Viego Quotes

See this skin in 3D: Soul Fighter Viego

Movement › First Move

• "She's returned to me, binated soul; and soon, she'll be a shade no longer"
• "These wretched souls fight only for themselves. I fight for her!"
• "I close my eyes and see her... This soul before me, a tormented memory."
• "I built it all for you, Isolde. The tournament in all its splendor—simply a path to our reunion."
• "Each battle fought on my sacred ground: an unwitting sacrifice... to a slumbering god."
• "The Eye granted me unmatched power. But all its strength means nothing without her..."

Movement › First Move › First Move with Ally Soul Fighter Samira Both sides

• "The Eye prophesied that we would fight, Samira, I did not think it meant we'd fight together."

Movement › First Move › First Move with Ally Soul Fighter skin

• "Another Soul Fighter—I pray you've honed your power. To fail on a stage such as this would be a pity."

Movement › Moving

• "I had no strength, save the strength I found in her!"
• "Guide me, my love."
• "I will not waste the Eye's gift!"
• "And so the fight begins!"
• "I've seen every move—none have impressed me."
• "My heart is heavy, but my soul... My soul is on fire!"
• "Forged by loss; tempered by the Eye."
• "All the souls in the world, for her!"
• "Your soul's desire? Next to mine... Insignificant."
• "It was her beauty that woke me; not the Eye, but her!"
• "These lands would make a fine place for a tournament."
• "No rule says the host can't enter the tourney..."
• "Glory in the Ring fades, love is eternal!"
• "I looked in her eyes, and saw love eternal."
• "She is here, yet... I miss her still. Why...?"
• "Even in lands beyond our own, our souls cannot dissever."
• "Each fight, each sacrifice, is for you, Isolde."
• "Viego has entered the arena!"
• "You are bound to me, Isolde, the Eye willed it!"
• "Faceless benefactor, uncharitable host... Shattered soul."
• "Only a failure abandons his heart."
• "Isolde is... broken. But I-- I can fix her!"
• "Not slave to the Eye; I am the god's equal!"

Movement › Long Move

• "The lands beyond cannot contain her true soul..." Viego huffs in despair. "She waits for me, while my torturous hours tick by."
• "It called to me, the One-Eyed God—I alone was chosen."
• "Gaze not upon me. This Eye emblazoned on my chest will gaze back!"
• "Why should power only be granted to those who earn it? Fairness? An excuse, of the weak."
• "I feel no pity for the ones who fight beneath me... Their souls are a fair trade for spectacle...!"
• "The promise of the Eye clouds all fighters' judgements, but my vision is clear."
• "Souls arrive in droves, to fight for my approval; for my prize; for my... love."
• "All the riches of my tournament, the profits of the world... do a soulless man no favors."

First Encounter

• "Ahh, a challenger approaches!"
• "You call that an entrance?! Pathetic!"
• "A fighter! I draw my sword in your name, Isolde."
• "I can sense your soul. All that power, wasted on a wretch."
• "You've caught my eye, fighter—come! Test your skill!"
• "Did you just look at me?! How dare you, close your eyes!"
• "Tread carefully, challenger—tourney rules do not apply here."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Soul Fighter Evelynn

• "We are alike, Evelynn: subject to an uncaring world, but given a chance to tip the scales."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Soul Fighter Gwen Both sides

• "You could have saved her, Gwen! Had you been alive when she was was lost, you could have saved my love..."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Soul Fighter Jhin

• "I admire your showmanship, Jhin. From one fighter to another: good luck."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Soul Fighter Lux

• "You left behind a life of riches, Lux... What were you thinking...?"

First Encounter › First Encounter with Soul Fighter Naafiri

• "Ah, Naafiri. They gave you the strength of a god, let's see you use it!"

First Encounter › First Encounter with Soul Fighter Pyke

• "You've seen her, Pyke, my Isolde... Tell me where she lies!!"

First Encounter › First Encounter with Soul Fighter Samira Both sides

• "Samira! No training can prepare you for your reckoning, the Eye will lay waste to you!"

First Encounter › First Encounter with Soul Fighter Sett

• "Your muscle does little to mask the petulant child beneath, Sett."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Soul Fighter Shaco

• "Shaco, my old friend, your betrayal is... predictable!"

Taunt › Taunt Response

• A taunt?!" Viego chuckles slyly. "Save your words for surrender.

Joke

• "Just a simple starter combo..." Viego shouts angrily. "WHY DIDN'T IT WORK?!

Joke › Joke Response

• "Cleverness is a tool of the cowardly. Try... getting good."

Attack › Attacking

• "For her!"
• "Isolde demands it!"
• "Let's give them a show!"
• "For all to see!"
• "The Eye hungers."
• "Focus!"
• "Clash!"
• "Worthless!"
• "Predictable."
• "Sweet spot!"
• "Clean hit!"
• "Counter this!"

Attack › Attacking › Attacking Baron Nashor

• "You do not scare me, creature! The Eye showed me true terror!"

Ability Casting › Using Blade of the Ruined King

• "Strike true, Isolde!"
• "Shattered stab!"
• "Guide my blade!"

Ability Casting › Using Spectral Maw › Recast

• "Shattered slam!"
• "She is with me!"
• "Go forth, Isolde!"

Ability Casting › Using Harrowed Path

• "You are the wind and my wings!"
• "Cloud of the Eye!"

Ability Casting › Using Heartbreaker

• "With all her strength!"
• "Heartbreaker!"

Ability Casting › Using Heartbreaker › Ranking for the First Time

• "They will be my puppets, they will fight for me!"

Kills and Objectives › Killing a Champion

• "You lose!"
• "K.O.!"
• "It's over!"
• "Outclassed, outplayed."
• "Come back when your soul has truly awakened."
• "The Eye has shown me the future—you, were not in it."
• "Bow to the Eye, bow to me."
• "Repeat after me: 'I'll never take on the Eye again'!"
• "You, worthy of your soul's desire?" Viego laughs derisively and victoriously.

Kills and Objectives › Killing Soul Fighter Evelynn

• "Your soul was a gift, Evelynn. You were unworthy to wield it."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Soul Fighter Gwen Both sides

• "You meddled in things you didn't understand, Gwen. Life and death are a god's game!"

Kills and Objectives › Killing Soul Fighter Jhin

• "For shame, Jhin. Your sadism, directionless; your performance... mediocre."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Soul Fighter Lux

• "In time, you will be forgotten, Lux. I hope that brings you comfort."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Soul Fighter Naafiri

• "Bad dog!"

Kills and Objectives › Killing Soul Fighter Pyke

• "Go back to the beyond... Not all were meant to return!"

Kills and Objectives › Killing Soul Fighter Samira Both sides

• "Samira, you died without fear... Admirable."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Soul Fighter Sett

• "Go home, Sett, be a family man!"

Kills and Objectives › Killing Soul Fighter Shaco

• "Your failure: all part of the Eye's plan, Shaco."

Kills and Objectives › Scoring First Blood

• "The first of many in her name!"

Kills and Objectives › Scoring a Pentakill

• "The Eye's promise, fulfilled; Isolde returns to me!"

Kills and Objectives › Destroying a Turret

• "One step closer to ending her suffering."
• "Towers are good for ranking, but nothing more."
• "Nothing can withstand my strength."
• "Your monument crumbles. ...As it should."

Kills and Objectives › ;Killing a Monster

• "The beasts of this jungle, a simple test for an awakened soul."
• "There is no room in my land for soulless beasts!"
• "Soulless creatures are but fodder for the Eye."
• "Another sacrifice!"

Kills and Objectives › Killing Blue Sentinel

• "Your wisdom is now mine, golem. So sayeth the eye!"
• "Golem, you were a worthy sacrifice!"

Kills and Objectives › Killing Red Brambleback

• "Your offering to the Eye is noted, tree!"
• "Ah, this fallen spirit's flame—given to me by the Eye!"

Kills and Objectives › Killing or stealing the Dragon

• "Dragon? No! Just a puppet, flapping in your strings."
• "A dragon is no match for the Eye!"
• "A soul, stolen for her!"

Kills and Objectives › Killing or stealing Baron Nashor

• "The power is mine!"

Shopping › Opening the Shop

• "You built a nice business here—I built a media empire."
• "Overpriced trinkets... Still, they have their use."
• "Give it all to me, all of it!" Viego chuckles, then clears his throat in embarrassment. "Sorry, force of habit."

Other Gameplay › Ranking a basic ability up

• "Soul power courses through me."
• "My soul grows stronger."
• "The Eye gives to those who serve it true."

Other Gameplay › Pinging › 'Assist Me'

• "Assist!"

Other Gameplay › Pinging › 'Danger'

• "Eyes out!"

Other Gameplay › Pinging › 'Enemy Missing'

• "Nowhere to be seen."

Other Gameplay › Pinging › 'On The Way'

• "I will be there!"

Recall

• "Into the unknown, Isolde—better there with you, than here alone."
• "A portal to safety—just one of the many perks of the Eye."
• "This respite is only temporary. She will have a thousand souls before I rest."
• "There is nothing for me in this arena, nothing!"
• "Announcer, broadcast my retreat and you will find yourself out of a job!"
• "Eye, grant me your power, return me to my love!"

Death

• "Combo-breaker..."
• "Fatali-- ty..."
• "Our souls, reunited, at last..."

Death › Respawn

• "Ahh, looks like we've got ourselves a real match."
• "I have downloaded my opponents' moves, it did not take long...!"
• "The comeback of the century begins, now!"
• "I heard her song—our song. A record of our broken time."
• "I cannot be halted, not until the deed is done!"
• "The Eye wills it and so I return."

See this skin in 3D: Revenant Reign Viego

Movement › First Move

• "I am the king of the Underworld, and I vow that we will be avenged!"
• "This is the hour of my vengeance! For the sin of treason they will suffer the Underworld's wrath."
• "I have come to liberate her soul, stolen by usurpers."
• "Living world! I have come for my queen's soul and the traitors who stole it."

Movement › Moving

• "When her soul is at rest inside my own, then will I know peace."
• "My fractured queen... Oh, what have they done to you?"
• "Knights swear an oath. Mine broke theirs."
• "My kingdom buried my love, and so I bury my kingdom."
• "Within every blade - a piece of your soul, my love."
• "This is my kingdom to rule, and mine to ruin."
• "Passion makes lovers and killers in equal measure."
• "I am a fair king. What did I do to earn such ire?"
• "Kill by kill, I reclaim my goddess, my life, my love..."
• "My queen, your decay was decadence; your blight - beauty."
• "Betrayed by the very knights sworn to protect me, to protect us."
• "I will not rely on vassals again. I will not repeat my mistake."
• "I was sovereign of this land. Now, I'm its destruction."
• "The architect of my misery yet lives."
• "Those you hold near are close enough to stab you in the back."
• "If their death be not now, it is soon to come. The readiness is all."
• "I am her sepulchre, her final resting place."
• "My cause is sacred, my power profane."
• "I sow these fields with the bodies of oathbreakers."
• "Treason is a gift best repaid in blood."
• "I have clawed out of my grave to make them pay."
• "I am now the saviour my queen needed."
• "They feared her blight, her power. Now, they should fear mine."

Movement › Long Move

• "My generosity was spurned; my trust - broken. They bring my wrath upon themselves."
• "I will drag their wicked souls into the abyss, and may my grip never loosen."
• "I laid you to rest inside my bones, my love. We shall never be apart. I promise."
• "My people always trembled in my presence. Is fear not the highest form of respect?"
• "Let them try to bury me. I rise again, and again, and again!"
• "If it is a king's right to rule his subjects, then can he not sacrifice a few for the greater good?"
• "To others, she is Regina Mortis, the Queen of Death. To me, she is love itself."
• "Their treachery took months to plan. I shall give them an eternity to regret it."
• "My queen - shattered by those I trusted most. How could they destroy such bliss?"
• "Love is the seed; grief is the flower; vengeance - the hand that plucks it."
• "The Underworld's throne is mine by right. And I wield its power in her name!"

Movement › Long Move › Long Move with All Swords Acquired

• "Our rule has been restored."
• "Rejoice, my love! You need not worry ever again."
• "Hush, my love! Rest now..."
• "This is our kingdom of death! If their flesh does not kneel, their bones will."
• "We are now eternally wed in steel."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Vex Both sides

• "Speak, creature! What are you? A psychopomp?"

First Encounter › First Encounter with Assassin

• "My own spymaster! Every secret I gave - a sword in my back."
• "A killer by trade, a murderer by deed."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Enchanter

• "Do not feign innocence! You twisted your own enchantments."
• "A façade of gentleness! I see the murderer that lies beneath."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Fighter

• "Sellsword, were you always just killing for the highest bidder?"
• "I gave you knighthood, and this is how I'm repaid?"

First Encounter › First Encounter with Mage

• "I knew I smelled the stench of your foul maigcks."
• "You... You wove the spell that splintered her."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Marksman

• "Do your hands shake, marksman? Does your aim falter?"
• "Shoot to kill! You cannot put down what is already dead."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Tank

• "Never did I think my own guard would turn against me."
• "You vowed to protect me. Live with your betrayal or die by it!"

Taunt

• "Behold!"

Taunt › Taunt Response

• "Cut out their tongue! I do not suffer insolence."

Joke

• Viego grunts and groans. "I cannot hold all of... Where is my squire?!"

Joke › Joke Response

• "My court needs no fool."

Attack › Attacking

• "Treason repaid!"
• "By divine right!"
• "Nunc hostis es!"
• "She was your queen!"
• "Kneel for your sin!"
• "Oathbreaker!"
• "You murderer!"
• "You!"
• "You mock me?"
• "She weeps!"
• "Liar!"
• "I know your face!"
• "Peasant!"
• "I am your king!"
• "Betrayer!"
• "Awake my steel!"
• "I trusted you!"

Ability Casting › Using Sovereign's Domination › Possessing an Enemy

• "My loyal subject."
• "Lord of the dead!"
• "Submit!"
• "Mine!"
• "Right of kings!"

Ability Casting › Using Harrowed Path

• "Death comes for you."
• "Shroud my steps!"
• "The river of souls."
• "Emerge my subjects!"

Ability Casting › Using Heartbreaker › Recast

• "Again!"
• "More!"
• "Traitor!"

Kills and Objectives › Killing a Champion

• "Proditores morientur!"
• "Vile worm!"
• "Treasonous wretch!"
• "She was merciful. I am not!"
• "The river of death must flow."
• "Oderint dum metuant!"
• "Welcome to my army of the death!"
• "The king remembers."
• "I am Rex Mortis, the Undying king."
• "Death is your fealty."
• "Death conquers all, except me."

Kills and Objectives › Killing a Nemesis

• "My vengance is at hand."
• "Was treason worth it?"
• "Spineless!"
• "Suffer for her pain!"

Kills and Objectives › Killing Vex Both sides

• "Return and serve me, little shadow!"

Kills and Objectives › Killing an Assassin

• "I return you to the gutter, street rat."
• "Once a spymaster, always a rat."
• "Secrets make paltry shields."
• "Wasted schemes!"

Kills and Objectives › Killing an Enchanter

• "Tangled in your own enchantments."
• "Your spell is broken."
• "No mercy for the merciless."
• "Go on, heal yourself of death!"

Kills and Objectives › Killing a Fighter

• "Ungrateful sellsword!"
• "Live by the sword and die by it."
• "This duel is over. I win!"
• "Their bones are my vassal now."

Kills and Objectives › Killing a Mage

• "A blade is all the magic I need."
• "Spells could not save you."
• "Feckless mage!"
• "You cast your faith."

Kills and Objectives › Killing a Marksman

• "You missed!"
• "So brave... from afar."
• "The breath you held is now your last."
• "That is for missing your shot."

Kills and Objectives › Killing a Tank

• "Useless without me!"
• "Your service was never needed."
• "My love for her breaches all defenses."
• "Once my bastion, now - rubble."

Kills and Objectives › Scoring First Blood

• "With this kill let it be known, I suffer no traitors."

Kills and Objectives › Scoring a Pentakill

• "I will raze the earth and salt the ashes, and rise above it all as your king!"

Kills and Objectives › Destroying a Turret

• "A headstone to their failure."
• "Death stops for no one."
• "Good, raze it all to the ground."

Other Gameplay › Acquiring All Swords

• "With these blades her soul is gathered and we are one!"

Recall

• "The runes that once bound her serve me now."
• "With this blade my vengeance began."

Recall › Holding the Assassin sword

• "Jagged steel, whispering darkness."
• "Shadows cloak this blade. It has known foul deeds."

Recall › Holding the Enchanter sword

• "These crystals do not shatter. Interesting."
• "That which heals may also harm."

Recall › Holding the Fighter sword

• "This was a gift to my finest knight. Now it reclaimed from the traitor's corpse."
• "The underworld's blessing brought to bear."

Recall › Holding the Mage sword

• "Energy honed to a point, now mine to command."
• "Heed me and surrender your magicks!"

Recall › Holding the Marksman sword

• "No target shall escape my sight."
• "Crafted for presicion. This will do nicely."

Recall › Holding the Tank sword

• "This blade is heavy with the weight of its sin."
• "A weapon to shield and to sever."

Death › Dying to an Assassin

• "Another knife in my back!"
• "Coward... in the shadows."

Death › Dying to an Enchanter

• "I... will break your spell..."
• "But you... are so weak!"

Death › Dying to a Fighter

• "Face me! Face... me!"
• "Forever a sellsword."

Death › Dying to a Mage

• "Feeble... mage!"
• "Magic cannot absolve."

Death › Dying to a Marksman

• "So now... you hit your mark."
• "Through the heart!"

Death › Dying to a Tank

• "You were supposed to protect!"
• "Guardian... no longer."

Death › Dying to a Nemesis

• "Once... was not enough?"
• "No! Not... again!"

Death › Respawn after the first death

• "I defy them! I denounce them! I name them Nemesis!"

Death › Respawn after dying to an Assassin

• "I should never have expected loyalty from a rat..."
• "Try and keep me from her again. There is no blade I fear!"
• "A cut-throat's blade is sharp but not final."
• "Just like my love, they shall be stabbed in the back."

Death › Respawn after dying to an Enchanter

• "And they claim to be a soft-hearted enchanter. What lies!"
• "Even the most feeble magicks can be turned into a weapon."
• "I despise cowards unwilling to act on their own behalf."
• "Once my healer, my saviour, my friend. Now, a monster."

Death › Respawn after dying to a Fighter

• "I will sent them back to the bloody arena from whence they came."
• "They would be a corpse in a pit were it not for my grace."
• "They were my loyal knight. How could they do this to me?"
• Viego grunts. "They will meet me in combat again. I will triumph!"

Death › Respawn after dying to a Mage

• "My queen saw them for the charlatan they are."
• "There are no words, no incantations that can stop my revenge."
• "A fair fight cannot be had when magic is involved."
• "I will show you what magic the Underworld offers."

Death › Respawn after dying to a Marksman

• "They have distance but I have an eternity to close it."
• "A marksman's range shall not save them from my blade!"
• "This crown is not a target to be skewered so."
• "Only cowards kill from a distance."

Death › Respawn after dying to a Tank

• "A brute cannot be reformed, it seems."
• "Once my bastion, now my butcher."
• "A protector who now protects nothing. Well, they are truly lost."
• "My closest guardian... Their betrayal enrages me the most."

Death › Respawn after dying to a Nemesis

• "If they hunger for my misery, they shall be starved."
• "Only a fool kills me again and again, thinking I will not return."
• "Deny me her soul and let us see what remains of you!"