Since Vik's becoming popular and sheeps started complaining....

Malicious Metal··2 votes·737 views

Yeah, my name gives it away, doesn't it? Vic's one of my favorite champions together with Morde (hue) and his increasing popularity already makes me shudder what RIOT will eventually do to him if they think he hinders LC$-Big-plays. The thing people seem to complain most about is his practically separable q+auto so instead of nerfing Viktor Riot could easily shift some power around in his kit as imo he's in a decent spot right now. How about increasing Q's cooldown, make it scale with level or something along those lines and give him a lower codlin on his laz0r. Let's be honest, his death ray's one of the most fun and rewarding aspects of his kit and has quite a bit of counterplea to it. Another thing that could be buffed to compensate for his "toxic" spammy nature of q could be giving his ultimate either a lower cd or upping the damage a bit.

Just my two cents on the glorious Russian.

8 Comments

Sooko4 votes

He needs no nerfs. His kit requires amazing positioning (short range asides from E, zone control, skillshot reliant, no mobility, squishy), and a lot of predictions (landing his only CC either requires you to be in the middle of the enemy team or someone else's CC). His early game is horrible too, and he is extremely prone to ganks once his W is on cooldown. Couple that with the mana problems that spamming his poke brings and you've got several weaknesses.

If anything in his kit might be too strong is the synergy between his Q and Lich Bane, but Viktor isn't the kind of champion whose counterplay mainly requires the Viktor player to be bad to be applied.

Malicious Metal1 votes

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He needs no nerfs. His kit requires amazing positioning (short range asides from E, zone control, skillshot reliant, no mobility, squishy), and a lot of predictions (landing his only CC either requires you to be in the middle of the enemy team or someone else's CC). His early game is horrible too, and he is extremely prone to ganks once his W is on cooldown. Couple that with the mana problems that spamming his poke brings and you've got several weaknesses.

If anything in his kit might be too strong is the synergy between his Q and Lich Bane, but Viktor isn't the kind of champion whose counterplay mainly requires the Viktor player to be bad to be applied.

Well imo he's balanced and has clear weaknesses. What I'm suggesting isn't nerfing him but shifting some numbers so that all those Vik' haters are gonna hut their pieholes. And let's be honest here, his death ray is the coolest aspect of his kit and not his short CD nukes^^

DontBanMeImDrunk1 votes

he needs nerfs, his burst is too strong, and his wave clear is too good. also, his ult stops channeling.

Shynkle1 votes

He doesn't need any nerfs. He has clear counterplay. Viktor will be pretty useless if you shut down his early gold game. His E is fairly easy to dodge, his Q-Auto range is relatively short, and his ult stopping channels is unique and fun to work with. You just need to stop complaining and think about ways to counter champions other than saying that they need a nerf.

ModAcademy Kayn1 votes

Removing his channel technically would Buff Kat. We don't want that. We want Kat just where she is. Well... where she will be 5.6.

DrCyanide1 votes

"Viktor's too strong! Check out this '404 Sivir not found video!'"

Yes, let's look at the video where an ADC dealt 1/3 the APC's health in a single, no-counterplay auto attack. We then see that Viktor used two spells and an auto attack to delete 3/3 of the ADC's health.

Any argument that can be used for Viktor's late game Q-Auto being too strong can be applied to any ADC.

ModAcademy Kayn1 votes

I just want to point out, that Viktor is one of those few champs who don't have a scaling MR stat. It's at 30 the whole game, without any items. That means, for a mainly mid champ, he is in a lot of danger for match-ups that are mobile and Ap. Ahri Leblanc Akali

Also, Jayce just S**ts on him completely. Jayce

Quindarian1 votes

Get ready for that q skillshot, boys.

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