After a rough scuffle with Sevika, Silco's 2nd in command in a brothel that leaves her wounded but recovered and a confrontation with the crime lord himself, Vi reunites with Jinx, but their reunion is apparently short-lived due to Caitlyn and the Firelights' ambush. Years after, as a connected career criminal under incarceration by Marcus, Vi is recruited by untested enforcer Caitlyn to find information about Jinx, who works for Silco as a smuggler and inventor. As a result, a grief-stricken Vi apparently abandons Powder to mourn for Vander, indirectly leading to her adoption as Jinx under Silco's care. Vi, Mylo and Claggor attempted a rescue, but it was eventually botched due to Powder's inadvertent effort that killed Mylo, Claggor and eventually Vander himself. Although this caused trouble for Vander, he still managed to keep the sisters adopted no less, until he was kidnapped by his old friend, the crime lord Silco. In Arcane, she and her younger sister Powder were orphaned at a young age after a bloody revolution, where they struggled to survive by committing small-time robberies until they were adopted by a community leader and bartender named Vander, who eventually mentored and trained Vi in the art of boxing, and committed small-time crimes behind Vander's back with Mylo and Claggor, their adopted brothers. Vi eventually became an officer of the law, albeit one with a very loose relationship to the rules and authority, and a preference for solving problems with her fists. Vi was arrested and thrown into prison for years, until she was released by Caitlyn enlisting her help in dealing with Powder, now known as the criminal Jinx. She and her younger sister Powder lived off small-time crimes until one burglary went horribly wrong. Vi grew up in the undercity surrounding Piltover, raised by a former gangster after her parents were killed.