Talk:Viktor/@comment-24035110-20140925205435/@comment-24055932-20140926000533

Well, that's kind of why Viktor's Q scales with levels - the Q relying on base AD and level really cuts the power of his Q in earlygame and kind of forces you to level e first.

Sure, Viktor is strong, and a straight up duell between him and a squishy champ should propably in most cases be avoided, though he really needs blowing stats, as he neither has a high range nor mobility or the possibility to avoid damage (the shield isn't that relevant with only 20% AP scaling). Unless an enemy is heavily out of position or your team gets off a great engage/stun, he most likely will have to fight versus the enemies bruisers/tanks, and therefore needs, just like Annie, strong abilities (damage & utility), as else building AP just would not be as regarding as building offtank.

Yasuo on the contrary has, though he is strongly limited by being melee, two tools of denying damage (passive, which can be renewed by ult + wind wall) and crazy mobility (E + ult) while dishing out immense DPS.