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Hello Summoners! My name is pSyDeD, and i am currently ranked Gold V on the SEA server. After months of being in love with
Vi <3, i decided to write a guide for her to help more players pick her up and win games.
Vi was my most played jungler in S4 ahead of
Jarvan IV and most memorably helped me win a 4v5 in my Gold promos to get me my Gold border just a day before the end of S4.
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Pros:
+ Fantastic Single Target CC
+ Great AD ratios
+
Vault Breaker is a low cooldown gap closer, can jump over walls
+ Great ganks, almost unescapable after 6
+ Synergizes well with mid-lane assassins
+ Efficient jungle clear
+ Naturally tanky, passive scales with HP
+ Nightmare for carries
Cons:
-
Vault Breaker can be interrupted
-
Vault Breaker has a high cooldown early
- Early ganks heavily reliant on landing
Vault Breaker
- Self CC, slowed 15% while charging
Vault Breaker
- Weak level 2, susceptible early in the jungle
- Has trouble sticking to targets
- No natural sustain
- Ultimate cannot be cancelled, may result in being led into a sticky situation
- Not the best teamfighter
- Not the best tank
+ Fantastic Single Target CC
+ Great AD ratios
+

+ Great ganks, almost unescapable after 6
+ Synergizes well with mid-lane assassins
+ Efficient jungle clear
+ Naturally tanky, passive scales with HP
+ Nightmare for carries
Cons:
-

-

- Early ganks heavily reliant on landing

- Self CC, slowed 15% while charging

- Weak level 2, susceptible early in the jungle
- Has trouble sticking to targets
- No natural sustain
- Ultimate cannot be cancelled, may result in being led into a sticky situation
- Not the best teamfighter
- Not the best tank





For glyphs,












Which Smite to get?
As of Patch 5.8,




As always, start


Keep jungling until low, back and upgrade to




Try to upgrade to Enchantment:warrior as your first item and everntually, buy








Mid Game is when skirmishes should erupt, and





Now, there are several choices of boots for
Vi:-
-


-

-




We get
Trinity Force on
Vi for a number of reason:-
-

-

-


Patch 5.8 item notes
Why Triforce over Black Cleaver
Patch 5.8 came with a buff to
Black Cleaver which presented a few junglers with an alternative item on vi. However, i prefer
Trinity Force instead of
Black Cleaver on vi. The reason being simple, triforce+warrior does a lot more damage to squishies.
Vi should always be looking to initiate onto squishies, besides, she does have passive armor reduction on her
Denting Blows and armor pen from Enchantment:warrior
Black cleaver synergizes well with Enchantment:Cinderhulk however we prefer Enchantment:Warrior simply because if u want to play a tank, there are better tanks to play than
Vi!
Aim for some defensive items next, the
Giant's Belt in your inventory should build into
Randuin's Omen. U can also go for
Warmog's Armor.
Round off the build with a
Banshee's Veil which protects you against being CC'd as you initiate as well as adding some more defensive stats.
Upgrade
Sweeping Lens to
Oracle's Lens to clear out wards near objectives and chug
Elixir of Wrath
Why Triforce over Black Cleaver
Patch 5.8 came with a buff to
Black Cleaver which presented a few junglers with an alternative item on vi. However, i prefer
Trinity Force instead of
Black Cleaver on vi. The reason being simple, triforce+warrior does a lot more damage to squishies.
Vi should always be looking to initiate onto squishies, besides, she does have passive armor reduction on her
Denting Blows and armor pen from Enchantment:warrior
Black cleaver synergizes well with Enchantment:Cinderhulk however we prefer Enchantment:Warrior simply because if u want to play a tank, there are better tanks to play than
Vi!
Aim for some defensive items next, the
Giant's Belt in your inventory should build into
Randuin's Omen. U can also go for
Warmog's Armor.
Round off the build with a
Banshee's Veil which protects you against being CC'd as you initiate as well as adding some more defensive stats.
Upgrade
Sweeping Lens to
Oracle's Lens to clear out wards near objectives and chug
Elixir of Wrath
Patch 5.8 came with a buff to





Black cleaver synergizes well with Enchantment:Cinderhulk however we prefer Enchantment:Warrior simply because if u want to play a tank, there are better tanks to play than

Aim for some defensive items next, the



Round off the build with a

Upgrade











Blast Shield
This is your passive which shields you for quite a lot upon dealing damage with activated abilities and is off CD more frequently at later levels. It cannot go off via your

Vault Breaker
Landing your


Vault Breaker GUIDE:-
- A fully charged


- This ability slows your Movement speed by 15% while charging. Try to charge it carefully, or you will give the enemy ample time to react. It is recommended you start charging from brush or just as you enter the lane to have the damage and range charged upto maximum
- You can execute a fancy


HOW TO
Flash+
Vault Breaker
Denting Blows
This is your W which is a passive ability that deals % max HP of the target as physical damage, reduces its armor by 20% grants

Relentless Force
This ability is an autoattack reset, which causes

- This ability on activation gives

-



- It procs sheen damage in a cone, deals tons of AOE damage
- It applies on-hit effects like life-steal only on the target and not in a cone behind it.
- It has an AP scaling(+70% AP) on the base damage which benefits from

Cease and Desist




- Spells that make a champion untargetable will cancel




-



- Aim this ability in a line through the enemy team to knock aside targets in front while dealing damage to maximize your damage output
- Make sure your team is ready to follow up on your

- You are vulnerable to being led into a poor position while using this ability, so be careful with it!
If starting top side, do the krug camp first. Smite it for the gift of heavy hands, and then work on red. Then smite bonus from krugs should enable you to do the camp easily. Be sure to use your 2
Health Potion to stay healthy.
Head towards blue. Use
Smite on it, then keep farming or look for a gank till you have around 400-450 gold. Back and upgrade smite. Then look for more ganks or keep farming. Do not forget about the crab! You may go crab-catching if you have nothing else to do! :P
Vi is also great at soloing dragon at early levels due to her passive and the %max hp damage on
Denting Blows.

Head towards blue. Use

Vi is also great at soloing dragon at early levels due to her passive and the %max hp damage on

As we talked about earlier, the general indications you should gank a lane are:-
- The lane is overextended.
- The lane doesn't have a ward.
- The lane is low on HP/Mana.
- Lacks escapes, e.g.
Darius with
Heal+
Teleport.
- Summoner spells such as
Flash and
Heal are down.
Lower Elos are all about jungle pressure, and as a jungler who excels at ganking, you want to look for ganks as
Vi. Successful ganks will not only put you and your laner ahead, it will also put the opposing laner behind and help secure advantages for your teammates.
Pre-6:
- Lead in with a fully charged
Vault Breaker and keep autoattacking to apply the red buff slow.
- If the enemy laner is very overextended, just walk into lane and start applying red buff slow(be wary for counterganks!) and
Vault Breaker to chase after they use
Flash.
- Sometimes you can lead in with a
Flash+
Vault Breaker combo if the enemy is low enough or cannot escape you.
- Remember to use
Relentless Force right after you autoattack to reset your autoattack animation and do extra damage
After 6:
Your ganks become very potent when you have
Cease and Desist
- Again, lead in by landing
Vault Breaker.
Flash+
Vault Breaker if necessary.
- Then use
Cease and Desist after they have used their displacement effects. E.g.-
Flash or
Arcane Shift
- Your laner ahould also follow up on your gank and result in a kill for the team.
Vi works well with assassins such
Zed or
Ahri as she can line up the opposing laner and lock him down long enough for
Death Mark+
Razor Shuriken or
Charm+
Orb of Deception combo which should result in a kill.
- The lane is overextended.
- The lane doesn't have a ward.
- The lane is low on HP/Mana.
- Lacks escapes, e.g.



- Summoner spells such as


Lower Elos are all about jungle pressure, and as a jungler who excels at ganking, you want to look for ganks as

How to Gank as Vi:
Pre-6:
- Lead in with a fully charged

- If the enemy laner is very overextended, just walk into lane and start applying red buff slow(be wary for counterganks!) and


- Sometimes you can lead in with a


- Remember to use

After 6:
Your ganks become very potent when you have

- Again, lead in by landing



- Then use



- Your laner ahould also follow up on your gank and result in a kill for the team.







Overall,
Vi is one of the most fun to play and powerful junglers in the game, so i hope you have fun playing her! All the best and have fun punching your opponents in the face!
"Vi stands for Victory!"
P.S:- I will add jungle matchups and any other topics on request!

"Vi stands for Victory!"
P.S:- I will add jungle matchups and any other topics on request!
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