I love how viego was seen as the weakest brawler and I was like “but pta sunderer lookin sexy tho my guys” (rest of community) “DAMN bro where you find this shit?” (The balance demons in my mind anytime a patch releases) “haulbreaker yi......you know you want tooo...... come on man it’ll be great.”
@@fearsomefoursome4 i remember playing a pbe game with a viego who decided to hack after their team started losing. he had some ridiculous number on his dark seal stacks. he wasn't even killing anybody, he just one shot all the towers and ended the game because he didn't like it. big bruh.
@@aetriandimitri190 Polish most popular lore youtuber (marvecc) didnt expect viego to look Like this, even if he was a charming prince that doesnt explain his lack of being ruined
Also because he's not supposed to look anything like the Mordekaiser-style King Of Death archetype. It's in the lore, people. He was never supposed to be king, he was some idiot prince blinded by young love forced into the throne before he had to make any hard decisions or do anything badass. You might go "but obviously it's designed because sex sells" and you're right. But it would make no sense, LORE WISE, for him to be a Mordekaiser level uber chad.
@@Ellebeeby Naw, i think zoe hit the mark. The aspect of twilight picking a mischievous child, because itself is a trickster is actually good in my eyes.
Actually I'd say his Camo ability is less like you have a boombox strapped to you, but rather your in the middle of the desert and you are dragging a massive forest camouflage net with you. Yeah the enemy knows where you are, but only in the general vicinity so they have to start messing around in the net to try and find you while your ditching the net and running off.
It's not even a 0/10 power spike, it's the "be in the general vicinity when someone dies" power spike. You don't even need an item, just the ability to gently caress someone your allies are about to kill so you can profit from the fact they were less garbage than you all laning phase.
Viego, the champion that riot tried to give a cool changing mechanic but basically just gave him being untargetable for 2 seconds whenever he kills someone and an ult reset
Basically he has the same problem as Sylas, the ability to steal someone skills is soo good that they gave them bland, boring and underwhelming basic abilities
More like they learned from splash bcs at the beginning he had very god basic abilities and mechanics but it was broken then nerfed 4 times and now he is alright as a champ
Zoe: steals your summoner spell Neeko: Camuflages as your champion Sylas: steals your main spell Yummi: Attaches herself to your champion Viego: becomes your fuckign champion all around Isolde: probably controls your champion as she wishes Whats next? Next champ fucking disconect you from the game and hack your computer.
There used to be a kindred bug a couple years back that caused you to disconnect every time you looked at her recall animation. It cause EVERYONE to disconnect, even kindred. You had to walk into the middle of the lane, pan your camera away, recall, then move then reattach camera. Also old mordekaiser controlled your champion so if they put that in isolde imma be an isolde main
I'd rather have this version of Viego than the literal unkillable machine. I think he is balanced as much as he can be, which is weird to say for a champion released in 2021.
It is kinda sad to think that they could've just made him Commander Ledros instead and i think everyone would've like that version of The Ruined King. but nope..... gotta be edgy.
tbf it said on the ruined king lore he was a very young king that lived selfishly but not the "raid boss barbarian" type more like "i am royalty i don't care" type
@Justin Nguyen he basically was a prince he wasn't the eldest son so he accepted a selfish royal life without the responsibility of ruling, until his brother died and he had to rule unexpectedly
When I first saw the Viego characters and how it looked I was kinda sad, I always expected The Ruined King to be more old, with a beard, strong and badass. Recently Ive started playing him a lot and after learning about his lore Ive grown to LOVE the way he looks, Ive always loved champs like Mordekaiser, Darius, Sylas etc all these badasses looking champs but Ive got to say that Viego is among the top of my pref champs anyways.
@@Bloodmoon_Daisho No he doesn't, he said " acente" which is not a word in spanish. He meant to say "acento" which translates to accent. Funnily enough, even if he didn't mess that up, you can tell by his accent that he is not fluent in spanish.
@@5frogfrenzy Ever saw that video of when there was a cockroach in his room and he was scared of it and was talking to his mom in spanish? Fluent spanish
Yeah but he's so irritating to play against even if his winrate isn't too high. Think of it like Akali when she was first reworked--annoying af whenever you fight her but still not too difficult to win against. Only difference is that Viego takes far less skill (does somewhat less damage from what I've seen too tbf).
...oh wait. Mordekaiser kind of fits the "Ruined King" name as he was a leader, that got ruined/betrayed, and who's life goal is to takeover "what was stolen from him"....
Can we just talk about how Viego has the MOVESET OF PYKE?! They both an ability that is just a stab forward (not looking at pyke's pull), they both have an invisibility that screams, "IM NEAR YOU BE SCARED!" that also cant charge abilitys with, they both have a dash/stun in the same move, and a blink/execute. The passive, double hit, and pull are the only differences.
They play completely differently from eachother, viego is a duelist that is great at going in and out of combat, and can shred tanks, meanwhile pyke pulls and ccs people while reallying on team to lower the enemy enough to ult
ok, character design nerd here and i'm going to justify Viego's look. The important thing to remember about viego is that he never wanted to be king, until his brother died he was happy just being a spoiled prince. even when he became king he never took any of his duties seriously, and obsessed over Isolde when he met her. so when his love betrayed him by stabbing him in the chest, quite literally breaking his heart. he became the literal toxic boyfriend of league. He has a young and clean looking face because he never fought any battles, he was spoiled. he has a literal bleeding heart where a deathly mist flows from. and he has royal clothes with armour over them that has been corrupted and deformed by the mist (in the ruined king trailer, you can even see a heart pattern on his clothes. Viego is also hot. yes, this is a character design element, and it's pretty important to him. Women in league have this problem where every single one of them needs to be pretty, sexy, and same faced (with VERY FEW exceptions). Viego is this too, but it works out well for him as a character. he's the example of being pretty on the outside but rotten on the inside. from his interactions we can tell that Isolde never loved him. not really. "you see this slaughter? i do it for you!" really exemplifies the gross clingyness Viego has to his wife's soul. and that's why his design works really well
@@atocanboi409 No, not anymore. Back around Camille's release, Riot started doing machinimas for champion trailers instead of actual cinematics, probably because they were pumping the money into things like the Star Guardian music videos from around that time. We've just recently started getting champion cinematics again.
He's definitely on the stronger side, I'm in the top 500 viego's na and he has definite strengths and weaknesses and honestly sad over how Skooch talks about him, dude has a 44% winrate, 29 games, and builds him almost full assassin, obviously he thinks he sucks and just dies constantly
@@aetriandimitri190 lol I mean he's pretty bad at the game and peaks plat let's be honest.. I haven't played s11 I stopped season ten when I peaked masters and got banned lol and never came back. But clearly just watching him especially laning he's pretty good.
@@cannedsquasher5923 Yeah just watching the gameplay made me cringe, he complains that viego is too squishy when he's w'ing into 3 full hp enemies without any mist, doesn't matter the champ unless you are super fed you're going to die, and judging by his profile and match history he rarely is even slightly fed with viego
@@cannedsquasher5923 Yeah he's treating him like some dive carry like an assassin or like an olaf, when I first started playing viego thats what I thought to, but I kept feeding so I took a moment and reviewed my gameplay and realized the optimal playstyle is of someone that picks people off through the mist. He can't frontline since even with his sustain and bruiser items he is immobile and he can't dive due to no escape besides ult or flash. However you are wrong on him focusing the most fed champ no matter what, thats something for assassins, sometimes you may want to first target someone who's feeding to get quick resets and can use their abilities, like quickly killing a maokai to then w q r onto the adc
zoe: steals your sums pyke: steals your kills neeko: steals your appearance aphelios: 200 years yuumi: steals your enjoyment sylas: steals your ult samira: steals your lp rell: steals your resistances seraphine: steals any hope of riot becoming a good company AND NOW, I PRESENT TO YOU viego: steals you
I actually don’t mind the whole pretty boy look to Viego, it’s a neat subversion to the the evil king of monsters schtick. Like, they could’ve make him into another generic Lich King/Darth Vader/Sauron clad head to toe in skull-studded plate mail, but that’s been done before here in the form of Mordekaiser, and he’s also undead.
Yet people are expecting him to be nerfed. I'm not exactly surprised, he's a monster against any melee champ in lane. It's funny how Riot was making a jungler, and he became a mid laner.
Loved the lore....saw the character reveal....*was slightly disappointed*.....saw the character move set.....*had a relapse betrayal from the GoT ending*. But currently? Still disappointed when ever I see this stain upon the rift. I take great pleasure cleaning Viego’s off my mace as Mordekaiser.
As European, I got so disappointed in Viego being THE RUINED KING, that I just cannot take anything connected to him seriously. Like next toplane AP bruiser will be his girlfriend. Wow. Next KDA when ? Also Skooch, great video with exceptionally good quality. Unlike Riot balance team or MAH BOI MORDEKAISER REWORK.
why? only good looking people are allowed to have romance as something essential in their lifes? Even after being corrupted by magic that is supposed to make you look like a demon?
@@paulgotik Well no, that would just be shallow if only good looking people were able to find love. But when it comes to romantic storytelling, there tends to be a few tropes that get checked off. A common look for these characters is looking or acting a certain way. If you look up the wikipedia page for romantic hero for example you will find this passage Literary critic Northrop Frye noted that the Romantic hero is often "placed outside the structure of civilization and therefore represents the force of physical nature, amoral or ruthless, yet with a sense of power, and often leadership, that society has impoverished itself by rejecting. Other characteristics of the Romantic hero include introspection, the triumph of the individual over the "restraints of theological and social conventions", wanderlust, melancholy, misanthropy, alienation, and isolation. Viego fits a lot of these characteristics when it comes to his storytelling, so it only makes sense that he look the part as well.
Hey I'm really glad you brought these back, I was gone for just a wee bit(two years) because of some large life changes like moving across the US from my entire family and any semblance of friends but I'm glad to find your videos again because its nice to see you breakdown the champions
They reworked his lore before release. Prior to that the ruined king was one of the altar voices on twisted tree line. Also I really love the people calling for nerfs on him when he’s countered in lane by bramble and countered in jungle by warding and watching out for the spooky mist. I can say with my 100+ games mastery 7 on him that he is NOT broken. He just spikes super hard with BoRK
so lets see : Q: easy auto attack modifier procs, built in sustain, Total AD scaling rather then bonus AD, 3sec cd. W: chargeable and retargetable dash, with a stun, auto attack reset for more easy attack modifier procs, baby mode conqueror proc. E: turn a good chunk of the map your "bone zone" where you become camouflaged and gain movement speed. R: throw away your currently possessed champ who's abilities you have already used up(for free) and becomes cc immune during the cast time, then gap close, deal 120% of TOTAL AD to all enemies in an aoe increased by crit chance and an aoe knock up, missing HP scaling damage (aka finisher) another auto attack effect proc, can be recast of passive gets activated. "passive": Viego can transform into any enemy champion that died with Viego's help(takedown) for 8 seconds, when transforming he is untargetable and after transforming is healed for a % of the targets : max HP; bonus AD; AP; bonus attack speed. now lets compare Viago to a champion Skooch uses as a comparison, Ahri: Q = skill shot that goes forward and back dealing true damage while going backwards. W = 3 balls that deal low damage prioritizing champions with a 1.5 sec decaying movement speed boost. E = slow moving skill shot that when hit charms and slows the enemy and makes them take 20% mode damage from ahri's abilites for 3 sec. R = 3 dashes that deal damage Passive = ability hits give stacks at 9 stacks Ahri's next ability heals her for 9% AP. I personally think this is a clear case of Skooch being bias.
I actually like the decision to make him more of an edgy goth than some giant monster overlord. My boy Mordekaiser pretty much has that on lockdown and I don’t think they want to overlap themes too much. Viego is spoiled royalty and a hopeless romantic that got twisted into a monster when he tried to resurrect his wife beyond all reason and sanity, which is a really interesting idea and fits his emo boy band appearance. Plus it kinda feels like Viego, even though he’s certainly threatening and impactful in the universe, is just act 1 before the real world-ending threat of mordekaiser. (I really hope there are mordekaiser references in the RK game)
One time when I was playing Viego, I was in a really stupid situation, so I singled out their talon, turned into him, and just hopped over 5 walls to escape.
PSA: Beware the 200 years. Possessing and un-possessing Aphelios crashes your game for about 1.5 seconds (Spaghetti code tries to figure out how to switch between the two HUDs)
10:35 Skooch: Hey man do you mind if I copy your homework? Hypersugar: Yeah, just change it up a little so nobody can tell. Skooch: How about I link you instead?
To be fair, Viego's W is very similar to Pyke's Q, just with a dash component instead of a pull. And I honestly haven't struggled that much with ganking as him, since you have pseudo-stealth and a continuous speed boost in addition to the W if you gank from the right angle.
heh... precisely when you made that last dad joke, i had a chuckle but regrettably had to issue a "no" because for a closer that was just average for you. respectfully... immediately after said no, you replied with a blatant and indignant "YES!" and i admittedly lost my composure and laughed in my workplace. good on you skooch. good on you.
I think Riot was going for this with a withered man unable to change literally and metaphorically, though I feel like they could’ve gone further with Viego’s design