Durable zone-control mage build: Viktor must turn the map into expensive ground before the real teamfight even begins. The cleaned build therefore stresses the ability to hold space, delay enemy timings, and preserve DPS beyond the first exchange of cooldowns.
Standard build maximizing damage output. Use on neutral matchups or when ahead.
14,200 total cost
Nothing dominates on the other side: the standard build maximizes your damage.
Open this draft in the tool →Anti-resist build for tanky enemies. Choose when multiple enemies build armor/magic resist.
15,100 total cost +900gDefensive build adding survivability. Pick this against high enemy damage or when behind.
15,400 total cost +1200g
Share of the roster this champion outclasses, at each stage of the game.
50% = average for the roster at that point of the game, 90% = among the strongest. The three phases come from the site's editorial tempo grid (early/mid/late, rated across 142 champions); the level-by-level curve adds this build's computed spikes — ultimate, completed items — never by more than ±8 points.
Your hardest matchups in this role, and the item from your situational list that answers each one.
Same advisor in the Draft (the MVP sheet applies it to your real draft) and in Ask Nexus, which explains the choice. On counters pages: the variant to take against each counter-pick.
Skill leveling order and rune choices explained, from our in-depth kit analysis (patch 7.0e). Ability numbers are from patch 7.3; up-to-date items are in the section above.
Viktor gains value over time in fights; the longer it lasts, the stronger his DPS and control become. This build maximizes that presence.
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Tap an ability for its per-rank numbers. Source: official Tencent data (Chinese server), patch 7.3 — may lead or lag the global server by a sub-patch.
Your E poke opens exchanges from range — initiative becomes gold, funding your augment evolutions.
Boosts the R storm and refunds it on takedowns — your control zone returns fight after fight.
Reduces the cooldowns of his empowered spells to chain Q+W+E more often.
Two scaling curves in parallel — your evolutions and time-stacked AP converge in the late game.
Discourages the assassins sent at you — burst crashes into it while your gravity W answers.
Transcendence
Bone Plating
