Riot Bids Farewell to Arcane With a Hauntingly Romantic Music Video

Riot Games‘ award-winning animated series, Arcaneconcluded its story with its second season at the tail end of last year. The major complaint from fans of the show was that they demanded more time with some of its characters. Now, four months after the show’s finale, Riot Games and animation studio Fortiche have given fans exactly what they’ve been asking for in the most League of Legends fashion: a stylish music video.

Earlier this week, the official Arcane X/Twitter account posted a teaser image of Jinx and Ekko with the caption, “One final dance.” The post, which has over 124,000 likes and over five million views, essentially was an announcement teasing the release of the music video for the season finale’s “Ma Meilleure Ennemie” song.

Featured in what is arguably the season’s best episode, the song is performed by Stromae and Pomme, and sees Ekko and an alternate-timeline Jinx dance before the boy savior has to return to his original timeline and save the day. Translated in English as “My Best Enemy,” the song’s lyrics encompass the tumultuous romance between the childhood friends who become a couple in the show’s alternate timeline and are estranged enemies in the show proper.

The music video’s significance goes even further by acting as “what happened off-screen between Jinx and Ekko after he used his time-rewinding powers to prevent her from blowing each other up.” In the video, we see a VHS overlay of the pair dancing as Ekko and Jinx sing the lyrics to the song at each other before closing on a warm embrace.

Much of the fanfare over the song for “Timebomb” shippers is due to the show’s depiction of the two characters saving the day in the animated series’ final moments. They don each other’s outfits and draw art on each other’s bodies, implying that something happened between them off-screen. This burning question was further fueled by the release of the Arcane artbook, which shows Jinx annotating and doodling around Ekko, almost outright calling him her man. While the music video doesn’t actually showcase what happened off-screen, it ties into the emotional climax of the two reconciling in the show’s main timeline.

“My first reaction when I saw the scene was, frankly, I found it quite poetic,” Stromae said in the music video teaser. “I understood the vision that the directors and all the animators had of the series. They clearly knew what they wanted… I thought the music and everything worked well together, especially since it’s a pretty crucial moment.”

“Even to this day, it’s a song that continues to exist in people’s lives, and I think what happened is really magical… I actually understood the people’s reaction and enthusiasm because there was a kind of beauty, romanticism, and sweetness that is actually quite rare in the series,” Pomme added. “There was something special about that episode.”

“Ma Meilleure Ennemie” is Riot Games’ biggest streaming debut. The season two track peaked at over 10 million streams daily and reached number three on Spotify’s global chart. In addition to being Stromae and Pomme’s first Billboard Top 100 track, “Ma Meilleure Ennemie” was also featured during CNN’s 2025 New Year’s celebration. Kudos to the music video are due to Fortiche animator Tom Gouill; creative directors Pascal Charrue, Arnaud Delord, and Bart Maunoury; executive producer Christine Ponzevera; and co-producers Alex Seaver and Luc Van Haver.

As mentioned earlier, Riot Games is no stranger to making music videos that tie into League of Legends. In the lead-up to and following Arcane season two, the game developer released two music videos tying into characters Mel and Ambessa Medarda’s lore, which dovetail into their novel and new seasonal update in League of Legends. Furthermore, during the rollout of Arcane‘s final episode, fans quickly deduced that Vi and Caitlyn Kiramman would hook up in the show’s finale based solely on armchair detective work for the tracklist of the show, including queer artist King Princess.

Seeing as how the only things Fortiche artists are posting on their social media are behind-the-scenes production materials of storyboards and unrendered scenes from Arcanethe “Ma Meilleure Ennemie” will serve as the last piece of Arcane content until Riot Games and Fortiche unveil their spin-off animated series. That is unless Riot Games decides to go for broke and give Jayvik shippers some extra love, too.

You can stream both seasons of Arcane on Netflix.

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