Zaun
Champion Lore

Vi

the Piltover Enforcer

Raised on the mean streets of Zaun, Vi is a hotheaded, impulsive, and fearsome woman with very little respect for authority. She has always been a shrewd survivor, both from her youthful troublemaking topside and an unfairly long stint in Stillwater Hold. Now working with the Piltover Enforcers to keep the peace instead of breaking it, she wields mighty hextech gauntlets that can punch through walls—and criminals—with equal ease.

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Origin & Background

The Story of Vi

Vi grew up on Zaun's streets, in the undercity's scrape-and-survive culture where you learned to fight or you didn't learn much else. She was good at it — brilliant at it, actually — and led a crew of Undercity kids who were doing what undercity kids do: surviving creatively, pushing back against whoever was pushing down on them. That life ended badly, in the way that Undercity lives tend to end badly, through a catastrophe that cost her the person who mattered most.

She eventually made it to Piltover as an enforcer — a law enforcement officer working for the city-state she grew up beneath. This is, from a Zaunite perspective, a deeply complicated choice. She hasn't become what Piltover represents; she's using the access it provides to do what she'd be doing anyway, just with a badge and hextech gauntlets that can punch through walls. Her relationship with Caitlyn, her partner, is the most stable thing in her life.

The complication that doesn't go away is Jinx — who used to be Powder, who used to be her sister, before the catastrophe and Silco and everything that followed. Vi's love for Powder and her relationship to who Jinx is now occupy the same space in her, and she hasn't found a way to reconcile them. She goes looking anyway, every time the opportunity presents itself, because she can't not look. She's not sure what she'd do if she found her.

Key Connections

Relationships

Jinx
Sister — Lost & Haunting
Vi's sister Powder, transformed into Jinx by circumstances Vi blames herself for — the open wound that everything else in her life works around.
Caitlyn
Partner & Anchor
The Piltover Sheriff's daughter who is Vi's enforcer partner — the most stable relationship she's managed since Powder.
Ekko
Old Friend
One of the kids from Zaun's streets — their histories overlap in ways that make their current positions complicated.