Jungle Items for Vi?

Maestro80·12/27/2014, 9:12:01 PM·1 votes·1,200 views

I play a lot of Vi jungle and I usually pick up a Stalker's Blade with a Warrior enchantment. I like the chilling smite for its help in ganks, though I have considered trying the Skirmisher's Sabre to see if it's better for late game fights.

However, I have been getting a lot of suggestions from people in my games to get a Ranger's Trailblazer. This seems like a bit of a waste, since she sustains pretty decently and her E can usually kill the little minions in a shot or two, so the AoE aspect of the smite isn't really necessary. I just wanted to make sure that I'm not missing something here.

I have also been experimenting recently with going Devourer instead of Warrior. I actually quite like it... Vi's skills largely revolve around Auto-attacks, particularly her W. If I'm doing well in a game where the enemy team has more than one tanky player, I will go Devourer and max W before E. The %Damage is great vs tanks and the faster you attack, the more procs you get in a team fight. One side effect of this is I seem to clear the jungle waaaaay faster with Devourer, as opposed to Warrior. The last few games I've done this I've had pretty obscene stacks on my Devourer by the end of the match. It makes sense to me that going heavy attack speed (Bererker's Greaves and Devourer) combined with the stacking armor penetration of Black Cleaver would be pretty good on her. Is this terribly bad compared with the Warrior enchantment? A lot of players in my games have given my crap for it... until I beat people senseless, then they shut up. I just want to be sure I'm not totally handicapping myself.

2 Comments

HellMuff12/27/2014, 9:18:01 PM1 votes

Seems like it works, really depends on the match cause people like us are kinda low silver. At our rank "meta" is honestly dumb down here due to people not being good enough to fill the meta... lol.

So just carry with what gets you wins, at this stage we have to literally carry ourselves out alone or in duo que

ChexMex12/27/2014, 9:43:40 PM1 votes

Vi is an early to mid game jungler who falls off late game damage wise. Due to this, your two logical explanations should be:

I need to carry my team early and get them fed with Warriors and Stalkers OR I need to carry my team late and get fed with Devourer and Trailblazer.

As a jungle, your primary focus are your lanes. You get devour and trail signals to your lanes that ' i dont care about you ' or ' i dont care as much '.

Vi is super powerful even with only 1 damage item (I like to go cleaver if they are tanky, ice born if they like to run but don't have gapclosers, triforce for full damage). The rest, you NEED to build tanky.

item 3006 are basically useless on vi, 25 movement speed... Versus item 3117 Having amazing mobility around the map? item 3009 Having less amazing mobility but not losing it ever? item 3158 Having more Q's and E's and R's? item 3111 Being CC'd makes THEM lose out on maximum duration item 3047 Reducing 10% of basic attacks?

Mobi's and Mercs are my top favorite, and the last i'd get is berserkers greaves.