#psyops viktor

[aurelion-solar]

Viktor VGU - New vs. Old Splash Art

[meownotgood]

i went to a con yesterday and bought this really sketch pack of league of legends trading cards. it was like $8 a pack but my friend was like, "ok but what if you pull a viktor" then when I opened it and this viktor was the last card we both started screaming from hype lmfao

[viktor-leagueoflegends]

이런 착즙러라 미안합니다

by Noxusia90 on twitter

[teeto-peteto]

[mistresscitrusslice]

EVERYTHING LEAGUE VIKTOR Pre-Arcane for Fellow Machine Herald Enjoyers

Table of Screencaps and Saved Images

Champion Page

Lore Homepage Quote

Full Biography

Short Story: House on Emberflit Alley

House on Emberflit Alley Art

Splash Art

Concept Art

Skin Splash Arts

Viktor's Champion Page

Viktor's Lore Homepage Quote

For the full webpage, see my obsessive screenshots of Viktor's lore homepage

Viktor's Full Bio

Still can't believe he hit his bf over the head with a rock and that was enough to take him out

Viktor's Short Story: House on Emberflit Alley

(still up on the website, but I might as well consolidate everything here, and just in case it ever gets removed)

House on Emberflit Alley Art

(did some digging and afaik it seems to be fanart and not official art after all, but I'm not at all sure so take it with buckets of salt)

Viktor Splash Art

Viktor Concept Art

All Viktor Skins' Splash Arts

(in alphabetical order bc I don't know the release order for every skin)

Battlecast Creator

Death Sworn

Full Machine

High Noon

Prototype

PsyOps

[machine-herald-archive]

Viktor Skinlines

Full Machine Viktor

Created from the same circuitry as the Full Metal champion, Jayce, Viktor was cast into the tunnels beneath the robot fighting arenas to serve as a janitoribot—while his twin was groomed for glory, simulcast en español. Upgrading himself with the cast-offs of the destroyed, he has sworn la venganza.

Prototype Viktor

Creator Viktor

The creator of the Battlecast machine army, Viktor has perfected the art of transplanting living brains into low-tech, mass-produced weapons. But his work is far from complete, and even now he tinkers on newer, deadlier creations to crush all who oppose him.

Death Sworn Viktor

On a cold, dreary night, a pioneering inventor was tried and hanged for preaching his glorious vision of the future—a world in which the living knelt before the dead. Death had to admire Viktor's conviction, and sent him back into the mortal world, blessed with powers beyond imagination.

PsyOps Viktor

Leader of the rogue military known as the Black Rose Group, Viktor is a psychic technomancer whose vision for a utopian world was abandoned when he suddenly departed High Command decades prior. Obsessed with an alien 'gate' uncovered during the Arctic Ops event, his experiments into human bioweapons would allow him to breach it and upend the global order.

High Noon Viktor

Many a road to Hell was paved with good intent. Dr. Viktor may be the Mechanical Devil's kept engineer now, but his work began as charity: trying to “rehome” the souls of the dead in clockwork bodies, in order to circumvent mortality itself. Shame that Mordekaiser saw the good doctor's kindness and struck him a deal he could not deny.

[dailyviktorarcane]

psyops viktor splash art | source

[bringthekaos]

do you have a fav Viktor skin?

I’m personally partial to High Noon because it was generally a good skin line, I like his lore reimagining and also the fucking platinum white hair makes me cackle when I look at his splash art too long.

YES!!! My favs are, by far, Death Sworn and High Noon.

And big same on High Noon Viktor, it’s giving that hot evil bitch from The Incredibles.

Fuckin SLAY, Viktor.

The reasoning behind my choices is literally no deeper than surface level, as these two are the only ones that I think truly reimagine Viktor in a new, creative way. Cuz Full Machine, Creator, and PsyOps are just… meh. They don’t really do anything new for him as a character. They kinda just… moved shit around and rounded some edges. Also Death Sworn has tits out, so big plus there.

I actually haven’t read up on any of the stories/lore for the skins, I just… think they’re more visually appealing. But I have to be honest, whenever I hear High Noon, my mind immediately goes to Shanghai Noon, and then I start imagining Jayce and Viktor doing stupid cowboy hijinks together.

[playedbetter]

Viktor Verses

This will be updated as verses are added or developed.

Main Verse

Set in the League of Legends/Arcane universe at any point in the timeline.

PsyOps Verse

Viktor was once a member of High Command, the leaders of PsyOps a group dedicated to protecting the world using their psychic powers. He left after the discovery of an alien gate in the artic which he has become obsessed with getting through it and utilizing it. To that end he became the leader of Black Rose Group and has been perfecting human bioweapontry.

In this verse Viktor has technokinesis which he can use on technology within 700ft of himself (about two football fields away).

Also can be used for crossovers with sci-fi, conspiracy, or military (with psionics/aliens present) based verses.

High Noon Verse

Dr. Viktor came from poor immigrate parents who came to the west looking for a fresh start but only found struggle. He had been looking for a way to save people from death itself by rehousing their minds in bodies made of clockwork, but faced with numerous set backs and his own failing health when the Mechanical Devil approached him he had no choice but to take up the deal and begin working for the devil.

Also can be used for crossovers with any magical wild west verses.

Battlecast Verse

Set in the battlecast verse. Viktor has become the creator and leader of the battlecast army and now is attempting to assimilate all of Runeterra into it.

Riftquest Verse

Viktor of Zaun is a battle smith who once tagged along with an adventuring party helmed by a brilliant paladin, where he ended up doing practically everything no one else had wanted to do. Eventually as his efforts continued to go underappreciated he decided to betray them and race them and their enemies for the powerful artifact they are all after.

This can also be used to crossover with d&d verses. In d&d lingo Viktor is a human urchin artificer (battle smith).

Battle Academia Verse

A second year at Labrys God-Weapon Academy who has fought to be among other future heroes, having incredibly weak abilities which he's had to augment with brilliant technology to keep up with his peers, and hopefully some day surpass them. He is a member of the luminary club.

Superhero Verse

By day Viktor is the lab partner of Piltover's darling Jayce and a renowned scientist in his own right. By night he is Machine Herald, a 'villain' working against the authority of the city through robbery and the killing of key targets.

Can be used in place of my dc verse if requested by dc muses/verses.

Modern Verse

Post university Viktor is working in the field of prosthetics. Heavy wip.

DC Verse

Born in the slums of Gotham city, Viktor was meant for better things, and he felt so did his peers. In his young adulthood he found work at Starr Labs in Metropolis, moving there in the process. Eventually he quit and disappeared off nearly everybody's radar, and in that absence a supervillain, the Machine Herald, has appeared robbing labs and terrorizing cities with his attacks on public figures. Threads can be set anywhere in this timeline.

More info to come.

ATLAS Verse

Set in the main universe of @outofthiisworld (check out their blog for more lore!). He was a member of ATLAS until eventually fleeing the company. Verse still in heavy development. Exclusive to @outofthiisworld.

Danganronpa Verse

He we scouted out from a slum in Russia by Hope's Peak for the talent of Super Highschool Level Cyberneticist in Class 66th. His time at the school was overall peaceful (as far as anyone recalls) and he graduated. In the time since then he's been working on human cyborgs along with service robots, creating Blitzcrank as a proof of concept. Then Tradgy overtook the world, and frankly he found the whole emotional battle of hope and despair stupid, neither would fix the world, his own logic could though. It's funny how apathy comes across as despair...

(Anyone other than Viktor himself would say that he's a despair and the experiments he's turned to are highly unethical at best if not literally a form of torture.)

Apex Verse

Set in the Apex Legends universe. Viktor is an employee of Mercenary Syndicate who's become disillusioned with the group, slowly working against them from the inside and plotting his escape from them.

Exclusive to @v1r4l

Misc Verse

For any thread where the verse is unclear or non-developed or one off AUs.

[aurelion-solar]

Viktor VGU - Updated Splash Arts Comparison PsyOps - Creator - High Noon

[meownotgood]

since it's confirmed now that they're changing all of viktor's skins. let it be known that when I play him I almost always use psyops because it has the best splash and effects. and I solely use this chroma in particular. because the small red part on his cape looks like a heart.

[viktor-leagueoflegends]

Also, here's what I wrote for the open letter. I don't really know what to say in this preface here without talking about things I already say in the letter itself, but I'll pull what I think is my most poignant topic up, because I think it's the point that people don't understand when they laugh at fans for caring - it's not about the character, it's about the company. It's different in the actual letter (edited to be less mean) but this is the original drag:

The objective of a story is to resonate with its audience emotionally. What we hope you will understand with this collection of letters is that you have a character and story that has already succeeded in this task. It is not protectiveness, or a stubborn unwillingness to adapt to the new; It is that when you as the creators are willing to cast aside this story that so many people have cared about over the years for something so fundamentally different simply for profit, the message we receive is that this emotional resonance is one-sided: that it is set dressing that can and will be turned over for the purpose of attracting more appealing audiences. My question, then, is this: if you as creators do not tell this story with sincerity, if you do not respect the integrity of storytelling as an artform and simply pivot your creative vision as the market demands, then why should we as the audience care about the stories you have to tell? Why should we become invested in any of your characters’ stories if you are simply displaying whatever words on the screen make you the most money — if any one of them could be on the chopping block if the wind blows the right way?

This took a week to get my thoughts together enough to write. Full letter under the cut:

Hi, Riot. 

Like many others, I’ve been a Viktor fan for some time now. I dropped in around 2020, and the lore of the game as well as the lorefan community was and continues to be an invaluable lifeline to me. I take pride in participating in community initiatives — I was Viktor’s illustrator in two of the Rift Gala events, and I run an archive for the creative works people have made for him as he exists in League of Legends. 

I am rather upset with the recently announced VGU in store for Viktor. I don’t understand the need for Viktor’s new lore to be overwritten so completely with Arcane, which is fundamentally incompatible with the space he occupies in League of Legends — both in terms of his in-game power fantasy as well as his character in the lore. 

Overall, this VGU is disjointed and half-baked, especially in comparison with previous, more well-rounded VGU's. Others have put it more eloquently than me, but to highlight a few points, the stagnancy of his kit in 2024 is appalling, and the changes to his cosmetics are evident of a rush-job to meet the Arcane release-date deadline. If the purpose is truly to make Viktor play and feel like the character shown in Arcane, why is his kit full of abilities we never see him use in the show? If you wanted to improve the gameplay for old fans, why is his W maintained without change, not even adding a grounding effect that would help his survivability in the high-mobility champion economy as well as add to the power fantasy thematically (it is a gravity field, after all)? As for his skins, why do Creator and High Noon actively lose detailing? Why was Psyops’ head, which has been complained about since the skin’s release, not altered? Why is the most prominent change simply making his models skinnier?

More broadly, Viktor as he currently exists in League occupies a very specific and very unique niche in the roster of champions. Runeterra as a fantasy realm is interesting for its merging of technology and magic, and Viktor is one such outcome of that — a cyborg engineer whose power comes from his own inventions and conviction. What he is about to become, however, is an apocalypse mage that encroaches on the thematic territory of other characters like Malzahar, Syndra, and Bel’Veth. This is fine within Arcane as a standalone universe, as these characters don’t appear, but in moving this iteration over to League he becomes a redundancy while losing the unique standout points that he brought to the table, which are incredibly important in a game that has almost 170 characters. Why would I be drawn to this apocalypse-bringer when there are others that play better? 

I don’t think this rework is a good idea on several fronts, and while I understand a great deal of resources have already been invested in it, I firmly believe that continuing forward on the path it sets re: going on to retcon other Arcane-related champs will only be detrimental to the overall health of the IP. Other champions are in more dire need of an update, and I believe it is unfair that reworks such as the one planned for Shyvana have been pushed back even further to prioritize unneeded retcons that don’t actually address the health of the game. I think cancelling Viktor’s VGU and the rest of the planned Arcane VGU’s to focus on updating historically unhealthy champs is a better use of your resources as game developers and as a company seeking to maintain a satisfied player base.

With respect to the lore of Runeterra, it is not a good idea to attempt to merge Arcane with the existing lore. I understand that Riot is a business, and that the objective of this merger is to capitalize on Arcane audiences, but put plainly: this will not work. It is more work than it is worth on Riot’s behalf to go through with changing the foundational lore of a core region, given that it has been built on top of over the years and will require retcons to many champions in the region past those showcased in Arcane. These retcons are highly likely to cause extensive shifts that are actively detrimental to the themes they present, and will only alienate a loving fanbase that the lore universe is very luck to have. To draw an example: the Marvel Comics Universe and the Marvel Cinematic Universe remain as separate canons — they are too different of interpretations, and it is too difficult to implement. Naming a few champions who would be affected in this way, how does Blitzcrank come into being if not for Viktor? And if Viktor is still its creator, why was this not a key point of his story shown in Arcane? For Camille, how does she exist if Hextech was heavily regulated during the time it was around? How was a Shuriman artificer familiar enough with the science to do her augmentations if it is a new technology?

Lore plotholes aside, I’d like to now talk about Viktor’s characterization. 

To start: I think Arcane Viktor is fine in a vacuum. I don’t have anything against him or his story — but I believe that using his success as justification for deleting a well beloved character is unfair. You cannot place Arcane Viktor into the space that League Viktor occupies because they are fundamentally different. 

League Viktor as a character is defined by his choice. What he does to himself is calculated and thought out — his augmentations are built through technical ability, his replacement of his limbs a decision made by his commitment to his ideology. His transformation into the Machine Herald is a meticulous process and an informed decision. The conflict between his philosophy and the humanity he can’t entirely let go of makes him compelling, as does the fact that he is the sole person to blame for his own tragedy.

Viktor in Arcane becomes the Herald because he seeks a cure to his terminal illness. What occurs to his body is unintended — when he initially experiments with the Hexcore, he has no idea what is going to happen to him. He could not have predicted what would happen to Sky. There is no meticulous transformation, no true choice in the matter to become what he becomes. He has no true agency — which is an interesting story in its own right, but he is not the Machine Herald.

The objective of a story is to resonate with its audience emotionally. What we hope you will understand with this collection of letters is that you have a character and story that has already succeeded in this task. It is not protectiveness, or a stubborn unwillingness to adapt to the new; It is that when you, the company that owns this character, are willing to cast aside this story that so many people have cared about over the years for something so fundamentally different, the message we receive is that this emotional resonance is one-sided: that it is set dressing that can and will be turned over for the purpose of attracting more appealing audiences. 

My question, then, is this: if you as a company do not publish this story with sincerity, if you do not respect the integrity of storytelling as an artform and instead let the market dictate the path of your creative vision, then why should we as the audience care about the stories you have to tell? Why should we become invested in any of your characters’ stories if any one of them could have their core identities fundamentally altered if the wind blows the right way? 

I started writing this letter at a gala wrapping up a 4-day national engineering conference that I attended as a delegate of my university. Four years ago, loving this character was the final push for me to choose mechanical engineering as the program I would apply for. I would not be where I am today, nor have the community or close friends I do now without the way this character resonated with me. 

The community that this character as he exists in League has fostered is incredibly creative, unique, and passionate. I and many others write this from a place of love for this character and the story you have told with him — which I hope you will understand when you receive these letters. 

Thank you for your time.

[teeto-peteto]

Psyops Viktor is just so tired about the Black Rose and everyone being out of place and incompetent most of the time and Samira is giving Kayle secret kissies and Zed is waiting for his wattpad enemies to lovers arc to happen with Shen but at some point he just breaks like:

Viktor: I... I also, had a lover. He was like my light in the dark...

Zed, clearly excited and eager to listen: Oh my god really!?

Samira and Kayle shocked: 'HE'?!??!?!

Pyke, munching on a sandwich: Oh so thats why you're always grumpy...

[triphimi]

LIKE LOOK WHAT THEY DID TO HIM

The twink laser has hit PsyOps Viktor (and the rest of his skins too)

Viktor mains in shambles I see

[notoriouslydevious]

Psyops Kayle, Pyke, Samira, Viktor, & Zed Splash Arts 

[storypraxis]

Viktor-y