Vi Build Guide : Vi - Breaking Hearts and Faces :: League of Legends Strategy Builds

Introduction

First off, please allow me to welcome you to my guide!

is a melee champion that has a couple of moves that can be used as gap closers or initators. I am still experimenting with the builds above and tweeking them.

For those of you who don't know who is and what she can do. Vi is a champion that can perform a multitude of rolls…Solo Top AD, Support, Tank, Jungle. I will be discussing her roll as the solo and lane AD.

With the release of season 3, is the second champion released.

Pros / Cons

Pros
+ Excellent Mbibility
+ Tanky
+ Two Great initiators with or
+ Easy Farmer
+ Passive grants shield

Cons
- Major Mana issues
- Her Q gets interrupted by CC
- Slow movement speed
- Her E is like a skill shot and can miss
- She can also push lane to quickly

Runes

Excessive Force

Runes

Precision

Fleet Footwork

Dark Harvest

Phase Rush

- needs to armor to reduce incoming damage so she can stay in fights longer. 0.91 Armor per Mark provides an additional 2.73Armor at the start of the game.

- needs the speed. needs attack speed in order to be applied to the target. Each Mark provides 1.7% attack speed boost, giving a nice 10.2% attack speed increase thoughout the game.

- needs to armor to reduce incoming damage so she can stay in fights longer. Each Seal provides 1.41 armor at the start of the game to provide a nice 12.69 armor.

- as an melee fighter needs some Magic resist too. 2.7 MR at level 18 times nine provides 24.3 MR end game.

Vault Breaker

Runes

Precision

Fleet Footwork

Phase Rush

- AD needs to push out as much pure damage as she can and this helps. 0.95 AD at the start of the game times nine provides an additional 8.55 AD thoughout the game.

- to hit hard. Each Quint provides 2.25 attack damage, giving a nice 6.75 attack damage increase thoughout the game.

- needs to armor to reduce incoming damage so she can stay in fights longer. Each Seal provides 1.41 armor at the start of the game to provide a nice 12.69 armor.

- needs the speed. needs attack speed in order to be applied to the target. Each Mark provides 0.64% attack speed boost, giving a nice 5.76% attack speed increase thoughout the game.

Masteries

Excessive Force

Vault Breaker

Skill Sequence

Excessive Force

Ability Sequence
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18

In the Excessive Force build we are completing the skill first by level 9.

Vault Breaker

Ability Sequence
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18

In the Vault Breaker build we are completing the skill first by level 9.

Champion Abilities

Vi - Breaking Hearts and Faces

Passive Ability

Blast Shield

Effect - charges a shield over time. The shield can be activated by hitting an enemy with an ability. The shield provides protection equal to 10% of 's maximum health for 5 seconds.
Cooldown - 18 / 13 / 8 seconds (Needs further testing to confirm)

Vault Breaker

Effect - Charges a powerful punch that carries you forward.

Press W to begin charging this ability. While charging your movement speed is reduced by 15%.

Release W will cause to dash forward dealing 50 / 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 (70% of Attack Damage) up to 100 / 160 / 220 / 280 / 340 (70% of Attack Damage)(depending on how long you charge the ability) and applies a stack of to each enemy passed through. Minions and Monsters only take 75% of the damage. In addition, this dash stops upon colliding with an enemy champion and it knocks the champion back a little too.

Cooldown - 18 / 15.5 / 13 / 10.5 / 8 seconds
Cost - 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 mana

Denting Blows

Effect - Passive Ability.

Every 3rd attack on the same target deals an additional 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10% PLUS 5% of the target's Maximum health as physical damage, reduces its armor by 20% and grants 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50% attack speed for 4 seconds (max 300 damage vs. minions and monsters)

Excessive Force

Effect - Causes the next basic attack to deal 5 / 20 / 35 / 50 / 65 + (+70% Attack Damage) + (+70% Ability Power) physical damage to the target and enemies behind it in a AOE Cone.

charges a new punch every 8 seconds and can hold 2 charges at once.

Cooldown - 1 seconds
Cost - 60 mana
Cone Range - 625

Assault and Battery

Effect - Targets an enemy champion and chases it down, knocking it up into the air for 1.25 seconds and dealing 200 / 325 / 450 + Physical Damage.

While charging the target becomes immune to crowd control and will knock aside enemies in the way, dealing 75% damage to them.

Cooldown - 130 / 105 / 80 seconds
Cost - 100 / 125 / 150 mana

Items

UNIVERSAL STARTERS

Health Potion X 2

Mana Potion

Boots of Speed

OR

Health Potion X 2

Faerie Charm

Rejuvenation Bead

Most guides say to go with three healing potions, but I find that replacing one with a mana potion gives you extra laning time and that is important in the earily game. You could replace the Boots with an earily and which can be built into a Philosopher's Stone and eventually into .

Excessive Force

Shurelya's Reverie

Frozen Mallet

Ninja Tabi

Thornmail

Ravenous Hydra

Infinity Edge

I treat this build as the more tanky build in my specs.

We start off with...

for 25 Armor and a nice passive of blocking 10% of enemy champion basic attack damage.
give 250 Health, 10 Health Regeneration, 10 Mana Regeneration, 10% Cooldown reduction and an Active that gives nearby allies +40% movement speed for 3 seconds (600 Range) on a 60 second cooldown timer.
for a little (30) attack damage and 700 Health. It's passive (Icy) slows your target's movement speed by 40% for 1.5 seconds.
has a ton of Armor (100) and returns 30% of basic attacks damage as magic damage.
should be familiar to all as the heart of a high crit build, it provides even more Attack Damage and critical strike and its passive increases critical strike damage by +50%.
provides 75 Attack Damage, 15 Health Regeneration, and 10 Life Steal (from Melee attack only). It has both a passive and active ability. The passive is called Cleave, your attacks deal phusical damage up to 60% of you Attack Damage to units around your target, decaying to 20% at the edge. The active is called Crescent and deals 100% of Attack Damage to units around YOU, decaying to 60% near the edge (10 second cooldown).

Alternatives:

It proves a ton of benefits. Armor Penetration (10), Attack Damage (55), Cooldown reduction (10), and Health (250) (OH! MY!!) It also provides a nasty passive of debuffing your target champion of 7.5% of their armor for 4 seconds and stacks 4 times. It's a monster.
provides 20 Attack Damage, 50 Attack Speed, 10 Cooldown Reduction, 10 Movement Speed Multiplier and a passive (Tenacity) that reduces the duration of stuns, taunts, fears, silences, blinds, and immobilizes by 35%.
Zeke's Herald gives 15 Cooldown Reduction, 250 Health, and an Aura that provides 20 Attack Damage and 10% Life Steal.
provides 1000 Health and its restores 1.5% of maximum Health every 5 seconds.
gives 55 Attack Damage, 36 Magic Resistance and you gain +1 Attack Damage for each 2.5% of Health you are missing. It also has a passive (Lifeline) that provides a shield that absorbs 400 magic damage for 5 seconds if you are reduced to less than 30% Health by magic damage on a 90 second colldown.
Provides 20 Armor, 400 Health, 30 Magic Resistance. It also gives an Aura (Legion) that gives nearby allies 10 Armor, 30 Magic Resist, and 10 Health regen.

Vault Breaker

Zeke's Herald

The Black Cleaver

Warmog's Armor

Ionian Boots of Lucidity

Zephyr

Runic Bulwark

Zeke's Herald

I treat this build as the more Cooldown reduction build in my specs.

We start off with...

for 15% Cooldown Reduction.
provides 1000 Health and its restores 1.5% of maximum Health every 5 seconds.
It proves a ton of benefits. Armor Penetration (10), Attack Damage (55), Cooldown reduction (10), and Health (250) (OH! MY!!) It also provides a nasty passive of debuffing your target champion of 7.5% of their armor for 4 seconds and stacks 4 times. It's a monster.
provides 20 Attack Damage, 50 Attack Speed, 10 Cooldown Reduction, 10 Movement Speed Multiplier and a passive (Tenacity) that reduces the duration of stuns, taunts, fears, silences, blinds, and immobilizes by 35%.
Provides 20 Armor, 400 Health, 30 Magic Resistance. It also gives an Aura (Legion) that gives nearby allies 10 Armor, 30 Magic Resist, and 10 Health regen.
Zeke's Herald gives 15 Cooldown Reduction, 250 Health, and an Aura that provides 20 Attack Damage and 10% Life Steal.

Alternatives:

for a little (30) attack damage and 700 Health. It's passive (Icy) slows your target's movement speed by 40% for 1.5 seconds.
has a ton of Armor (100) and returns 30% of basic attacks damage as magic damage.
gives 55 Attack Damage, 36 Magic Resistance and you gain +1 Attack Damage for each 2.5% of Health you are missing. It also has a passive (Lifeline) that provides a shield that absorbs 400 magic damage for 5 seconds if you are reduced to less than 30% Health by magic damage on a 90 second colldown.
Gives 40 Attack Speed, 20 Magic Resistance and a passive that on your attacks deal 42 magic damage and increases your Magic Resistance by 5 for 5 seconds (stacks up to 4 times).
give 60 Attack Damage, 45 Magic Resistance and an Active that removes all Debuffs from you and grants 50% movement speed for 1 seond on a 90 second cooldown timer.

Game Play

Excessive Force

Farming with is easy. Using to charge through the minions then turn around and use to wipe out the few that remain. I have noticed that using seems to also pull the minions into the path of the rush, lining them up for the perfect usage of . Since we are building first in this build the majority of the damage will come from this ability.

1 v 1 fights with are awesome. Open up the fight with followed up with back to back shots. By now the enemy should have been hit with at least one . You should save as an escape if the fight is going badly or as a finisher if the enemy runs. Try and keep the fight near a treeline so if the fight goes badly you can charge up the and jump away to safty.

Teamfights: In teamfights its your job to spot the squishy ADC/APC in the back and use to charge though the front line fighters (if possible) and destroy the nasty squishy before the rest of his team can turn around and focus you down.

Vault Breaker

Farming with is easy. Using to charge through the minions then turn around and use to wipe out the few that remain. I have noticed that using seems to also pull the minions into the path of the rush, lining them up for the perfect usage of . Since we are building first in this build the majority of the damage will come from this ability.

1 v 1 fights with are awesome. Open up the fight with or followed up with back to back shots. By now the enemy should have been hit with at least one . With your reduced cooldown should be back up quickly, so you can use it as an escape if the fight is going badly or as a finisher if the enemy runs. Try and keep the fight near a treeline so if the fight goes badly you can charge up the and jump away to safty. Remember to try and fully charge the to get maximum damage from it.

Teamfights: In teamfights its your job to spot the squishy ADC/APC in the back and use to charge though the front line fighters (if possible) and destroy the nasty squishy before the rest of his team can turn around and focus you down. With on a quick reset you should be able to use it a few times in a fight to close gaps and hit them hard.

Vi - Breaking Hearts and Faces

Vi - Breaking Hearts and Faces

Choose Champion Build:

Recommended Items

Spells:

Flash

Ignite

Items

Ability Order

Blast Shield (PASSIVE)

Vault Breaker (Q)

Denting Blows (W)

Relentless Force (E)

Cease and Desist (R)

Recommended Items

Spells:

Flash

Ignite

Items

Ability Order

Blast Shield (PASSIVE)

Vault Breaker (Q)

Denting Blows (W)

Relentless Force (E)

Cease and Desist (R)

Introduction

Pros / Cons

Runes

Excessive Force

Runes

Vault Breaker

Runes

Masteries

Excessive Force

Vault Breaker

Skill Sequence

Excessive Force

Vault Breaker

Champion Abilities

Vi - Breaking Hearts and Faces

Passive Ability

Blast Shield

Vault Breaker

Denting Blows

Excessive Force

Assault and Battery

Items

UNIVERSAL STARTERS

Health Potion X 2

Mana Potion

Boots of Speed

OR

Health Potion X 2

Faerie Charm

Rejuvenation Bead

Excessive Force

Vault Breaker

Game Play

Excessive Force

Vault Breaker

Change Log

Guide Created

Guide Completed

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