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lady-griffin · 3 years ago

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My Favorite Jinx Skins

Here are my personal favorite skins for Jinx, minus her Original and Arcane skins, because that feels super unfair to the others.

1. Crime City Jinx (LoL Skin)

Known by state police as “La Principessa,” Jinx is an unhinged hitwoman with loose ties to the Graves crime family. Sent into rival businesses as a figurative time bomb, the slightest offense will trigger one of her jubilant rampages, with body counts as high as the ceiling.

I love this skin so goddamn much, it’s my absolute favorite for Jinx. Obviously, I mean she’s in first place. Each time I think I like one of her others skins more, I always find myself coming back to this one. I just love Flapper Jinx so much!

Possibly because I can see the 1920s/flapper aesthetics easily making their way into Zaun, and I think it’s such a natural as well as great contrast to Piltover’s steampunk and Victorian/Edwardian style, while still not being modern.

While perhaps not the flapper aesthetic, the aesthetic of the time period is already connected with Zaun, at least more recently, with the character designs of Silco and Renata Glasc, I would argue.

I really want to see Jinx in Zaun’s flapper style, not Crime City Jinx exactly, but definitely inspired from this skin. Basically, I just want to see Arcane-Flapper Jinx, blue hair and everything.

Everything about this design just works so well for Jinx.

Her being known as “La Principessa” is also fantastic and puts a smile on my face, because well she is Silco’s daughter - so she is a Kingpin’s daughter and therefore a mob princess. It’s sheer perfection!

I also love how her two guns are designed, one hidden in/disguised as a violin case and the other as a liquor bottle - very fitting and so much fun.

Everything about this design works for me. While I would of course love to see blue-haired Flapper Jinx, I really like her ostentatious orange hair here, but mostly I just love her bob cut.

I love this skin so much and I can’t help but feel like it’s super underrated.

2. Odyssey Jinx (LoL Skin)

Adept at building and/or destroying (but mostly destroying) a variety of haphazard, highly unstable weaponry for the Morning Star crew, Jinx also serves as the ship's pilot. Her previous job as a mining explosives technician resulted in a lot of collateral damage, and a thoroughly justified dismissal.

A great design for Jinx, I feel like even though she doesn’t look like our Jinx, you can easily still tell this is Jinx. I love her having a mechanical arm and just her overall style, especially her hair (though again, I do miss the blue).

Now to be fair, this design has an edge over the others, largely because of the Odyssey Trailer (x). I just love seeing Jinx not only be happy, but relatively well-adjusted (all things considered), and having people who accept her for who she is.

It just makes me so happy. So, while I do love this design, this being a universe where Jinx is living her best life and has not just a crew but a found-family, seals this spot for her - I can’t help it.

There was a also great fanart of Odyssey Silco and Jinx by @brovitranduila .

So that’s another reason to like this design, that doesn’t actually have to do with the design itself.

I really like her lore here and the connection to mining she has in it, as it reminds me of Silco and Zaun’s mines in Arcane.

While this line is meant to be read straight (as in being the truth) -

Her previous job as a mining explosives technician resulted in a lot of collateral damage, and a thoroughly justified dismissal.

I have the headcanon that Odyssey Powder was a kid working in the mines for an Odyssey-Piltover Company. Not only should she not have been working in the mines, because she was a child; but the working conditions were beyond unsafe, due to the company mining unstable areas that they illegally got approval for.

Powder ended up making an honest mistake, resulting in a devastating explosion. She not only lost her arm, but injured and killed many of her fellow miners.

The Company refused to take accountability for the incident, even though they were not only hiring children, but knowingly putting their workers at risk by cutting corners in the name of profit. They basically painted Powder as a psychotic, explosive-loving criminal and pinned all the blame on her and no one questioned that, except for a few - including Silco, who took her in.

Due to the trauma of her killing her fellow miners + being viewed as a psychotic murderer, Powder lost her mind and eventually embraced the galaxy’s image of her as Jinx.

But she’s doing a lot better now.

3. Ambitious Elf Jinx (LoL Skin)

A master toy maker and inventor, Jinx believes she could one day become the greatest Santa anyone has ever seen. Other elves worry her creations could be classified as weapons... but sometimes that's the price of true ambition.

Jinx is beyond adorable here. Words do not do this design justice, she’s just so precious and charming in her picture. I love this skin so much - from her pointy elf ears, sharp canines, to her entire outfit, and of course Fishbones being a present. It’s sheer perfection.

I also love the idea that it’s not so much Jinx is a bad guy or violent, she’s just too enthusiastic and intense for her (and everyone else’s) own good. I mean what kid wouldn’t love to have an exploding toy?

There’s also some great fanart of Elf Jinx with Krampus Silco once more by @brovitranduila, so that just endears me even more to this design. (x) (x)

As much as I miss the blue hair, I have to say I do like the blonde here.

This isn’t a fair complaint against this design at all, but I feel like if there was Tinkerer Elf Ekko, I would probably love it even more. But again, that has nothing to do with the design itself, just me being sad there’s no matching Ekko for this look.

I don’t have much more to say other than Jinx is beyond precious here.

4. Heartseeker Jinx (LoL Skin)

Love is a battlefield, and Jinx comes prepared! Armed with her beloved companion Fishbones, she's ready to break hearts—and bones. But if she likes you enough, she's prepared to play nice. Maybe. Probably not.

Another design for Jinx, that is beyond precious and adorable. I can’t help, but smile and I want to join in with Jinx’s squeal, every time I see this picture. She is just too much.

I love it. She’s so cute! How can anyone not smile when they see this version of Jinx?

While this doesn’t quite go with her Heartseeker “Lore”, I can’t help but imagine this as Cupid Jinx, who’s just too enthusiastic for her own good. Love is a battlefield, so shouldn’t she go at it with all her heart and weapons. What do you mean most people don’t want to feel love, as though it’s an explosion that nearly kills them? What other way is there to feel love?

I also really like this concept for Jinx, because while many other emotions define her - I can’t help but see her as a girl who not only wants love, but has a lot of love to give. Maybe her love is a bit too intense (to say the least), but she does have a big, if not demanding, heart.

She’s just too precious for words here and again, I can’t help the huge smile that takes over my face every time I see this skin.

5. Glorious Jinx (Wild Rift Skin)

I really love this design and while I personally love the hairstyle of Gilded Jinx (LoR Skin) better, not only because that is really Jinx’s only alternate skin that has blue hair, this design of Jinx just works better (imo).

Basically, Glorious Jinx actually looks like what Gilded Jinx is supposed to be, if that makes sense. In the Gilded Universe (LoR) (x), Zaun doesn’t exist as the city of Piltover was never destroyed by the creation of the Sun Gates, so all of our Zaunite characters are in fact from Piltover.

And for me Glorious Jinx actually looks like Jinx if she was from Piltover, but you know, still Jinx.

She looks amazing. I really love the clean, sharp, and sophisticated style of her outfit, also that curl to her bang. Lovely! She just looks so pretty here and I love it.

For reference here is Gilded Jinx (LoR Skin)

Which I also like, don’t get me wrong, but I just don’t buy this girl is from Piltover. Especially considering how much the other Zaunite characters have changed in their looks for this alternate universe

I don’t know what more I can say, other than Glorious Jinx looks like she’s actually a citizen from Piltover, while still having that crazy Jinx charm to her, and I love her for that.

I think if Glorious Jinx had Gilded Jinx’s hair, she could’ve been higher up on my list. But alas, what can you do? I still love Wild Rift’s Glorious skin for Jinx.

Well, those are my personal favorite skins for Jinx and my opinions on them.

Overall, when it comes to Jinx’s skins I both dislike and really like her hairstyles. While I don’t have a problem with each individual skin’s hairstyle or hair color, seeing them all together, I am disappointed Jinx never has blue hair.

I mean the three skins of hers that in fact do have her iconic blue hair are her Original, Arcane, and Gilded skins.

Why?

The majority of Ekko’s skins have his white hair and while not all, several of Vi’s skins have her pink hair. So, why doesn’t Jinx have blue hair in the majority of her skins?

I mean it’s certainly not the end of the world, but I just really like her blue hair, so I wish we had some more of it.

But, to end on a positive note, I absolutely love how all of her skins replicate her iconic twin-braid hairstyle, in some form or another. I just really appreciate that design choice and it brings a smile to my face.

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