics is to dive into the character teasers, MV's and voicelines because those are VERY entertaining to watch plus us to see reactions as well.
Also PS. you're likely to be confused about this later, all the Star Gaurdian, K/DA, and stuff you watch are all alternate universes in the game which are playable skins that the characters can wear. They are not part of the main Runeterra lore but are like what ifs rather.
The worlds cinematics are promotion for the Esports championships which is one of the biggest esport events in the world. Songs like Rise, Legends never Die, Phoenix, etc use a mix of both popular players and in-game characters that they mainly prefer to use in their games. They also have highly Augmented live performances with holographic visuals effects. Again, something MASSIVE to check out lol
This is me a year-ish ago, diving into the lore! It's a fun swim, Claudie.
The blonde is Lux, allegedly Jinx's bff. Some people suggest more.
Omg your reactions are honestly the best!!!!
Keep doing them please
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Thank you! Will do, don't your worry! :)
5:14 "Oh, please tell me *she* shows up"
I felt that.
Also, I completely agree on wanting to see Caitlyn and Vi fighting together, like that moment when Vi throws Caitlyn her gun 😍
this might be random but i love how your hair looks when its down!
Thank you :)
It's always fun as a league of legends fan watching arcane fans see warriors for the first time and geek out over things we did as league fans 5 years ago before arcane was a thing officially
Vi: *walks onscreen* (or just exists)
Claudie: wait…hang on…about that earlier comment…
Kai’Sa: hey there…
god I really look forward to more possible league animatic reactions. As a fellow show only fan its fun to see others reactions as well.
Part 2 tomorrow :)
@ClaudieTV 👀
Lol vs Arcane characters really is male vs female gaze.
Female video game characters have historically been overly sexualised (cough Lara croft cough) and put in incredibly stupid outfits for their circumstances, so it was refreshing that Arcane corrected these issues while still keeping true to the essence of the individuals
Yes that's so true! yeah I loved that so much about Arcane!
I have heard that they've being updating some of the characters looks, I saw a comparrison of the one of the female Champions appearence and it went from an armoured bikini to actual armour so hoepfully that continues but yeah it's definetly still a thing in gaming sadly, mabey not as much as it once was but it's still definetly not perfect YET.
6:12 I agree! Seeing Vi and Caitlyn fight together in the finale would have been amazing! But I understand why it wasn’t feasible for the time they had and they prioritised the dynamics of Vi x Jinx and Caitlyn x Ambessa. At least we got to see a bit of Piltover’s Finest action in S2 Ep1 when Renni attacked and also a tiny bit in S2 Ep6 when they were fighting the noxians (Caitlyn shoots Noxians trying to attack Vi from afar while Vi is punching in the thick of it) Loved your reaction to these cinematics btw! 💖
Thank you, and yeah would have loved to have seen them
Also not sure if anyone's mentioned it yet but League of Legends has a playlist on RUclips with all 190 videos of cinematics/music videos (There's lots of music videos with the characters in them with real artists singing as the characters but are not actually the voices of the characters)/Legends of runeterra (short stories that show more lore and characters) and to answer your question about how many characters are there? There's 169. You've only met like 10 of them in Arcane and seen hints of a few others that weren't mentioned by name but hints were there that they were watching/involved.
5:26 so she is basically Venom just for a quick overview of her character. Kai'sa fell into the Void and lived there for years, adapted to it, and formed a symbiotic bond. The blonde guy with her is Ezreal, think young Indiana Jones with magic abilities.
Cait and Vi here are in the future in contrast to Arcane (though who knows anymore Arcane diverged a good bit now.) They are hunting one of their big cases, Urgot (chemtech crab man)
The guy you think is cute, that is Sylas, he is pretty much leading a rebellion against Demacia, a city that is very anti-mage. The blonde is the sister of the big guy in armor, Lux and Garen, they are from a pretty high ranking family there and Garen is the head of the army if im not mistaken. Lux is secretly a natural born light mage, she keeps her power hidden but has to reveal it here to save her brother.
11:00 good eye, that is Piltover. Jhin, the guy on the piano, is a serial killer who has come here to do what he does... make "art"... uh yea he kills people and makes art with the bodies, he is nuts and obsessed with the number 4. The lady who shows up here is Camille, she is a particularly brutal enforcer.
The second scene is not Noxus, but close, those are the Noxian fighting pits in Ionia, basically fantasy Japan. The Noxians invaded here as they typically do to take land and resources, this is very likely to be one of the Arcane spin offs honestly. The lady in the fighting pits is Riven, and the guy is Draven who if I am not mistaken is in control of the fighting pits at the time. Draven is very full of himself and is the brother of one of the big leaders in Noxus, so he is up there. Irelia is the lady seen on the mountains, she is a blade dancer sort of character form Ionia. This is showing a bit of the conflict there.
12:07 that, is part of the gray legion, an army of undead soldiers one of the factions of Noxus, maybe Black Rose I think, controls. That guy in particular is Sion, once a general in the Noxian army who did some pretty impressive things if you ever look into the history of Noxus.
13:44 yes that is a yordel, Kennen, a ninja yordel.
23:38 that video is a bit old, really just a random fight with lots of champions, doesnt necessarily have a lot of story going on, but no that is not Warwick, that is Rengar, basically the Predator if it was a tiger thing. The lady is Ahri, one of the Vastaya a race of animal-human hybrids, I think Rengar is one too honestly, but she is a kitsune basically. She has a lot more lore in the spin off game Ruined King.
I knew you would love Warriors 2020! :D
just so you know : the "Warriors" 2014 clip was animated by a small french studio... that would later becomne Fortiche, which animated Arcane. They also animated the "Get Jinxed" video in 2013.
Fortiche also animated the "Rise" 2018 Worlds video (as well as the KDA Pop Stars clip) in 2018 while Arcane went back into re-writes for the scrip and they had to keep people employed. As a result, those two clips are probably the best animations you'll find in any Riot music video.
In my eyes, coming close is the World 2024 clip "HEavy Is The Crown" video, it's not Fortiche but it's also another french studio (apparently Riot likes them)
16:44 those are LOL Esports players depicting their in game characters/champion in matches which they played in the tournament. When the title of a vid says "worlds anthem" mostly its about the Team or players and their moments from the previous championship, for example, "Worlds anthem 2024" is about the team or player that won the Worlds 2023. "Worlds" is a championship tournament held every year which aare the teams are represnting their regions/countries, basically its like FIFA, only that Worlds is held every year. Anw just stumbled your vids from the algoorithm of Yt and youve gained a subscriber haha
6:20. I hope in the future if they appear on screen again during the spinoffs. If that would happen they can Adapt the "Child of Zaun" story line. You can read it actually it's a short story. Them together investigating and catching the guy they are fighting for the first time. In this cinematic they are fighting his subordinated because they are trying to free Urgot.
Hey ! I love watch Arcane fan react to League of Legends cinematics, always fun to see the pov of peoples who don't know the game 😊
When you say "It's so odd to see Cait acting like that / it's so unlike Vi" I understand your feeling. Arcane has bring some changes into the story of some characters of the game, more depth and all. Keep in mind that for some of them were release almost 10 years ago and you see them like players did before Arcane. Also you see some characters from Piltover and Zaun but weren't on the show, like Urgot and Camille
It is not Warwick. It is Rengar. The guy you like is Graves, he is a SO to Twisted Fate. :D Edited: Ty Comsat2334! :D
@comsat2334 yeah sorry was watching vikings got cornfuzzled. Thanks for looking out! Happy New Year! 😊
Wooo! I'm so glad you're delving into the world! It's a wide and diverse universe, with all kinds of characters. You saw some of the best combat-oriented cinematics already, I'm hoping the playlist also includes the story-oriented ones, I'm sure you'll love them!
oh, and do check the date on these before watching. The lore of the game has varied a TON over the years, so most of the early stuff doesn't really have any story per-se. The more recent ones are really good about it, you correctly recognized the colors of Noxus (also, _great_ eye with the green glowing stones, that is indeed the same kind of magic), and you will start to recognize some other places as they start appearing.
Yes "She" is sorta like the same thing Lest is. They are Vastaya. Also the next "Who is she?" is Leona of the Sun Tribe. She becomes even more later(what we see here is her very begining self).
"I hope spiders don't show up." Elise, "Hello!"
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Ohhh we need part 2 of this along with every character's trailer. I'm so excited for you to get into the Runeterra lores
I wish you also included "Still here" which is the 2024 cinematic. You'd love those characters as well ;)
The Lady with the tails is named Ahri. She is a Vestaya. This an race of humanoid animal-hybrid(basically actually furries :P). They are a mulitude of different tribes. For example Lest, but she is not the only one we have seen in Arcane. The goat scientiest(who got evaporated in S2 ep4) or the Bat man (his name is btw. Scar) from the Firelights. The buddy from Ekko.
They are another Vestaya Champions in LoL. For Example the two birdpeople Xayah and Rakan. The big Lion with Dreadlocks in the last cinematic is called Rengar. He is a Vestaya as well. They vary of how "humanlike" they appear. In case of Rengar, he is just a bipedal Lion. Ahri is more "human" looking. etc. They are living scattered around Runeterra.
In the lore (maybe the retconning this), an old race of magical animals called Vastayashai'rei "mated" with humans and therefore created the Vestaya.... Yeah "zoophilia" is cannon in Runeterra XD
I wish the one cinematic with Leona and Diana was in here! I just know Claudie would love them both!
21:56 Katarina, she's a big part of Noxus so you might see her in the next Arcane show which is rumored to be set in Noxus based off the hints at the end of Arcane. Also if you're losing it at the cinematics from like a decade ago wait till you see KDA and the more recent cinematics lol
Character at 11:29 is Irelia! She's the Resistance leader (a real William Wallace type) against Noxus. She has some pretty cool potential as a main character (she gets into power when she nearly kills the head general of the Noxian army, and rallies Ionia into a more cohesive force) and Amanda Overton has expressed interest in her region. We might get to see more of her in the future.
Riven (Character at 11:44) is a Noxian Invasion of Ionia Veteran. She fought in the Invasion (same one as the one that Got Irelia to her seat in leadership) and committed war crimes. When Singed's (yes that Singed) chemtech weapons destroy both Noxian and Ionian forces and nearly kills Riven, Riven shatters her sacred blade (the one that gets tossed to her in Awaken) and decides to go on a redemption arc. She gets arrested by Noxus for desertion hence why she's in a fighting pit here. She's likely going to appear in a Noxus show, or even in the alleged Ionia show.
to clear up some confusion, League of Legends world and story went through phases.
Originally from the games start to around late 2014 - the game itself was part of the story, which was centered around random groups of champions fighting each other in a special tournament. This is why cinematics like New Dawn and Twist of Fate have characters together with seemingly little reasoning.
Then Riot wanting to branch out and seeing their setup would limit them, did a hard story reset basically from 2014
Removing the game from the story and creating a unified planet where all the original champions live called Runeterra ... which is where the current state of things and where Arcane takes place. if you want to see how the world looks you can go to Riots Universe page which has an interactive map.
Originally Arcane was supposed to be to the ongoing story of Runeterra what the MCU is to the Comic books a cinematic separate universe
That is until end of 2023 when Riot announced that they are merging their main story line and Arcane into one cannon ... doing basically a soft reset, as now they have to change thing to fit in with the changes to characters and story done in Arcane ... which in my opinion was a mistake, but is where we are, they are in the process of resolving of conflicts and such but we have no idea what the state of things really is right now.
They have changed 2 champions to fully fit with the Arcane induced changes .... Victor and Skarner, we are waiting on the rest and how the changes will ripple into connected stories
15:10 I swear to god the League World's lore deserves its own show. The whole rise and fall of Faker/T1, just Faker himself as a person, it's inspiring as fuck. Edit: Faker is the most cutest patootie teddy bear ever AND he was a prodigy that burst onto the scene, who has shown the League world time and time again (7 YEARS OF STRUGGLE!!!) that he is not just fancy tricks/solo player. He has evolved into a team player that has insane purview over macro play and shot calling, he is humble and disciplined yet ambitious still. I just... ugh. I can't believe he is a real person and we're lucky enough to have him be the face of league of legends the game.
I really love all your reactions and commentary! Keep it up! ♥♥
Thank you so much!!
There are no copyright issues for RIOT videos. That means you don't get sued.
In Awaken, the theater has Jhin and Camille. The gladiator arena has Riven and Draven. The battle is in Ionia and has Irelia, Sion, Karma, Akali, Yasuo, and Kennen.
I'm always game to watch LoL cinematic reactions, hope you do tons of them (don't miss out on the cinematics from Tales of Runeterra or Wild Rift, spinoff games also sharing LoL's lore). But a couple recent videos for Teamfight Tactics that I think people are sleeping on are:
Nightmare on Reroll Street: Part 1 | Into the Arcane Launch Cinematic - Teamfight Tactics
Nightmare on Reroll Street: Part 2 | Into the Arcane Launch Cinematic - Teamfight Tactics
Promoting Arcane skins/etc in TFT. It's done in the Arcane art style, with the Arcane version of characters. It's silly but good fun and I bet you'd enjoy them!
A few bit of information for you since you seem to be really interested in these characters :
No that is not Warwick, his name is Rengar. He is what we call a Vastaya (basically half-human, half-animal like Lest in Arcane)
It is stated that the next regions that are going to be the focus for next shows are Noxus, Demacia and Ionia. In this video we saw a bit of all 3 with characters that will most likely be in the center of these stories.
I will describe the character instead of naming them because I'm pretty sure that dropping their names wont mean anything to most who don't know League.
For Noxus, the 2 guys chasing the fox lady in A New Dawn (axe dude and the gladiator from the previous video) and the red haired girl will definitely have a main role as well as the blonde girl that fought in the arena.
For Demacia, the 3 characters we saw in the snowy castle in Warriors are very important, so will also most likely be main character material. So the blonde girl, the dude with the huge sword and the one with the chains.
And for Ionia, it is the region we saw that was attacked by Noxus in Awaken (when the lady with the blades got knocked away by the giant dude with an axe). This girl as well as the black lady, the yordle, the green ninja lady and the samurai who showed up to aid her are important. Tho some of them will most likely just have a supporting role like.
Oh and to answer your question, there are 169 playable characters in League of Legends and a lot more non-playable too from others games and such.
23:55 Claudie thinking "I ship these 2" and meanwhile Diana crying in a corner. 😢
I’ll always be thankful for these cinematics since we’d never have gotten Arcane without them, but boy does it give me whiplash seeing some of these character designs knowing how much better they turned out in Arcane 😂 I’m so incredibly glad with how they changed their style for the show, because like you I don’t think I ever could’ve loved it as much if they hadn’t.
I hope that whatever they decide to do after Arcane just gets as much love and care from a storytelling perspective, even if that means we only get to see a fraction of these characters make it to the small screen. I believe there’s over 150 of them in total, so it feels almost impossible to adapt all of them with the same level of care that Arcane had.
Mostly I’m just not ready to say goodbye to Cait and Vi yet, because it feels there is still so much more to explore with them. But at the same time I can understand them wanting to branch out to other regions and develop their world further. I guess I’m just afraid that with a broadening of the scope it’ll almost necessarily mean the more personal, emotional and small scale elements will receive less attention, but of course that doesn’t have to be true.
Me neither, if it has no care like they did for Arcane Im not watching it. If it's over sexualised and just bland, im super not interested lol
Yeah, 100% agreed
Well, first at all, english it's not my first language, so... if I mistake some words, sorry, I'll write what I'm learning until now 😅
Asking some of your questions, not in order (sorry):
That girl that looks like Lest... yes, they are the same race (Vastayas), her name is Ahri
This "big cat" that you saw, it's not Warwick. Btw, he's also a Vastaya 😅
Vastayas are races half human half animals, and they dont have a standard designs. Thay can be more looking animals or more looking humans.
This redhair girl name is Katarina, she's from noxus. Btw, this New Dawn cinematic represents more how the game looks like, a 5v5 game. So, there's no lore at all, it's just a bunche of random characters fighting.
A little fun fact... you know why Riot decide to start a show in Piltolver/Zaun? Well... it's because is the less interesting and more easy region to tell a story in Runeterra (the world of League of Legends) 😅
Yeah, I know, it's crazy! But the lore that the game show us it's the simple one. Arcane give us a more details about the Piltolver and Zaun lore, so... Piltover and Zaun is the more complex story right now because of the show. But there's SO MUCH to tell! (League has 169 characters 😂)
To give you an ideia, all we know of Piltolver and Zaun story before Arcane was:
Jinx and Vi are sister that hate each other, but we dont know why.
Vi is a enforcer.
Cait and Vi are a couple.
Warwick was just a creation of Singed, he have some lines in game that give us an ideia that he was a man before. But we NEVER know who he was, and we have some theoryes that he was Vi and Jinx father (but not confirmed until Arcane).
Mel, Ambessa, Vander and Silco... we never know they existed before Arcane.
The story about Jayce and Viktor is very different and similar at the same time, is hard to explain 😅
There's a bunch of other things, but the more relevant is that.
Well, I can speak about League lore all day 😅
I'm gonna stop here because I use all my brain cells to write this in english the best as I can.
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18:09 There are three characters from Noxus but that's Katarina and she's an assasin. You didn't realize but in Ambessa's video you can see Katarina Behind Her with a Gold armor🤯
There are currently 169 champions in league of legends. So, there's just a bit of room for more stories :)
The first two videos you watched were probably suggested to you because they visit the areas of Runeterra the next show by Riot will likely take place in. Noxus, Demacia, and Ionia are hinted at as the next regions to look forward to, according to the interview of Christian Linke. I hope they continue the stories, I personally love Ionia because of the Eastern aestetic.
The Rise video is a world tournament video. They mix the competitive players look with the champions they use.
19:23 She used a charm skill, which she has in game. This whole video actually showcases their playstyle and how a normal battle round would look for the characters.
What a throwback, I used to watch magician's assistant after school with my family when it used to air in germany. I liked to know how magic worked and I remember when he did the face reveal. Great show! Thanks for making me remember it.
haha no worries at all :)
BTW when you get around to watching the music video for Get Jinxed, I suggest you also pull up Vi's theme "Here Comes Vi". Vi's song has no music video, it's just the animated loading screen from the game client, but it was one of the very first League songs with lyrics and so it blew players minds back in the day when they loaded up the new patch and had that song waiting for them. (I was one of those players.) "Here Comes Vi" doesn't get enough attention from reactors. :)
15:47 The whole point of Rise is to show the hard and long journey that pro players do to be winners, the characters in the video are actual pro players mixed with it's main lol champions at that time
Gotcha thank you for letting me know
One thing to keep in mind about the Worlds MVs is that the characters therein are the teams of players that actually made it to worlds, with the gear they sport being that of the characters the played during the matches.
05:25 Kai'sa is already part of K/DA together with Ahri, Evelynn and Akali. All four are absolute Badass Characters and Riot went and made a K-Pop Style thing out of it. Kai'sa has a very interesting Background and i too hope to see her in a Series.
11:11 People are actually speculating, if the guy that closes the Piano in Arcane is the same guy here just years later.
18:37 Katarina Du Couteau, Assassin and Noxian Noble, another Dauther of another General so, we already went there, i guess you could say it like that.
19:47 We are now at 169 Characters.
23:48 Ahri, a Nine tailed Fox... Probably the one, with the most people simping over.
17:06 This, the previous Warriors worlds one, KDA POP/STARS, Get Jinxed, the Ekko conematic I forgot the title of, and a bunch more, is animated by Fortiche. So yeah, you'll like them the most lol. Rise used to be _THE_ league MV. One of Fortiche's magnum opus.
11:37 the character that looks like a robot next to the enforcers is Camile, she's Caitlyn's great grandmother 😂
Tales of Runeterra: The Curse of the Sad Mummy is an AMV sung by Christian Linke. Enjoy! :D er...uh...yeah...
Btw, correct me if I'm wrong, I don't think you need to cut because of copyright issues when it comes to cinematic reactions, full reactions are okay I think, apology if I'm missing something
Yeah I think it's fine but just do it to be sure, still had a slight issue with it when uploading, but also my screen recording lagged so I had to tweak edit in post
@@ClaudieTV Ah ok, ty for clarifying, glad you're enjoying them either way
There are like 150+ champions in league and just as a fyi the ones we got in Arcane are more on the "Boring" side pre-arcane. ;) Really insane what they pulled of with them and how they fleshed them out but that just shows how much more could be possible. It's really just scratching the tip of the iceberg.
Also, an insane amount of badass female characters, so don't worry about that aspect.
The magician secrets, remember watching myself like 20/25 years ago
Idk if anyone alr commented this but the fourth video you watched is actually not in-game lore or anything but rather real people's lore. That one was for telling the story of a pro-player of a team that became the champion of the previous year tournament. As you can see, he carried three weapons and those weapons are from different champs in the game. Just want to put it out there so you don't confuse it with the ones that tell in-game lore. Riot does this a lot, putting pro-players in their music videos when it comes to Worlds (the annual grand championship of League) music videos.
Love how you just kept getting stunlocked whenever there is a "hot" character shows up because that is how I would have reacted to
Woo! Love that you're reacting to these!
I have seen people speculate that needle-leg-lady (a.k.a. Camille Ferros) already has briefly appeared in the background of Arcane. In a few of the scenes in the council room, a family of platinum blonde people dressed in white shows up, likely House Ferros. Though, Arcane diverges enough from the previous League timeline enough that it's unclear whether Camille is the younger woman there or the older one (or not there at all).
In that first video- the blonde girl is Lux and she's a part of the Crownguards a prominent family that is probably going to get a show eventually. She's shipped with Jinx (pre-arcane) due to ONE interaction in a jinx music video and I have to say that'd be a great way to show Jinx is still alive is all I'm saying. No hate to timebomb shippers but all I'm saying is in arcane-verse it would be a great easter egg....
FYI, the warriors music video is what got me to get back into League after like a 4 year hiatus lolol
Ok here's your quick note on who are all these hot people :
(If that's too much, just check the end of this comment, but if you have the time, enjoy !)
Warriors :
There are 3 scenes : the one in the snow is based in Demacia, the one underground is probably in Shurima, the last one obviously is in Zaun.
For Demacia you have 4 champions : the blonde girl is Lux, and her brother, the big sword warrior is Garen. They are both from the Crownguard family, tasked with the protection of the royal family. Unfortunately, Demacia is very harsh on mages, hunting them and putting them in prison to kinda torture them, and as you can see, Lux is a mage, which make her a very tragic character. Sylas, the man with chains was a mage imprisoned for it who broke free and started a revolution against the mage ostracism with fellow mages (if you're curious about that there are official comics relating that, and a single player game called Mageseeker). The moving/flying colossus that helps Lux is Galio, a living statue that protects Demacia and id friend with Lux.
Fun fact : there is a very popular fanmade sapphic ship between Lux and Jinx called Lightcannon
For Shurima you have 2 champions : the blonde playboy is called Ezreal, he's an adventurer from Piltover traveling across the world looking for artifacts and his missing parents (former archeologists who gifted him his magic gauntlet). The pretty lady is called Kai'Sa, she's a human abducted by the Void (another dimension where the spiderlike creatures come from) when she was young and whose body fused with a voidling that is living in symbiosis with her as her armor (hence why she has the IronMan like helmet removal and can shoot purple shit).
Fun fact : there is a very popular fanmade ship between Ezreal and Lux, and I believe Kai'Sa might have some ship possibility with another woman named Kai'Sa (see 'The Call' cinematic for more on that)
For Zaun you have 3 champions : well, you already are familiar with Piltover's finest, our babygirls, but just so you know, the half-crab man they fight is an undercity criminal named Urgot (which is a playable champion).
Awaken :
There are 3 scenes : the one in the theater is in Piltover, the one in an arena is in Noxus, the last one is in Ionia during the Noxian invasion.
For Piltover you have 2 champions : the pianist is a psychopath named Jhin who is obsessed with the number 4 (his weapon only has 4 bullets in the chamber) and who likes to make artwork out of his victims body. The doll-like lady is Camille, the head of the Ferros clan (season 1 Elora mentions to Mel they are her biggest sponsor ; season 2 we see them in the noble houses since they all have the same white hair). She has a full augmented hextech body with blades for legs and cables to move around like in Attack on Titan or Legend of Korra
For Noxus you have 2 champions : the cocky man is Draven, the brother of Darius who is one of the 3 leaders of Noxus in the current days (maybe not yet in Arcane). The woman in the arena is Riven, she was fighting in the Noxian army during the Iionian invasion but deserted after seeing the atrocities of the war. The blade is indeed a runic artifact similar to what Riktus/Ambessa use in Arcane, and these artifacts are likely made by the Black Rose (which I suspect is one of the reasons they are after Ambessa in Arcane). After deserting, Riven tried to break her blade, killing in the process Yasuo's master (see the next paragraph) and was then captured by Noxus and brought back as a prisoner, which is why she's fighting in the arena.
For Zaun you have 6 champions : the girl dancing with blades is Irelia, the (in the lore very young) head of the Ionian resistance against Noxus. She's getting smashed by Sion, an old Noxian warrior brought back to death as a zombie by the Black Rose. Irelia is then saved by the shield from Karma, a woman inhabited by a powerful spirit (think like Avatar TLAB). She's helped by Akali, a brilliant Ninja and Yasuo (my fave character