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The Ruined King
Patch 26.20 · Stats from the 26.18 Master+ sample (4,933 games).
Viego, The Ruined King, possesses the body of an enemy he has just killed through Sovereign's Domination and executes with Heartbreaker. Counted Master+ Viegos chose between Conqueror and Hail of Blades, and Kraken Slayer, The Collector, Immortal Shieldbow was the build they bought most. Hecarim, Qiyana and Bel'Veth beat him most often. Wukong and Shyvana he edged out. Vi and Kayn were level with him.
FighterAssassin
Patch 26.18 · Jungle · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 4,933 games · Preview sample
4,933
Games
Very High
Confidence
56.3%Win Rate
Flash
Smite51.9%Win Rate
Flash
Ignite
This exact page: taken in 19.2% of games·48.6% win rate over 946 games.
Gain stacks of adaptive force when attacking enemy champions. After reaching 12 stacks, heal for a portion of damage you deal to champions.
Takedowns restore 5% of your missing health and grant an additional 20 gold.
Takedowns on enemies grant permanent Attack Speed.
Deal more damage to low health enemy champions.
+18 Summoner Spell Haste+10 Item Haste
You get free boots at 12 min but you cannot buy boots before then. Each takedown you get makes your boots come 45s sooner.
Hail of Blades34.6% taken · 48.8% win1,707 games
Press the Attack3.8% taken · 49.2% win189 games
Grasp of the Undying0.1% taken · 66.7% win6 gamesPrecision + Inspiration55.2% taken · 48.5% win2,724 games
Domination + Precision32.4% taken · 49.1% win1,598 games
Precision + Resolve5.5% taken · 52.0% win271 gamesWhich ability to max first, and the level each point goes in — Viego's most common path.
QViego's spectral blade passively deals bonus percent current Health damage On-Hit and strikes twice vs.
Cooldown 5/4.5/4/3.5/3s
WViego charges up before dashing forward, releasing a ball of concentrated Black Mist that stuns the first enemy hit.
Cooldown 8s
EViego commands the Black Mist to haunt and surround a piece of terrain.
Cooldown 14/12/10/8/6s
RViego 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.
Cooldown 120/100/80sMax Q first, then E, then W. Take R whenever available (6 / 11 / 16).
| Ability | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QBlade of the Ruined King | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | |||||||||||||
| WSpectral Maw | W | W | W | W | W | |||||||||||||
| EHarrowed Path | E | E | E | E | E | |||||||||||||
| RHeartbreaker | R | R | R |
How Viego performs against enemy jungle laners
Recommended items by enemy team composition
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Avoid extended fights — its sustain grows with every trade it survives
Deny the reset — it wants a kill to come back out; a warded exit removes it
Punish the cooldown — Viego is exposed while its rotation is down
Ward the flank — vision is what turns its best opening into a worse one
Respect the spike — Riot rates the kit 5/10, so a practised player gets more out of it than the average
PSovereign'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.
Passive — never cast
QBlade 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.
Cooldown 5/4.5/4/3.5/3sRange 600
WSpectral Maw
Viego charges up before dashing forward, releasing a ball of concentrated Black Mist that stuns the first enemy hit.
Cooldown 8sRange 400
EHarrowed 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.
Cooldown 14/12/10/8/6sRange 750
RHeartbreaker
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.
Cooldown 120/100/80sRange 500
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change Viego in 4 patches. The latest is patch 26.18, published 2026-09-09.
Base Stats
PSovereign's Domination
Viego's winrate has been on a downward trend recently, and his players have noticed and begun dropping him. He has a fair bit of room to bring up, both just generally and for the viability of his more bruisery alt build.
Base Stats
QBlade of the Ruined King
Viego is performing worse this season due to direct adjustments and overall game-wide changes. As a result he needs some power added back in, both compensating some crit scaling that he lost and generally just making him a better fighter.
QBlade of the Ruined King
RHeartbreaker
Viego buys a decent amount of crit chance and we want to make sure those crits allow him to play out a consistent auto-attack pattern, so the larger nerfs are to the active damage of the Q and R.
Base Stats
QBlade of the Ruined King
Viego has crept back up to the top spot in the jungle due in part to the recent Kraken Slayer buffs. Instead of a straight forward nerf we're going to be shifting some of his power from the jungle into solo lanes, somewhere many players used to play him back when he came out. We're doing this by making his Q more useful against champions and minions while making it do a bit less to jungle monsters.
Riot's data lists 8 looks for Viego with their own art, the base skin included and 35 chroma variants.
Best ARAM build
This champion’s win rate on each patch the preview sample spans, over its own games there. What actually changed each patch is in Riot’s own notes.
| Stat | Viego | Rank | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base health | 630 | =61st | 620 |
| Health per level | 109 | =38th | 104 |
| Base armor | 34 | =45th | 30 |
| Armor per level | 4.6 | =82nd | 4.6 |
| Base magic resist | 32 | =32nd | 32 |
| Magic resist per level | 2.05 | =4th | 1.55 |
| Base attack damage | 57 | =107th | 59 |
| Base attack speed | 0.658 | =54th | 0.656 |
| Attack speed per level | 2.75% | =63rd | 2.5% |
| Move speed | 345 | =9th | 335 |
| Attack range | 200 | =85th | 175 |
| Stat | Level 1 | Per level | Level 18 | Rank at 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 630 | +109 | 2483 | =40th of 173 |
| Armor | 34 | +4.6 | 112.2 | 53rd of 173 |
| Magic resist | 32 | +2.05 | 66.85 | =5th of 173 |
Riot Data Dragon 16.20.1. Growth curve: League of Legends Wiki — Champion statistic.
Viego, The Ruined King, is a Fighter and Assassin champion in League of Legends. Riot rates the kit 5/10 for difficulty, 6/10 for attack, 4/10 for defense and 2/10 for magic. Viego spends no resource on abilities and has 8 skins with their own art.
Once ruler of a long-lost kingdom, Viego perished over a thousand years ago when his attempt to bring his wife back from the dead triggered the magical catastrophe known as the Ruination. Transformed into a powerful, unliving specter tortured by an obsessive longing for his centuries-dead queen, Viego now stands as the Ruined King, controlling the deadly Harrowings as he scours Runeterra for anything that might one day restore her, and destroying all in his path as the Black Mist pours endlessly from his cruel, broken heart.
