Has Riot ever considered giving Viktor the Rengar treatment.

So right now, Viktor feels underwhelming to play. He has an item slot completely devoted to his passive which is subpar to other items and feels like a wasted slot. Paired with his terrible base health and crappy range makes it even worse.

So something that I feel could be done to remedy this is to make his hexcore upgrades trinkets. They wouldn't give AP per level, but at level 9 they would upgrade into secondary trinkets that you would need to pay to upgrade to get the added bonuses to one of his abilities. You could probably tone down how much they do, but this would free up an item slot to allow for more diversity in builds. You could do straight up burst caster, bruiser, or utility. You would have to change his passive, maybe just move the AP/lvl to his passive or make it something completely different.

I think he could use a range increase on his Q, more base health and a little less CD on his ult since 2 minutes seems a little excessive.

When I think of Viktor, I think a diverse champion who can fulfil many roles based on what his team needs. He can be a burst caster mid with augment death, a bruiser magic damage top, or a utility mid/support. All depending on what he builds and what augment he gets. When you have an augment taking an item slot, it really limits his build since you have to get boots and only got 4 slots to really take after. If you go the normal caster build you get Athenes, Deathcap, Void staff and only really 1 slot to work with, which isn't enough. So I don't know if the idea to make his augments into trinkets as you already got yellow, red and blue augments or if you will make a 3rd upgrade on his Augments to make them feel as strong if not stronger than normal items, as that is what his passive should be.

TL;DR Make Viktors augments into trinkets that you pay to upgrade at level 9 while toning the strength or pay the 1000 or 800 to upgrade.