Talk:VPBE/@comment-37514365-20190921220557/@comment-27915839-20190928075823

I have not seen any documentation of the AP ratio increase. The Augmented shield will still have 24% AP Ratio, but the base shield increase will be lackluster in comparison to the live value. If you have more than about 1500ish mana, this is still a shield nerf.

Honestly I don't see why he can't have both a base value & a mana scaling. If the shield was the new base plus 6% mana, then the Augment would push it to 9.6% mana. Or change the Augment value from 60% to 100% and have the mana ratio jump from 5% to 10%. Or 6% to 12%. It's not the live version of 12.8% but it's still slightly weaker & has the scalability.

Viktor's current live kit was reworked from his previous original kit to make him a better late game battlemage or burst mage. This PBE kit makes him too much of a mid game powerhouse that doesn't scale as well. Sure he's better for the current meta, but it's just this metagame of early & mid game aggressive fights.