the first character-driven cinematic released for a League of Legends champion which served to introduce Jinx, Vi's sister. Linke and Yee would later serve as showrunners of the animated television series adaptation of League of Legends, Arcane. By September 2021, Netflix announced that Vi is one of the lead characters of Arcane, and that Hailee Steinfeld has been cast for the role. For Linke and Yee, the starring roles for Jinx and Vi in the series' narrative is a natural continuation of their creative work on both characters which began nine years before the release of Arcane season one. In an interview with Engadget, Linke explained that Jinx and Vi were always intriguing characters work with because they offer very different perspectives when paired with each other: not only do they possess opposing personalities with a sharp contrast in their visual design and in-universe role, they are more "grounded" compared to the game's more fantastical champions. Linke and Yee also used the existent mysteries set up by League of Legends, where their familial relations and enmity with each other are only hinted at in-game, to explore their pasts and the origins of their rivalry through the storylines written for Arcane. The show gave Linke and Yee an opportunity to focus on the small character details, like Vi's compulsive habit of bouncing her leg as a nuanced nervous tick, with the goal of making the characters' expressions feel real. Vi and Caitlyn seemingly share romantic chemistry in certain scenes of Arcane, though they are not officially a couple. Linke and Yee intentionally kept the slower pacing of Vi and Caitlyn's relationship as they wanted to tell an organic story about the characters that feels true to their personalities and how they have been seen within the game. While the first season of Arcane primarily follows Vi's complicated relationship with Jinx, the showrunners indicated that the show's focus will shift to the developing relationship between Vi and Caitlyn for the second season. Appearances League of Legends Vi was added to the roster of playable Champions for League of Legends on December 19, 2012. Vi's main weapons are the "Atlas Gauntlet", two massive gloves powered by Hextech that increases her physical strength to superhuman levels. Her gameplay mechanics has undergone a number of revisions since her introduction. Dot Esports noted while Vi's original moveset and statistics stood out for being more suited for