Talk:Viktor/@comment-15031918-20150522131422/@comment-26011599-20150523001019

I played about 100 Viktor support games so I'm surely an expert now. And, as an expert, I can confirm that he totally sucks ^^

It worked till my MMR was relatively low - literally noone expected Viktor support and my opponents had literally no idea what to do with him, but when I've started getting matched against high platinums and low diamonds it became just utterly impossible.

The thing is, that Viktor is one of the most level and gold dependand mages in the game. His passive and his Q both scale with level and supports are usually the most experience starved member of the team. If you won't utterly crush your opponent in early, you will quickly fall behind and remain useless since your supporting capabilities are limited to situational W, or nuking your ADC enemies to oblivion (what quickly stops being the case if you have no gold for items). Your early damage however is not as significant to make your enemies fear you, not only you'll lose tons of mana but if you face sustain support your poke will get completely negated. The most effective match-up for me was against Leona since the fast W under your ADC's feet always catched her after using Zenith Blade, but it's still hard because you, as a mid ranged poke "support", are constantly in range of her stuff and if she goes for you... you are dead.