Post update Viktor (week 1)

So now that the dust has settled, so to speak, on the mage update, im wondering what peoples impressions of Viktor are now that we've had a week to play him.

Personally im not really finding him to be all that different than before, aside from far less burst potential in the early game. I will say that im finding it almost impossible to kill my lane opponent 1v1 now, which forces me to just play Farmville for the first 20 or so minutes, which is pretty boring.

Honestly from what im noticing in my games, I think his post-update success can be attributed to his ridiculous scalings on his abilities. More often than not, the aftershock damage on E and the third tick of my ult are irrelevant to getting a kill in mid-late game; they might as well not even exist as far as I can tell. Im pretty mortified that Riot is going to end up nerfing his initial damage numbers because of how high they can get, and really hammer home this idea that he is a team composition/wombo combo master that they seemingly want him to be.

Im also pretty annoyed with the fact that, at least in my opinion, Viktor has next to no build diversity anymore. is pretty much a mandatory buy on him first or second, and considering you also need to upgrade your , you really aren't left with many other options in the early game.

TL;DR: I will admit that his state post-update isn't as horrible as I expected it would be, but im scared that its solely because of the huge numbers he has on his abilities (specifically E and R), which means he doesn't even really need their delayed damage to be relevant in a fight. Im worried riot is either going to flat out nerf his damage, or shift more of it onto the delayed aspects of his E and R.

Lets try and keep the discussion healthy, please!