Talk:Viktor/@comment-27915839-20200109030055

I made an earlier comment on how Viktor's new shield sucks compared to his previous one. So to get a good idea how this works, I did some math. Previously, the base value was 8% max mana (upgraded to 12.8% after using an augment point). Compared to the value of the shield at whatever your Viktor's level would be in game, multiply the new base shield value by 12.5 or 7.8125 if you have the augment.

For experimental purposes let's suppose your Viktor is level 11 and you haven't augmented the Q yet. With the new system, your shield base value will be 80. With the old system, in order to have that value you would need 1000 mana. Comparing the two, if you have more than 1000 mana currently, then the old shield would have been stronger.

Now let's suppose you are level 18 and you have your Hexcore fully upgraded. The base value of the new shield is 184. In order for the old shield to match that, you would have needed 1437.5 max mana. While that might not seem like a lot, remeber that Viktor's base mana at lv 18 is 830 and PHC gives 450 so that's 1280 max mana without any extra mana from runes (PoM & MFB) or other mana items (Lost Chapter upgrades, Lich Bane, etc.) And suppose you opt to buy a Sheen/LB, that's another 250 mana bringing you up to 1530 mana which would have provided a base shield of 195.84.

TL:DR Although the new base shield value might seem lackluster compared to the old one in Mana Stacking Scaling builds, the newer one is actually better if you don't buy mana items or take mana runes. Although a Lich Bane build can be slightly less effective with shield power, it brings up more diversity to build other items like Liandry & Morello.