Talk:Viktor/@comment-26207873-20150605212451/@comment-24447033-20150606040200

Your standard build should be:

Start dorans ring + 2 pots/biscuits

Max E first and rush the first hexcore as soon as you can and put that point onto E.

Next, consider getting zhonyas or athenes/abyssal (not for long though as they are reworking abyssal) depending on who you are vsing. Now while if you feel confident you can skip out on these, but if you are planning on building these, always build the defensive component first. Also note that you don't necessarily have to complete anyone full item before moving onto the next - you can build an armguard then leave the complete zhonyas out for later for example.

Next is up to your playstyle, if you want insane damage on your Q and some other nice stats, go for lichbane, building the sheen component first, otherwise build luden's echo.

Now build your rabadons (what mage doesn't get this item XD)

If you built lichbane before, you should also build the ludens echo here anyway.

With lichbane and ludens, you should be able to move around pretty fast - +12% (17% including 3rd dragon buff) movement speed and +45 from boots. Now if the enemy has too much magic resist, you should build a void staff instead of luden's echo here.

If you didn't build lichbane before and chose luden's echo, you now build void staff (however you should build this item earlier if the enemy are itemizing magic resist)

Generally, you should upgrade your hex core at these points: on 1st back (or 2nd), level 9, level 14-ish. Use your upgrade on E first, then Q or W depending on the situation. Sometimes you can go Q first instead of E (on rare cases).

Once you get third dragon buff you can sell your boots if the game progress on that long.

This is the standard build, but there's another "tanky mage build" and I can also write a quick guide up here if you want for that one.