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The preliminary polls are still running, but unless there's a drastic change in the lowest scorers, in a few days these characters will be competing for the hottest in Arcane. Follow to keep up with the polls!

These are the pictures I'll be using, if you have a better one for any of them feel free to submit it, I might agree.

Hottest Arcane Character: Men's Bracket

The men's preliminaries are done! The results are here! Accordingly, the guys will be matched up against each other as so (forgive me for using Google Sheets to make this bracket):

Polls start tomorrow! Get your votes ready!

Hottest Arcane Character, Men's Bracket: Round One

Viktor vs. Singed

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Hottest Arcane Character: Losers' Round Robin

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Singed vs. Marcus

Hottest Arcane Character: Losers' Round Robin

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Help your fave reclaim some honour and a higher place in the final ranking, but don't forget to vote in the main tournament here. Find the round robin schedule here.

Finn vs. Singed

ANALYSIS TIME!! Part Two (Because My Battery Died, and I Need Glorious Evolution So I Can Power My Devices From My Wrist.. Or something.):

So we know this looks like Viktor. That’s his cane, and my boi has got some serious red lined cloaked edgy drip goin’ on there, which we also see in League of Legends, although it’s a bit more raggedy there. He’s also already wearing a mask by the looks of it. His face is probably scarred up from the explosion, and he’d prefer to be seen looking like an automaton. Also, maybe like Darth Vader, it serves as a breathing apparatus, because boi’s lungs aren’t any good anymore. The thing I’m prolly most looking forward to seeing in Season Two is the development of Glorious Evolution. I personally am a big advocate of this and I can’t wait to see his transformation from sickly, on-the-cusp-of-death adorkable nerd to brilliant, seemingly unstoppable Darth Vader Arc Cyborg Nerd who will stop at nothing to reach unlimited potential and power, ergo saving his people.

Uh- anyway, to the shot- This seems to be the Undercity where he is surrounded by a few Shimmer addicts/ victims. The bright light appears to be emanating from Viktor’s hand as he passes it to the hooded figure next to him. This purple colour suggests he is weilding unstable or corrupted Hexcore technology, but not the Hexcore itself. It’s too small We know that in League he still uses it, so Jayce tooootally failed in destroying it. Major L, my dude.

The place is a shambles- crates and tools are strewn all over the place. Is this just typical, run-down wear and tear of the Undercity, or did a fight recently break out? I feel like this will be in Episode 2 or 3 for some reason. Maybe we will get a relatively smaller time-skip than Season 1.

Also, can I just say broski has augmented himself some HEIGHT. What the Hell. Bro’s taller than Cait. Vastly taller than Jayce, even, if you’ve seen the Bridging the Rift reveal. I wanna see him and Jayce argue or duke it out while he towers over him like that. Quality entertainment, peeps.

Okay, that’s all I can get out of that shot. Sorry.

I feel like this shot is overlooked. Like, there are no significant characters. No parallels, I think. What is its REAL purpose in the trailer? What’s that big purple smog? Weaponised Shimmer, or some other Chemtech ‘splosion? I thought Singed didn’t like people weaponising shimmer. There’s been speculation that part of the reason he created Warwick was to neutralise its effects with that green stuff and a blood transfusion.

Also, this isn’t Viktor. That cloak is different. There’s a new setting, Jinx’s graffiti is visible on a wall behind like later on in the trailer. It’s not Jinx- the physique doesn’t seem right-, or the mysterious Mage that saved Jayce in his youth. I bet it’s a new character.

Also, no proof yet, but I predict Sevika will die.

Just my 2 cents about this scene: Singed is not a trustworthy character, and I am more afraid for the Enforcers/ Wardens than him. He's not only a force to be reckoned with because he has Warwick in his backroom, but also because of his poison, and I wonder whether it's more potent than the masks of the Enforcers.

Also, he has a scalpel in his left hand, which he drops to the ground. Now, who was he operating on? Warwick is one possibility, Viktor is another. People say, that he completely augments himself, but I'm not so sure. I mean, he just got blasted by a whole damn rocket, which might not put you in the mood to operate on yourself. Which doctor does he go to? Yup, the mad one. His former mentor. It might be, that it's Singed, who does the first operations/ augmentations on Viktor. Another lead is one of Singed's lines: "You mustn't die yet; I have far too much to learn from your fragile anatomy.". Though that might apply to almost anyone in this part of Zaun. Nevertheless, he was one of the first to augment people (yet, the lore might still get changed because of Riot *argh*).

But, according to the lore, as it stands now, he also worked with Nexus (then to make his signature poison for their war against Ionia), and Noxus is in Piltover, sooo...🙃 And after making Warwick, he sought of ways to yield of death, now, who might be interested in this *coughviktorcoughcough*

singed & viktor

you know what i absolutely love? the parallels between singed and viktor.

obv viktor's from zaun, singed from topside, both very very intelligent (more than the people around can cope with oops), and they find themselves living on the other side (singed moves to zaun where the ethical restrictions are... well, there are no ethical restrictions / and viktor moves to topside for the academy).

then their respective works completely change that place (singed's shimmer and viktor's hextech (yesyes he co-made it but that's besides the point, he was pivotal to it is what i mean)) to the point where it becomes a defining feature of that place (it's difficult to divorce the idea of zaun from shimmer, likewise for piltover and hextech).

ofc their motivations are completely different. viktor has his Help The Undercity thing going on, while singed appears to be mainly self-serving (as in, he does his shit if he wants to, bro just wants to fuck around). buuuut also what if their arcs may also parallel? (enter: delusions) what if in s2 singed's goal becomes to help people/a person, and viktor leans more self-serving? (idk abt the latter, his conviction about helping ppl is very strong) or maybe viktor's so way in over his head (i feel it's a bit unlikely) or the arcane somehow does that for him?? idk i'm spitballing