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.

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.

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.

Viego is performing well with a high pick and ban rate so we're toning down his power by walking back the AD he gained from his Worlds patch buff.

Viego is performing a bit too well so we're nerfing him. He's particularly strong in lower MMR when accounting for mastery, so we’re lowering his late game armor, which he currently has plenty of.

Viego is just a little under his appropriate power level, so we’re looking to give him a little love (which he sorely needs, poor Isolde). We’re playing up his base AD for two reasons: To give him more affinity toward Trinity Force as an alternate starting item, and to lightly re-add some Elite-skew as he’s currently weaker in higher MMRs and early game buffs tend to even that out. We’re also aware that his optimized jungle clear is extremely fast, so in order to not make it TOO fast while also giving him the early dueling power from this base AD, we’re slightly lowering his bonus monster damage on Q.

Lane Viego was nerfed a few years ago to reduce his power in Pro play as a flex pick. Since then, we've nerfed him in other Pro-focused ways as well as lowered the amount of systemic sustain available in early lane, and think there may be room to give back a bit of wicked good lane power.

We’re buffing Viego because he’s the king. On a more serious note, Viego’s been struggling to find more than just love recently with his declining solo queue and pro strength. Now that he’s in a weaker spot, we’re comfortable giving him some measured buffs to bring his power levels up a little in a way that will reward higher risk/higher reward builds. Hail to the king, baby!

Viego's been sitting on the jungle throne for a little too long, especially in Pro play. We're curbing the king's reset potential and giving laners more opportunity to react to his ganks.

The last set of Viego nerfs did the job and prevented him from dominating at Worlds, but it hit him a little too hard at all levels of play. We're buffing him slightly with an emphasis on his crit builds rather than bringing back some of his tankiness.

Viego's been breaking too many hearts in the pro scene, so we're bringing down the sovereign's domination a notch. His tanky builds are offering too much pop-off potential, so we're significantly cutting back the power of his resets if he's not building damage. We're also increasing his camouflage detection range and reducing his basic attack range which, combined, will make it much harder for Viego to hide in the Black Mist as a source of safety. Lastly, we're reducing the CC on his ult since that wasn't really its main intent.

Despite his last visit to the patch notes in 11.13, Viego’s continued to be a popular pick in all his roles. We’re taking another pass by targeting his solo lane power and compensating with additional monster damage in the hopes he’ll end up in a more balanced state long-term .

With his ability to reliably replenish his health from waves, Viego’s been sitting a bit too comfortably in the mid lane. We’re shifting some power out of this sustain into a place all his roles can appreciate.

After tinkering with Viego for a while, we’ve pulled together a few significant bugfixes that should add up to a slight nerf.

Bring your darkest desires to life with Viego in patch 11.2!