User blog comment:Zambu/Useless passives/@comment-60764-20130507190313/@comment-8267817-20130509123447

as far as Viktor's passive goes, I am unhappy that it takes up an item slot personally, I kind of wish that it didn't, but the added benefits of having an augment to one of your abilities is very worth the 1000 gold to upgrade it, and believe it or not the scaling AP per level makes a decent difference in that time just before people go back for items (granted after that it is just a marginal difference) but if you just want raw damage, 45 AP+ 3 AP/lvl (54 at level 18) that translates to almost 100 AP (which for 1000 gold is pretty good, for comparison that is better than a needlesly large rod in both price and damage increase) and it alows your laser to continue damaging after the initial burst for an extra 30% of the original damage inflicted, all in all looking closely at the raw numbers, it is a very strong choice as far as damage goes to pay the 1000 gold for all of these factors, allowing the hex core to have its own item slot (and still able to augment an ability) would be extremely broken and he would be able to have ( I believe rabadon's is a 30% increase, not entirely sure though, it has been a while since I read the actual description, I just know it is pretty strong in this aspect) and extra ~130 AP plus the extra burn damage on top of the other 6 items in his kit, to sum up he would be one of the most effective burst mages in te game in terms of raw damage (Veigar obviously wins this fight though, infinitely scaling AP is kind of strong in case no one noticed)