Jayce vs Viktor
How to Beat Viktor as Jayce
based on 810 Jayce vs Viktor matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jayce vs Viktor Matchup Summary
Best Jayce vs Viktor Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Viktor as Jayce
Tips for Playing as Jayce against Viktor
For increased range and damage, try casting Shock Blast through the Acceleration Gate.
If you find yourself taking lots of damage, try using Jayce's Hammer Stance, as it grants you additional defenses.
Be sure to switch stances often. It will enhance your attacks and grant you quick bursts of speed.
Advice to Win Against Viktor
Be careful about how close you let Viktor get to you. Viktor's control of the battlefield increases with his proximity to his opponent.
Be aware of how many augments Viktor has upgraded by looking at the color of the light on his staff (purple, yellow, blue, red).
Jayce vs Viktor Counter Stats
How to Counter Viktor with Jayce in LoL
The stats provided here show several valuable Jayce vs. Viktor matchup stats that can help us appreciate the distinctions between this set of champs. As an example, Jayce’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Viktor’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Jayce may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Viktor..
Jayce typically has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Viktor. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Jayce and Viktor
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Who is Better, Jayce or Viktor?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Jayce usually loses when taking on Viktor, with a 48.0% win rate. Therefore, Jayce makes a bad counter for Viktor.
While Jayce does have a lower win rate than Viktor, when on opposite teams, Jayce also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Jayce into Viktoras his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Jayce has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Viktor. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Jayce vs Viktor matchups, Viktor is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Jayce is a trash counter for Viktor. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Jayce against Viktor.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Jayce to counter Viktor during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jayce usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Viktor. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Jayce versus Viktor build include Muramana, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Edge of Night. When Jayce used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Viktor than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Jayce boasted an average win rate of 48.0% when countering Viktor with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Viktor as Jayce, you should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Gathering Storm, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Jayce vs Viktor counters, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.0% win rate overall.
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