Good (6/10)
High Investment Required
Epic Relics
Paid Relics
Players disagree about Vi's overall power and design. Some consider her 6-star power an incredible finisher that enables one-turn kills, while others find it lacks synergy with her best early-game relics and feel her base deck is underwhelming.
The Piltover Finisher
Initiates a free attack upon play, triggering multiple strike and Impact effects.
Strikes the Nexus directly upon being played.- Provides a second direct Nexus strike.
Strategy
This build capitalizes on Vi's 6-star power. By accumulating stats in hand, Vi drops onto the board with massive power.
Cease and Desist initiates a free attack immediately upon play, which triggers the Impact damage from the Gatebreakers multiple times. This effectively bypasses the attack reduction of the Gatebreakers and acts as a direct Nexus damage check, often ending the game the turn she is played.
Formidable Enforcer
Provides +1 starting mana if the champion is Titanic.
Grants +0|+3, ensuring Vi meets the Titanic requirement for Starforged Gauntlets.
Grants Formidable, allowing Vi to strike using her massive health pool.
Strategy
This is the definitive setup for Vi before reaching her 6-star upgrade. Strength of Stone converts her massive health pool into offensive power.
Luminous Orb ensures she meets the Titanic requirement for Starforged Gauntlets, providing crucial mana acceleration. This allows for a Turn 2 deployment where she can instantly level up and dominate the board.
Zoe's Brilliant Brawler
Zoe Specialized
Provides massive damage scaling and spell-copying effects.- Converts Vi's high health into offensive power.
- Accelerates mana to establish an early board presence.
Strategy
This build is highly optimized for the 10-star Zoe adventure. Searing Brilliance acts as a game-defining relic, enabling infinite rummage strategies and powerful Turn 1 setups.
Combined with Strength of Stone and Starforged Gauntlets, Vi can establish a dominant board state immediately, bypassing the need for her 6-star power and easily clearing one of the game's hardest challenges.
Tempo Guardians
Shuffles level 2 champions into the deck with doubled stats.
Draws a card and reduces its cost, synergizing with Vi's innate draw mechanics.
Refills spell mana upon playing a champion, maintaining early game momentum.
Strategy
This alternative build focuses on early tempo and board presence. Vi's inherent card draw synergizes perfectly with Found Fortune and Hidden Tome, ensuring consistent activation and spell mana generation.
Oath of the Guardians provides a massive influx of stats and powerful champions to close out the game, making this a highly effective strategy for 3-star Vi.
Other Relic Options
Provides excellent draw consistency and bolsters unit stats, synergizing well with her card-draw mechanics.
Creates copies of Vi in the deck, ensuring consistent draws and enabling powerful spam strategies.
Offers necessary protection, ensuring Vi survives removal spells when relying on a board-centric strategy.
Generates fleeting copies of Vi, providing consistent removal and a steady stream of champion spells.
A strong alternative for board control, allowing Vi to eliminate key threats immediately upon entering the battlefield.
Provides safety during attacks, serving as a strong alternative for 6-star builds when Cease and Desist is unavailable.
Vi's optimal relics shift dramatically depending on her constellation level. Pre-C6 builds heavily favor health and Formidable synergies, while C6 builds pivot entirely to strike and attack-trigger relics.
Constellation
Vi's constellation upgrades significantly shift her playstyle. While her early stars focus on building a wide, high-health board that perfectly utilizes the Strength of Stone relic, her final upgrade pivots her into a burst-damage finisher. This transition is highly debated, as her 6-star power grants attack rather than health, breaking her Formidable synergy. However, it provides immense closing power when paired with Cease and Desist and Gatebreakers.
Relentless Force
When you draw a card, grant your strongest ally +0|+1 and Impact.
Piltover's Finest
+1 Starting Mana. Game Start: Draw 2 cards that cost 2 or less.Review
Drawing two cheap cards at game start provides excellent consistency and acts as a built-in tutor. However, the Impact and Health buffs can occasionally be wasted if no enemy units are present on the board when the draw occurs.
Relentless Force II
When you draw a card, grant your strongest ally +0|+2 and 2 Impact.
Crush
Allies have Overwhelm.Review
Grants Overwhelm (Crush) to Vi. This is a massive power spike that frees up a relic slot, making items like The Beast Within or Chosen by the Stars completely redundant.
Manaflow
Game Start: Get a mana gem.
We Run These Streets
When you play a card, grant allies in hand +1|+0.Review
Grants +1|+0 to cards in hand when playing a card. This power is highly controversial because it creates anti-synergy with Strength of Stone, which relies on health scaling. It forces a complete pivot in playstyle toward a one-shot Gatebreaker build.
Gameplay Tips
- Leverage Card Draw
Vi's core mechanics reward drawing cards. Prioritize adventure powers and items that reduce the cost of card draw or provide additional draws each round to rapidly scale your board's Impact and health.
- Avoid Redundant Keywords
Once Vi reaches her 4-star upgrade, she gains Overwhelm naturally. Ensure you remove any relics like The Beast Within or Chosen by the Stars to avoid wasting valuable relic slots.
- The 6-Star Pivot
Be aware that upgrading Vi to 6 stars fundamentally changes her optimal build. Strength of Stone becomes suboptimal due to the attack-only buffs from her 6-star power. You must pivot to a Cease and Desist or Gatebreaker strategy to maximize her new scaling.
- Unlock Key Relics
Investing in Vi to 2 stars is highly recommended for all players, as completing her personal champion campaign unlocks The Grand General's Counterplan. This is considered one of the most valuable rare relics in the game and is essential for many other champion builds.