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Who needs a beatdown? - Vi solo top Guide

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Hope you don't mind me butting in like this 27Gaming, you did ask for advices nicely. ;)
I've been testing and trying about with Vi since her release and the following is what I've come forth with, based on your Build (which I find a good basis).

You are lacking any kind of slowing on-hit effects in your build, for example a or . Without these Vi will still be able to close the gap once, but as soon as they get some distance you'll be SoL until your Q or R is back from CD.
Both and also offers more Health, which means a slightly stronger Passive-shield, one offers a small rise in AD and the other some major increase in Armor.

A is also a viable item by chance, if the enemy team has a fed ADC or are Bruiser-heavy, for the lowered AS Aura. this item also boosts your CDR to the cap at 40%, meaning your Q will have an aprox CD of 4.8 seconds. Near spammable. It also offers nice amount of Armor and an amount of Mana, even if it may not be most needed, it helps once your Q's CD is lowered and your E's recharge is also lowered.

I'd look into choosing either of the three items in substitute for the or . Personally I think I'd remove the AI and keep a GA at end-game. Why?
Since both and grants more Armor than , you'll be having a max of 15% Crit with Atma's itself, that stat is abit redundant just a the extra Mana from . Gaining a boost in AD from having Health is not bad, but the Max-amount of Bonus-AD you'll recieve from this item is 50 AD.
At lvl 18 with , and the bonus HP from Masteries is 3328 HP. (pic: http://i50.tinypic.com/wrxsie.jpg)

So thus gives us:
45 Armor
15% Crit Chance
50 Attack Damage

Set this for example, against which gives you:
90 Armor
20% CDR
400 Mana
and a 20% AS reduction Aura (1000 range)

Straight up I see different gameplay style differences obviously, one is more centered around one-self () in style with a standard Bruiser, while the is a Group/Team-fight centric item in a sense. You also live longer, due to the doubled Armor ratio and the 20% AS Reduction aura.

Something that I would ask you to look into, is the -factual- bonuses with having full CDR on Vi. A point which makes the item the best choice.

CDR reduces the Cooldown-timer on Q and R as we all know. 40% from 8 sec is 4.8 on Q , and 40% from 80 sec is 48 on R . Now we're talking a CD on our Ult that is in level with ! This Ult also has high dmg in a line (shorter than Lux), but with a knock-aside and Knock-up effect to it.
The most interesting part with the CDR though, is that it also affect the 's Charge-up timer. From 8 Sec at level 5, to 4.8 seconds. This means your Q and E will both have identical "active" CD, giving you more chains of Q, aa, E, aa, E, aa, R, aa, E, aa, E, etc...
Now the extra +400 Mana from also comes to use since you now will be able to chain more and stay out longer in the lanes and in Teamfights.

Now, if you do go with , and you got 1-3 points in your Offensive Masteries tree to move around. and . Max CDR is 40%, and having 2 pts in there as you have, will be completely redundant. Better then to choose and another point in , although I would probably put those 3 points (2 from Sorcery, 1 from Butcher) into for that 2% overal damage.

then?
Well, with it you will loose:
20% CDR
400 Mana
20 Armor
20% AS Reduction Aura

You will on the other hand gain:
500 HP (50pts Shield)
An On-damage-taken slow (MS and AS)
An AoE Actived Slow-effect

Personal choice I believe here which is best between FH and RO although I lean towards the FH (Unless a teammate already has a FH).

Look into adding a Boots Enchantment into your list too. would be my choice. With it, when you press Q and obtain that MS reduction debuff as it charges up, you will still have 415 in MS, which tends to be in line or more than most Champions, so they wont get out of range.

Also, your Ability-Sequence is faulty, or my system is borked. I/You are not able to choose to level up Q at lvl 1 and lvl 2. I would suggest looking into that.

Personally I would also remove the 1pt in and put that point into for a more standardized Masteries. 30 HP is not much at the end of the game, but first few levels, it might just save your life in those trades and exchanges. As with you will get a 25% Slow reduction. - Personal choice though, an additional 7.5% is not bad.

Runes...
Good rune-choices IMHO but I would like to offer you and others a chance to look at the use of 3x .
It is 2% LS on each Rune, so you'll end up with 6%. You will already have high-enough ArP with and your passive from .
6% may not sound like alot, but when you take into account that you're building AS overal on the Champion, you have three Cone/Line attacks which -all- procs LS (Q, E and R)... You are then actually looking at quite high LS per attack if it strikes more then 1 enemy. Which is why I choose it and so far, it functions nicely even on +1800 Solo Elo.