Thread:Tesla Effect/@comment-24268958-20160112175109/@comment-25050130-20160112183516

This is a theory that I postulated regarding Jhin, the promo champions, teaser image, and teaser trailer.

Each of the promotional images are there to do their job, as in showcasing how this champion sees killing people, some indications of what type of champion he is, what weapon he uses, probable ability effects, as well as cultural influences in his look.

This last one only came to me after the reveal of the leaked splash art (which is too detailed to be a fake). In the splash art we see Jhins mirrored imaged (which is just filled with symbolism), his clothes and automail arm (both of which look strikingly Demacian/(Garen/Fiora) like, with the added flair of Viktor/Zaun/Piltover/(Vi)). Now the surrounding area has a lot of wavey wood like patterns, which as seen in some of the newest concept art, is what Ionias/(Zed/Sona) new style is gonna take. Now why did I mention the champions there? Simply it matches the exact choice of champions for the promos, their places of residence, and the overall cultural influence of those places. Jhin just looks like his appearance was influenced by both Demacian, Piltover, and Ionian cultures. He ether travelled as an artist, later surcoming to deep mental brakedown, or he travelled all those places in search for "perfection".

I find the teaser trailer quite perfect for a psychotic champion. We actually see from the champions point of view how he sees/imagines killing other people (from stabbing as the burning roses, shooting the man with the stars, poisoning with the girl and her mouth, and hanging with the man on the tree). He sees his way of killing as an art form, making something that was flawed, perfect (similar to how Pyro sees its deeds from Team Fortress 2). But then at the very end of the video the true reality of the situation is shown, the dark and real image of the champion itself. And the concept of the mask just fits perfectly with this figure, in therms of appearance and also his psyche (aka a deeply screwed up person). Overall it is a very well though out trailer in terms of portraying to us what kind of champion we are dealing with here.