How to beat Viego

Common role: Jungle

A reset skirmisher who possesses the champions he kills to chain-fight.

What makes Viego dangerous

When Viego kills a champion (or gets an assist on a marked target), he possesses their corpse — gaining their abilities, healing, and a free burst — then resets. In a teamfight one kill can spiral into a wipe. He dashes and stuns with his Q-marked hits and dives with his ultimate onto low-health targets.

How to play against Viego

• 1Don't feed his resets: never let him get the first kill in a fight cheaply. Peel and burst him before he possesses an ally and snowballs the fight.
• 2Focus him during his possession window — the possessed body has low health and expires. Killing him ends the chain.
• 3Respect his ult: it dashes onto and executes a low-health target for a guaranteed reset. Don't sit at low HP in his range.
• 4Grievous Wounds cuts the healing he gets from possessing and from his passive. Anti-heal makes his dives far riskier.

Weaknesses to exploit

• ✓No resets means no snowball — deny the first kill.
• ✓Possessed body is low-health and time-limited.
• ✓Squishy skirmisher; hard CC and burst punish him.
• ✓Healing cut by Grievous Wounds.

Abilities & how to counter them

What each of Viego's abilities does — and how to play around it.

• P
  Assujettissement

  Les ennemis qui meurent devant Viego deviennent des spectres. Quand il attaque un spectre, Viego prend temporairement le contrôle du corps de l'ennemi mort, récupérant un pourcentage des PV max de la cible et gagnant l'accès à ses compétences de base et à ses objets. Viego ne gagne pas l'accès à l'ultime de la cible, mais peut lancer son propre ultime gratuitement.

  Strong: possesses champions he kills, gaining their kit, healing and a reset. Weak: deny him the first kill and focus the possessed body — it's low-health and expires.

• Q
  Lame du roi déchu

  La lame spectrale de Viego inflige passivement un pourcentage des PV actuels de la cible en dégâts supplémentaires à l'impact et frappe deux fois les ennemis qu'il a récemment touchés avec une compétence, leur volant au passage des PV.Viego peut activer cette compétence pour donner un coup d'estoc, empalant ainsi les ennemis devant lui.

• W
  Gueule spectrale

  Viego charge son attaque avant de se ruer vers l'avant, projetant une boule de Brume noire concentrée qui étourdit le premier ennemi touché.

• E
  Chemin tourmenté

  Viego ordonne à la Brume noire de hanter et entourer un élément de terrain. Viego peut se cacher dans la Brume sous forme de spectre, ce qui le camoufle et augmente ses vitesses de déplacement et d'attaque.

• R
  Cœur brisé

  Viego se téléporte à un endroit proche et exécute un champion ennemi à l'arrivée, lui transperçant le cœur et provoquant une onde de choc destructrice qui repousse les alliés de cet ennemi.

  Strong: dashes onto and executes a low-health target for a guaranteed reset. Weak: don't sit at low HP in his range, and Grievous Wounds cuts his healing.

Itemization

Viego is AD with reset-fueled healing. Grievous Wounds cuts his sustain, armor and hard CC punish his dives, and the key is denying him the kills that fuel his resets. Peel your carries so he can't chain a fight.

This guide covers Viego's core kit and playstyle — advice that holds up across patches.