Thread:Armegdon/@comment-5001149-20121018195212/@comment-3419132-20121019012309

Its no problem to ask!

I have played Viktor the most in ranked out of all my champions (despite not playing ranked often) and to make a long story short; he is beyond suitable for ranked. Viktor is very hard to counter and can give most of the wrongly classified "top tier" mids a run for their money. Kass and Leblargh are often seen as the "universal mage counters" because of their silences and quick movement and WILL give you a far harder time (though your biggest counter is Oriannna.) With these two its all about prediction. Both Kass and Leblanc are farily straightforward and can be predicted to a large degree. Pre-6 you should try as hard as you can to shut them down. Leblanc will be more of an adversary than Kass pre-6 as she has Ranged Auto-Attacks and posses her blink early on. Establish your supreioty with your laser. Its you lifelife against these champs and thus is why people think Viktor is weak as his best lane poke is on a long CD and they believe that when it is, Viktor is defenseless. This is where they are wrong. Viktor's Power Transfer actually has a higher base damage than the laser (but since we should almost always Augment: Death it won't be) and can still deal a high amount in the mid levels. Leblanc is very squishy all throughout the game and thus you will crush her health with just a few beams. If you can absoulutly ALWAYS rush Augment: Death against Leblanc as it will make her think twice before getting within your range. But the biggest troubles from both of these mids is when they do reach Lvl-6. Kass will in actualy fair worse agaisnt you than Leblanc post-6 as the animation for his Riftwalk is very distinct and thus you can activate your Gravity Well in preperation. He'll get his silence off, but he will be stunned if you placed it right. Once that happens, all I can say is: Go batshit crazy on him, he'll die pretty fast under Viktor's full burst. Leblanc is more an issue post-6 as her burst is now very high as well. With Leblanc it'll be harder to pre-place your stun as her combo comes off faster than Kass'. What will really shatter her is your ult. If she jumps in range to Q you, she's in range of the most devastating ultimate in the game. The second she blinks in, as long as you KNOW you can kill her, ult. The split silence will utterly destroy her combo leaving you free to stun her or instagib her under everything. Its very hard for her to engage you with your supieror range and CC.

As for builds I find myself getting an eariler Void Staff against Kass and an early Zhonyas against Leblanc.

Against Kass: Start boots H-pots, Rush Augment: Death, finish Boots, Raba, Void if he is building High MGr

Against Leblanc: Same order, replace void with Zhonyas if she has a high amount of AP

One last shout out has to be made about Augment: Gravity. If you find what i'm saying not to work this will effectivly let you stun them from far out of their common place reach and thus set up easy kills with allies, though you will find yourself of course dealing less damage overall. I hope this all helps! Armegdon (talk) 01:23, October 19, 2012 (UTC)