Talk:Viktor/@comment-109.121.46.27-20130129130601

I tried to play Viktor on PBE yesterday because mostly I hear that he is "very hard" to play thanks to his vektor (pun intentended) targeting.

They used to say the same thing for Rumble and his ultimate but when I tried him he was simply to put, a piece of pie.

And again I was right, his laser was the easy peasy to aim with. Just click and drag, there is no rocket science behind it. But then I realized one thing. Smart casting.

Since people are sometimes dumber than a bucket of rocks, they will use smart casting in order to "faceroll". Smartcasting (I refer to it as Dumbcasting) works excelent with champions like Brand or Alistar that need to unload entire combo in one short time frame.

People assumed that Viktor is just another "faceroll" mage and that they should still use smart cast. But smartcast and vector targeting is a very bad combination. That made people to think he needs some super skills, so they instead played Katarina and other easier mages, simply because they do the same thing as Viktor - tons of damage (Phreak TM) but they are built for smartcasting.

And what we have here is the small pool of people that saw Viktors potential and play him without smartcasting and actually stomp anything in their path and another group of people that adapted to use smart cast but still they are not as effective as non-smartcasters.

My conclusion is that Viktor will be a nice addition to my army of (now counting 67) champions and that I will have some fun with laser.