Hey everyone, welcome to a special kind of video that we don't make too often. Some of
you may know I love to play a lot of off meta champs for 2 reasons. First, there are so
many champions that just aren't played very often because everyone wants to follow the
meta. And the second reason is that if you play a champion that is not played often,
or play a champ in a role they don't normally play, they wont be too sure how to play against
it. The champion we have for you today is simple,
has one of the best laning phases in the game, and is my go to blind pick in Challenger right
now. That champion is Vi mid.
Vi is normally a jungler, so if you blind pick her, obviously nobody is going to think
your mid and counter you. Her laning phase like I said, is one of the best in the game
and she's really hard to gank. Were first going to give you a general playstyle guide,
and throughout the video we will cover builds and runes.
I'm sure youre wondering, how could Vi be strong in mid? Well, it all comes down to
her passive, her E, and her base health regen. Vi has the highest base health regen in the
game sitting at 10 every 5 seconds, and gets 1 each level eventually getting to 27 per
5 seconds.
Now Vis passive, blast shield, gives her a shield everytime she hits an enemy with an
ability, this includes minions. So by using these two things together, you are extremely
difficult to poke out of lane. The playstyle is very simple. Whenever the
enemy champion goes to harass you, you use your E to proc your shield to nullify their
damage, poke them, and push the wave all at the same time.
Vis W, is a three hit passive, when you proc it, it gives Vi bonus attack speed, shreds
20% of their armor, and does a % of their maximum health as damage. But that's the important
part. Whenever you proc her W, it reduces the cooldown of your passive, the blast shield,
by 3 seconds. So you want to just auto a minion 3 times whenever it's down to reduce the cooldown
and get the shield up again. When it comes to which abilities to max. You
want to max E first, even though your Q gives more damage. This is very important because
you don't want to be using your Q in lane very often. This is what makes her so hard
to gank. If you have Q and get ganked, you just charge it up and Q away. You want to
just whittle them down with your E, then when going in for the kill, that's when you use
E. So now that you have the general idea down.
Let's look at some gameplay, as there are some small things you need to know as well.
And this just sounds too easy doesn't it?
The first game were going to look at is a smurf game in Gold to show you how it looks
at lower ranks, then were going to jump into a challenger replay.
I'm against Ahri in this one, a ranged champion, so I started with a dorans sheild. Remember
when we said Vi has the highest base health regen in the game? Well now combine that with
dorans sheild and your regen is insane. When it comes to starting items, you can always
go doran's shield, in any matchup. But, in some melee matchups I like doran's blade if
I know I wont need the regen. Experiment and see what works for you.
Anyways, as we start the gameplay, I walk up to the minions, and when ahri goes to auto
attack me, I use my E on the melee minion, which hits her and procs my blast shield.
First, look at the damage from one E, thats a ton of damage for an ability that has 2
charges, and costs 26 mana. Then after that, I walk up to the ranged ones
and hit her with my E again since Ahri's level 1 is pretty weak. When it comes to Vis E,
you don't want to be spamming it like this all of the time. If I was against Syndra,
I would be playing more defensive with my E, using it to block damage and grab CS while
poking at the same time, where as the last E I used was a just pure offensive one for
poke. It will depend on the matchup.You don't want to have no charges of your E when you
need it for the sheild. But after that, I finish collecting CS and
clear the wave. The last E I use here wasnt good, you pretty much want every single E
you go for to connect with the enemy champion as it has a large range and if they go to
harass you they should be hit. The next wave arrives, and I use my E again.
Look at ahris health already, and I havent even been close to melee range of her. I've
been spamming my E, and I nearly have full mana.
Since I don't have my E, I collect some CS with autos, and take some damage from ahri
that I don't care about. With doran's shield I just regen all of it back up. But when I
hit level 2, I level up my Q next. This is important as your Q is your escape, so always
grab it here. Anyways the wave pushes back to me after that,
and I show you another use of your E when it comes to minion control. You can use your
E to thin the wave like this, so you can freeze, or just to trim it down so the enemy doesn't
have a huge wave to fight with. When I hit level 3, notice I do not put a
point in my W. You want to put another point in E here, as the damage it gives it much
more than what the W will do this early in the game. You are mostly poking with E and
not going all-in anyways. But I walk up the ranged minions for 2 reasons
here. First, Im trying to bait ahri charm, and I want to poke ahri. It works perfectly,
baiting her charm out. Since its down and I know the enemy jungler
is top, I walk back towards her and charge up my Q to go in. Your Q does more damage
based on how much you charge it up, so keep that in mind. When trying to land this ability,
let them juke themself out. It goes very fast, so charge it, let them dodge back and forth
a bit, then put your mouse on them, don't try to lead it too much or anything.
But I hit her with Q, auto her with my hail of blades, then back off. I don't do much
damage here because I don't have any E charges left and thats another reason you don't want
to spam it too much, but its still good damage. Alright after that, the lane is looking pretty
good. Shes about 30% mana, and 50% health, while Im at 80% health and still have my potion.
When the next wave arrives, watch how its obvious ahri is going to use Q, so I use my
E to proc my sheild, block her damage, and chunk her again. I mean just look at the damage,
its so insane. Then I just work on clearing the wave to crash
it on the tower. Now, this is a good time to talk about another strong part of this
strategy. In this lane so far, I haven't dropped below 80% health or used my potion, and I
can push the wave and crash it easily without using my Q, which gives me mid priority whenever
I want it. Being able to do this is huge. It lets you get vision wheever you want, roam
to jungle fights or other lanes, and gives you a tempo advantage on the enemy mid. Basically
meaning you will always be able to shove and recall before them so you get back out on
the map faster, unless you poke them out of lane which is always good.
Anyways, after I crash the wave, I walk into bot river and drop a ward here since my jungler
is taking top scuttle, I figure the enemy nidalee will come here for bot scuttle soon.
When I come back to lane, Ahri is playing way too aggressive with no mana, so I charge
up my Q, and watch this little trick I do here which lets me land a lot more Qs even
against challengers. A lot of players don't realize how far Vis Q can go, so you can start
charging, then turn around acting like you're not going to go for it, then turn again and
go in. It works very well hitting max range Qs.
But after I land it, this is where hail of blades is good, you want to auto, E, then
auto again very fast since your E is an auto reset. I walk away a bit after that to bait
her back in.. Then flash auto E ignite to finish her off.
But I could have just used E on the minion and ignited her for the kill, I didn't need
to flash. But either way you see the damage is very high when you have your E charges
in the all-in. This next clip is a good example of how strong
your level 6 is as well. I want to dive this ahri since she's around half health, so I
start charging my Q. She taunts me with her E and cancels it. If Vis Q is cancelled mid
channel, it drops to a 3 second cooldown. As I start running away, Nidalee hits me offscreen
with a spear. If we pause here, does this look like a situation
that a champion could get out of? Of course not.
But I use my ult on nidalee, which procs my blast shield, ignite her, then auto, E, and
tap my Q. This is the important part. Even though Q does more damage when you charge
it longer, sometimes you want to just tap it for the CC chain like this, which lets
me kill her before she can use anything. And as you can see, this is with my E being maxed
even though Q gives more damage. Vi has a ton of burst even without Q max.
For this next clip, I'm roaming down bot since the enemy bot lane and jungler are overextended.
The fed one is ezreal, but its 3 of them, if I get CC chained I can easily be killed.
So I start charging my Q to get ezreal to E away, and since he uses E too far away from
Morg to get her black shield, I Q onto him and chunk him pretty hard.
Now the important thing here is how I use my ult. Vi is unstoppable during her ult,
so you want to use it to go through CC. So as soon as morg binding is hitting me, I ult
the ezreal to go ignore it and finish him off.
Then when my Q comes back up, I use it to kill the morg as well.
Alright so I'm sure some of you are thinking, it can't be this easy in high elo. Well, lets
jump to a game in high elo where im playing Vi vs Annie bot,as i'm sure most of you know
is the best Annie on the server. At the start of the lane, its going to look
a lot like the previous one in gold. I use E on the melee minions to poke Annie and proc
shield in case she uses her Q on me. Then I collect a last hit before backing off
again. So in high elo Im a lot more reserved with my E, and not spamming it as it leaves
me opened to be punished. Then when I walk up for these 2 ranged minions,
I see Annie is trying to harass, so I angle towards her using E to collect the minions
and poke her. I didn't have my shield for this one but it's ok since I was full health.
After that, the next wave arrives, and when Annie walks up to use Q, I use my E just in
case shes using it on me, and poke her some more.
I think about going all-in for a level 2 kill, but she backs off pretty quickly, so I use
it to help clear the wave to crash it on the tower.
Alright, so in just 2 waves, Annie has already used both of her potions, and the lane is
over. In high elo, things like this are a big deal. If I have full health and still
have my potion with doran's shield, and she uses both of her potions in 2 waves, there's
no way she can win the lane anymore. But I drop a ward bot side, then go back into
midlane and do the same things as before, until Karthus comes from behind me to gank.
Remember I said if you use Q smartly, you are really hard to gank? Well, look how easy
it is to escape. I just charge up Q, and go over the wall to safety. You can go over any
of these walls near mid so you have a lot of escape routes.
After I get ganked, I walk back into mid and poke annie a little and hit level 4. Shes
low enough to kill.. So I charge up Q, land it, then auto and E,
and she flashes away. It would have killed her, but she levels up right before she dies
which was extremely lucky. Either way, as you can see, even in Challenger
Vis laning is very very good. Shes my go-to blind pick as I don't think she has many losing
matchups.
Alright, so you get the idea. Let's quickly go over runes and builds before closing this
out. For runes, I've been taking 2 main pages. Against tankier teams with a lot of melee
champions, I like to run this conqueror page, as the burst from hail of blades isn't as
useful. You can take the tenacity rune instead of attack speed if they have a lot of CC.
Then vs squishy teams, you can take this hail of blades page. You can swap relentless hunter
to ultimate hunter if you want, or sudden impact to taste of blood if the lane is very
hard. For builds, Vi can build a lot of different
items. You can build her as a tanky bruiser, or even as a bursty assassin. The core items
though are Tiamat and Triforce. Tiamat lets you clear waves without having to use all
of your E charges which is important since you max E first. And triforce is Vis staple
item, it does so much for her. She synergizes very well with Sheen, you can get it off twice
with 1 rotation. After those 2 items, you have a lot of different
options. If they have a lot of AP, I like to go wits end. If they have a lot of burst,
I will go steraks or GA, sometimes deaths dance. If they are really squishy and you
are snowballing, you can go youmuu's ghostblade. Experiment with the builds and let us know
if you find something good as there are so many different ways to build her.
Alright guys, so now you know the secret OP pick that I'm using right now. Let us know
how it goes and if you like these kinds of guides. If you like them maybe we will make
a series out of it since like I said, I play a lot of off meta champions for good reason.
But thats going to bring us to the end of this one. We hope you enjoyed and thanks for
watching!
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