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Do you need to know anything about League of Legends for Arcane?
No. It's beautiful all on its own.
Not at all, LoL's lore gets retconned so often that Arcane is basically it's own thing but with borrowed ideas.
It's honestly probably better if you don't know anything about the characters. Caitlyn and Vi are pretty different from the game and really the only deep lore cut you'd miss is the Brackern crystals, and that's probably going to be spoilers for season 2.
Nope. It's great.
If you like muscly aggressive women it's AMAZING.
Can confirm other opinions:
The game and the show aren't really related at all. AFAIK, if you've played the game, you just get to be like "Oh hey that's one of the characters you can choose" once in awhile... But there's no overlapping plot or anything.
It has overlapping plot in the same way Overwatch does. Technically the characters all have backgrounds, and that's what Arcane shows some of. The game may use that to give character to the heroes, but the game itself doesn't really add anything to it. The game is probably improved by the existence of the show (I assume, I never cared for it I'm general), but the show really doesn't depend on the game.
(Technically I think there are multiple games in this universe now. I can't tell you much more, but I think there's an action game with some pirate character at least. That may have more story, but it doesn't matter for Arcane.)
I know even less about Overwatch lol, but that sounds about right.
I've never played the game, it was a couple episodes in that I noticed that it was based on an exiting IP rather than being completely new.