How To NEVER LOSE On Viego - Every Game is WINNABLE!

Retired pro Perry Norman breaks down four Viego games showing different win conditions: two stomps, a comeback from 6,000 gold down, and a late-game victory despite early struggles. He covers core principles like slow play, fog-of-war control, and playing around your strongest teammate, plus item spike timing and objective usage.
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Yo, what's up guys, it's Perry Norman here. Today I'm gonna be starting a brand new series where I'll be showing you guys how to win on different champions in different scenarios. In this video, we have 4 Viego games with completely different problems. There are 2 stomps, there's a massive comeback, and there's a 41-minute banger where I'm down 6,000 gold at 35 minutes and I still managed to win. Guys, the way you close out a game is completely different from how you win a comeback. That's why most of you guys are confused and running the same full clear or flawed game plan into every single game. And I'm going to show you guys how to navigate these different situations in this video. If you guys don't know me, I'm Perry Norman Norman. I'm a retired pro player. I've been Challenger for around 8 years, and Viego is one of the best champions that I know how to play. Guys, drop the next champion you want to see in the comments down below. Alright, let's jump into the video. Alright guys, we have a Viego against Taliyah game. This is going to be a fun one because our composition kind of sucks and their composition is kind of good. I have to be very creative in order to win this game. Okay, so what do you do when you're playing Viego and the comp kind of sucks? We have to follow some fundamentals on Viego and as a jungler in general. So what am I looking at here, guys? We're looking at a Shen versus Udyr top lane. The Shen, the ult value is going to be great. Udyr is going to be really annoying and tanky in fights, so we'll see. Maybe Udyr is going AD though, who knows. Uh, our mid laner is Ekko versus Katarina, so there's double assassins in the mid lane. This game is kind of going to be a mess because our mid is probably going to play his own game, and the Katarina is a reset champ, so am I. The problem is we don't really have many easy resets. Because the last 2 champions are going to be Tristana and Pyke. These champs have insane dashes and insane range, which is really hard to deal with as Viego. And Taliyah is probably gonna buy Zhonya's. So this game is like, fuck, I'm playing Viego and I might not be able to get any resets. What do I do? I'm gonna show you guys. A lot of it is going to come to me playing very slowly and me playing around the right teammate. So you'll see me emphasize this idea a lot, but play around your fed teammate. And always, always, always play fights slowly, okay? A lot of people on Viego, they like to jump in and kill themselves. You cannot jump in and kill yourself. You have to play super duper slowly. All right, what about the Viego versus Taliyah matchup? So Viego and Taliyah are pretty, pretty much like— if I'm playing Viego and I'm trying to jump Taliyah, I need to have fog of war advantage. If I am not jumping her through the bush, she will just permanently kite me and I can't do anything. So if I don't have bush advantage over her, I'm not fighting. So what this means is my mid lane, bot lane are losing. Look at this, mid lane is getting pushed in, bot lane's getting kind of pushed in, not great HP. And their Taliyah, as we saw from that ward, is pathing towards the bot side. So instead of staying on the map here and looking to do anything, I'm going to recall and I'm going to buy my items and I'm going to run straight here. Again, mid lane's losing, bot lane's losing, so there's simply no play around my teammates there. So let's just go straight to the top side now. And the Taliyah wins the bot crab. I'll win the top crab. We're gonna buy the Retrix. We're gonna go for Kraken. I need to Danger Ping my Ball in here too by a little bit. Let them know that, hey, Taliyah's there. There she is. And we're going to die. Great. It's okay. My mid lane dies. My top lane dies. If this Taliyah gets cancelled by any chance, we might be able to get like the Krug respawn, but probably not. What I could do is maybe play with my Shen here. I don't know if Udyr has a ward or not, but I have my item, so I feel a lot stronger. This guy has Ghost, so we have to consider the fact that he has Ghost. But with, with our damage here, we probably can kill him. W, W, W. Okay, nice. I have enough move speed from the Retrix. Unironically, I have enough move speed from the Retrix, so we were able to make that happen. Beautiful. I don't think this guy's gonna make it in time, so let me take that. Now we're gonna clear towards the bot side. We have to be careful of— now is there Taliyah recalled? Where is she going? She's going to her Krugs straight out of base, but she could run straight to me, so I'm kind of scared here, but I should be okay. Ah, there she is. So let's just grab our wolves and let's just walk away here. See, and that's what jungle tracking is all about, guys, like having an idea of where their jungler could be, and it— you don't have to confirm it or sorry, you don't have to like be 100% correct. You just have to position yourself in a way where if you are correct, you don't get fucked by it. So I didn't know if Taliyah was going to be there or not. I had a gut feeling she might. And with that gut feeling, I decided to change my positioning, change like how I was cutting the camp, and it saved me in that scenario. Here, what we're going to do is I don't think it's going to be ward on either side. I think Taliyah is going to go back to her Krugs. That means her Gromp is going to be up. We're going to try to snag this Gromp, and that's one camp back for us. How do we know that her Gromp is up? Well, she cleared top down. How do we know she's not on her Gromp? Well, she wants to clear all of her topside camps and get that camp advantage. So we're going to evenly trade a camp back. You got my Gromp, I got yours. You scratch my back, I'm going to scratch yours too, bro. And now what we want to do is we want to be very, very, very, very afraid. Should be completely fine here. Just walk on out. She got a Gromp, I got a Gromp. Now we have to be considerate. Their mid laner is missing, their Pyke is missing, their bot lane is missing. I'm gonna pull the Krugs out all the way here just in case some stupid shit does not happen to me and I don't die. Okay, like, this is how you need to play jungle when you're not on the winning side so you don't get invaded and you don't get yourself killed. Now Taliyah probably finished her camps, she's on the dragon. I'm gonna go straight to the top crab. This is what jungle tracking is like, guys. Okay, now let's go straight to the top crab. She did the dragon, great. She might cross over to try to do the top crab, um, while the Ekko is trying to dive top lane. What we can do is we can grab this mid wave in this case, cuz there's a completely free mid wave here. Nobody's going to grab this, so let's grab it ourselves. I'm going to see what, what the Katarina is doing. I'm going to go drop a ward over here, a little, a little deep for us, so we can get some information to see if Taliyah is coming. And now it's clear towards the bot side. I'm not gonna smite. I wanna smite the red buff and the red or the Gromp. Just because if the Taliyah comes to try to steal from me, I'm not gonna get it stolen. Okay, so Katarina teleported bot lane, took a decade. And it's still gonna pay off for her? Wow. Now there's a top wave for us though. So let's go grab this top wave. And our Ekko is getting a lot mid lane. But let's grab this. I actually hard kill this guy here because I'm pretty strong. I'm relatively strong, and I have slows and everything. I just need to land my W here and this guy dies. Max charge W, autos, Qs, bang! If you're gonna walk melee range of me, you must be considerate of your damage, your strength, okay? A lot of people would not see the kill angle there. I saw the kill angle. How do I know it's a kill angle? Look at my items. I have a Heartbound Axe, I have a Retrix, I held tab, I saw he had a Fated Ashes and Amptome. Now let's say I saw that he had Tier 1 boots. Let's say I saw that he had a cloth armor or a Ruby Crystal. That is not killable. But because I know he has Faded Ashes and an Amtom, I can kill him along with my damage here, the Heartbound Axe and the Retrix. If you don't see that kill angle there, you're gonna be like screwed out of a bunch of EXP and the extra gold. Okay, so we're fucking fighting hard down here. Okay, so Taliyah is coming bot lane. Yeah, I'm coming, I'm coming. I think she's dead though. Or not, she's stalling. They get the skill here. Oh fuck. Okay, so Taliyah did not have a blue buff when I killed her, which means her blue buff is probably up. But the Katarina is missing, so I need to be very, very, very, very, very concerned here because the Katarina is not around. There he is. Katarina's back to mid lane, so we can grab this. And what we want to do after is we want to try to grab this crab. I'm going to push the crab towards this direction. I'm not going to push it towards bot lane because my bot lane's recalling. There's Pyke. I'm going to one-shot this crab now and run on out of here. There's Taliyah. Hit the Scryers. Run away, run away, run away. See where Taliyah's going. The Scryers really helps me get information on what Taliyah's doing. Let's pull this all the way back. As you guys can see, like, I'm being so considerate because their champions are generally just stronger than ours. I'm gonna pull this into the bush, clear it like this, run away here. Now let's recall, buy our item, restart, and evaluate who are we playing around? What's, what's this game? What does the game look like? Okay? A lot of you guys do not do this. You guys do not look at who is your strong teammates. Who do you want to play through? And it's a such an important skill. I'm gonna buy one pink ward because we need some vision control to make some decent plays. Yeah, they're not gonna be able to kill this guy. Great. So Shen is doing okay. Caitlyn is not too strong just yet. Nobody's here. That guy's gone. It's a 2 for 1. We take those any day because then I can also grab the top wave. Let's grab this. My bot lane's hard winning. Amazing. Shen is pretty strong, but we gotta think, we gotta ask ourselves, is Shen really the, the teammate we want to be playing towards? As in, is he, is he the strongest person to play around? Genuinely, because he's a Shen, right? Is Shen the person we actually want to play towards? And in, in all honesty, like, Shen is, Shen is a Shen. He wants to be helping the team. Not other way around. So what we're going to do is see who's the next strongest teammate, and that's going to be Caitlyn and Janna. Caitlyn and Janna's strength— they have their items, I believe, uh, they're pinging it at least. We're gonna go play around the bot lane and work with them to try to get this dragon. Now if the Taliyah wins the dragon right away, that's fine. I'm not going to lose my game for dragons. I'm not going to completely change my game for dragons. I'm going to work on getting my completed items. That is the fundamental in the game that you always have to follow no matter what's going on. You play for your items. Let's chunk this guy out a bit. I don't need to kill him, I need to chunk him. And that's the difference. That's what people don't do. They don't chunk people. Now that I've chunked this guy out to like that low HP, I could easily play for this dragon. Their Pyke is 1 HP. What can their Pyke do to us here? I'm gonna pull this dragon out this way so we can safely clear it with my teammates. Can activate them. I'm gonna go E. I'm gonna fog here to evaluate if someone's in that bush or not. No one's in that bush. Great, let's grab this and let's continue our clear. Krugs, and then go to our top side. Our bot lane actually has item, and the enemy bot lane is playing Pyke and Trist, so we might want to go play around the bot side. Hey, this doesn't look like much. We can help try to give him a little chunk. Okay, so what I'm, what I'm looking to do here is I'm really close to my item. I'm going to ping to him that like I'm super close. Oh, you teleported. That's not great. Okay, let's go ahead and fight with our Echo. I need to run from Pyke here, I think. Uh, if they get the kill there, that's enough gold for us. I'm gonna— let me recall here. So now we have our item spike. Let's go back, clear top down towards the bot side. Um, we are looking to see who's strongest on my team and who's going to activate the most strength for us. He's going to— who's going to give us the biggest bang for our buck on our team right now? Shen's doing great, Ekko's doing okay, and Caitlyn and Janna are still relatively strong. The honest answer to this question Who do I play around when my teammates all kind of suck is no one. I'm not going to play around anyone. I'm going to play around someone on the enemy team who, who's playing bad on their side. So this is kind of like an advanced trick. What do I do when I have 3 teammates who are not that strong? I find the weakest person on their team, the person who's playing the worst, and I try to punish him as hard as I can. So generally that's not going to be this Katarina. That's going to be this Udyr or this their bot lane. So their Udyr or bot lane are the people I want to try to pressure as hard as I can. Um, in the meantime, I'm still playing for resources. I'm still playing for my economy. I'm still playing to get my third item. No matter what you do in a League of Legends game, you're always, always, always, always, always playing for your item completions. Always. Let's grab this here. Let's use our double smites to get both of the Krugs and the red buff. You could also do that with blue and Gromp. You can also do that with blue and Raptors, or blue and wolves and Raptors and red. So their top laner has a cloth armor. Their top laner is fighting my top laner pretty hard. And again, we want to punish the people who are killing themselves and doing stupid shit. That's this Udyr. And we need to consider that our— the enemy bot lane is just— it's just hard to kill. Like I mentioned before, they're just hard to kill. Okay. Oh my God, that's just so annoying. I thought I could get a play there, but unfortunately the Taliyah was in that bush perfectly and that was just genuinely a good play from them. But that's okay. My Ekko is pressuring bot lane hard. We're gonna lose some mid fights, we're probably gonna lose the Herald. I'm still really strong. What I have to consider now is who am I playing around, how are we gonna find opportunity in this game. Ekko seems to be doing okay, my bot lane seems to be doing okay. My Shen is only, only, only relevant if the Udyr is inting or if he has his ultimate up. So let's not really do much around our Udyr unless those conditions are true. And this Udyr— or sorry, the Shen. And this Udyr is not really playing too stupidly anymore, so maybe we leave that guy alone and go pressure bot lane. Okay, my Caitlyn also is working towards her next item. She has a BF Sword. This dragon is coming up. If Katarina has 2 items, we do not fight. Otherwise, we can fight, cuz I'm really fed. We need to grab this mid wave. Come on. Hey, our top laner is going to lose here, which is not good. Top laner is getting hunted hard right now. I might— fuck, I need to ping these guys. Danger, danger, danger. Nice, they actually just inted straight into Caitlyn trap. Let's grab this mid wave. Always pressure. Okay, when you're doing objectives, here's a trick. When you're doing objectives, always grab the wave, the mid wave, if, if your teammates aren't. Try to grab the mid wave if your teammates aren't and danger your team, your teammates while they are, you know, maybe might be trying to kill themselves. Always danger your teammates. Hey, careful and grab the mid wave. If you grab the mid wave, the position of the map just generally tends to be a little bit better. This Ekko wants to stay on the map here for this wave. I'm going to stay on the map here for this wave too, but maybe the Katarina goes in and tries to kill herself. Katarina went mid lane. Okay, up dies. Okay, maybe Katarina pressures more here. It's pinked. Let's chunk this guy out. Nice, that's a recall. Let's go back to our topside camps. So what I'm kind of sad about is my, my top camps are probably going to be taken here. Let's see. Oh, this is quite the interesting use of Shenar. Really, he really wants to kill this Udyr, which I don't even think he can. Fuck, it's just so annoying. Our map state is awful. Okay, we can at least break the top turret. They gave him 3 plates mid, but at least we broke the top turret. Okay, let's keep clearing towards the bot side. Who's strong? Okay, this Shen, after what this guy's doing multiple times, I, I don't really think this Shen is too smart at the game. Like, he doesn't seem too good, so I'm gonna use that to tell myself to not play around him. My Ekko, on the other hand, and Caitlyn and Janna, they seem pretty good. Their Katarina has 2 items, their Taliyah has 2 items. Those 2 guys are giga strong, giga omega strong. So let's be very careful about those guys. They have a lot of damage there. They're also 3 AP in the top side, so we could go for some— Mercurez is super strong here in this game. The Pyke might be going for this, this ward here. Okay, my Caitlyn is fucking dead. Let me grab this wave, let me grab this wave. They used a lot though. The Katarina flashed in for that. Let's go buy the— let's go get the top crab so we can get the shield bow. We're, we're 3 items, we're very strong. The issue here is we unfortunately just don't have much setup from our teammates, so at times in these fights it really feels like I can do not, not much. Okay, that's Pyke's flash. Sure, I have 3 items. Like, if anyone face checks me, I can do a lot here. So I'm looking to see, will anyone face check me? Could lowkey kill anyone. I get the massive angle there. Bang! That was kind of— that was kind of slippery, bro. Okay, let's grab the dragon at this point. That's all we can really do. As you can see in the fights, we're playing slowly. Like, we're playing off them fucking up, and we have a nice position behind them. A lot of you guys, like, are like unsure as to why your games feel so hard sometimes. And it's because the initial positioning that you have in the fight is really bad. The setup to the start of the fight really dictates whether or not you're going to have a good opportunity to win the fight. It's the setup. Okay. If you have bad setup, you're probably not going to win the fight. You need good setup. So position yourself where the enemies are going to kind of walk into you or they're going to be surprised that you're even there. Like, this Udyr had no idea he was gonna get stunned here, but he did, because I was sitting in that bush, I was camping, I was holding my ground there, and then boom, he got surprised, and that drastically changed the outcome of the fight. We have a similar situation there, where we get that guy. Okay, looks like nothing. They can't actually do the objective here, so we're at like sort of like a standstill. Okay, they can't do the objective, we can't do shit either. So now what we want to do is we want to try to get into another good position where the enemies are not really expecting me to be in. Like, boom, like that's half that guy's HP bar there. That's what you want to keep looking for, is like those advanced positions that really fuck the enemies up like that. Okay, looks like nothing. They're very low now, both of the Katarina and the Tristana. They're going to have to recall here. This guy's just walking in all willy-nilly. And we're gonna kill that guy. If you walk in like that, prepare to get freaking jumped, bro. As you can see, we're using the Baron to constantly get them to come in. When they come into us, we're fighting them hard and we're pressuring them. We're killing them, okay? And then even if the goal is not to kill them, the goal is to chunk them out very, very, very hard. Now I'm gonna force my Rikkal here to go to my bot camps. I almost have my IE. Let's grab the IE and let's pressure hard. They're not gonna expect me to be in the bot side. I keep using positional advantage over the enemies. They're not going to expect me, like, expect where I'm coming from. So right now what I'm going to do is I'm going to try to like sneak into this bot bush. This counter pressure is hard. Yeah, this is not good. Almost, almost connected there. Okay, I was worried that Taliyah was coming too, so I was like kind of, kind of afraid there. This IE will drastically change the amount of damage we deal in the fights. Because of the percent crit buff that we get. Let's go play with our Ekko. Ekko is the second strongest person on our team. Caitlyn's pretty strong too. Ekko's recalling, and now what we're going to do is we're going to play around, uh, fog of war, and we're going to wait for our teammates. So right now we saw 3 of them, but we still want to wait. We don't want to reveal where we are or where my teammates are. So I'm going to sit here, I'm going to wait. Maybe one of them face checks me. If not, that's fine. Let's go play with our teammates afterwards. So now my teammates are ready to progress and walk forward. I'm going to walk forward with them. Ever so slightly and keep positioning myself with my teammates. Now they hit the Scryer on the bot side. Okay, that's fine. That's half his HP bar there. Shonk him out. Okay, that guy has the barrier there. I'm going slowly here, holding my— holding my ground, holding my positioning. Okay, this guy does the— the, uh, the Taliyah does not have Zhonya's, so I have to consider that on my next play here. Okay, I'm just waiting, ever waiting slowly, ever so slowly, seeing if the Taliyah is going to walk up here and fuck, fuck, fuck themselves up. Okay, doesn't seem like it. You want to play for this Drake. Our Caitlyn is pressuring really hard here. Let's try to get him to leave. Let's get out of here because we want to buy our Null Magic and then have full HP. Having full HP at the start of fights is super duper important. Okay, let's go towards the Dragon. We want to play around our Ekko. Ekko has 3 items now, so Ekko is the king of the game. Okay, we got to work with our lieutenant, so I'm going to go towards the bot side with my Echo. Fuck whatever's going on here, I'm going to go towards the bot side with Echo here, try to hold a positional advantage. Although they're kind of walking into us, so maybe we can do this. Okay, Shen found an angle on that guy. Nice kill. Let's grab this. Great, that's Soul for us. Let's play around Ekko. We're, we're standing on our position here, standing our ground. Play through Ekko. Ekko is really giga strong. We can win any fight with Ekko. That guy can get one-shot pretty easily. Not much that he can do when I'm this, when I'm this many items, this strong. And WW here as well, and that's game for them. What can they do? They all came in one by one, poor positioning every single time from them. The positioning difference is huge. Okay, so even though our teammates weren't doing amazingly, we eventually found the teammate that was actually relevant, and it wasn't Shen. It was the Ekko and kind of Caitlyn, Janna. Yeah guys, so that's how you do it when you have not the strongest teammates but you're really strong. You play around the enemy who's inting, you play around your teammate who eventually will be strong and relevant. But the biggest key thing in this game is using fog of war to your advantage so you have the right positions in fights. Alright guys, I'll see you in the next game. Real quick guys, if you've been looking for my tier list, take a look at junglekingdom.gg/tierlist. There you'll also be able to find my champion guides attached. I'll be updating the tier list and the guides every single patch. All right, back to the video. All right guys, we have a Viego versus Xin Zhao game. Let's talk about the game plan. How are we going to win? What are we going to do? What's the early game, mid game, late game? Who's strong? Who's weak? So the early game game plan, the way I'm gonna win is I'm gonna stack dragons because these guys are scaling and my bot lane's stronger. So that's the ideal way that I'm gonna win this game is stack dragons, use those dragons to pressure the enemy and generate a lead. In the early game, my goal is to, yes, full clear, get my first item, item and play through my Samira, Rell, and Ahri. Ahri also should beat Vladimir level 1s to like 6 all the way up to like level 9. So ideally I have a winning mid, a winning bot, and I can pressure the Dragons. That's the perfect way to win this game. Okay, the mid-late game, it really depends on who's strong and who's weak, but what I'm looking to do is use my teammate's CC to kill whoever I can, get a reset. Okay, that's, that's like straightforward mid-late game plan. I have a lot of pressure with Ahri and Kled on the side lane, and we have a lot of good team fights, like ability with the Rell. So that's what I'm looking to do in the mid-late game. Now I want to assess something really quickly, guys. We have to decide ahead of time, uh, what are the dangers on the enemy team and what are the good things with the enemy team. So the dangers are the Vladimir W in the fights, gotta consider that, can't forget Vladimir W. They have Sett W, the true damage, have to think about that. The Lulu has ultimate, a Polymorph, so we can't disrespect those things. Ideally, we see her use it before we go in, before we all-in. Lulu also has an Exhaust, so if we go too deep on the Lulu or anyone around the Lulu, we need to understand we will get exhausted. Those are things that we kind of like need to preemptively think about. Xin Zhao is normal. Smolder is normal. Smolder's an easy kill, easy target. Everyone on my team has a good amount of CC or damage. CC on Kled, CC on Ahri, CC on Rell. And Samira is a good amount of damage. I think the big thing about how I'm gonna fight and play this game is stack dragons, yes, but in team fights, I'm gonna wait for my teammates to go in first, and then I will go in. Samira's recalled, bought a coal. Top lane has gotten a solo kill. Great. My mid laner is like actually kind of losing. I'm gonna just show you guys how to decide if someone's winning or losing. My mid laner is down 6 CS, so you can see how my mid laner's just not farming all that well. And their mid laner is farming nicely and has better conditions than my mid lane. What do I mean by better conditions? Look at my Ahri's mana bar and look at Vladimir. Vladimir doesn't have a mana bar. So their Vladimir is managing conditions better than ours. Bot lane, we're clearly winning, and we need to consider that if Smolder and Lulu are playing like this, maybe Xin Zhao's coming. So Xin Zhao's top lane, let's Danger Ping here, which might mean we can dive their Lulu potentially. I'm not 100% sure if this is a play I want to take, but I'm willing to try it. As long as I'm the one tanking, I'm down to try it. Yep, beautiful. I can just walk on out now. And Kled did the Kled thing where he 1v2'd in the top side. So we have a perfect game right now. A literally perfect, perfect, perfect game. We have a winning top laner who is 2v1ing. We have a winning bot laner. Our mid laner, eh, whatever. Go ahead and buy this. Let's go ahead and buy another Long Sword, and let's go ahead and clear top down naturally in this game. So our top laner is doing great. Now we know that if top lane is going to continue having this lead, we can always play through him. But as you can see, my path is going towards the bot side, and I made a plan to play with my bot lane to play for the Dragons. So I'm not going to break off that plan. I'm going to keep playing towards my bot lane. Here's the thing about top laners who fight a lot and who generally get kills. There's always a chance that they, like, die later on. There's always a chance that they fight too much and they get themselves killed. So I'm gonna make a bet with you guys right now. In 5 to 10 minutes, I'm gonna bet you that this freaking Kled is going to die maybe once or twice in the most stupid ways possible. Oh shit, not even fucking 5 minutes, huh? It's 5 seconds. Uh, maybe he lives here though. Maybe he lives. Yeah, yeah, he lives. Nice. Okay, he doesn't die, but I'm telling you, he's gonna play so aggressively that he might get himself killed. And as we saw earlier, my mid laner wasn't doing too hot. There's a solo kill from the mid lane. Then, now that doesn't change our plan whatsoever because our bot lane is doing so great. We want to still play for that dragon. The issue is my bot lane is holding a freeze here. As you guys can see, in order for the Smaller to farm, the Smaller has to walk forward. That means that we are missing out on pressure in the bot side, or the way we're pressuring them is by pressuring the wave. What that means is I can't happily pull this dragon. I still want to pull the dragon, but I can't happily pull it. So instead of pulling, instead of like immediately pulling the dragon, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna drop a ward here and I'm gonna on the way ping, assist ping. Their Vladimir has double killed my mid laner, but their Vladimir is 1 HP, so the Vladimir cannot contest this dragon. Now my bot lane, I just want to let them know that I'm doing this. Let them know. So they're understanding that like either start a fight and die to the Xin Zhao or help me, and that's— they choose to start a fight and die to Xin Zhao. Now I might be able to come help them in a bit. Maybe I can still help here. Yo, auto, auto, auto! Any autos? Okay, nice, beautiful. And restart, and we clear top down, and we're going to keep playing through this Samira like there's no tomorrow. Like, that's it, we just keep playing through our Samira. How do we know that fight's going to be relatively winnable for us? Well, Xin Zhao died earlier and he wasn't flashing on the Kled the second time they ganked top lane. So that tells me that very likely the Xin Zhao has no flash. So that's why I flash in, try to kill him. I missed my W. It is what it is. I'm human. And then because I'm level 6, I can use that advantage and Samira's damage to jump them. Also, we know at the start of the game Smolder is a weak, weak, weak champion. If their Smolder was a Kalista there, I don't think I'd play the fight the same way I did. I'd be way, way, way more reluctant to fight. So it really depends on what type of champions they have. Okay, the type of champions that are in the game really dictate and change everything. Now my Rell is going around the map dominating, but their Vladimir is still a big, big, big, big, big problem. We have hard-winning teammates. How are we going to snowball the game and close this out nicely? The first things first is— yeah, hope that doesn't happen, but it will happen. My Kled's going to do it too, very soon. What I'm going to play around is all the objectives, my completed items, and dragons. Stack dragons. Okay, let's talk real quick. Why do we stack dragons, guys? A lot of you guys probably have your ideas as to why you stack dragons. I'm going to tell you, none of you guys are going to get it right. If you get it right, comment like what you think it is ahead of time, and let's see if you're right. Okay, so the reason why you stack dragons is not necessarily for the soul and not necessarily to just naturally win the game. It's actually a tool you use to force the enemies to come fight you. Okay. A lot of people don't understand that. The same thing applies to Baron. The same thing applies to Herald. The Herald, the Baron, the Soul. They're all bonuses. They're great. Don't get me wrong. We love them. We want to use them. But that's not the main thing that makes them so broken. What makes it so broken is it forces the enemies to feel like they have to come fight you or they lose, like, a large part of the game. All right, this guy's— kill this guy real quick. I have the possession here, I can take whenever. Bang! I think his blue buff is up because I killed him and he didn't have blue, so his blue is probably up. Let's grab this here. Okay, so a lot of you guys now have the new knowledge that Dragons are used as a tool to force fights. Everything else is a bonus. If you get the Soul, that's great. If you get third Dragon, that's great. But think about it, after you get that second Dragon, the enemies are so freaking panicked. They're like, "Oh my God, they're gonna win Soul. Oh my God, they're gonna get third Dragon. Oh my God, I need to stop them, I need to stop them." They fight you, they kill themselves, they put themselves in a game state that's way, way, way, way, way worse. Now I'm gonna clear down towards the bot side. And I'm gonna use this next dragon to force a fight against the enemies. At the same time, what we can do is just grab the Grubs because the dragon isn't up just yet. It's gonna desync my camps by a little bit, but this way, if someone is doing something stupid like this, I could pressure them hard and very easily kill them because I'm just so, so, so fed. Now I don't necessarily want to die, so I'm going to keep running here. Let's just keep on walking away here. Our Ahri can go back in and fight hard. The Vladimir has no freaking W or anything. I don't necessarily want to go crazy here. Yeah, these guys should just be screwed. Great. As you guys can see, what did we do? We used the objective to force them to come fight us, and they wanted to fight us, and I'm stronger than you. So I'm gonna stomp you guys. I'm gonna stomp them in. You use objectives to fight. You didn't see me focusing the Void Grubs. You saw me focusing on killing them. So when you're fed, you try to fight them. But you need to make sure it makes sense. Let's say that Xin Zhao had Sundered Sky and that Vladimir had a completed item. I'm not gonna win that fight. I'm gonna lose it. But because I know that they're weaker than me, they're super duper weak, I'm willing to fight like that. I'm willing to take an aggressive fight Like right here, same thing. Xin Zhao's here. Same thing. I'm stronger than you, I'm gonna fight you. I'm gonna pressure you. I'm gonna make it so your life is miserable. When you're strong, you wanna do that. Xin Zhao still has no completed item. So I'm gonna continuously pressure the enemy jungler just like that. So if you're struggling to carry games and you have a massive lead with your teammates, it's probably because you aren't applying that one core principle of using objectives to force fights. Now I'm not going to overdo it here and try to dive, even though I could, because I want to make sure that we don't— like, it's actually— I could have though. I could have though. What I want to do though is I want to match the enemy Xin Zhao so I can on the way ping here. I could try to play with this guy, pressure hard. Okay, he dodges that. Great. Okay, we get the skill here. I need to keep up Vladimir. Okay, great. See, see what we're doing? We're forcing fights against the enemies. We're making them, like, come straight into us. And here they are. Just coming in to kill themselves. And they're just gonna lose the game. So instead of trying to dive down here, I wanted to take a bigger fight in the top side where the enemy jungler is probably gonna spam ping his team and try to get his entire team to come help him. Maybe he'll do the same thing at this red buff, but we keep applying pressure against the enemies and we take what they feel is theirs, and they're not gonna be happy about what we're taking. Oh, Xin Zhao, I know you want your camps, bro. Oh, Xin Zhao. Now his whole team is here, so I want to be somewhat careful. I don't need to fight too hard when this whole team is here, and I'm playing on Ahri. Ahri is actually the weakest one on my team, so instead of hard forcing with my Ahri, I'm actually just gonna be careful. Chill, grab my second item, and dip. Bye-bye, guys. And I'm going to return to my full clear and keep playing for my next item. And we're going to use the next thing to pressure them, which is the Herald, to progress this game. In between the time that there's no objectives, there's no camps to play for, you want to take your own camps. This is so much gold that you'd be missing out on. Every 3 camps is a full kill's worth of gold, and every level is about 2 kills worth of gold as well. The EXP you get is a lot of stats. Now the enemy Xin Zhao's blue buff is up, so I want to play against his blue buff here. Let's go try and attack that. We're going to skip our Krugs, cuz if we don't skip the Krugs, we're not going to be able to invade him, and I want to invade him. Invading him is a priority here. Helping my Kled is a priority here too. I don't need to— okay, this guy's going in. We grab this kill here. I can speed the Kled up. Let's just run on out here. Oh, I'm fucking dead. I mean, they should all die though, but that's 700 gold that shouldn't be in their pockets, but it's okay. They all, they all die here. Or no. Oh, Ahri. Oh my God, this Ahri is so fucking weak, bro. Okay, so they're getting strong. We got the shutdown. Sett got the shutdown, which is not the end of the world. Let's grab this next dragon and use that as another like tool to pressure them. Again, we're using tools to pressure the enemies for that so they take bad fights into us. Now my Samira has 2 items. She's probably going to get like another half an item here. So we want to play around the Samira. For the meantime, there's no camps for me to farm, but I don't necessarily want to only play for Krugs here. What I can do is probably play for this Herald anyway, even though my teammates died. They're gonna respawn and come fight right away, uh, because they're just so strong, because we are so strong. Look at what Samira bought. We can just fight this, this Herald right away, and after we're gonna fight this Dragon. Now this, the Sett is pressuring the top side. Now let's just go here, like, I want to grab this. Okay, we're gonna get this. They're gonna double kill here. Great. Let's pressure the mid turret. Or it's gonna be one kill, I should say. They're fucking cooked here. They're over-forcing, over-fighting in the, in the bot side now. So let's use this time to pressure the mid, mid turret, mid inhib. And you can never ever ever take inhibs too early. Nowadays with how, how every single turret gives you gold no matter what, it's always good to just pressure inhibs as much as you can. There's never a bad time to take inhibs. Let's pressure this turret, grab this inhib. If this guy jumps me at all, he's going to die. Okay, well, he flashed away. We can just still break this though. It should be fine. I, I could have flashed to kill him, but I didn't think my flash was worth killing him there. I know a lot of you guys might be wondering like, well, how does that make any sense? It's because the next big team fight, I really want to have my flash to kill the Smolder. And you'll see how like the next fight is going to mean more than that little fiasco right there. Okay, Kled is making a miracle run for it. Nice. I'm going to be up for this now. Oh no, this guy's going to— uh-oh. Oh, there's Smolder. Oh no, there's— my Samira is dead here. My Ahri, I can fight with her. I can fight with Rell too. Yeah, Kled is putting in work, work over there. Kled's doing tricks. One shot this guy. Okay, we get that guy killed. Bit great, they're all aced. Now if we have TPs, we could go in and end the game here. Should be able to. If not, I'll be able to make it there and pressure. Getting the turrets are always going to be pretty good for us. Great, they just let me hit this. Okay, let's grab this real quick then. Vladimir is ghosting at me, but I have so much movespeed. Beautiful. These guys are just getting themselves killed. Okay, I broke the bottom. Him too. There's a lot of pressure for us. We can go for the Baron as well, or we can try to end the game. Honestly, the Baron probably makes more sense. It's a cleaner way to end the game too. I'm just gonna start to deal a lot of damage to it. I might be a little lower than I need to be, but it's okay. My passive will heal me a lot. They're building a lot of armor from this point on, so what we do want to do is grab ourselves LDR. Now I have to recall here, but after a recall, let's go pressure hard. So as you guys can see, we're using our, our strength to force fights and take objectives, pressure the end of the game. And we want— we got all the neutral objectives this game. We got the Dragon, we got the Grubs, we got the Baron, we got everything. I have a shield bow. Thank you. And they force a fight into us. It was nice last hurrah, but we're up so much gold that they just lose the game. And that's how it goes, guys. When you're ahead, this is how you're supposed to end and pressure the game. Not every game are you going to be ahead, but when you are, you need to know what to do. There you have it, guys. What do you do when you have a winning teammate? That's what you're supposed to do. I'll see you guys in the next game. All right guys, we have a Viego versus Qiyana game. This is going to be a fun one because we have a full squishy champ comp on the enemy team. Every single one of them is a target. I'm gonna have a blast using Fog of War to jump anyone on the enemy team. I'm gonna have a freaking good time. We're gonna go Kraken Slayer into Collector into Shieldbow. I'm gonna show you guys how to win this game. It's going to be a lot of Fog of War, okay? So the early game doesn't matter to me. Whether we win or lose early game, it doesn't matter to me. No matter what, I know I can win the game because if I have a fog of war advantage, I can kill any one of them. Okay? So they're all one-shottable. Ideally though, in the early game, I have my Irelia doing decently and I have my Ryze doing decently and my bot lane gets to scale a bit. Although Trist Yuumi is not necessarily weak. There it is. There's the Irelia doing good and then my Ryze is doing pretty good too. So in general, Irelia is just going to be a stronger champion than Anivia in a straight 1v1. Ryze is generally just pretty strong as well in the early levels. Azir is really, really weak early levels. And then my bot lane, Tristana and Yuumi, well, they have a Karma and an Ashe to deal with. So they're just gonna be sitting under their turret. This is what I expected. Now I still wanna path towards the bot side because no matter what, in any League of Legends game, if you can stack Dragons, you're gonna have a great time. So my early game plan is just farm, get my items, play around Irelia or Ryze if I can, and then stack Dragons when possible. We saw Qiyana start her Raptors. Real quick guys, if she started her Raptors, where is she pathing now? Where is she going? Okay, it should be really simple for you. You should know know where she is right now on the spot? Where is she on the map? Here's the thing, if you can't tell me where Qiyana is right now on the map, there's a serious issue with the jungle tracking. She stunned her Raptors, there's only so many places she can be at given how the game's going. If you guessed and thought that she's on her Gromp or blue, you are correct. I'm on my 5th camp, she's on her 5th camp, which would mean she's on her blue or her Gromp. That also means that— let's danger ping, danger ping, danger ping a bit so Irelia doesn't get killed to the Qiyana. Who is clearing towards the top side. And now if I'm on the crab and she is like not ganking, where would she be? She would also be on the crab. Like, we're kind of mirrored here. My mid laner is doing good against their, their mid laner. So what I kind of want to do is stay around my Ryze, and I want to ping ping, let them know, hey, careful here. And I kind of want to pressure her Raptor respawn. Okay, I'm gonna sit here, I'm gonna wait. Okay, counterflashed. Azir flashed. Great. Now let's— now let's fight for the Raptor camp. Oh, I fucking missed. That's really sad. All right, that's fine. I missed. If I landed the smite, I'd get it. It's okay, it's okay if I miss though. I'm only human, man. I, I swear if I don't miss that smite though, it'll be so good for my game. It's my triple Long Sword. I generally like the triple Long Sword back other than the attack speed, just because I'm using all of my gold and we're scaling. As long as we're scaling, as long as we're getting gold, we're happy. Here's the thing about any League of Legends game that you play, as long as you're getting gold, as long as you're getting economy, you should generally be very, very, very happy. My mid laner has a Doran's freaking Helm. What the hell is that, bro? What does my top laner have? A Doran's Bow. Dude, actually, the Doran's freaking— wait, that item, the Doran's Helm, is giga strong, no? Anyway, let's keep full clearing towards the bot side. Our bot lane has a kill. Our top lane has a kill. Their Qiyana was in the bot lane. Now where is she right now? I'm on my wolves. Where is she? Okay, you have to know the jungle tracking. She's definitely up here. Let's ping ping. My bot lane is doing pretty good. They're farming decently and they're putting a lot of pressure on the enemy bot lane. So I can consider playing for this Drake. Now Irelia is going to get level 6. So let's go ahead and ping here. Let her know that like, if, if Qiyana's there, be careful. I have my, I have my Q like Flash Q here. I get both of them here. Great. Use our full combo here. Get that. Let's get the Raptor camp. Let's go for the crab. So right now my goal is to play for economy. My goal isn't necessarily the dragon. My goal is the economy. If I can get a dragon, great. But right now I want to spend my gold or I want to fight with my bot lane. Lowkey, I could technically pull this Drake. Because my bot lane seems stronger than their bot lane. My mid laner seems pretty strong too. And also there's just like no vision for them here. Like, look, they have no vision in the river, so they're definitely like scared. The only thing is if their Qiyana comes, their Qiyana can just eat the dragon because she has better smite than me. What I mean by better smite is she can combo nicely. Oh wait, what? I don't know he was coming. Let's kill them all. Let's recall. Let's buy a Kraken there. There— I, I didn't realize my Ryze was going in. He didn't ping at all. Ryze went in. Okay, I'm going in there. All right, now we're giga ahead, so this game is still Like, it's the same plan, right? Play for economy, play for resources. We're getting our second item. I don't care about anything other than resources. So if I'm doing any play that's not generating me gold or EXP, it's not a good play. Now that we have a lead, what we want to do is we want to play around objectives. We're going to use objectives to try to force the enemies to come fight us. So what I want to do is I want to grab the Krugs and the red buff, and I want to go for this Grubs, and I'm going to try to force the Qiyana to come fight me. If the Qiyana doesn't come fight me, that's fine. Free grubs for us. But I do want to threaten these grubs here. I want to do that with every single objective. I want to force it— not force it, but I want to play for it and force the enemies to make a choice. They either give me the objective or they come fight it. Should be really free for us now. Qiyana's not coming. Let's take everything here. And what we want to do is we want to go play for our camp respawns. So no matter what we're doing, we are farming something. Every single Void Grubs gives you 30 gold, so I'm getting some economy at least. I'm still getting stronger, and then I'm going to get this Raptor camp and then the top crab. So no matter what I'm doing, I'm always farming for resources. Now hold tab, who's strong? Who am I playing towards? Qiyana's in the top lane. I could help here, I'm— I have full Kraken Slayer. Yep, take that kill. Great, my Ryze goes 1 for 1 there. Okay, I'm getting more resources. The Qiyana is grabbing the mid wave, which means there's a mid wave for me to eat. Let's eat this back. Volibear kills their bot lane. I have to be careful, Karma's showing. Okay, let's grab everything. Let's go ahead and keep clearing our camps. Nice and natural game. We're gonna play for the next dragon that's coming up. Grab all the objectives. Who's strong on my team? My Irelia and my Ryze are really strong. So is my Tristana. Everyone is strong. This game is a complete one-sided stomp. I'm expecting an FF, and we're gonna— like, I'm gonna show you guys how to make them FFs. Okay, so what we want to do is we're going to evaluate who's strongest and who's easiest to pressure. Generally, that's like the top lane or bot lane. Pressuring mid is really hard. So what I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna recall spend my gold, and I'm gonna go straight to the bot side. Not gonna buy pink ward because I want my second item fast, and I'm gonna pressure the Ashe and Karma. Now what I mean by this, by that, by pressure, is if the Ashe and Karma walk up at all, they're going to die to my Trist, Yuumi, and me. If my Ashe and Karma don't walk up and they stay under turret, I'm going to dive them. So no matter what they do, they're going to be checkmated here. Now the only bailout is if Qiyana comes and helps. If Qiyana doesn't come, they're fucking screwed. So I'm banking on them being screwed and Qiyana not coming. It's also very unlikely that they'd go try to get vision because they're stuck in the lane. So if they're stuck in the lane, what's the point of getting vision? So now Ryze is also ulting bot lane. These guys are completely screwed. And we're fine. We barely make it out alive. That was like, that was like too, too close for comfort. I didn't realize the Karma had R-W'd me and the Ashe did that as well. But that's how you make the enemies want to FF and just completely auto-for-leave the game, is you use your pressure to dive the enemies or gank them and kill them either way. But the Qiyana doesn't want to go bot lane because her bot lane is losing. So why would I go bot lane if I'm Qiyana? Then that's how you like apply pressure. Now you might lose a few camps here. I also have to be careful, but it's okay if I lose camps because now their bot lane is like, bro, like, let's just FF this game, let's move on with our lives. Like, what my bot lane is able to do is just this while Qiyana is eating my top camps. Buddy, we just broke 3 waves. We just made your ADC lose 3 waves, killed them, and got the turret. Now my bot lane is probably getting jumped here. Barely live. I'm gonna use this time to just grab this dragon. Let's grab this. Great, Qiyana is still on the bot side. She's probably going to do the Krugs. While she's on the Krugs, I'll take the Raptor camp back. Okay, looks like nothing. Let's go back and let's look for this top crab potentially. Again, just more and more resources. Like, no matter what I'm doing, I want resources. Now I don't want to give them the crab, so let's grab this crab first and we can try to invade her top camps as well. My Irelia is really strong and so is my Ryze. That guy's just gonna walk away. Let's take all of our camps. My Ryze is pressuring turrets. Even if they don't FF, they're feeling very suffocated. I'm getting all of our camps at this point of the game. The, the way you progress is you wait for the objectives to come up, you play for the objectives, use Herald the Siege, or you wait for one of the enemies to misposition and get a pick. So if those circumstances like don't show up, then you just keep farming and you wait and you relax. Somebody is bound to get tired, somebody's bound to get restless. When someone does something stupid, you want to be ready to capitalize on that. If nobody's doing anything stupid, then you just wait, you chill out, you relax. For example, here they're sending 3 people bot lane to chase this Irelia. That gives us an opportunity to push the top turrets. Let's ping here and let's try to pressure in the top side. That's what I'm looking for. Like, that might be like a quote-unquote Good luck for them, but they try— they're trying something. They're trolling here, and then that's going to allow us to pressure the top turret. Now when the Azir tries to catch the turret, I'm going to dive him and make him want to FF the game, or whoever's catching the wave here. I don't entirely think that's the right play, but, but Ryze went in and I committed with him. So I don't know, I, I respected my Ryze. I'm like, bro, this guy's a gigachad for going in, let me go in with him. All things considered, Irelia is breaking a full turret bot lane because of what they did. And when they respond to us, they, they're losing a lot. We got mid plates, we got top plates, we got this guy's sums, and the bot lane breaks the entire turret. So we're pretty much making them respond to all of our plays, and as they're responding to us, it might not be good. We gave them a lot of gold, but as long as your teammates are on the map ready to pressure when you make your play, it's going to end up being pretty good, I'd say. Okay, now what we want to do is we want to play for this Herald. We don't want to give them the objective bounties. Let's grab this, and they're not FFing here, so we're gonna clean, clean up the game naturally. What we want to do is keep pressuring these turrets, ace them one of these fights, and use the Herald to maybe end the game. Or just play for the Baron. The simple way is just play it for the Baron. The more advanced thing to do is like try to ace them, and then yeah, you win the game after you ace them with the Herald. Let's play for his camps here. Okay, let's walk on out. I lost a bit of my HP bar. That's okay. It's not amazing because now my teammates, when they want to siege, I'm not going to be with them. What I could do is I could try to Herald mid lane to be part of the play. Like, in theory, I want to be with them because look, he's pressuring, he's pressuring, and he's pressuring. So technically I should be with them. So I'm going to just drop my camps and stay with them. Okay, looks like nothing for us. Again, this is the Baron technique or the Dragon technique. Use the Baron, use the Dragon to pull them in to fight you. If they come to fight you, great. If they don't, it is what it is. Let's grab this. Let's keep farming. I mean, whether or not this guy lives or dies, I mean, should be fine. Yeah, Irelia is just putting pressure. Let's get the dragon. Let's pressure the Baron when it's, when it's up. Looking for that shieldbow. Oh fuck, I did not mean to Herald. I thought I had Sweeper. I am so rusty, but that's fine because Irelia is fighting top lane hard. They brought 2 people bot lane. Heralding is actually like not the end of the world. Okay, let's try to kill this guy. That guy flashed. He flashed away to live there. We're really close to our shieldbow. Let's see if the red buff is up. Nice. Okay, let's grab a red buff, grab our shieldbow. We're gonna go play for the Baron and probably just end this game nice and easily. Let's grab the shieldbow. We have 3 items. Look at our teammates' items. 2 items, 2 items. Their Qiyana has 2, so Qiyana is strong, but our team is stronger than everyone else, so we should be able to take them out here. Like, ideally we just go try to pressure and end the game, so we skip our camps. We have our item spikes. So we're going to take that one camp cuz it's really fast and it's on the way to the play. And now that we're here to make the play, let's go make the play here. All right, now they're all jumping the Sirelia. Okay, good luck jumping the Good luck jumping Thanos, literally. Qiyana dies. Let's grab this Baron now. And that's how you do it. So with this Baron, we should be able to end the game. This game should be over in the next 2 minutes, 3 minutes if we properly end the game here. Game should be over in the next 2, 3 minutes. Our Ryze is so fed. So is our Irelia. Irelia has 3 items right now. Okay, Irelia is pushing the bot turret. We're going to pressure the top inhib with that Ryze. They literally can't do shit to us. Just stay. No. Okay, with Irelia we can just end the game here. Irelia is so, so fed. So am I. Let's just try to end the game here. I don't know why Ryze recalled. And that's that, guys. The game should be over once you have that Baron if you have strong teammates. You have that dragon for security, you play on every single objective, game should be really, really, really, really, really easy to win. Alrighty guys. Alright guys, we have a Viego versus Graves game with a beautiful team comp. Let's talk about the early game, mid game, late game, my plan, and how we're going to win this game and dominate. First things first, my early game plan is play around my Varus and Senna. These guys are going to be fighting like crazy, as you guys can see, and we're gonna try to play around Dragons where we can. Other than that, we're gonna play for the nice little full clears for our first item. Very standard game. What I'm noticing on my team comp is we have an Ornn— that's great setup. We have Xerath CC and damage, that's great. We have Varus CC, Senna CC and damage, that's great. We have such a beautiful team comp, and we look at their team— Graves is a great target. Viktor is a great target. There's Yunnara and, and Soraka are good targets too. Now the Soraka is a little annoying with her ultimates, but that's not the end of the world because we're gonna deal so much damage as long as we get some gold and resources. My number one priority is resource generation, getting my camps, getting kills, getting any sort of gold I can. If I ping a ward, I'm getting some gold. I need gold for items so I can kill things. Okay, now what I'm also thinking about for the mid-game is how does my team want to fight. I think I have to be patient and wait for my teammates to start things, or for the enemies to start things on my teammates. Otherwise, I need to be in a fog of war advantage. So I need to be sitting in a bush, they facecheck me, or I need to put myself at an angle. Otherwise, I don't think the fight's gonna go too well for us, because all, all that being considered, you know, we might be able to kill them, but they can also kill us. They deal a lot of damage. Because we're going Kraken Slayer into Collector, they're going to hurt very, very, very badly. We have to be very thoughtful of their damage and how that Graves can one-shot me, the Viktor can one-shot me, Yonah can deal a lot of damage to me. Soraka not doing shit, but the Yonah can deal a lot of damage, so can Viktor, so can Graves. This is not good. Okay, so our bot lane who we're playing towards, uh, got killed already, and now the Graves is also gonna get another kill. So their bot lane— my bot lane is, is losing to theirs, and this— the enemy Graves is an extra free little kill. Not good. My mid lane conditions are not good either. How is this going to change the game? We'll see. For right now, just because you died once doesn't mean it's completely written off as like you can't play through them. One death is not the end of the world. If they keep dying, I'm, I'm not gonna show fucking any presence in their lane ever again. But one time, it is okay. Oh, thank you so much. Thank you so, so much, my good friend. You just— that was just so kind of you. Let's get out of this. And thank you, Viktor, and thank you. They're just far too kind. I think we're gonna have to push this wave. Okay, beautiful. Let's drop a ward there. Let's go for the top side and let's go grab this top crab. Now my Ornn is trying to kill this Mordekaiser. My bot lane's dead again. All right, there you have it, guys. Our bot lane, no bueno, no good. Fuck playing around the bot lane. Now this Mordekaiser is just walking up like all willy-nilly, like it doesn't even matter. So let's just go kill this guy then, I guess. Bro, what are you doing? Okay, let's look to recall here, spend our gold. I don't actually want to stay on the map and clear. I want to recall, spend my gold, and then return to my clear. So I have a great start, a completely dogshit bot lane, so the game has changed at its core level. What are we playing for? Gold and EXP and resources. So at its core, nothing has changed, but we're not playing through a Verusena anymore. Verusena, no, no, no, no, no. Fuck. Fuck, I should have flashed on the Graves earlier. That's okay though, like, we— it's not the end of the world. I should have flashed on him here instead of trying to sneak the W. I tried to sneak the W instead of flashing on him. My bad, I should have been more confident and just used my flash. That's okay, we got it, we got an assist. Xerath got a shutdown. It's a 2 for 1. It is what it is, sometimes plays don't go perfectly. Now we're gonna return to our full clear down towards the bot side. Now I could have switched this up I could have cleared from my bot to top side, but playing for Dragons is still generally just solid, and I kind of just wasn't thinking too much. If I was 100% locked in, I probably would have pathed bot to top, but now my bot lane's winning. So I think what this means is like both bot lanes are fighting to the death, and both bot lanes have an equal chance of destroying each other. Like they're both psychos essentially. So how that changes the way I'm viewing the game is I can play through— I, like, I can play through my bot lane. It's fine. Graves went bot lane. We need to punish him right away. Okay, so because Graves went bot, his Raptors are 1000% up. He invaded my top camps trying to kill me, which means his Raptors are up. Let's take these Raptors and let's play for his entire top side, which is going to be a lot of resources for us. Now my Ornn is trying to cook this Mordekaiser. Ornn might be getting cooked here himself. I'm not gonna make it to that in time. My Senna will be here. I think my Senna is going to kill him. I don't think— maybe. Yep, nice. Grab that. I'll take the possession here. We got us two top camps. I'm going to go ahead and just take the crab, and I'm going to take my completed item and pressure the map with Kraken Slayer. My bot camps have been taken. I still want to play for my resources though. Get stronger. That guy pathed the wrong way. Okay, let's go ahead and go straight to his— oh wow, our Xerath lost his mind. Is that a cannon wave? That's not a cannon wave. But yeah, Xerath lost his mind there. There, there, Mordekaiser can die here too. Let's grab his red buff because we know Graves is in the bot side. We can take the red. And then we can try to kill this Mordekaiser as well. Like, just, just keep capitalizing on this Mordekaiser, cuz he will keep dying. Look at how he's playing. He will keep dying. Okay. An enemy has been slain. An enemy has been slain. Beautiful. As I said, he will keep on dying over and over and over again. Now the Graves is balling here, so he's down there. He has item. The Graves is not weak. I want to play for these grubs and I also want to play for his Raptor camp, but I kind of can't play for all of the above unless Graves goes for the dragon. Honestly speaking, getting the full grub camp is worth it. Every grub gives you 30 gold and that's a good amount of gold to say like, hey, You shouldn't just give— like, you shouldn't just not take the grubs anymore. They made grubs okay to where it's worth a full camp of gold. Um, let's grab that, keep working towards our collector. Grab, grab a, grab a camp while the Graves is balling as well. Okay, we can pressure this guy hard here. That's his flash. To ulti early here. Fuck, bro. Okay, my entire bot camps are like probably gone. That's why Varus wants to come help, or my Senna can fuck them up here. I think that, that is just like not happening. Oh, this is just awful for us. We're just going to give all that up. Okay, this is not great. My bot lane's dead as fuck. All I can really do is just try to play for this Mordekaiser kill again. That Graves is unfortunately just too fed. What the hell? Okay, we got this kill here. Let's see if we're on any vision. We're not. Let's grab the Krugs. On the brightest side of things, the Graves isn't farming too much, so his level is kind of low. But other than that, like, you know, yeah, this game is like workable. Again, any of them are one-shotable. It's, it's like completely winnable game. I'm gonna recall when my Ornn is recalling, just in case we recall together. Let's go towards the bot lane. So my bot lane is fighting to the death. We can keep killing this Mordekaiser too. I think my Krugs are up. Let's try to grab these Krugs and let's try to maybe play through my bot lane too. Like, it's definitely possible to win through my bot lane. Um, my Varus also has ultimate coming up in a second, so I'm going to go into the bush here, pressure with them. They want to recall, they can recall. What up, bro? What up, bro? That's jungle diff right there. Hit the Scryers, make them run away all the way back. Let's go back to our camps and let's go ahead and keep clearing and getting resources for that Collector. My bot lane gets to crack a full turret with those Grubs, so they're just, they're just getting many, many, many, many multiple plates. Our Ornn is really good to play through, right? Ornn has so much setup every single fight. We want to play through that every single time we can. Grab this kill. Beautiful. Keep playing through that inting Mordekaiser and play with my Ornn. We almost have our Collector as well. I have to be careful here. Look at how Viktor's pathing. I'm gonna go behind my Ornn here. Don't have my ulti. Just have to wait here. I have to wait. We see Viktor now. The, or the Mordekaiser might try to attack my Ornn. When Mordekaiser does try to attack my Ornn, or the Graves tries to, I'm here to put a lot of pressure on them. Nice. See, I knew it. Your turret has been destroyed. Your turret has been destroyed. I could have killed him. Okay, that's fine. Let's go grab our Collector. At least my Ornn is fine. He didn't die. Let's look to recall here, get out, go back to my camps. Okay, then my Varus just lost flash, which is not— or lost ultimate, which is not good. I think without Varus ulti, that just means that like we can't actually win the fight. And then their enemy mid laner is like 2 levels on my Xerath. So I'm gonna just go ahead and say that this is not our dragon. Let's grab our red buff. Let's keep clearing towards the top side. All we can do is just keep farming and wait for someone to make a mistake. Keep getting stronger in this game. Can pressure the mid turret now while their, their mid laner is dead. Breaking mid turret against Viktor is huge and against their team comp in general because they have no defense here. Now I need to be thoughtful about the Graves in the top side. Graves might be on my top camps is the thing. Nice, we have the Kraken proc there, so that kills him. I'm just terrified that the Graves is in my camps. I don't know if he is or isn't. Yeah, yeah, see, see, see, my Gromp isn't up. He took my top camps already. Oh, okay, so their, their Yunnara has 2 and a half items. Yunnara is really strong. My Ornn has good setup. I am still probably the second strongest, or the, the strongest person on our team. Our Xerath is a lot of damage too. Um, so our Xerath is okay to play through. Our Ornn is good to play through. Our Varus, although weak right now, he actually is gonna hurt. He's just like killing himself a lot. We can still play through him. We should be okay. The Graves is really fucking strong though. Ornn is trying to pressure with my Senna. They're getting teleported on. They're sending like 5 million people topside, which is kind of crazy. I killed this guy. We got his flash. We can pressure this, this, this, um, turret now. And that's, that's why I'm waiting there, right? You guys are wondering like, why am I waiting there? What am I playing for? That's what I'm playing for. Say no to the vote fast. Break this entire turret. This is a lot of gold for us, which is good. We can work on getting that shield bow too. This, this fucking Yunara should potentially die here. I'm going through Fog of War to you. I'm using Fog of War right now to pressure the Yunara with my positioning here. Beautiful. Damn, that guy is so fucking strong though. Got some real shit. That guy died too, great. They keep killing themselves. We have our shieldbow. We also can play for this dragon as well. Beautiful. The Senna ulti came in clutch there. Honestly, I think I still would have won that, but it was, it was like too close for comfort. Okay, let's get our third item. We're giga strong. Let's play around our Xerath. Xerath has two items. Our Varus and Senna also have two items, so everyone on the team It's pretty strong actually. Funnily enough, my Ornn has the least amount of gold on the team. Let's not show bot lane. Let's not show anywhere. Let's go pressure somewhere first as an immediate. Let's like go into a bush and pressure. Like, are you serious? My Ornn is not ulting. My Ornn is not ulting at the start of the fight. Are you trolling? I'm actually so sad. I'm actually so sad. I have the perfect angle there, and the only way we can win that fight is if, is if my team goes in with me there at the same time. But because my teammates do not, like, because my Ornn does not ult in with me, now they get the soul, they gotta pressure that, they probably gotta eat my, uh, my bot camps. Maybe my versus is waiting, but this is a really hard game now. Okay, so let's make, let's make this a rule: we do not go in, we do not trust our team, especially this Ornn. We only go do something if it guaranteed already happened. So the only time I'm going and doing something like that is if I 100% of the time I see my Ornn ult at the start. If Ornn didn't ult at the start, then I'm not going in the way I did like that last team fight. Great, nice pick. I don't know which one to upgrade actually. Kraken Slayer probably. Okay, let's get this upgraded. Great. Now I want— I have 3 items. I want to stay with my teammates. I'm not trying to leave at all. I'm just trying to like stay here. Potentially the Graves is like under us. We have Varus for the poke, and we have the Xerath for the poke too. That's not good. Betrayed by the very knights sworn to protect me. Okay, let's turn this into a Graves hunt. Okay, I mean, like, we just have to keep staying around my Varus and my Senna. Okay, found the angle on him. Not entirely sure if that's worth it, but killing him was really just like a mental thing, honestly. Let's grab his camps as well. Okay, if Soraka walks forward to get more vision, I'm gonna jump her here. Fuck. Wow, I think my Senna might have revealed himself there. Oh my God, oh my God, that guy got one-tapped by the Xerath. Xerath deals so much damage. The Xerath is killing it right now. What a close, close, close game here. Okay, how are we going to win this game from this point on? I'm gonna try to get into a bush and I'm gonna try to one-shot someone or chunk them out, and maybe Xerath ult will combo with us. We also need to consider this next dragon in a minute. We have to consider this dragon. Um, we don't want to give them the Mountain, especially considering I'm playing, uh, like assassin Viego, crit Viego. If we give them the Mountain Soul, it's going to be awful for us. Varus has 3 items, so Varus isn't weak, guys. Even though Varus has died 12 times, he has a lot of gold. Senna has 2 and a half items and also has the anti-heal. Our, our Xerath has 2 and a half as well, so Xerath is really strong. I could probably jump this guy here. Okay, well, we got that guy jumped, and then now it's like Soraka ulti, I guess. All right, the Yonah has lost it. Yonah has genuinely lost it. The reason why Yonah had to do that is because Yonah ulted me. So if Yonah doesn't go in and try to do something there, Yonah just has no ult for the fight, which is why going for the Mordekaiser there is actually not that bad. It's like low-key worth it because I don't think I would have died to Yonah unless Yonah ulted. And then if Yonah ults, she has to play in a really funky way to win the fight. Oh, I don't like this, guys. I don't like this. Sett doing that means we can't actually do the objective. And let's go play for this dragon again. Can't give him up. Can't give up this dragon. Xerath poke needs to come on this side. Come poke us down. Come poke down here, bro. See the Graves? We see a TP there. I might actually be able to win this here, so I have shield book coming up into you. Fuck, I have all these coming up in 1 second. Uh, they get the Mountain Soul now. Fuck, bro. If I had maybe Merc Treads, it would have been winnable. That guy stalled very long. What, what a hard game, dude. What a hard, hard, hard game. My Ornn, I don't think it started ult— started his ult a single one of these fights, making every single fight so miserably hard. All right, now I think like even though they have Soul, like, the game is not wrapped, the game is not over. We could still win, right? The, the game is not like— game is slipping, but it's still winnable. I wouldn't say it's over yet. Okay, we get a lot of people killed here, which is good that they lose a lot of their Baron at least while they pressure mid and try to do this. Ornn has ult soon. Please Ornn, use your ulti. If we don't hear an Ornn ult soon— oh my God. Okay, they lose majority of the Baron and our Xerath is really gigga strong. Now the Yunnara should still die here, so they lose all their Baron and I gotta pressure the top third here. This is, this is a bloody, bloody game. Let's pressure this top third here. Let's grab this. The reason why I'm pressuring top side anyway is because they— I want them to respond to me and make a choice. You either respond to me or you respond to my teammates. You have to make a choice here. I want the— I want the Graves to come to me genuinely so we can pressure the bot lane. I don't know if he is though. As you can see, I'm unsure as to whether or not he is. All right, I changed my mind. I don't want him to come, bro. I lied, I lied, bro. I don't want you to come kill me, bro. Fuck, that guy's just too fed, man. I didn't know he was doing a full loop around. Also, I thought my teammates would hit the turret longer. All right, at this point the game is the same. We want to play for damage, we want to play to one-shot someone. Uh, Xerath has— there's 4 items, so Xerath's gonna one-tap people. Let's play through Xerath. Nice pick from the Varus and the Senna. This Ornn is trying to beat down the Viktor. Okay. The Graves— like, honestly, the Graves is gonna have such a hard time playing into Xerath and into, like, into the entire team on our side. So lowkey they're screwed. We just have to, like, get into a position where we can teamfight them. For now, it's a little bit rough. The Yunnar is strong, is what I mean. So the Yunnar being strong is a little bit rough. Let's grab this kill. Beautiful. Let's work on getting our IE to just one-shot people. It's hard to one-shot them though, guys. They have freaking Mountain Soul, they have an extra shield and the extra stats. Now with my Xerath and Yonar being bot lane, I could probably kill this Mordekaiser with Xerath here. Oh my goodness, bro, that was 1,600 healing. I guess I needed, um, I need like a Serpent's lowkey. I mean, they don't have that much shielding. It's literally just the Mordekaiser who has a Spirit Visage, so his healing is enhanced. He actually only lives there because he healed an extra like 2,000. That is crazy, dude. This Xerath is a fucking sniper, bro. All right, so they have the— oh shit. Okay, Zed's still sniper, nothing's changed. We have to play through our Ornn, our frontline. Xerath has no TP either. Xerath has ulti though. We got to keep our HP. Okay, so they're not on that yet at all. An ally has been slain. This guy's Zhonya's here. They one-shot it. Get the wave here, that's fine. The Baron's coming up here too in a sec, so it's a pretty hard position to play. The only person I can realistically one-shot is probably like nobody, actually. The Graves on an angle. Fuck. Ah, the Soraka is too much healing too. Like, the Soraka heals through my Mortal Reminder. There's just like nothing we can do. Oh, like, if this guy was by himself here, this guy was fucking dead. But I was like hoping the Soraka was still getting vision here, and the Yone is freaking screwed. Although I held tab, I saw the shieldbow. She probably has Barrier too. Like, she used Barrier. Yeah, uh, they're just like— my champ is just genuinely useless at this point. When you— when they have Mountain Soul and you're playing, you know, crit Viego, like, you're, you're genuinely useless. That's good. Holy fuck. Holy shit, that's really good. No, that's actually fucked up. That's actually— that's genuinely fucked up. I got killed. I got killed by— by what? All right, let's see how— like, how do we win? I don't know. I can't be one— I can't one-shot anyone because they one-shot me. And they have so much armor, defensive stats, and Soraka ult. So, and they have Zhonya's. If not, like, let's say I combo the Graves, he probably kills me. Alright, let's go try to farm for our Infinity Edge. Yone has a GA too. Honestly, one way we could try to navigate this game is don't even teamfight anymore and just try to split. And I think I would be splitting while my teammates are together. I just, like, I just don't see a way where, like, I can kill anyone or do much in a team fight. Although if I play patiently, I could probably help my team. I just need to go very patiently. I almost have this. Let's buy it. Let's buy this in 2 seconds. We can also go Death Dance to survive, but I genuinely think we need— I need some damage or I'm too useless. I don't like how Xerath isn't W'ing bushes because Graves could have just one-shot him there. I think Viktor is pushing top lane by himself, so let's try to like win a fight here. I guess I could try to kill the Viktor. He has 4 items, I have 5. I have a shieldbow, Soraka R. It's like warded here, I guess. Oh my God, I'm just so depressingly useless. They have Zhonya's. This guy's a flash though. Graves flash, which is good. I'm pretty sure that was Soraka ulti too. At least that guy should get one tapped. If he— if they don't have Mountain Soul. It's the sad part, the sad truth. Okay, we're playing team tower defense. Let's keep playing. Wow, the Soraka didn't even ult earlier. Fuck you, I can also one-shot, bro. Yo, that Graves auto attack was disturbing. What? I genuinely just blew him up, like, kabooey'd him. I went from one-shotting them as Viego to one-shotting them as Graves. That's pretty fucked up. Alright, let's grab this bot wave, push this in, and then go take the objective here. It's always pretty good to push out waves when you can. Let's grab this Elder, let's grab the Baron, and now we're gonna be on the offense while you guys are on the defense, okay? This is our time. They finally inted a little bit. Should we wait? Should we wait a little bit? Okay, now let's go play for the Baron. They're on it right now. Are they not? Okay, that's fine. Like, the Xerath ults you. Bang, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop. All right, end the game. No, we don't have a wave. Fuck. Wait, they won the Baron? Oh my God, oh my God. Oh, this game is a fucking fiesta. The biggest— this is the biggest fiesta ever. Go top lane. Yeah, just, just go top lane. Let's go top lane. Win. This guy can end the game though. Oh, what a fucking clown fiesta this game is. Oh my God, can Senna cancel him? I mean, he might have TP anyway. His Baron recall. His Baron recall. I mean, I mean, he has ult here. He can just ult the wave. The Varus, the Viktor. No, no, he's fucked. He's fucked. He fucked up. He needs to ult the wave. Oh, I think that's game over. Oh my God. Oh, hi. Disturbing game. Disturbing ass game, bro. But we did it. We managed to win. Like, there were ups and downs. I don't like this Ornn, but we managed to win. Alright, let's honor everyone because at least we won, right? When you win, you honor everyone. ¡Bastards! Alright guys, now that you've seen all 4 of the different situations on Viego, let me know what you think about this new series, and hopefully you learned a thing or two about Viego as a champion. 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