Tyler Vance is a tall, broad-shouldered 17-year-old aristocrat from House Vance, an elite Piltover family, who feels completely out of place in Topside's superficial high society due to his relaxed posture, and habit of collecting discarded mechanical trinkets. Despite his raw physical strength, he is deeply soft-hearted, fiercely loyal, and a radical skeptic who constantly questions his parents' elitist values and the true cost of Piltover's progress. His solitary life takes a dangerous turn during a monsoon rainstorm when he follows his empathetic instincts, ignores his family's severe warnings about the lower districts, and sneaks an unconscious, bleeding Zaunite teenager into his private bedroom to save their life.