PCViktor was last buffed in Patch 25.24 (). Across 53 patches, Viktor has received 13 buffs, 3 nerfs, 36 adjustments since release in Patch 1.0.0.131.
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Viktor's in need of a little more power right now, and we'd like to do that by leaning into his strengths as a mid-range battlemage. To do this we're increasing the shield on his Q so that he can stick it out better when going in to look for trades against opponents.
Siphon Power
- Base shield increased to 40 to 140 (based on level) from 40 to 115 (based on level).
- Shield AP ratio increased to 25% AP from 18% AP.
- Bug Fix: Corrected tooltip AP ratio. No gameplay change.
Siphon Power
- Bug Fix: Tooltip now notes the correct buff duration for Discharge's attack of 4 seconds instead of 3.5.
Siphon Power
- Undocumented / Bug Fix: Tooltip has been corrected to note the stated damage is the total damage dealt instead of an "additional" amount.
Arcane Storm
- Bug Fix: Spell shields are no longer consumed by a strike without blocking its damage.
Glorious Evolution
- If a level up occurs while an Augment point is gained, no longer requires the player to have to gain another Augment point before they are able to apply it to any ability, and causing the Augment point icons in the HUD to remain greyed out and unusable until that point.
High Noon
- Bug Fix: Corrected homeguard VFX.
Arcane Storm
- Bug Fix: No longer always targets Viktor after he hits Rift Herald (including via Arcane Storm).
General
- Cape is now shorter and wider (base and all skins).
Q damage decreased. R damage decreased.
Siphon Power
- Discharge AP ratio reduced to 50% AP from 60% AP.
Arcane Storm
- AP ratio per second reduced to 35% AP from 45% AP.
General
- Bug Fix: Corrected various clipping issues with the model.
All abilities adjusted.
General
- Title changed to The Herald of the Arcane from The Machine Herald.
- Updated ability icons.
- Complete visual update across all skins.
- New splash artwork for Original, Full Machine, Prototype, and Death Sworn.
- Adjusted splash artwork for Creator, PsyOps, and High Noon.
- New lore.
- New voice-over.
- Updated sound effects.
Prototype
- Price increased to 750 from 520.
Glorious Evolution
- Hex Fragments generated per large minion and epic monster kill increased to 10 from 5.
- Hex Fragments generated per champion takedown reduced to 20 from 25.
- Removed: Arcane Storm is no longer automatically augmented once all of his basic abilities have been augmented; it requires gaining a fourth augment.
- Arcane Storm cannot be augmented until after all of his basic abilities have been augmented.
- Bug Fix: Killing a champion clone no longer improperly generates 25 Hex Fragments.
Siphon Power
- Base shield increased to 40 to 115 (based on level) from 27 to 105 (based on level).
- Empowered base shield increased to 64 to 184 (based on level) from 43.2 to 168 (based on level).
Gravity Field
- Undocumented: Zone radius increased to 340 units from 310.
- Zone duration increased to 4.5 seconds from 3.75 seconds.
- Slow strength increased to 33/36/39/42/45% from 30/34/38/42/45%.
- Slow duration increased to 1 second from 0.25 seconds.
- Stack application rate increased to one per 0.25 seconds from one per 0.5 seconds.
- Maximum stacks increased to 5 from 3.
- Stacks are now consumed upon the fifth stack.
- Removed: Enemies no longer become immune to the slow after their stacks are consumed.
- Bug Fix: Stack application time is now consistent and is no longer improperly extended by up to 0.25 seconds (total 0.75 seconds of inconsistency over previously 3 ticks).
Hextech Ray
- Renamed to Hextech Ray from Death Ray.
- Mana cost reduced to 60/70/80/90/100 from 70/80/90/100/110.
Arcane Storm
- Renamed to Arcane Storm from Chaos Storm.
- New Effect: Targeting the user now properly follows them instead of stopping upon reaching their location at the time of casting.
- New Effect: Augment: Perfect Storm — The singularity now increases in size by 40% and extends its duration by 3 seconds whenever an enemy champion is takedown after having been damaged by the ability. Size can only be increased up to 6 times and the duration can only be extended up to the original duration.
PsyOps
- Arcane Storm
- Bug Fix: Singularity VFX no longer sometimes desyncs for allies.
Q2 now works on towers. Arcane trailer just dropped. Viktor gets a QoL buff to celebrate.
Siphon Power
- New Effect: Discharge attack is now consumed against turrets, dealing 100% damage.
Stats
- Selection radius reduced to 120 units from 160.
Glorious Evolution
- Bug Fix: No longer incorrectly grants stacks from killing Voidmite.
Death Ray
- Bug Fix: Targeting no longer behaves improperly when Clamp Cast Targeting is enabled.
Stats
- Base health increased to 600 from 530.
- Health growth increased to 104 from 90.
- Armor growth increased to 5.2 from 4.
- Magic resistance growth increased to 1.3 from 0.5.
Siphon Power
- Base shield reduced to 27 to 105 (based on level) from 30 to 115 (based on level).
- Shield AP ratio reduced to 18% AP from 20% AP.
Glorious Evolution
- Bug Fix: Now correctly obtains 5 Hex Fragments upon killing super minions and epic monsters, in addition to siege minions.
Full Machine
- Updated visual effects.
Glorious Evolution
- Bug Fix: Relic Shield Spoils of War kills now properly count towards Glorious Evolution.
Hex Core removed; Viktor now upgrades his abilities by earning champion takedowns and last-hits. E damage increased. Mana growth increased.
Stats
- Mana growth increased to 45 from 25.
Glorious Evolution
- New Innate: Viktor can augment his basic abilities after gaining 100 Hex Fragments. He gains 1 from minion and monster kills, 5 from large minions and 25 from takedowns. Chaos Storm gets augmented once all of his basic abilities have been augmented.
- Old Innate: Viktor starts each game with an exclusive Prototype Hex Core, which permanently occupies one of his item slots. For some additional gold, Viktor can upgrade his Hex Core to increase its bonuses (Hex Core mk-1 Hex Core mk-2 Perfect Hex Core) and grant him one Evolution point, which he can use to augment one of his basic abilities. Once he augments all of his basic abilities, Viktor automatically augments his ultimate ability, Chaos Storm.
Death Ray
- Laser AP ratio increased to 70% AP from 60% AP.
- Aftershock AP ratio reduced to 60% AP from 70% AP.
General
- Updated visual effects.
- New basic attack missile and hit effects.
Siphon Power
- Updated beam effect and rebalanced shield effect.
Gravity Field
- Updated gravity zone effect.
Death Ray
- Updated effects to clearly show the area hit.
Chaos Storm
- New initial cast effect.
Creator
- All VFX updated in Battlecast thematic.
Death Sworn
- Death Ray
- Size adjusted to match base.
Q discharge damage ratio increased; shield ratio increased.
Siphon Power
- Shield AP ratio increased to 20% AP from 15% AP.
- Discharge AP ratio increased to 60% AP from 55% AP.
Siphon Power
- Bug Fix: Empowered basic attacks are no longer able to destroy wards in two hits.
Passive mana bugfix.
Stats
- Bug Fix: No longer loses a significant amount of mana if he upgrades the Prototype Hex Core early into the game. Now properly gains 25 mana per level instead of just Prototype Hex Core mana per level.
Base stats rounded up. Q damage increased.
Stats
- Base health increased to 530 from 528.04.
- Base attack damage increased to 53 from 52.04.
- Base armor increased to 23 from 22.72.
Siphon Power
- Base damage increased to 60/75/90/105/120 from 50/65/80/95/110.
Gravity Field
- Bug Fix: SFX is no longer noticeably louder when using it against more than one enemy.
Q no longer scales with Viktor's mana. W Augment now grants slow to other spells. R now ticks faster and moves quicker.
Glorious Evolution
- Bug Fix: Prototype Hex Core (and its upgrades) stats now update upon purchasing an upgrade rather than when Viktor levels up.
Siphon Power
- Removed: Shield no longer scales with 8% of his maximum mana.
- New Effect: Now has a base shield of 30 to 115 (based on level).
Gravity Field
- Augment renamed to Augment: Magnetize from Augment: Implosion.
- Removed: No longer drags stunned units to the center.
- New Effect: Viktor's non-periodic abilities now slow by 20% for 1 second. Does not trigger with subsequent hits of Chaos Storm.
Death Ray
- Bug Fix: Augment: Aftershock explosion width increased to 90 units from 80.
Chaos Storm
- New Effect: Storm now follows the targeted enemy champion even if Viktor dies.
- New Effect: Can now cross walls.
- Tick interval reduced to 1 second from 2.
- Number of ticks increased to 6 from 3.
- Tick base damage reduced to 65/105/145 from 130/210/290.
- Tick AP ratio reduced to 45% AP from 85% AP.
- Augment renamed to Augment: Perfect Storm from Augment: Velocity.
- Augment: Perfect Storm bonus storm movement speed increased to 25% from 20%.
Gravity Field
- Bug Fix: Augment: Implosion stun is now properly cleared by Cleanse.
Siphon Power
- New Effect: Empowered attack portion now activates on-ability-hit procs.
Chaos Storm
- New Effect: Ability icon HUD now shows the remaining duration of the ability.
General
- New walk animation added without boots (currently base skin only).
Siphon Power
- Cooldown increased to 9/8/7/6/5 seconds from 8/7/6/5/4.
- Base damage reduced to 50/65/80/95/110 from 60/80/100/120/140.
Death Ray
- Cooldown reduced to 12/11/10/9/8 seconds from 13/12/11/10/9.
- Damage AP ratio increased to 60% AP from 50% AP.
General
- Discharge base damage reduced to 20/45/70/95/120 from 20/50/80/100/140.
- Discharge AP ratio increased to 55% AP from 50% AP.
- Tick base damage reduced to 130/210/290 from 150/250/350.
- Tick AP ratio increased to 85% AP from 70% AP.
Glorious Evolution
- The Hex Core mk-1 cost reduced to 1150 gold from 1250 gold.
- The Hex Core mk-2 total cost reduced to 2150 gold from 2250 gold.
- Perfect Hex Core combine cost increased to 850 gold from 750 gold.
- Perfect Hex Core total cost remains 3000 gold.
Gravity Field
- Target range increased to 800 from 700.
Siphon Power
- Discharge base damage increased to 20/50/80/110/140 from 20/40/60/80/100.
Chaos Storm
- Tick AP ratio increased to 70% AP from 60% AP.
Stats
- Base mana increased to 405 from 324.
- Mana growth reduced to 25 from 50.
- Base mana regeneration increased to 8 from 6.
Stats
- Base health regeneration increased to 8 from 7.842.
Siphon Power
- New Effect: Augment: Turbocharge now increases the shield strength by 60% to 12.8% of his maximum mana (+ 24% AP) for the duration.
Chaos Storm
- Cooldown reduced to 120/100/80 seconds from 120/110/100.
Siphon Power
- New Effect: Now draws nearby minion aggro when targeting an enemy champion.
Death Sworn
- Bug Fix: No longer uses classic SFX during his joke animation.
- Bug Fix: Character texture now scales with character quality.
Creator
- Bug Fix: Is no longer missing SFX for his joke, taunt, and dance emotes.
Chaos Storm
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug causing it to fizzle on death.
Chaos Storm
- Maximum speed reduced to 400 from 450.
- Minimum speed increased to 200 from 170.
- Starts slowing down from maximum speed once it gets 300 units away, down from 350.
- Reaches minimum speed once it is 900 units away from Viktor, down from 950.
- Removed: No longer moves at maximum speed when Viktor targets himself.
Chaos Storm
- Now only counts as "returning" (moves at maximum speed regardless of distance) if Viktor targets himself.
Glorious Evolution
- The Hex Core mk-1 cost increased to 1250 gold from 1000 gold.
- The Hex Core mk-2 total cost increased to 2250 gold from 2000 gold.
- Perfect Hex Core combine cost reduced to 750 gold from 1000 gold.
- Perfect Hex Core total cost remains 3000 gold.
Chaos Storm
- Bug Fix: Chaos Storm pulses are now accompanied by sound effects.
Siphon Power
- Cooldown reduced to 8/7/6/5/4 seconds from 10/8.5/7/5.5/4.
- Base damage increased to 60/80/100/120/140 from 40/60/80/100/120.
- Damage AP ratio increased to 40% AP from 20% AP.
- Base shield changed to 8% of maximum mana from 30/50/70/90/110.
- Shield AP ratio reduced to 15% AP from 20% AP.
- Discharge base damage changed to 20/40/60/80/100 from 20 to 210 (based on level).
Death Ray
- Missile speed increased to 1050 from 780.
- AP ratio reduced to 50% AP from 70% AP.
- Augment: Aftershock base damage reduced to 20/60/100/140/180 from 70/110/150/190/230.
- Augment: Aftershock delay increased to 1 second from 0.6.
- Removed: Glorious Evolution damage reduction.
- Total damage changed to 90/170/250/330/410 (+ 120% AP) from 98/154/210/266/322 (+ 98% AP).
Chaos Storm
- Duration reduced to 6.5 seconds from 7.
- Initial base damage reduced to 100/175/250 from 150/250/350.
- Initial damage AP ratio reduced to 50% AP from 55% AP.
- Tick base damage increased to 150/250/350 from 15/30/45.
- Tick damage AP ratio increased to 60% AP from 10% AP.
- Tick interval increased to 2 seconds from 0.5.
- Total damage increased to 550/925/1300 (+ 230% AP) from 360/670/980 (+ 195% AP).
Death Ray
- Base damage reduced to 70/110/150/190/230 from 70/115/160/205/250.
- Base explosion damage reduced to 70/110/150/190/230 from 70/115/160/205/250.
General
- Fixed a few cases where Viktor was gaining mana when hit by certain abilities.
Siphon Power
- Bonus damage can no longer critically strike.
- Fixed a bug where the shield would not properly break against small amounts of damage.
General
- New splash artwork.
- Model and texture update.
- New ability icons.
Stats
- Base attack speed increased to 0.658 from 0.625.
Glorious Evolution (Innate)
- Viktor starts the game with a Prototype Hex Core, which grants 3 AP per level. Viktor can upgrade the core 3 times for 1000 gold each, with each upgrading granting +1 AP per level, +20 AP, +150 Mana and an augment to the basic ability of Viktor's choice. The upgrades accumulate into Perfect Hex Core, which grants a total of +6 AP per level, +60 AP, +500 Mana, augments for each of his basic abilities and also upgrading his ultimate.
Power Transfer (Q)
- Renamed to Siphon Power.
- Upgrade renamed to Augment: Turbocharge from Augment: Power.
- Range is now calculated edge-to-edge instead of center-to-center.
- Cooldown changed to 10/8.5/7/5.5/4 from 9/8/7/6/5.
- Base damage reduced to 40/60/80/100/120 from 80/125/170/215/260.
- AP ratio reduced to 20% AP from 65% AP.
- Now modifies Viktor's next basic attack to deal 20-210 (depending on Viktor's level) (+ 50% AP)(+ 100% AD) magic damage.
- There is no physical damage component.
- Base shield changed to 30/50/70/90/110 from 32/50/68/86/104.
- Shield AP ratio reduced to 20% AP from 26% AP.
- Shield duration reduced to 2.5 seconds from 3.
- Augment: Turbocharge haste duration reduced to 2.5 seconds from 3.
- Shield, speed boost and empower all granted immediately upon cast.
Gravity Field (W)
- Upgrade renamed to Augment: Implosion from Augment: Gravity.
- Range increased to 700 from 625.
- Particle starts playing as soon as Viktor starts cast, time between start of cast and enemy being slowed is unchanged.
- Stunned enemies are no longer affected by the slow.
- Augment: Gravity no longer increases range but instead drags stunned enemies into the center.
Death Ray (E)
- Upgrade renamed to Augment: Aftershock from Augment: Death.
- Augment: Aftershock no longer applies a damage over time.
- Augment: Aftershock now causes a trail of explosions to follow the Death Ray's path, dealing the same damage again.
- Enemies hit by the laser will take only 40% damage from the trail.
- The total damage of landing both parts increased to 140% from 130%.
- Missile speed of the exploding trail is faster than the laser.
Chaos Storm (Ultimate)
- Cast time reduced to 0.25 seconds from 0.33.
- Cooldown reduced to 120/110/100 seconds from 120 at all ranks.
- Radius of initial impact increased to 325 from 250.
- Radius of DOT zone reduced to 325 from 350.
- Storm always moves at maximum speed when moving towards Viktor (still moves slower when moving away from him, based on how far away).
- Damage changed to 15/30/45 (+ 10% AP) per 0.5 seconds from 10/15/20 (+ 6% AP) per 0.25 seconds.
- Damage per second changed to 30/60/90 (+20% AP) from 40/60/80 (+24% AP).
- No longer silences on impact, but will still interrupt channels.
- Now has an Augment:
- Augment: Velocity - The storm moves 20% faster.
Chaos Storm
- Mana cost reduced to 100 at all ranks from 125/175/225.
Gravity Field
- Slow refresh rate reduce to 0.25 seconds.
Death Ray
- Travel speed and hitbox precision tuned, especially when cast near walls.
Chaos Storm
- Fixed an issue where it could sometimes be cast twice.
Power Transfer
- Augment Power now grants movement speed when the missile is launched rather than when the cast animation begins.
- Fixed a bug where Viktor could gain the movement speed from Augment Power without actually casting Power Transfer.
- Fixed a bug where Augment Power movement speed lasted only 2 seconds instead of the intended 3.
Gravity Field
- Fixed a bug where it disappeared when Viktor died.
Chaos Storm
- Fixed a bug where it disappeared when Viktor died (though it will not respond to commands while Viktor is dead).
Power Transfer
- Missile speed increased to 2000 from 1400.
Gravity Field
- Activation time reduced to 0.25 seconds from 0.5.
Chaos Storm
- Fixed a bug where its tooltip stated that it dealt less damage than it actually did.
Viktor added to League of Legends
Power Transfer (Q)
- Viktor blasts an enemy unit dealing magic damage, returning a portion of the damage dealt as a shield.
Gravity Field (W)
- Viktor conjures a heavy gravitational field that slows any target in its radius. If enemies stay too long within the radius of the device, it gets stunned.
Death Ray (E)
- Viktor uses his robotic arm to fire a chaos beam that cuts across the field in a line, dealing damage to any opponents struck in its path.
Chaos Storm (Ultimate)
- Viktor conjures a singularity on the field which deals magic damage and briefly silences enemies. The singularity then does magic damage to all nearby enemies every second. Viktor can redirect the singularity.
General
- Fixed a bug where the End of Game screen was reporting massive damage done values for Viktor.
Evolving Technology
- Lowered Augment Costs to 1,000. (The displayed price will remain 1,200 until the patch in early 2012, but The Hex Core will be upgradable for 1,000 as it was originally intended)
Augment Power
- Fixed a bug where it was not assigning the correct stats.
Death Ray
- Fixed a bug where it was not doing the correct amount of damage reported.
Chaos Storm
- Fixed a bug where it was reacting to Loaded Dice.
