Talk:Viktor/@comment-41.238.169.61-20111223043627/@comment-142.177.116.169-20111226155942

No, he's not. His passive is him starting equiped with an upgradeable item, he himself does not have a +3AP/lvl passive. The base hexcore item gives +3AP/lvl and nothing else. The upgraded item gives +3AP/lvl plus some other stats and an improvement to one of his abilities. Since the base item becomes the upgraded item you're only getting the +3AP/lvl once. This is all obviously subject to change, but currently he has +54 AP at level 18 whether or not he's upgraded the hexcore.

The upgrades are very inefficient just for the stats, but since they augment an ability it's really hard to say exactly how efficient those upgrades really are. My personal opinion is that they would be quite good at ~1000g (with a buff to Augment power, those stats suck compared to the other augments) but are currently too expensive. Upgrading the hexcore should be a no-brainer, with only the choice of what the upgrade will be being difficult, as is a person could make a very reasonable argument for leaving the hexcore at base until you've nothing else to do with your gold.