Viktor Patch History

Bugfix Fixed a bug where the lightning VFX would stretch across the screen in certain situations.

Base shield: 40 to 115 40 to 140

Shield AP ratio: 18% AP 25% AP

Bugfix Corrected tooltip AP ratio. No gameplay change.

Bugfix Tooltip now notes the correct buff duration for Discharge's attack of 4 seconds instead of 3.5.

Undocumented / Bug Fix: Tooltip has been corrected to note the stated damage is the total damage dealt instead of an "additional" amount.

Bugfix Spell shields are no longer consumed by a strike without blocking its damage.

If a level up occurs while an Augment point is gained, no longer requires the player to have to gain another Augment point before they are able to apply it to any ability, and causing the Augment point icons in the HUD to remain greyed out and unusable until that point.

Bugfix Corrected homeguard VFX.

Bugfix No longer always targets Viktor after he hits Rift Herald (including via Arcane Storm).

Discharge AP ratio: 60% AP 50% AP

AP ratio per second: 45% AP 35% AP

Bugfix Corrected various clipping issues with the model.

Health growth: 104 100

Armor growth: 5.2 4.4

Title: The Machine Herald The Herald of the Arcane

Updated ability icons.

Complete visual update across all skins.

New splash artwork for Original Viktor, Full Machine Viktor, Prototype Viktor, and Death Sworn Viktor.

Adjusted splash artwork for Creator Viktor, PsyOps Viktor, and High Noon Viktor.

New lore.

New voice-over.

Updated sound effects.

Price: 520 750

Hex Fragments generated per large minion and epic monster kill: 5 10

Hex Fragments generated per champion takedown: 25 20

Removed Arcane Storm is no longer automatically augmented once all of his basic abilities have been augmented; it requires gaining a fourth augment.

Arcane Storm cannot be augmented until after all of his basic abilities have been augmented.

Bugfix Killing a champion clone no longer improperly generates 25 Hex Fragments.

Base shield: 27 to 105 40 to 115

Empowered base shield: 27*1.6 to 105*1.6 40*1.6 to 115*1.6

Zone radius: [Undocumented] 310 340 units

Zone duration: 3.75 seconds 4.5 seconds

Slow strength: 30 / 34 / 38 / 42 / 45% 33 – 45%

Slow duration: 0.25 seconds 1 second

Stack application rate: one per 0.5 seconds one per 0.25 seconds

Maximum stacks: 3 5

Stacks are now consumed upon the fifth stack.

Removed Enemies no longer become immune to the slow after their stacks are consumed.

Bugfix Stack application time is now consistent and is no longer improperly extended by up to 0.25 seconds (total 0.75 seconds of inconsistency over previously 3 ticks).

Renamed to Hextech Ray from Death Ray.

Mana cost: 70 – 110 60 – 100

Renamed to Arcane Storm from Chaos Storm.

New Targeting the user now properly follows them instead of stopping upon reaching their location at the time of casting.

Augment: New Perfect Storm — The singularity now increases in size by 40% and extends its duration by 3 seconds whenever an enemy champion is taken down after having been damaged by the ability. Size can only be increased up to 6 times and the duration can only be extended up to the original duration.

Arcane Storm

Bugfix Singularity VFX no longer sometimes desyncs for allies.

New Discharge attack is now consumed against turrets, dealing 100% damage.

Selection radius: 160 120 units

Bugfix No longer incorrectly grants stacks from killing Voidmite.

Bugfix Targeting no longer behaves improperly when Clamp Cast Targeting is enabled.

Base health: 530 600

Health growth: 90 104

Armor growth: 4 5.2

Magic resistance growth: 0.5 1.3

Base shield: 30 to 115 27 to 105

Shield AP ratio: 20% AP 18% AP

Bugfix Now correctly obtains 5 Hex Fragments upon killing super minions and epic monsters, in addition to siege minions.

Updated visual effects.

Bugfix Relic Shield 's Spoils of War kills now properly count towards Glorious Evolution.

Undocumented/Bug: Can now stun targets which entire it in a particular way multiple times in succession.

Laser AP ratio: 70% AP 50% AP

Aftershock base damage: 20 – 180 20 – 140

Aftershock AP ratio: 60% AP 80% AP

Mana growth: 25 45

New Innate: Viktor can augment his basic abilities after gaining 100 Hex Fragments. He gains 1 from minion and monster kills, 5 from large minions and 25 from takedowns. Chaos Storm gets augmented once all of his basic abilities have been augmented.

Old Innate: Viktor starts each game with an exclusive Prototype Hex Core, which permanently occupies one of his item slots. For some additional gold gold, Viktor can upgrade his Hex Core to increase its bonuses (Hex Core mk-1 Hex Core mk-2 Perfect Hex Core) and grant him one Evolution point, which he can use to augment one of his basic abilities. Once he augments all of his basic abilities, Viktor automatically augments his ultimate ability, Chaos Storm.

Laser AP ratio: 60% AP 70% AP

Aftershock AP ratio: 70% AP 60% AP

Updated visual effects.

New basic attack missile and hit effects.

Updated beam effect and rebalanced shield effect.

Updated gravity zone effect.

Updated effects to clearly show the area hit.

New initial cast effect.

All VFX updated in Battlecast thematic.

Death Ray

Size adjusted to match base.

Shield AP ratio: 15% AP 20% AP

Discharge AP ratio: 55% AP 60% AP

Damage ratio not updated in the tooltip.

Bugfix Empowered basic attacks are no longer able to destroy wards in two hits.

Bugfix When playing on the Chaos side (top side) the Gravity Field will successfully stun enemies walking through or standing on it on the third stack.

Bugfix No longer loses a significant amount of mana if he upgrades the Prototype Hex Core early into the game. Now properly gains 25 mana per level instead of just Prototype Hex Core's mana per level.

Base health: 528.04 530

Base attack damage: 52.04 53

Base armor: 22.72 23

Base damage: 50 – 110 60 – 120

Bugfix SFX is no longer noticeably louder when using it against more than one enemy.

Siphon Power

Augment: Bugfix Turbocharge now properly increases shield strength.

Bugfix Prototype Hex Core's (and its upgrades) stats now update upon purchasing an upgrade rather than when Viktor levels up.

Removed Shield no longer scales with 8% of his maximum mana.

New Now has a base shield of 30 to 115.

Augment renamed to Augment: Magnetize from Augment: Implosion.

Removed No longer drags stunned units to the center.

New Viktor's non-periodic abilities now slow by 20% for 1 second. Does not trigger with subsequent hits of Chaos Storm.

Augment: Aftershock explosion width: Bugfix 80 90 units

New Storm now follows the targeted enemy champion even if Viktor dies.

New Can now cross walls.

Tick interval: 2 1 second

Number of ticks: 3 6

Tick base damage: 130 – 290 3 65 – 145 3

Tick AP ratio: 85% AP 45% AP

Augment renamed to Augment: Perfect Storm from Augment: Velocity.

Augment: Perfect Storm bonus storm movement speed: 20% 25%

Augment: Bugfix Implosion stun is now properly cleared by Cleanse.

New Empowered attack portion now activates on-ability-hit procs.

New Ability icon HUD now shows the remaining duration of the ability.

New walk animation added without boots (currently base skin only).

Cooldown: 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 seconds

Base damage: 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 / 140 50 / 65 / 80 / 95 / 110

Cooldown: 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 / 8 seconds

Damage AP ratio: 50% AP 60% AP

Discharge base damage: 20 / 50 / 80 / 100 / 140 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120

Discharge AP ratio: 50% AP 55% AP

Tick base damage: 150 / 250 / 350 130 / 210 / 290

Tick AP ratio: 70% AP 85% AP

The Hex Core mk-1's cost: 1250 gold 1150 gold

The Hex Core mk-2's total cost: 2250 gold 2150 gold

Perfect Hex Core's combine cost: 750 gold 850 gold

Perfect Hex Core's total cost remains 3000 gold.

Target range: 700 800

Discharge base damage: 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 20 / 50 / 80 / 110 / 140

Tick AP ratio: 60% AP 70% AP

Base mana: 324 405

Mana growth: 50 25

Base mana regeneration: 6 8

Base health regeneration: 7.842 8

Augment: New Turbocharge now increases the shield strength by 60% to 12.8% of his maximum mana (+ 24% AP) for the duration.

Cooldown: 120 / 110 / 100 120 / 100 / 80 seconds

New Now draws nearby minion aggro when targeting an enemy champion.

Base health: 516.04 528

Health growth: 78 90

Bugfix No longer uses classic SFX during his joke animation.

Bugfix Character texture now scales with character quality.

Bugfix Is no longer missing SFX for his joke, taunt, and dance emotes.

Magic resistance growth: 0 0.5

Bugfix Fixed a bug causing it to fizzle on death.

Bugfix Lowered the volume of Creator Viktor's Chaos Storm churning.

Maximum speed: 450 400

Minimum speed: 170 200

Starts slowing down from maximum speed once it gets 300 units away, down from 350.

Reaches minimum speed once it is 900 units away from Viktor, down from 950.

Removed No longer moves at maximum speed when Viktor targets himself.

Now only counts as "returning" (moves at maximum speed regardless of distance) if Viktor targets himself.

The Hex Core mk-1's cost: 1000 gold 1250 gold

The Hex Core mk-2's total cost: 2000 gold 2250 gold

Perfect Hex Core's combine cost: 1000 gold 750 gold

Perfect Hex Core's total cost remains 3000 gold.

Bugfix Chaos Storm pulses are accompanied by sound effects.

Cooldown: 10 / 8.5 / 7 / 5.5 / 4 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 seconds

Base damage: 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 / 140

Damage AP ratio: 20% AP 40% AP

Base shield: 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 / 110 8% of maximum mana

Shield AP ratio: 20% AP 15% AP

Discharge's base damage: 20;25;30;35;40;45;50;55;60;70;80;90;110;130;150;170;190;210 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100

Missile speed: 780 1050

AP ratio: 70% AP 50% AP

Augment: Aftershock base damage: 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230 20 / 60 / 100 / 140 / 180

Augment: Aftershock delay: 0.6 1 second

Removed Glorious Evolution damage reduction.

Total damage: 98 / 154 / 210 / 266 / 322 (+ 98% AP) 90 / 170 / 250 / 330 / 410 (+ 120% AP)

Duration: 7 6.5 seconds

Initial base damage: 150 / 250 / 350 100 / 175 / 250

Initial damage AP ratio: 55% AP 50% AP

Tick base damage: 15 / 30 / 45 150 / 250 / 350

Tick damage AP ratio: 10% AP 60% AP

Tick interval: 0.5 2 seconds

Total damage: 360 / 670 / 980 (+ 195% AP) 550 / 925 / 1300 (+ 230% AP)

Base damage: 70 / 115 / 160 / 205 / 250 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230

Base explosion damage: 70 / 115 / 160 / 205 / 250 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230

Fixed a bug where Chaos Storm could, under specific circumstances, instantly kill champion clones.

The empowered basic attack buff will be consumed and the attack will do no damage and apply no effects if the attack misses. This may have already been the case, but all empowered basic attacks were adjusted to consistently interact with blocks and misses this way on this patch.

Fixed a few cases where Viktor was gaining mana when hit by certain abilities.

Restored custom level-up icons for augmentation.

Prototype Hex Core

AP per level: 3 1

Now grants 10 Mana per level.

The Hex Core mk-1

Grants 3 AP per level instead of 20 AP and 4 AP per level.

Grants 15 mana per level instead of 150 flat mana.

The Hex Core mk-2

Grants 6 AP per level instead of 40 AP and 5 AP per level.

Grants 20 mana per level instead of 300 flat mana.

Perfect Hex Core

Grants 10 AP per level instead of 60 AP and 6 AP per level.

Grants 25 mana per level instead of 500 flat mana.

Fixed a bug where the detonation on upgraded Death Ray was canceling Viktor's autoattacks.

Bonus Discharge damage can no longer critically strike.

Fixed a bug where Viktor's shield was not breaking upon taking damage.

Model and texture update.

New splash artwork for Original Viktor.

New ability icons.

Base attack speed: 0.625 0.658

Viktor starts the game with a Prototype Hex Core, which grants 3 AP per level. Viktor can upgrade the core 3 times for 1000 gold each, with each upgrading granting +1 AP per level, +20 AP, +150 Mana and an augment to the basic ability of Viktor's choice. The upgrades accumulate into Perfect Hex Core, which grants a total of +6 AP per level, +60 AP, +500 Mana, augments for each of his basic abilities and also upgrading his ultimate.

Renamed to Siphon Power.

Upgrade renamed to Augment: Turbocharge from Augment: Power.

Range is now calculated edge-to-edge instead of center-to-center, increasing the range by an average of 100 units (although varies depending on the size of the target).

Cooldown: 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 10 / 8.5 / 7 / 5.5 / 4

Base damage: 80 / 125 / 170 / 215 / 260 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120

AP ratio: 65% AP 20% AP

Now modifies Viktor's next basic attack to deal 20-210 (depending on Viktor's level) (+ 50% AP) (+100% AD) magic damage.

There is no physical damage component.

Shield amount changed to 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 / 110 (+ 20% AP)

Shield and speed boost (Augment) duration: 3 seconds 2.5 seconds

Shield, speed boost and empower all granted immediately upon cast.

Upgrade renamed to Augment: Implosion from Augment: Gravity.

Range: 625 700

Particle starts playing as soon as Viktor starts cast, time between start of cast and enemy being slowed is unchanged.

Stunned enemies are no longer affected by the slow.

Evolution no longer increases range but instead drags stunned enemies into the center.

Upgrade renamed to Augment: Aftershock from Augment: Death.

Evolution no longer applies a damage over time.

Evolution now causes a trail of explosions to follow the Death Ray's path, dealing the same damage again.

Enemies hit by the laser will take only 40% damage from the trail.

The total damage of landing both parts: 130% 140%

Missile speed of the exploding trail is faster than the laser.

Cast time: 0.33 0.25 seconds

Cooldown: 120 at all ranks 120 / 110 / 100 seconds

Radius of initial impact: 250 325

Radius of DOT zone: 350 325

Storm always moves at maximum speed when moving towards Viktor (still moves slower when moving away from him, based on how far away).

Damage: 10 / 15 / 20 (+ 6% AP) per 0.25 seconds 15 / 30 / 45 (+ 10% AP) per 0.5 seconds

Damage per second: 40 / 60 / 80 (+24% AP) 30 / 60 / 90 (+20% AP)

No longer silences on impact, but will still interrupt channels.

Now has an Augment:

Augment: Velocity - Chaos Storm moves 20% faster.

Base armor: 12 16

Mana cost: 125 / 175 / 225 100 at all ranks

Slow refresh rate reduced to 0.25 seconds.

Movement speed: 310 335

Travel speed and hitbox precision tuned, especially when cast near walls.

Fixed an issue where it could sometimes be cast twice.

Augment Power now grants movement speed when the missile is launched rather than when the cast animation begins.

Fixed a bug where Viktor could gain the movement speed from Augment Power without actually casting Power Transfer.

Fixed a bug where Augment Power's movement speed lasted only 2 seconds instead of the intended 3.

Fixed a bug where it disappeared when Viktor died.

Fixed a bug where it disappeared when Viktor died (though it will not respond to commands while Viktor is dead).

Missile speed: 1400 2000

Activation time: 0.5 0.25 seconds

Fixed a bug where Chaos Storm's tooltip stated that it dealt less damage than it actually did.

Lowered the Augment costs to 1000.

The displayed price will remain 1200 until patched in early 2012, but Evolving Technology will be upgradable for 1000 as it was originally intended.

Fixed a bug where Augment Power was not assigning the correct stats.

Fixed a bug where it was not doing the correct amount of damage reported.

Fixed a bug where it was reacting to Twisted Fate's passive.

Fixed a bug where the End of Game screen was reporting massive damage done values for Viktor.

Viktor starts with a Hex Core that provides him with stats and can be upgraded in the store to augment one of his abilities. The Hex Core can only be upgraded once, and cannot be sold back to the store.

Viktor blasts an enemy unit dealing magic damage, returning a portion of the damage dealt as a shield.

Viktor conjures a heavy gravitational field that slows any target in its radius. If enemies stay too long within the radius of the device, it gets stunned.

Viktor uses his robotic arm to fire a chaos beam that cuts across the field in a line, dealing damage to any opponents struck in its path.

Viktor conjures a singularity on the field which deals magic damage and briefly silences enemies. The singularity then does magic damage to all nearby enemies every second. Viktor can redirect the singularity.