Starter Items
Each jungle pet mentioned below grants early health regeneration while farming our camps and provides the following upgrades when fully evolved:
If we choose Gustwalker Hatchling, grants increased movement speed when exiting brushes or killing a monster for the next 2 seconds. It makes travelling from camp to camp much faster, accelerating the ability to reach an ambush angle faster.
If we choose Mosstomper Seedling, gain increased shielding after killing a monster camp or waiting 10 seconds out of combat for this effect to refresh.
If we choose Scorchclaw Pup, we build up ember stacks and then release them as % max health damage to the enemy, along with slowing them.
As your pet grows (gaining treats from killing jungle monsters), it will increase the damage value of your Smite charges.
The best way to know which jungle pet is more efficient depends on how you plan to build for each game, ensuring you have better outcomes in fights and skirmishes.
Core Items
A fantastic option for Vi. It provides some armor shred and a passive that grants you movement speed to keep pace with the target you are hitting. In addition, it synergizes well with Vi's Denting Blows passive.
Very effective in one-on-one combat, providing more dueling potential in extended trading and skirmishes.
Sundered Sky is an excellent damage/sustain option for Vi. It functions similarly to spell blade items, triggering an empowered attack that heals you and deals heavy burst damage in combat. Makes fighting tanks/bruisers ( Malphite, Leona, Sejuani, Warwick, Kayn ( The Darkin Scythe: Rhaast, or Darius), more manageable.
Just be mindful of any grievous wounds effects that could be applied to you:
- Abilities: Varus's Hail of Arrows, Katarina's Death Lotus, Kled's Beartrap on a Rope or Singed's Poison Trail under the effects of Insanity Potion).
- Summoner spells: Ignite.
- Items: Chempunk Chainsword, Morellonomicon, or Thornmail.
Trinity Force is your standard pickup with Vi, gaining movement speed when striking your target. A solid choice for Vi for increased burst potential when dueling and skirmishing.
Situational Items
If you're playing as Vi and looking for an excellent item to use in duels, consider choosing Blade of the Ruined King. Deals damage based on a percentage of your opponent's current health and steals their movement speed. Particularly effective against tanks or when you need to stick closely to a specific target. It's also good when paired with other items with
on-hit effects.
Chempunk Chainsword boosts Vi's attack damage/health for sustained fights and duels, while also applying grievous wounds to the target.
A strong purchase against champions such as Kayn ( The Darkin Scythe: Rhaast), Samira, Nami, Soraka, or Sona.
A good pickup for Vi if you need the added mobility. While moving, you charge up bonuson-hit damage as physical damage when striking a target. When hit at maximum momentum stacks, they're slowed for 1 second.
Stores a % of damage taken by Vi, which is then dealt as true damage every second for a few seconds. This item offers damage reduction to sustain long fights, and if you secure a takedown, heal afterwards and stop the bleeding.
Eclipse is an excellent option for Vi, granting shielding, +on-hit % max health damage. Also effective when dealing with tanks or bruisers ( Cho'Gath, Sett, Sion, Malphite, Leona, Sejuani, Warwick, Kayn ( The Darkin Scythe: Rhaast), Darius or Dr. Mundo).
In most games where crowd control is prevalent and you need safety, pick Edge of Night. The spell shield helps to ignore the first ability you get hit by (which can be life-saving). It can also make or break a team fight by blocking critical skills.
Experimental Hexplate provides Vi sustained damage upon hitting Cease and Desist while also providing ultimate cooldown and mobility. Another solid option for Vi is to have more potential in duels, team fights and skirmishes.
Frozen Heart reduces the effectiveness of auto-attack oriented champions such as Kayle, or Gwen. It also reduces damage on incoming auto attacks you receive.
Jak'Sho, The Protean is an excellent option to consider when ahead or if you need durability in late game team fights. Also great into champions that possess mixed damage in their kits such as Kayle, Akali or Warwick
With Maw of Malmortius, you gain increased durability when dueling or fighting with magic damage champions. These can include Brand, LeBlanc, Vex, and Akali, who deal heavy damage from their combo rotations.
Pick this up when facing champions with shielding ( Sett, Karma, Janna & Lulu) or against champions such as Samira, Yasuo, Yone and Nilah, who pick up shield based items such as Immortal Shieldbow & Sterak's Gage.
With Spear of Shojin Vi gains improved ability uptime along with improved damage. An excellent mid to late-game item purchase to improve her team fight and dueling power.
Spirit Visage will give you decent health, magic resist, ability haste and % base health regeneration. Great for improving the effectiveness of Vi's Blast Shield, giving you more shielding in fights with the enemy. Finally, combine this item with Revitalize for even more shielding power.
Offers extra attack damage, tenacityand also provides a shield when below 30% max health. A solid bruiser item that strengthens her dueling potential and allows you to absorb damage from skills shots and certain executable abilities (not including Pyke's Death from Below or Urgot's Fear Beyond Death).
Vi is a strong duelist, and with Sterak's Gage, it can be improved upon when dealing with tough matchups, duels and skirmishes.
Strengthens her dueling potential and deals damage within a small area. The provided Tiamat component makes it an excellent rush option to clear jungle camps faster. Strong into immobile champions or champions you wish to slow down and isolate in combat.
A neat trick you can attempt is activating its effect at the tail end of Cease and Desist, making it much easier to isolate your targets.
Excellent for securing kills as Vi. The execution from The Collector helps ensure takedowns during fights and skirmishes are secured, providing extra gold needed to reach your item power spikes sooner, snowballing the game much faster and creating a tempo advantage against the enemy.
If you find yourself being struck byon-hit basic attacks, against physical damage heavy teams, or against teams that have healing-based champions/abilities or items you wish to reduce, then consider Thornmail as your grievous wounds option on Vi.
With this Tiamat upgrade, you'll have faster jungle clears and still provides strong damage output. Once completed, you'll dealon-hit % max health damage to your target, along with an additional % max health damage to targets in a cone behind them.
An excellent choice for Vi for a mix of durability and damage and pairs nicely with other health-related items.
Warmog's Armor is an excellent tank option for Vi, providing increased durability and sustainability, due to increased regeneration outside combat and granting additional mobility.
It is an excellent way to recover health after taking a short/long trade over an objective ( turret, dragon, baron nashor, rift herald, or a duel/skirmish.
An excellenton-hit option to consider as Vi in fights where you need a mix of damage, durability, and fighting power all in one. Wit's End is best acquired when against champions such as LeBlanc, Karthus, Akali, Kayle or Ekko.
With Youmuu's Ghostblade, you have another great tool for dealing with squishier targets in combat. The added ghosting effect helps you escape or keep up with your target.
