Talk:Viktor/@comment-13160526-20140206193946/@comment-4929329-20140208211650

On some level, they have a lot of burst. However, simply because one is a mage with decent initial damage does not mean they are supposed to be like Veigar, LeBlanc, or Kassadin. A good example of non bursty mages would be Rumble or Swain. Sadly, Viktor has more initial damage so he falls into a group like that of Kennen, where they DO have burst but the damage takes some time to set up via positioning, etc. Similarly, his CC takes time to set up like Kennen's passive does. As for Viktor's passive: Currently, Riot is thinking of making Rengar's passive into a trinket (like totem ward but it provides no stats, still has charge bonuses, costs no gold, goes in trinket slot) and they're wanting to do something similar for Viktor as it would solve the mandatory item problem. So... I doubt that Viktor trinket would provide stat bonuses but instead have pure spell bonuses.

Annie can stun a team for about 1.75 seconds late game in an instant, but Viktor will debilitate your positioning for 1.5 seconds and THEN stun you for another 1.5 seconds, which makes it the strongest AoE CC in the entire game if used skillfully. His ult can be used right as you set up the field so the half second silence gives people about 0.3-0.4 seconds to get out of that field, which is... not very realistic unless the entire enemy team has Flash (Cleanse used during slow will not stop the stun, but will reduce its duration, and the slow is reapplied). Something that also doesn't happen with Annie is that you cannot walk into her stun after she has used it, meaning Viktor "shuts down" part of the fight for a whole 3 seconds, making it again one of the best AoE CC spells in the game... if you can combo it with your ultimate. I would argue that for this reason, his ultimate HAS to last a long time, but perhaps 5.5-6 seconds is more realistic than the current 7.