Introduction
🚀 Hello Summoners, My guide to mastering Viego in the jungle. Join me as we delve into the shadow Isles and uncover the power of the Ruined King in the heart of the jungle.
Viego's unique kit and playstyle make him a formidable force in the jungle, capable of outplaying his opponents and turning the tide of battles. Whether you're looking to assassinate key targets, control objectives, or lead your team to victory, Viego's versatility in the jungle makes him a fearsome opponent.
In this guide, I will share valuable insights on Viego's jungle pathing, itemization, ganking strategies, and how to maximize his potential in every game. From early game dominance to late-game teamfighting, you will learn how to harness the power of the Ruined King and carry your team to triumph.
Embark on this journey with me as we explore the depths of the jungle with Viego by our side. Together, we will conquer the jungle, claim victory in teamfights, and establish our dominance as the Ruined King reigns supreme on the Rift. 🚀
Why Play Viego?
✍️ Viego is an incredibly strong champion with high sustain, mobility, and insane reset potential thanks to his ultimate Heartbreaker. As a jungler, Viego excels at snowballing off of skirmishes, turning enemy strengths into his own by possessing their bodies and abilities with his passive Sovereign's Domination.
Viego’s Blade of the Ruined King gives him solid sustain and poke in the early game, allowing you to duel almost anyone. His Spectral Maw and Harrowed Path make for effective engage, escape, and roaming potential.
In the mid-game, he shines by quickly cleaning up teamfights and using his enemies' tools against them. His resets allow him to chain kills, resetting cooldowns and becoming a force that is nearly impossible to shut down in the right hands. He also has no Ressource! (Mana, Energy etc)
Mastering Viego is about positioning, decision-making, and knowing when to dive in for resets. If you love dominating with resets and turning enemy strength into your advantage, Viego might just be your next main!
Maybe you’ll become a Viego jungle main after reading this guide! :D ✍️
Viego's Pros and Cons
✅ Pros
✔️ Execute Ultimate Heartbreaker with resets
✔️ Insane outplay potential with resets and mobility
✔️ Strong healing and sustain through abilities
✔️ Excels in 1v1 duels and snowballing teamfights
✔️ Underrated scaling and sustain in the jungle
✔️ Flexible build paths (Crit, Bruiser, Tank)
✔️ Crit + Q passive shreds anyone
❌ Cons
✘ Hard to master mechanics and positioning
✘ Relies heavily on item spikes for damage
✘ Struggles against heavy crowd control
✘ Jungling when behind is horror
✘ Requires good team coordination to maximize resets
✘ Weak against burst mages or heavy cc
Viego's Tips and Tricks
🛠️ Master Possession: Learn the abilities of common champions to maximize the potential of Sovereign’s Domination. Anticipate how to use their kit effectively during possession.
🛠️ Optimize Combos: Chain your abilities effectively. For instance, use Spectral Maw (W) to initiate, follow up with Blade of the Ruined King (Q) for damage and healing, and finish with Heartbreaker (R) for execution.
🛠️ Map Awareness: Utilize Harrowed Path (E) to traverse terrain safely or surprise opponents. Positioning is crucial for ambushes and escapes.
🛠️ Teamfight Focus: Prioritize squishy targets for Heartbreaker (R) to create opportunities for resets and to disrupt the enemy backline.
🛠️ Jungle Efficiency: Maximize your jungle clear by utilizing Blade of the Ruined King (Q) to heal and sustain through camps.
🛠️ Adapt Build: Adjust your itemization based on the enemy composition. Viego thrives with damage items but can incorporate tankier options when needed.
Viego's Abilities
☑️ Passive: Sovereign's Domination
Enemies that die within 3 seconds of being hit by Viego become wraiths. Viego can possess these wraiths to restore a percentage of their max health and gain access to their non-ultimate abilities for 10 seconds, replacing their ultimate with a free cast of his own and gaining 10% movement speed toward them.
Scales on AD, AP and Attackspeed!
☑️ Q: Blade of the Ruined King
Passive: Viego's attacks deal a percentage of the target's current health as physical damage. His first attack against an enemy recently damaged by an ability hits a second time, dealing bonus damage and restoring a portion of the damage dealt as health. These effects persist during Possession.
Active: Viego stabs forward, dealing physical damage
☑️ W: Spectral Maw
Viego gathers Mist, slowing himself slightly. Upon release, he dashes forward and throws the gathered mist, dealing magic damage to the first enemy hit.
Stuns them for a brief duration that scales with the charge time.
☑️ E: Harrowed Path
Viego sends a spectre to a terrain, creating mist around it for a short duration. While inside the mist, he gains camouflage, increased movement speed, and enhanced attack speed.
☑️ R: Heartbreaker
Viego teleports, attacking the enemy with the lowest health and briefly slowing them while dealing damage based on their missing health. Nearby enemies are knocked back and take extra damage.
There's many special interactions with this. I'll get Clips of that to show soon.
Viego Summoner Spells
✅ FLASH: Flash is essential for survival and plays in League of Legends. It allows for crucial escapes, flashy combos, and unexpected engagements. Never underestimate the power of this spell! Without a doubt the best Summoner in the Game!
“The key to survival is knowing when to blink!”
✅ SMITE: Smite is crucial for junglers and those who seek to secure objectives. Use it wisely to take down monsters and to assist in team fights.
“To smite is to conquer.”
✅ GHOST: Ghost is great for mobility and chasing down enemies or escaping tight situations. Well that is what most people think. But that's no longer really true! Ghost was REALLY BROKEN before it got nerfed but now it's kinda bad.. Just don't take it..
“Speed is the essence of the game.”
Viego Runes
✅ Conqueror is a perfect keystone for Viego due to his extended skirmishing style. Viego excels in long fights where he can repeatedly use his abilities and auto-attacks. Conqueror allows him to stack bonus AD and healing over time, which fits perfectly with his sustain and damage-oriented kit. He also stacks it very quickly because of his Blade of the Ruined King Passive. Lethal Tempo also doesn't work and Press the Attack gets outdamaged by ConquerorAdaptive Force!
✅ This rune grants you bonus healing on takedowns, which can be a game-changer in crucial moments. When you secure a kill or assist, Triumph restores a portion of your missing health. This is particularly beneficial for Viego, as it enhances his survivability in skirmishes and team fights, allowing him to stay in the fight longer and reset his abilities effectively.
✅ This rune provides stacking attack speed with every takedown you achieve, making it an excellent choice for Viego. As you secure kills or assists, you’ll gain additional attack speed, enhancing your DPS (damage per second) and allowing you to activate your abilities more frequently. This is crucial for Viego, as his damage output heavily relies on auto-attacks and ability rotations. The increased attack speed helps you melt down opponents faster and can also improve your jungle clear speed, making it easier to farm and apply pressure across the map. Legend Tenacity is also removed, Legend: Bloodline is too terrible.
✅ Coup de Grace is the best choice most of the time, can also take Cut Down if you are playing against a lot of tanks.
Second-Tree
✅ This rune provides Viego with free boots at 10 minutes, giving you an early gold advantage that allows you to invest in other items sooner. The additional movement speed from the boots helps improve your mobility, making it easier to roam and engage in skirmishes. I mean it's free gold. Why not?
✅ This rune grants Viego additional cooldown reduction for summoner spells and abilities, enhancing his ability to make impactful plays. With reduced cooldowns on summoner spells like Flash and Smite, you can engage or escape more frequently, giving you more opportunities to execute your strategies. It's free stats so why not take them.
Viego Items
✅ Gustwalker Hatchling
This item provides Attack Speed (AS) and its passive ability grants bonus movement speed when attacking champions. It can help Viego stick to enemies during fights.
✅ Trinity Force
This item provides AD, Attack Speed, Health, and other stats. Its passive ability enhances your next basic attack after using an ability. It’s a versatile item for Viego, providing damage, health, and utility.
✅ Kraken Slayer
This item provides AD and Attack Speed, and its passive ability deals bonus true damage on every third attack. It’s great for increasing Viego’s damage output.
✅ Blade of the Ruined King
This item provides AD, Attack Speed, and its passive ability deals bonus damage based on the enemy’s current health. It’s good for sustained damage.
✅ The Collector
This item provides AD and its passive ability executes low-health enemies. It’s great for finishing off enemies.
✅ Plated Steelcaps
These boots provide Armor and reduce the damage of enemy basic attacks. They’re great against physical damage threats.
✅ Elixir of Wrath
This elixir provides AD and bonus healing from damage dealt. It’s great for sustaining in fights.
✅ Mercury's Treads
These boots provide Magic Resist and Tenacity, which can be useful against magic damage or crowd control.
✅ Mortal Reminder
This item provides AD and its passive ability applies Grievous Wounds to enemies, reducing their healing. It’s useful against healing champions.
✅ Infinity Edge
This item provides AD and its passive ability applies Grievous Wounds to enemies, reducing their healing. It’s useful against healing champions.
✅ Wit’s End
This item provides Attack Speed, Magic Resist, and its passive ability deals bonus magic damage on-hit. It’s useful against magic damage threats.
✅ Frozen Heart
This item provides Armor, Mana, and its passive ability reduces the attack speed of nearby enemies. It’s great against physical damage threats.
✅ Black Cleaver
This item provides AD, Health, and its passive ability reduces the enemy’s armor. It’s useful for shredding armor and increasing your damage output.
✅ Eclipse
This item provides AD, Lethality, and its passive ability deals bonus damage and grants a shield when you hit an enemy champion. It’s great for dueling and surviving burst damage.
✅ Maw of Malmortius
This item provides AD, Magic Resist, and its passive ability grants a shield when you take magic damage. It’s useful against magic damage threats.
✅ Guardian Angel
This item provides AD and its passive ability revives you after death. It can be a lifesaver in team fights.
Viego Skill Order
Viego Ability Combos
✔️ Q + FLASH: To execute a low target, Q and then Flash mid animation.
✔️ W + FLASH: For a nice gank setup channel your W and then Flash.
✔️ W + Q + FLASH: For a long range execute W, then quickly Q and Flash mid animation.
✔️ Q + E + AA + W + AA + R + AA + AA: To full combo when in close range quickly use Q and E, then AA and W. AA then R and AA again
✔️ W + AA + Q: To dish out some quick damage use W and AA, then Q immediately after.
✔️ E + Q + AA + W + AA: To trade when in close range E then instantly Q your target, then AA W and AA.
✔️ W + E + AA + Q + AA: For a longer range trade use W then E while channeling. AA, then Q and AA again.
✔️ W + E + AA + Q + R + AA: For more burst quickly use W and E, then AA. Follow up with Q and R, then AA again.
Viego Jungle Pathing
✔️ Blue Side: Start at Red Buff, then move to Krugs, followed by Raptors. After clearing those, proceed to Wolves, then Blue Buff. Clear Gromp next and finish with Scuttle.
✔️ Red Side: Start at Blue Buff, then move to Gromp, followed by Wolves. After clearing those, proceed to Raptors, then Red Buff. Clear Krugs next and finish with Scuttle.
⚠️ Notes:
✔️ Remember to use your Passive Mark on enemies for optimal healing while clearing!
✔️ Consider the jungle matchup to choose the optimal route! Fullclearing is not always good! Sometimes you gotta skip camps to avoid Teammates dying! It's worth!
Game plan
🎯 Early Game
In the early game, focus on farming efficiently and establishing pressure. Prioritize ganks in the Mid and Botlanes to help your teammates secure kills. Utilize your Passive Mark for healing while clearing jungle camps. Remember to control objectives and look for opportunities to invade the enemy jungle if you have vision and a numbers advantage. Keep in mind that Counterganks are the best ganks! Try countering and invading when it's possible!
🎯 Mid Game
Transition into the mid game by grouping with your team. Focus on securing dragons and skirmishes. Utilize Viego's strong burst damage to take down priority targets quickly. Look for opportunities to pick off isolated enemies to burst - ensuring you stay ahead in fights and objectives.
🎯 Late Game
In the late game, your role is to engage in teamfights and take down key targets. Stick with your team and look for flanking opportunities and assasinations. If you can get successful posessions with your Ultimate Heartbreaker, you can turn fights in your favor. Position yourself carefully to avoid being caught out, and make sure to utilize vision control to set up for critical objectives like Baron and Elder Dragon.
Team fighting
😊...In progress.... :((
Conclusion
📝 This guide will be continually updated to add more information. I will keep the guide updated as new patches come out.
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