JID & LEAGUE! | Imagine Dragons & JID - Enemy (from the series Arcane League of Legends) Music Video 

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What’s crazy is JID said this was an old verse his homie told him to save and felt it was really fitting for this song

Just for clarification, Arcane is an animated series set in the League of Legends universe, tackling the story of two iconic champions of the game (the two sisters, one with the short pink hair, the other with the blue hair). I already knew it was gonna be awesome but now, judging by the soundtrack, I got confirmation. That was shockingly good, both the song and your reaction🔥

"The visuals are too real!" This guys speaks facts, the music and the animation companies of riot are the only thing that's balanced

Being a huge league fan and seeing JID in concert twice and meeting him, this collab is INSANE

JID is such a goat to the point he became a character in Arcane. Huge respect

The lore video in the background goes just as hard as JID does if you know any about it, goosebumps man.

What is truly crazy is this isn't motion capture, it is pure animation! It's truly insane that they can animate, you should watch the show the animation is even more refined and truly groundbreaking.

From an animation perspective, they would take motion capture and use it as a reference or basis to animate on top of. There is a lot of work and artistry that animators have to do to take motion capture data from real life and make something that people actually like and not become uncanny or stiff which is usually the case if you take mo-cap data and put it onto a 3d model.

The rendering is 3D CG with 2D shaders layered on top. It's a very unique look and style. No MOCAP AT ALL. Its all keyframe animation.

Arcane is the new animated series by Riot that’s coming out in November, this is the first of many songs they’re releasing. Not sure if the rest of them are getting animated, however.

8:17 is the best reaction to this m/v. Someone needs to make this into a meme. This is now a meme.

Jinx (blue hair) is sister of Vi (pink hair) and they live a tough ass life in Zaun trying to just survive.

I had the same reaction at the end of jids verse hes GOATED

I love how I dont understand JID's rap part then myfriend gets hyped just breaking it down. HAHAHA

You wanna know something wild? The first time "adult" Jinx appears is when kid Jinx is up against the wall, watching her sister get arrested, and twists her fingers into the shape of a gun. For a split second, when she "fires", she's replaced by adult Jinx.

It's not motion capture, it's all hard animation. Which makes it even more amazing.

Just so you know, Denzel Curry and Pusha T also have upcoming songs for this series' soundtrack.

Arcane is the definition of next level animation and story telling

The part that really blew me away animation wise was the scene where Powder(lil Jinx) turns and starts to run. I swear you can feel the motion and force behind each step. Thanks for the vid

Watching this man be so impressed, and kinda afraid, at how realistic the animation is, is so entertaining 😂

actually, one of Dan Reynolds' (ID' lead singer) music inspirations was 2Pac so you got the right point

Jid jus be out here losing his mental like its okay Also cant wait for this hoodie to come 🔥🔥

Riot is making a new series (coming soon on netflix) and this song is their massive promotion for it. It focuses on the backstory of Jinx and other champions. Jinx is later the crazy girl you can see in the lol song get jinxed.

Arcane is a TV series that's coming out soon, animated and set in the LoL universe. It's gonna be on Netflix.

Imagine dragon's and JID best believe its gonna be 🔥

Love league, I was so hyped to see JID in this, I fuck with Spillage Village heavy! I just wish his verse was longer

If you watch (and listen to) the older song Get Jinxed and then watch Enemy you can really watch how and how much Jinx is too far gone its kinda sad, even if she's the lovable psychopath she is now, when knowing that she was just a regular girl back then, you just cant help but go "damn.."

Jinx is the character you've reacted to one of a video league did showing off Jinx. "Get Jinxed" Arcane is the netflix animated series they doing.

Arcane is a league of legends series coming out on Netflix next week. Also, the kid that was jumping around with the blue haired girl(jinx) is ekko.

now rewatched and focus on their lips when they sing xD its literally the words you hear are animated .. its literally amazing

I'll admit, I hope the Heartbreak is very brutal in Arcane, especially knowing that Jinx, the blue hair girl, does something bad, maybe something that wasn't her fault. Vi is the bright purple hair girl who's Jinx's sister, seemingly to be now confirmed after some years. Ekko is the boy with the white hair who also flips off the Piltover police, which is absolutely amazing. In terms of Arcane coming out, it looks like they're the main characters as people get to the point of seeing Jinx getting messed up by a event that causes a rift between her and Vi. Also, it was fun seeing Imagine Dragons and JID being animated into the video, which by canon standards, means they're apart of League's lore.

the art style seems to be pretty unique, ive definitely never seen shit like that lol. im pretty hype for this netflix series though. when you play this game for many years it's strange, you get kinda sucked into the origins of the characters and their story. the game itself though is what makes these songs and spin offs so popular because the game is more of like a chess match, it has nothing to do with lore and story

Arcane is a television series coming out on Netflix November 6th. It follows the stores of Jinx and Vi two champions from league of Legends as well as featuring many more related champions

React to Arcane please

League of Legends is top tier when it comes to writing characters, music videos and animation, i prefer them doing these kind of videos more than the game itself. Arcane is a series coming soon based on some origins of League's universe, which is good for newcomers that don't know the characters too.

Jids writing skills is extremely insane 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥.

Pausing on the exact 1 frame where adult Jinx is in the beginning was magical

8:13 He literally died hearing him rap 🤣

Man imagine if on the worlds finals jid performs this song live

Arcane is an incredible show - and it used no motion-capture, just great animation.

Arcane is the new league anime. Exactly what you have been asking for Scru.

SFJ reacts are everything passion curiosity knowledge E N E R G Y pure good vibes baby

Thank you for going through all the censure to be able to bring your reaction of this song!! I've been waiting for reactions all day and I am a big fan of your Riot Games's reactions!!

The Animation was done by Fortiche Studios, theyve done a bunch of past videos ie: get jinxed, KDA pop stars, Rise. And theyre honestly just one of the top commercial animation studios out there, they might have used mocap but I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they didnt considering they have along history of amazing stylized animation

No youre not tripping, the style cartoon af, the movement- it just- pure skills and talent. It'll make you feel more for the characters even thought they just cartoons Edit: you're reactions are always fun to watch

Yes JID is back baby

My guy. Good to see a legit JID fan

Im already hyped about this stuff then i look to see if people as as hyped as me about it, then when they get hyped for it, it gets me even more hyped about it lol love the reaction ♥

first time I heard JID was on enemy. his part was absolutely insane so I listened to everything he had on spotify. I actually listened to scatter brain non stop until I knew his part word for word. what an incredible talent. his flow is really something else.

Aight, Im here to lay out the lore and shit. Assuming you don't play league of legends, or are in any way interested in the characters, I'll do a short summary of it then go deeper in after. Basically, Arcane is a netflix series that is being made by Riot Games in conjunction with Netflix and animated primarily by Fortiche Productions, who also did this music video. Enemy is song that is part of the soundtrack of Arcane, created for the series, and features snippets of the actual show's animation with some stuff animated specifically for the video. This is all animated in the style of the show using mo-cap and hand animation (which is why J.I.D looks so good, and even his hair moves realistically, he was likely mo-capped doing these movements and then it was replayed over and over by the animators so they got it exactly right.), which features three well known characters from the game at various ages of their life prior to their current status. The characters are as follows, with a short snippet of info about them, but the show itself will feature more of the characters from league. Jinx, The Loose Cannon The blue haired girl from the video, and the main character of arcane. Essentially, Jinx was raised to hate the authority of Piltover, the city above Zaun, where they live. (Essentially Piltover and Zaun are a giant cylinder, with Piltover literally above Zaun, while Zaun stretches downwards underground. Piltover naturally lives high society, while Zaun lives in poverty. But piltover enforces the laws into Zaun as well. Little complicated.) Her story through arcane will be her growing up, and eventually becoming insane due to drugs and abuse, as well as betrayal from Vi. We don't know how this happens, all we know is that it will happen, as jinx does eventually go insane and become an extremely dangerous psychotic terrorist. Her story however takes place over 4 parts as far as we know. Childhood, pre-teenage years, teenage years, and post drug exposure. Teenage years and Post Drug exposure are likely the most important parts of her story, and both have a powerful change in character for her as a whole between the previous points. As a child Jinx was happy, as a pre-teen jinx was rebellious but wide eyed with a strained relationship with vi but still remaining as a loving sister, but as a teenager this all changes. Jinx has to put her happy life behind her as a teenager and become independent. She becomes a strong person with psychotic tendencies, but is nowhere near as insane as she is present day in the game post-drug exposure. We can visualize the change with her eye color change, as pre-drug her eyes are blue, but they turn pink after she's exposed to it. (I say exposed because it's unknown if it's willing or unwilling yet, only time will tell. All we know is that it enhances her violent tendencies and turns her into the psychopath she is today.) Vi, The Piltover Enforcer The pink haired girl from the video, and Jinx's sister. Vi grew up protecting Jinx as best she could, learning to fight and teaching her that the authority was terrible. Before eventually joining them. Vi joined up with Caitlyn, piltover's sheriff, and essentially became something worse than a cop. She betrayed jinx's trust, which was already waning due to their repeated fights, which put a major strain on Jinx's psyche and turned her into what she is today. Ekko, The Boy Who Shattered Time The white haired black kid from the video, Jinx's best friend. Ekko's story is one I won't get into, as it takes place after arcane is over (potentially) and has little bearing over the stuff we see in this video. But essentially he grew up alongside Jinx and Vi, joined their gang, trained with them, and was generally their friend. He had a crush on Jinx for a lot of her life until eventually she went nuts. At that point he couldnt stick around, and became the character we players know today, the boy who can turn back time. The First Half Arcane heavily features Jinx's descent into madness, that much is certain. That's essentially what this video is about. It's Jinx as a pre-teen reminiscing about her childhood friendship and her trauma. The Piltover enforcers attacking her and her sister, running from the cops, the betrayal of a friend of theirs and her eventual sister's betrayal (though this is not featured in the video) but also the good times of learning to fight from Vi, and flipping off said enforcers with Ekko, as well as generally goofing off. We see her slowly begin to believe that she's surrounded by people that hate her and are her "Enemy". The greater plot of Arcane is yet to be known, so the reason for Jinx actually going insane is yet to be known, though people like Necrit, a league youtuber, believe it will have to do with a purple drug that the main villain is peddling. Also, the firefly coming out of her mouth is apparently going to be a plot point in the show, as we saw the fireflys in a previous trailer. Finally, after one final fight with Vi, we see Jinx break down and start to cry, which begins J.I.D's verse. J.I.D's Verse and Aftermath I like to think that J.I.D's verse is Jinx trying to rationalize inside her head, or to Ekko since he's featured so much in the cutaways during it. If you look at the lyrics for his part it really just screams jinx's story, at least to me. We can sorta see the defined change in Jinx's psyche right after J.I.D's verse, which is why I think that it's her rationalizing it all before succumbing to her own insanity. The lyric "Spare the sympathy" is her eventually breaking down and realizing that she can't rely on people. This unleashes the monster, which we see as adult jinx killing the attacking enforcers. This results in the person she is now, ending the song. This is further supported by the imagery we see of Jinx during the entirety of J.I.D's verse. The scrawled lines in the outline of J.I.D and Jinx's silhouette, as well as the overlaid projections that keep changing, and then the appearance we see of adult jinx during it, whom we hadn't seen at all up to that point except for brief snippets show that as time goes on she can't keep being the weak little girl. That means all of this is taking place within Jinx's head, and in the future, her personal view of herself and who she needs to become, while that darkness she has inside herself is slowly influencing her to become someone she may not consciously want to be, until eventually there's no going back. Directly after J.I.D's verse we see a lot of this, with Jinx as a kid punching at her own head, tearing at her clothes and struggling inside her own head as the silhouette behind her becomes jagged and violent, symbolizing the dangerous part of her mind trying to break free. Also, a small note is that Ekko is no longer present in this white space like he was during J.I.D's verse, potentially showing that Ekko's absence was also a big part of her breakdown. Psychology of Jinx Generally, we can see that pre-teen jinx is not happy about the person she is becoming, but after her change she realizes it was either necessary, or enjoyable. This we see by her ever-present smile after growing into a young adult. I think that this also has to do with the fact that adult jinx in this video symbolizes psycho jinx, or the psychotic part of her brain, while the pre-teen version symbolizes her stable version. And eventually, that stable version is overshadowed by the her adult self, not present at all, or completely inexpressive, like she's come to an understanding that this is what needs to be done. We see stable jinx struggling with this realization for a while, until eventually she becomes stone faced, falls back, and gives up, allowing her teenage part to take over and deal with her problems for her, symbolized by in my opinion, the most dramatic shot of the entire music video. That shot, is the Piltover enforcers encircling her and her younger version. Stable jinx allows her to deal with the problem, which is symbolized by her falling back in the next shot, before teenage jinx fires on them all, but not before all 3 versions of jinx express their remorse for their upcoming actions, and leaving stable jinx there, alone, with no expression. God I hope this show is good. I will lose all respect for Riot if it isn't.

bro this show is so good and the intro song makes me wait the 2 min intro thats how good it is

Just found you through this video, love your personality and your passion for rap/music/animation. Great video

The tupac impression is too good 😂

Song was uploaded 6h ago. This man is on his shit. Gotta respect the grind 💯 💪

Btw at 5:08 that's Ekko when he was still kid.

As someone fresh off Arcane, it was amazing, definitely worth the watch.

This guy is so conflicted with an banger of a song, and visuals that are too real. And its golden!

I seriously can't read the words as quick as this young man does he is incredible the series Arcane is superb the animation is second to none I am so hooked to this series

Arcane is the New animated League show they are coming out with focusing on Jinx and Vi's early life before the games!

Sick reaction dude! Really like how you look at both the music and the actual video animation!

LOL does do an excellent job of getting you invested in CERTAIN characters not that i blame them with a roster that big its hard to give everyone their due

You need to watch and react to Arcane. And dont worry about Copyright, Arcane are loving the attention right now.

Loved the 3 first episodes of "arcane"

i was searching for a reaction like this, like mine, jid is a new great discoverment, hes doooope!!!!

Arcane is a story between Jinx and Vi and their relationship. And it's definitely worth a watch

YAs!!!!! Now this is what I was waiting for.

ive been waiting my man... God daaaamn this masterpiece

Best reaction when JID wraps up. ;)

Its actually surreal watching a game you've played and enjoyed for a long time become a movie with a linear story. You can never play the game the same way again. Never ever.

4:00 "omg, chill with that" *wents back and plays it to see it again*

it always makes my day seeing a video from you man, Nice job dude!

was waiting for this

Arcane is a Netflix series. You have seen Jinx before and that's the blue haired girl. It follows her and her sister Vi, the pink haired one you've seen with the big metal fists.

JID literally WENT OFF

its nice to see reactions were people know the terminology of things, subed

I was waiting for you to react to this bro LETS GOOO

Shout out from Romania Scru Face Jean and i like a lot your league reacts in comparison to other league reaction youtube channels i watch because you bring the sauce to them and the music knowledge to back it up!

This made me play league and made me realize again how much I hate this addicting game where I always lose

The moment I saw the music vid up, I KNEW SCRU BOUTTA GO CRAZY ON A REMIX FR

Ur reaction so cool man it gets me 😂😂

went hard

Would love to see you react to the rest of the Arcane soundtrack.

Arcane is an upcoming Netflix series based off of the 2 LoL champions Jinx (the blue haired girl, generally the main character) and Vi (pink haired girl who's Jinx's sister.

Hey bro, ive been watching since your first KD/A Popstars reaction, and since then ive been watching all of your reaction videos, even unrelated to league of legends, I love your reactions and genuine hype. Keep up the great work brotha! Much Love!

Its crazy that this wasnt done with motion capture. Its hand animated. I agree thatthe movement in the series is out of this world. Imo Fortiche set a new standard for animation.

Wasnt expecting this, but I was somewhat waiting for it? YES

Ive been watching people react to Arcane vids to still my shimmer addiction. Thanks for helping

scru face jean and jinx shout at the same time after jid finish rapping is so funny HAHAHAH

Fortiche (the studio animating) did not do motion capture. Which is amazing when you see the intricacies of animation in the show. "Shorty has seen a lot." Oh man you have no idea.

i like how the JID huh at 5:30 actually makes the song better even though all it was was a huh

i'm glad to see someone react the same way I did!

The graphics designers and animators are actually super talented to make cartoon almost look real.

I loved the energy you put on this reaction!!!! Amazing!!! (btw, is the pillow ok?) XD

dudeeee I'm waiting you Whole day man 🖤🖤🖤

His reactions are pure gold, no even better, diamond... what's better than diamonds?

Arcane is a series coming to netflix on the 6th of november 2021 the character with blue hair was Jinx the red/pink hair one is Vi and the dude with the white hair is Ekko this are 3 champions in League of Legends

LOOOOVEE THEEE ENERGYYY AND YOU SAID WHAT I WAS THINKING THE FIRST TIME I WATCHED ARCANE IN THE ENTIRE VIDEO :D

Nice vídeo brow! Congratulations from Brazil!

bro! i love you callin out the pac part!!!