Talk:Viktor/@comment-4677525-20120803031248/@comment-77.249.233.124-20120806074910

^ Actually, Vlad's heal isn't instantaneous. Just like Vik's shield he has to wait for the particle to return. The thing is that people build spell vamp on Vlad and the vamp does heal him before the particle returns. Basically spell vamp turns Vlad's Q into 2 heals, 1 from the ability itself which needs the particle to return, and 1 from spell vamp which heals you the moment you deal damage (which is instant).

The main reason Vlad's Q feels better though is because the damage portion is instant (Vik's Q has to travel to his target) and the particle often returns faster than someone can get a shot in (unlike Vik's Q which always seems to come back after the damage has been done).

That all said, I've played with Vlad against Viktor in the past. Even though I could handle almost any mid champ with Vlad, Viktor always out traded me early game and later on his laser would just poke me to death. So even though Vlad's Q seems a lot better on paper, the reality is that Viktor will win early trades with Vlad easily.

Other than that, I do think a buff to his Power and Gravity augments should be done. Maybe make it so the Power augment gives his Q a bit more range? It would make it, a nice, more defensive choice of poking, even though you will still sacrifice a lot of AoE damage output in TFs. I also agree his ult needs a shorter CD. Often I'm just waiting for it and then I see my opponent already use his/her.