In the game lore, Vi is a good mechanic and engineer who built her own gauntlets. In the show, only Jinx is the engineer and gets to insult Vi on not knowing how to build her own weapons.
Vi was an exceptional boxer in Season 1 and Jinx couldn't beat teen Vi's high score in hand to hand combat no matter how hard she tried. In Season 2, Jinx is a Shimmer supersoldier who goes toe to toe with Vi + Hextech gauntlets, something Shimmer Chemtanks weren't able to do.
In Season 1 Powder idolizes Vi's physical strength, watches her box with awe, and wishes she could be a strong fighter like her. In Season 2, Jinx scoffs that she never got to do fun things with Vi because Vi only liked to hit things.
In Season 2 Jinx gets to call out Vi for joining the enforcers who killed their parents. Vi never gets to retort that Jinx joined the man who killed Vander, and the only reason Vi joined the enforcers was to prevent a large scale invasion of Zaun and stop a harmful Chembaron civil war, both of which were caused by Jinx's reckless actions.
Jinx insults Vi's alcoholism and passiveness towards the oppression the Undercity was facing, even though Jinx herself hid in her hideout playing with bugs and let countless innocents face the brunt of the punishment for her crimes, and only went to the prison for Isha, not out of altruism.
There are many scenes in both seasons depicting Jinx's trauma + mental illness in depth and she gets many long monologue scenes spelling out her emotions for the audience. Vi doesn't, despite spending her entire childhood in a horrible prison while Jinx was the doted-on princess of a crime lord.
It's clear. To the show writers, Jinx is a genius engineer supersoldier expert combatant who is also a sympathetic traumatized victim and revolutionary hero. Vi is her big dumb meathead older sister.
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