Jungle Guide - Viego
In depth guide for Viego in the jungle.
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December 23rd, 2022 ⸱ 6 min read
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Runes
For your runes it's relatively easy to understand. You want to take
as it is the only rune viego really likes to use. He already inately likes healing and this just gives him more. It keeps us in the fight more because of this and that means a higher chance to get a posession and swing a fight. The reason we don't want is because viego aim's to use his passive efficiently and for that his abilities would have to be really low cooldown with a high ability haste build to reach the balance of abilities and auto attacks. Secondly you are quite squishy and as a melee champ you will have trouble sticking with the target and staying alive. All other main keystones are pretty sucky on him so no explanation there. For secondarys we want for the healing on resets, because it helps us reach the balance of attack speed and ability haste without itemizing too hard into attack speed, and finally as it gives more damage to lower health targets which helps us GET resets.For our secondary we take
for more sticking power and for summoner spell haste (decreases cooldown so it's pretty good on all junglers). The reason we don't take anything from the other trees which are typically better is: has been giga nerfed and no more Ravenous Hunter, is almost strictly for laning phase which junglers do not have and just doesn't fit viego as it's almost exclusively meant for spellcasters.Skill Order
Viego
Starting off you will take your
Blade of the Ruined King
Harrowed Path
Spectral MawBlade of the Ruined King Spectral Maw Spectral Maw Blade of the Ruined King Harrowed Path 
HeartbreakerSpectral Maw
Items and Builds
- Standard Build
- Crit Build
- Tank Build
Standard build
For the standard build we want to start
as it is the best jungle item as of right now. The other 2 feel lackluster but rarely you can swap it out for . Our first item will ALWAYS be as it gives us everything we need. It gives enough attack speed for us to not need any more for the remainder of the build, lifesteal which is great on viego and of course attack damage. Second item will be as it also provides good stats and it builds from Sheen. Because of Viego's passive Q doublestrike after hitting an ability has really good value and the entire item even gives us lifesteal and a great mythic passive (%armor and %magic resist shred). After that the build gets funky. We can pivot into any bruiser item from or , to or . After those items we can situatinally get , , , but we will mainly aim for as it is a good item in general with Viego's good wakeup and it can give us a second chance at resets. For boots we take either or . Whatever fits the game.Crit Build
Again our bread and butter will be
but after it we go into or depending on the enemy team. If we need the shield for a little extra survivability we take but if we want pure damage or are facing against tankier teams is too good too pass up. For our third item we can take either , or . Against tankier team compositions take and take against squishy teams ONLY if you are ahead. Otherwise for burst combos take . Our 4th item will always be as it is way too good of an item. For the final item we can take , or . For dueling take , for teams with only 1 Crowd Control source you can take and in general you will want for the same reasons as before. For boots same as before either or depending on enemy team.Tank Build
Finally for the tank build AGAIN we like
, but now for our mythic we can chose between and depending if we want more health or resistances. Preferably you go every game because forces us to index too hard into hp. But if we do take the next item shoul exclusively be after that continue indexing into a bit of resistances. When going though its the opposite dont index too hard into resistances but build items with hp like or . For the last item for bot of the builds there is 4 options , , and . Go against single threat compositions. Go against a lot of AD Crit champions. Take against AP users and if you want the speed. Finally you can take for more resistances and a big shield to block burst damage from assasin foes. For boots again take or based on enemy champions.Matchups and Powerspikes
Matchups
Viego doesn't have any tand out GOOD matchups. Most of his matchups are NEUTRAL and can swing both ways. However he has a few unplayable BAD matchups like
Zac
Bel'Veth
Kindred
Lillia
Darius
RengarPowerspikes
Your biggest powerspikes will be level 6 when you unlock
Heartbreaker Early Pathing and Ganking
For your pathing you can start any camp in the game as
Viego Spectral Maw Harrowed Path If you found this guide helpful checkout my video where I go into Viego in all roles. Thank you <3.
