Viktor Champion Spotlight – Overview, Strategy, and Cards

The fully biomechanical evolution of his former self, Viktor has embraced his Glorious Evolution and become something of a messiah to his followers. He sacrificed his own humanity under the logic that eliminating emotion would thereby eliminate suffering—and now seeks to bring the revelation of the hexcore to the rest of the world, even if they're incapable of understanding the benefit. After all, to this master of the arcane, violence is merely a variable necessary to balance the ultimate equation.

The ultimate form of Hextech's power, Viktor arrives to Riftbound among the heroes in the Origins set. Based in the domains of Mind and Order, Viktor aims to use his knowledge and ability to create combatants to be able to overwhelm the battlefield strategically and launch a full-scale invasion, with himself at the forefront.

His champion card, Viktor Leader, is all about getting value out of your units dying by making Recruit tokens whenever a non-Recruit unit dies. With this, he's all about amassing a board state and then pushing battlefields, not caring who dies in the process. After all, he can make tokens out of those dead units, so they're essentially fodder on the path to victory.

Viktor is an aggro-control deck, looking to swarm the board with recruit tokens and then use spells and interaction to control the flow of the game until he finds success. Effects that give your opponents' units -1 can be a massive part of making sure combat falls into his favour, and gives you an edge over faster aggro decks. In contrast, the sheer speed of the Recruit token strategy could overwhelm other, slower decks.

Viktor Signature Cards

Viktor is all about creating Recruit tokens and using them to create a path to victory, and so it's no wonder that his legend, Herald of the Arcane, lets you create a Recruit token every turn to be able to keep your board state healthy.

His signature spell, Siphon Power, lets you give all of your friendly units on a battlefield +1, while giving enemy units -1. This can be a huge as it can stop your enemy from being able to defend whatsoever, while letting you overwhelm the board to secure the battlefield.

Viktor Staple Cards and Synergies

This will be updated as cards are revealed over spoiler season.

Viktor's deck is all about making Recruit tokens, and so cards like Faithful Manufactor and Vanguard Captain are great to be able to help generate them. When both of these die, as well, they become Recruit tokens, and so they provide even more value than they otherwise would.

Otherwise, Viktor's deck is all about getting value out of units that die, which means that cards like Wraith of Echoes and Watchful Sentry, as well as any other good Deathknell effects on cheap cards, will be very valuable to be able to create more value as well as making a Recruit.

Otherwise, Viktor's card pool is quite broad strategy-wise, with a lot of cards yet to be revealed. So, keep an eye on this article as we get closer to Origins to see what new cards are in store.

Viktor Decks – Wield The Power of Hextech

Mono-Order Viktor

Read our full guide for more strategy on how to play Mono-Order Viktor!

Mono-Order Viktor is an incredibly consistent Viktor deck that only uses Order Rune, completely omitting Mind Rune to enable an Order-based aggressive strategy. The deck is incredibly aggressive, while also being able to draw cards to keep its hand full as time goes on.

The deck runs sacrifice effects such as Hidden Blade and Cull the Weak to be able to use their effects to break parity (while also acting as flexible removal options if necessary). This is mainly done through Deathknell effects, like on Watchful Sentry, which mitigate the 'cost' of sacrifice.

On the top-end of this deck, you have ways to buff your huge boardstates such as Grand Stratagem and Siphon Power, both of which can help you defend a battlefield from a huge attack or take back a battlefield that slipped out of your hands. Otherwise, you want to be conquering as soon as possible to be able to use your plethora of units to win the game before your opponent can react.

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