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Viktor
Patch 16.2.1
MidDifficulty
Medium
Strength
Early
Mid
Late
Win Condition
Farm perfectly to reach your augments ASAP. In the mid-to-late game, group with your team and use to poke. Use and to control the area around objectives like Baron or Dragon, forcing the enemy to fight into your AOE.
Playstyle
Scaling control mage who dictates the pace of the game through zone control and massive AOE burst. You start as a fragile scholar and end as a god of mechanical destruction.
Strengths & Weaknesses
Strengths
- +Elite waveclear once is augmented, allowing for easy map priority
- + and provide some of the best zone control in the game
- +Hyper-scaling damage that can delete squishies and shred tanks alike
- +Self-peel and kiting potential via movespeed and slow
Weaknesses
- -Extremely vulnerable to early jungle ganks before getting and augment
- -Reliant on fragments; if you fall behind in CS or kills, your upgrades arrive too late
- -High mana costs in the early game prevent spamming abilities
- -Immobile and easily punished if caught with on cooldown
Abilities
You need 100 Hex Fragments for each upgrade. Minions give 1, large minions give 5, and takedowns give 25. Prioritize 100% CS early—getting that first upgrade is your most important objective.
A two-part spell: a point-and-click blast that gives a shield, followed by an empowered auto. Use the shield to win trades while the projectile is in the air. The augment gives you a massive speed boost, making you a kiting machine.
Your only hard CC. It's a delay-based stun. Don't use it just to engage; use it to cut off choke points or drop it on yourself when an assassin jumps you. The augment makes all your other spells slow enemies, making impossible to dodge.
The core of your kit. It's a vector-cast laser (click and drag). The augment adds a second explosion (Aftershock) that deals huge damage to anyone standing still. Practice the vector casting until it's muscle memory.
A massive AOE storm that interrupts channels (like Katarina or Malzahar ults) on impact. You can move it by pressing R again. The augment makes it move faster and grow when it gets a kill—perfect for chaotic teamfights.
Teamfight Role
AOE Backline DPS / Control Mage
Stay in the backline and use to chip away at the enemy. Save for when the enemy clumps up or to stop a specific dive. Your goal is to maximize the Aftershock hits from and the ticks from .
If your ADC is the only fed member, use and exclusively for peel to keep them alive rather than looking for a big offensive play.
Combos
The Bread and Butter
→ Auto →
Your primary lane trade. Q a minion or the enemy for the shield, use the speed/shield to walk up, land the empowered auto, and fire E as you walk back to safety.
Full Burst Execution
→ → → Auto
Drop the laser first since it has no cast time, then immediately R to interrupt and lock them down. Finish with Q and the empowered auto to proc Electrocute/Phase Rush.
The Self-Peel
at feet → →
When dove by an assassin, drop W directly on yourself. Q for the shield and speed to kite out of the circle. If they stay in to hit you, they get stunned; if they leave, you live. R to interrupt their combo.
The Catch
(behind target) → →
Force the enemy to walk into your W or take the full damage of your E and R. Once the W augment slow is active, hitting E makes it almost certain they get stunned by the W.
Power Spikes
| Spike | Why |
|---|---|
| Level 6 | You gain , giving you kill pressure and the ability to interrupt enemy channels. Usually coincides with your first upgrade if farming well. |
| Level 7 | With a few points in and the Aftershock augment, you can now one-shot the caster minions, allowing for instant waveclear and roams. |
| Level 9 | is fully maxed. Your poke damage becomes oppressive for any squishy target. |
| Level 11 | Second rank in and usually your second upgrade (typically ). Your kiting and mid-game skirmishing peak here. |
| Level 16 | Max rank and full augments. The storm moves incredibly fast and can solo-win a teamfight if positioned correctly. |
Tips & Tricks
- •You can cast and while moving; they have no cast animation, so never stop walking.
- • cancels channels instantly. Use it to stop Katarina, Samira, or Nunu ults immediately.
- •Always aim so the start of the laser hits the enemy; this makes the Aftershock harder to dodge.
- •The empowered auto is an auto-attack reset. Use it to clear wards or kill towers faster.
- •If you have the augment, hitting someone with slows them, making it much easier to land the second half of your laser.
- •Don't forget to control by pressing the R key again. Move it toward high-priority targets or back toward yourself for protection.
Common Mistakes
- ✕Using for poke early and running out of mana→You lose lane pressure and cannot defend against a dive or assist your jungler.
- ✕Casting too far behind the enemy→They simply walk toward you and kill you since you wasted your only defensive tool.
- ✕Neglecting farm for low-percentage roams→You delay your fragments, making you useless during the critical mid-game transitions.
- ✕Forgetting to move after casting it→The storm sits on a dead body or in empty space while the fight moves away, losing 70% of its value.
- ✕Positioning too close to land the auto-attack in teamfights→You get hit by AOE CC or focused down; sometimes it's better to just use the for the shield and stay safe.
AI-generated guide • Patch 16.2.1 • Cached