The champion Viego in League of Legends was able to lay waste to pretty much everything due to a bug – with just one hit. Now Riot has stepped in and temporarily disabled the champ.
This is Viego: Viego appeared with patch 11.2 as the first of several new champions in 2021. He brings a special ability that allows him to possess enemy champions he participated in killing. His win rate was not particularly high at the beginning of February, but LoL pro Faker showed how strong Viego can be.
However, a bug caused Viego to suddenly be significantly overpowered and to win matches virtually single-handedly. Because of this bug, he suddenly had the ability to deal immense damage.
Bug caused Viego to obliterate towers
What kind of bug is this? Players discovered that the item Dark Seal could be exploited with Viego. To trigger the bug, players had to buy the Dark Seal and then transform into an enemy champion they had previously defeated. This works with Viego’s ultimate.
If one died to one of the enemy towers, the bug suddenly granted Viego unlimited AP. Even in patch 11.5, there was an adjustment that stated Viego would not lose stacks of the Dark Seal when transforming into an enemy champ. This is what the bug looked like:
This is what Riot is doing about it: Because it was certainly not intended for Viego to destroy towers with one hit, the champ was temporarily disabled on the live servers.
Some players briefly exploited this effectively in Ranked Solo, which caused a lot of criticism. After the deactivation, the issue should be resolved for now – or at least suspended.
Recently, a player impressively played with Viego. However, a nearly achieved pentakill was ultimately not granted to him.
