User blog comment:Deshiba/What if: Viktor/@comment-1330314-20140522040846

I like the idea of moving Vik's Hex Core to his trinket slot, but I don't agree with tying the vision to the augments: you may want Death Core's increased poking power, but also Power Core's ward trinket. A better way to do this would be to split each augment into three iterations with every different vision type.

I also think Viktor needs something more to his passive. He's supposed to be this cyborg who evolves and adapts his own technology to better deal with his opponents, hence the multiple itemization options, yet he actually starts out with an early game advantage and falls off hard, so pretty much the opposite of evolution. He needs to specialize better into his different builds, something along the lines of:

With the following Hex Cores, using your model:

{{User:Emptylord/Template:Ability4 {{sbc|Availability:}} General {{{sbc|Unique:}} +10% magic penetration. {{sbc|Focus: Death:}} {{ai|Death Ray|Viktor}} grants 1 stack of Analysis for every enemy champion hit by the beam. Evolution stacks grant 1.75 ability power and increase Death Ray's travel distance by 1%. These effects are halved after the first 25 stacks. {{sbc|Augment: Death:}} At 25 Evolution stacks, Death Ray burns enemies hit for 30% of its damage over 4 seconds. In addition to their existing effects, further Evolution stacks grant +0.25 mana regeneration and increase Death Ray's travel speed by 2%. {{sbc|Evolution: Death Storm:}} At 75 Evolution stacks, {{ai|Chaos Storm|Viktor}} deals 20% increased damage. }}
 * name={{cci|Augment-_Death_item.png|The_Hex_Core|The Power Core}}
 * description={{sbc|Trinket:}} No cost.

The balance is certainly off, but these should help clearly separate Viktor's builds from each other from the start. To offset having combat stats on a trinket, Viktor's base stats could be tweaked so that he would be weaker at the features he doesn't specialize in (i.e. less health per level, slightly longer cooldowns, less base damage on his spells, etc). What do you think?