I personally think he should've gotten at least a single personal bot that's his own protector or something. Having NOTHING is boring asf and a hell of a miss opportunity
@Lolamy VGU my ass. Viktor's win rate is still gonna be the exact same, they could've done ANYTHING to buff his kit but apparently they just chose not to
I think it’s deliberate as a nod to the word’s definition, which means Roman ascent to godhood. Many Roman emperors were celebrated as gods after their deaths, because they were voted on to undergo this change of status called apotheosis. Cool stuff
im so sad they didnt add something like support functions... like the evolution to upgrade something from an ally like ornn... Or summon the humanoid evolutions robots
it is just a visual rework (a very rushed one by the looks it) to make him the twink from arcane with a buff to his ult to make him "stronger" to make people more likely to buy his new skin
The storm being able to increase size up to six times means that killing clones like shaco R, that counts as champs, will also increase the ult size? Or else it wouldn't make sense for the storm to grow past 5 times
Arcane fucking up the lore for LoL and so champ models need to change. Have you not noticed or seen the changes to WW? He's physically bigger and I foresee him being changed soon as well.
@@Dyanosis Arcane fkn up the lore? :DD Isnt it like the other way around xd? The lore we had before was nonexistent and not even connected to the game..
Everything seen in arcane was canon. Riot has retconned the lore so it'll be easier for both themselves and the fans to understand for the future. This means Viktor in-game was non-canon and had to be changed to suit Arcane Viktor more.
@@AniSwiftTVRecaps I thought we were mad at Riot for giving everyone mobility. Why are we now asking them to give a mage mobility? Would it be better to give him tools that are against anti-mobility like his W grounding the enemy?
@@patrickhayes1724but the visual part of the rework is mid at best, they kept the arcane visuals behind 1820rp skin ofc. No talking about how they butchered the skins.
@ I don't really agree, to be perfectly honest. I get that it's a change, but I don't really think it's negative outside of a couple of skins. Difference of opinion, but I get what you mean
@@patrickhayes1724 Bro but that deathsworn skin sucks straight up also the cape is so weird now cuz it's like cut in half kind of like azir's cape which doesn't fit at all
Actually It's a good change. His ult has always been frustrating to land or to finish off someone unless the enemies are not moving or are very low hp.
VANDIRIL, WE NEED YOU. Viktor VGU is a complete unfinished mess. Skins like Deathsworn are a shell of the former version, which was in itself not up to standards compared to Kat and Zed when it was released. This whole VGU looks incredibly rushed and unfinished.
Okay, now i'm wondering if they'll still call him. "The Machine Herald of Zaun." Or smth new, because i see no machine in this herald, only… Arcane… *badum tish*
Does assists increase the size of it or it has the be your kill. (EDIT) nevermind just read if a champion that the storm has damaged dies, increase its size and duration
Viktor looks great and all, but Riot fr tryna pass this off as a VGU is crazy. All he got was a bigger ult, man plays EXACTLY the same. This is an ASU hands down.
Maybe it’d mess with balance too much but I think an ability duration item stat would be cool. Really allow spells like this to take advantage of a longer duration.
Meh, I preferred the old Viktor, he had a way cooler premise. This one is so uninspired, making him basically emotionless was a really stupid idea, Viktor always struck me as a crazy inventor type character, which actively sought ways to enhance his own body through physical augmentation, by the use of science and inventions. Not him being a literal hextech god with zero motivation apart from, “emotion/humanity bad”. Not to mention the design is also just worse, and the fact that he floats instead of walk is just so lazy imo, his old walk animation had ao much personality, this is just generic floating.
Missed opportunity to play into his "evolution" motif. Could have started with a small area, like his W, then every kill while it's active permanently increases the AoE a little, and permanently increases the duration by 0.5 second. So if you were able to successfully secure kills repeatedly over the course of the game, his ult could eventually grow to huge proportions.
They'd have to lower his ratios massively to Swain ulti level of bad ratio. If he kills 10 enemies within the ult it'll already gain 5 seconds, that's a lot of damage / time to zone enemies off. In games where he gets 20 kills (Im assuming if the enemies dies within the storm it's enough, like ASol's E) which would be realistic on a good game, that's +10 seconds of ult for a total of 16.5s, and I'm assuming the AoE would be huge at that point, with his current ratios his Ult would literally kill the whole team. 50% AP on cast + 45% per second for 16.5s would translate into 770% AP ratio on ult.
malnourished member of the shadow wizard money gang sends massive storm, Forecast Janna sent to investigate
Now with how this might affect the Economy, lets send it to Corporate Mundo with the stocks!
Mundo stocks never go down! What underpaid weather lady talk about? Mundo think Mr. Draven need better employee.
He loves casting spells!
Bigger than his waist. That's for sure.
Nah they did him dirty :(
ouch
@@r.a.r.c5669twinkified W
bro should buy a burger every once in a while fr
@@PenguinWithInternetAccessI literally live off a pack of burgers a week and have his waistline 😢 any other ideas?
Looks like hell in Aram
look amazing 5m point on my baby viktor gonna carry asf :)
Mages on aram give me cancer, do i have to explain myself?
He needs it. Still instapops to divers.
@@batstorm247 Maybe replace the nuclear reactor powering your computer. It's the more likely culprit.
Aram needs bans
So this is the Glorious Evolution
honey wake up its time to become jesus
the message of the cross is the power of God 1cor1:18 🥰 miracles for you!!!
So it starts small every cast and grows every kill? It doesn't stay at the big size?
Correct!
That's what she said
That would be too busted lol
Lol@@doku6255
I was wondering if they were gona rework him to have some sort of minion swarm mechanic with his weird robot guys. But IG not.
wouldve been cool
could you imagine a ult that makes him grab you giving him temporary control of your character? wouldve been cool too
Riot being creative? Good one
I personally think he should've gotten at least a single personal bot that's his own protector or something. Having NOTHING is boring asf and a hell of a miss opportunity
@@arsontheaverage8821 crazy thing is this is meant to be a vgu but literally none of his gameplay changed other than the one minor ult change.
@Lolamy VGU my ass. Viktor's win rate is still gonna be the exact same, they could've done ANYTHING to buff his kit but apparently they just chose not to
The description in the first few seconds says "Upgrade to Apotheosis"... which is Nilah's ult... found that funny
I think it’s deliberate as a nod to the word’s definition, which means Roman ascent to godhood. Many Roman emperors were celebrated as gods after their deaths, because they were voted on to undergo this change of status called apotheosis. Cool stuff
Yeah my thought too
@@hutiadude6781 ok but imagine being the ascendant heir to the throne and after your coronation they tell you your dad didn't make godhood
@ tru
Why 6 stacks specifically? Why not 5? I don't see a way to stack it 6 times unless it also counts revives as kills as well
Make room for hexakill i guess
Clones, they count as champions works exactly like Diana Ultimate
@@GustavoOliverXD forgot that clones count
@@bas7489 man I miss that
My guess for epic monsters or clones or summoned monstors (Yorick)
The clips are strong with this one
im so sad they didnt add something like support functions... like the evolution to upgrade something from an ally like ornn... Or summon the humanoid evolutions robots
Dominion + Wizard Noodle Man = This pains me, but thankyou Vandiril T_T
Are there any big changes other than the ult? This seems more like an ASU than a VGU.
Nope. No changes. At all. Just his ult and visuals.
@@GameGuy667 Seems like he gains move speed after he use the ultimate
it is just a visual rework (a very rushed one by the looks it) to make him the twink from arcane with a buff to his ult to make him "stronger" to make people more likely to buy his new skin
It is an AsU with a mini rework to the ult
the fact that none of the og viktor abilities fit his arcane counterpart.
JOIN THE GLORIOUS EVOLUTION
More like devolution
What evolution lmao this is ass
Join the glorius evolution ✖️
Join the fabulous evolution ✔️
Except he doesn't have that line anymore
He is not the herald of machines anymore, he looks like an ethereal entity, an angel .
It's from arcane, go complain to them then
agora será "VIktor, o Arauto do Arcano"
so finally Viktor achieving the glorious evolution
bro is a blue stickbug
The storm being able to increase size up to six times means that killing clones like shaco R, that counts as champs, will also increase the ult size? Or else it wouldn't make sense for the storm to grow past 5 times
Make him atleast as buff as the old Viktor man,dude looks like stickman
We're gonna see more Victor's at worlds next year.
What was the need to rework viktor?
Arcane fucking up the lore for LoL and so champ models need to change.
Have you not noticed or seen the changes to WW? He's physically bigger and I foresee him being changed soon as well.
@@Dyanosis Arcane fkn up the lore? :DD Isnt it like the other way around xd? The lore we had before was nonexistent and not even connected to the game..
Everything seen in arcane was canon. Riot has retconned the lore so it'll be easier for both themselves and the fans to understand for the future. This means Viktor in-game was non-canon and had to be changed to suit Arcane Viktor more.
tbh this literally changes nothing viktor main still gonna use his ult to clear waves, they need to give him some more mobility
@@AniSwiftTVRecaps I thought we were mad at Riot for giving everyone mobility. Why are we now asking them to give a mage mobility? Would it be better to give him tools that are against anti-mobility like his W grounding the enemy?
look how they massacred my boy
Me when a character gets literally nothing but straight buffs:
@@patrickhayes1724but the visual part of the rework is mid at best, they kept the arcane visuals behind 1820rp skin ofc. No talking about how they butchered the skins.
@ I don't really agree, to be perfectly honest. I get that it's a change, but I don't really think it's negative outside of a couple of skins. Difference of opinion, but I get what you mean
@@patrickhayes1724it looks like shit
@@patrickhayes1724 Bro but that deathsworn skin sucks straight up also the cape is so weird now cuz it's like cut in half kind of like azir's cape which doesn't fit at all
Viktor was already a menace now he is gonna be terrifying.
Okay that makes more sense now. The ult staying that size late game would be impossible to play against
No one is going to talk about that summiner spell? Ok
It’s tp
its teleport got a new visual since its mechanics were changed a bit i guess
why is it still lightning? wheres the arcane hexcore effects?
Upon 6 evolve, the storm should also make minions on player kill like the show, it would be pretty sick even if broken
Actually It's a good change. His ult has always been frustrating to land or to finish off someone unless the enemies are not moving or are very low hp.
What skin is that? Do you think they are going to make hextech Viktor? Cause im saving my essence for it
I mean, they call it VGU, but from what I can gather it's just an ASU with a tweak to his evolved R
VANDIRIL, WE NEED YOU. Viktor VGU is a complete unfinished mess. Skins like Deathsworn are a shell of the former version, which was in itself not up to standards compared to Kat and Zed when it was released. This whole VGU looks incredibly rushed and unfinished.
True they were so desperate to tie arcane into the game
sad
Does it scale with clone kill ? Line shaco R, neeko or wukong W
I almost died when I saw the title, if Viktor got the Aurelion treatment and his ult was about to be a map wide moving death ray
0:00 why does it say slow by 40%?
Even if they added the W aug slow it should be 20% or is that the slow the storm gets?
Imagine the size growth is permanent
viktor's ult is now those lightning balls from elden ring
Carrier has arrived.
Glorious Evolution it is
Would expect the orb to be wobbly like in the movie
Up to 6 times is such a weird stipulation. Like, are they expecting people to respawn during it? Or is it for Hexakill, if it ever comes back?
So they're really just taking a fuck balance approach? Did you see the size of his W stun, it's going to make the Taliyah rework feel inadequate.
Wait, why up to 6 times? Are they introducing 6v6 or something?
I feel like it would of been cool if they made his followers somehow a part of his kit
"Upgrade to Apotheosis"?
Nilah's R is already called Apotheosis
Okay, now i'm wondering if they'll still call him. "The Machine Herald of Zaun." Or smth new, because i see no machine in this herald, only… Arcane… *badum tish*
So, no more slow effects on spells?
I think that's still on W
man I was hoping that they whuld bring Viktor's hexcore item back
It's always funny how he is literally a god in the series, but in-game, he's just a limping robot that shoots lasers.
Why is he so snatched tho
For men to grab
@Keaton_Ambrose jayce* yup yup
Does assists increase the size of it or it has the be your kill.
(EDIT) nevermind just read if a champion that the storm has damaged dies, increase its size and duration
I cannot wait for the rework 1 month after relase.
1:18 😵💫
Tristana flash :u
Yea shes playing like a bot
imagine dropping an annivia ult and a viktor ult in fountain just to BM every match
He makes the arcane come true !!!
it'd be cool if he could stack for permanent size increase (like asol)
Viktor ARAM buff XD Ty Rito, this R is exactly what I wanted
up to 6 times?
return of hexakill confirmed?!?!?
Wish it would gain size gradually while it only hits enemy instead of takedown
Viktor looks great and all, but Riot fr tryna pass this off as a VGU is crazy. All he got was a bigger ult, man plays EXACTLY the same. This is an ASU hands down.
Im saying it again and again: Them not changing his W is a nightmare of an decision! I literally cant believe thats a real occurrence...
who fed viktor -jayce from arcane probably
Viktor deserves a scaling AOE ult too. One that does not reset.
The power creep in this game is ridiculous
theres an arcane vikto skin?
im still calling it Chaos storm. Screw that.
stole his drip from the dragon priests
well I'm underwhelmed I thought was gonna get bigger rito pls
Wish the size increase was permanent but smaller
SO no change to his kit?
Nope
No, he's still garbage..
nope, viktor mains got su*cidal so they
scrapped it
So this monstrosity is why Shyvana rework was AGAIN pushed back. Cool
Say hello to your new king of ARAM 💀💀
So the duration gets reset after kills? That's kinda big along with the growing size, they must've nerfed him in some other way to compensate.
this new viktor remember me karthus idk why.
a good day to be a viktor main, ty ssg crown for making me one
The ult duration refresh on kill is kinda meh. I hate unneccessary "on kill" effects
Dang, another hellish champion to balance. The growing ult will be really problematic in pro play.
what in gods name did they do to him
making a somewhat balanced champ op again, thx rito
Still disappointed they didn't give him a real ASU.
Is that a skin or has Viktor actually gotten an ASU?
Huh weird they didn’t give it an execute seemed like that was the logical next step then removing it when it made him too op
the glorius ozempic
So they Nerf Udyr RR... And sent all that power to Victor... And then some.
Maybe it’d mess with balance too much but I think an ability duration item stat would be cool. Really allow spells like this to take advantage of a longer duration.
Meh, I preferred the old Viktor, he had a way cooler premise.
This one is so uninspired, making him basically emotionless was a really stupid idea, Viktor always struck me as a crazy inventor type character, which actively sought ways to enhance his own body through physical augmentation, by the use of science and inventions.
Not him being a literal hextech god with zero motivation apart from, “emotion/humanity bad”.
Not to mention the design is also just worse, and the fact that he floats instead of walk is just so lazy imo, his old walk animation had ao much personality, this is just generic floating.
i love arcane... is the game worth playing?
why did they have to make him so ugly -.- he was way cooler before...
His walk was so clean no its kind of garbage
i waited 3 hours IN QUEUE JUST TO LOG IN to pbe... everyone and their momma wants to play the new update damn
El rework solo fue visual y el de su R?
ss, rework apenas visual (boneco e skills) e um rework no R
Sí, por lo demás es igual.
That seems balanced
Skinny floating wizard corrupted by something beyond his comprehension? Welcome back malzahar
Bro looks like mecha azir
Missed opportunity to play into his "evolution" motif. Could have started with a small area, like his W, then every kill while it's active permanently increases the AoE a little, and permanently increases the duration by 0.5 second. So if you were able to successfully secure kills repeatedly over the course of the game, his ult could eventually grow to huge proportions.
too broken
They'd have to lower his ratios massively to Swain ulti level of bad ratio.
If he kills 10 enemies within the ult it'll already gain 5 seconds, that's a lot of damage / time to zone enemies off. In games where he gets 20 kills (Im assuming if the enemies dies within the storm it's enough, like ASol's E) which would be realistic on a good game, that's +10 seconds of ult for a total of 16.5s, and I'm assuming the AoE would be huge at that point, with his current ratios his Ult would literally kill the whole team. 50% AP on cast + 45% per second for 16.5s would translate into 770% AP ratio on ult.
nah why is he built like that
A-arcane😳 storm?
does "6 times" mean we're getting hexakill in 2025? 😳
Viktor back to pro?
Meanwhile Maokai's ult
FINALLY SOME GOOD FUCKING FOOD FOR MY VIKTOR 🗿🗿🗿