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Champion guide

What the Rift Lab holds on this champion: the kit as Riot publishes it, the build the lab reviewed, and the matchups it has documented. Anything the dataset does not record is left out rather than filled in.

In-game title
The Ruined King
Official role
ASSASSIN
Lane
Jungle
Difficulty
Medium
Source tier
A

Abilities

Riot's own text for each slot, in the order the champion learns them.

PASSIVE SOVEREIGN'S DOMINATION

Enemies who fall before Viego become wraiths. By attacking a wraith, Viego temporarily seizes control of the dead enemy's body, healing for a percentage of his target's max health and gaining access to their basic abilities and items. He replaces their Ultimate with a free cast of his own.

1 BLADE OF THE RUINED KING

Viego's spectral blade passively deals bonus percent current Health damage On-Hit and strikes twice vs. enemies he recently hit with an Ability, stealing Health. Viego can activate this Ability to thrust his zweihander forward, impaling enemies in front of him.

2 SPECTRAL MAW

Viego charges up before dashing forward, releasing a ball of concentrated Black Mist that stuns the first enemy hit.

3 HARROWED PATH

Viego commands the Black Mist to haunt and surround a piece of terrain. Viego can hide in the Mist as a wraith, gaining camouflage, Move Speed, and Attack Speed.

ULTIMATE HEARTBREAKER

Viego teleports to a nearby location and executes an enemy champion on arrival, piercing their heart and causing a destructive shockwave around them that knocks away their allies.

Reviewed build

The reviewed purchase order and rune page for this champion. Every entry that has a page of its own is linked to it; an item the catalogue holds no page for is printed as a name rather than pointed at a page that does not exist.

Core build order

  1. Essence Reaver
  2. The Collector
  3. Lord Dominik's Regard
  4. Berserker's Greaves

Runes

Situational answers

One slot, changed when the enemy team changes the problem. These are answers, not automatic purchases.

Matchups

  • 5reviewed counter links
  • 5reviewed synergy links

Harder matchups

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Ability text and the in-game title follow Riot's official Wild Rift champion pages. The tier letter is the external snapshot shown on the tier list, and the build is the Nexus reviewed snapshot — neither is a win rate.