@Riot Will Viktor be receiving any buffs or other changes?
Something I'm wondering is if Viktor will be receiving any changes from the mage update, or any changes in general. He currently has the lowest win rate on champion.gg (plat+) with a 44% win rate. His range aside from his E is pretty low and he's squishy as hell and so easy to burst. Before his hexcore nerfs awhile back and the lazor nerf he was at around a perfect 50 - 51% win rate.
His late game is extremely insane. but with much more snowbally, shorter games, AD Assassins being super strong, and the recent lazor are making him feel a lot weaker. A few small buffs that I felt would be decent are:
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Increase the slow OR range on his gravity field (W). The reason for this is that it's really easy to walk out of it, and is very hard to use against mobile champs. It doesn't have to be a huge buff.
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Move some of the damage from the DOT on his ULT to the actual summon damage. Viktor's burst is a lot weaker early to mid game than it was pre nerfs, its much easier for a Brand, Malz, Vel'koz or Anivia to 100-0 you level 6, while it's a little hard for Viktor to 100 - 30/20 UNLESS you basically stand in his ult.
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Revert nerfs BUT remove a bit of Hexcore power late game. Change the Hexcore to give flat ap again but lower some of the max ap you can get from it late game. You can make the perfect hexcore level 18 give around 160 or 150 instead of 180 but in return you should give him some of his early to mid game power back.
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Increase his auto range by around 25 or if you really want, increase it by 50. A lot of enemy ranged mid laners who actually out range Viktor have around a 550 AA range (Ahri, Ziggs, Lux), and increasing his AA range by a little bit not only helps his Q, but will help his early farming too.
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Increase his movement speed by a little bit. Yes I know he gets movement speed from using Q, but he's still short ranged, and unless you have Rylais, it's going to be a lot harder to keep your ULT on someone far away unless you actually stand inside it. It's really hard to stick onto targets with Viktor aswell.
These are only a few ideas, but at least respond so that I can know what you guys are thinking about.
