Viktor

The Price of Glorious Evolution

Viktor is no longer who he once was, and that is precisely what he wants. Through what he calls the Glorious Evolution, a complete conversion into a biomechanical body, he has discarded emotion on the theory that without feeling there is no suffering. Among the followers gathered around him in Zaun, he has become something close to a messiah, a living demonstration of the hexcore he intends to spread across the world, ready or not.

A Calculation That Allows Violence

For Viktor, violence is not a moral failing but one more variable in a larger equation, and he will use it whenever the numbers demand. That cold reasoning shows in his playstyle. As a mid lane mage, his grip on a fight tightens the closer he lets an opponent come, and the light on his staff (purple, yellow, blue or red) reveals to any attentive observer how many of his abilities have already been augmented. His passive, also named Glorious Evolution, collects Hex Fragments from every kill, and each hundred fragments permanently upgrades one active ability. Siphon Power strikes an enemy, granting a shield and an empowered next attack, and its augment adds more shield strength and bonus effects. Gravity Field slows whatever it pulls in and stuns anything that lingers too long, gaining a bonus effect once augmented. Hextech Ray carves a damaging line across the field and, when augmented, finishes with an explosion. Arcane Storm, his ultimate, summons a storm that interrupts channeled abilities and keeps damaging nearby enemies, redirectable as the fight shifts. Fellow Zaunites like Ekko came up in the same undercity Viktor hopes to remake, though few of them would call his version progress.