Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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).
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several critical Lissandra against Viktor matchup stats that may help us explain the differences between the two. For instance, Lissandra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Viktor’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Lissandra may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Viktor..
Lissandra often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she receives more damage than Viktor. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Lissandra usually loses when trying to fight Viktor, with a 46.5% win rate. As a result, Lissandra makes a poor counter for Viktor.
While Lissandra does have a lower winrate compared to Viktor, when they face off with one another, Lissandra also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Lissandra into Viktor.
Moreover, Lissandra also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Viktor. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Lissandra vs Viktor matchups, Viktor is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Lissandra is a trash counter for Viktor. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Lissandra against Viktor.
To learn all of the intricacies of Lissandra in order to counter Viktor during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lissandra often picks up a similar amount of CS as Viktor. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Lissandra versus Viktor build include Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Lissandra bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting Viktor than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Lissandra had an average win rate of 46.5% when playing against Viktor with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Viktor as Lissandra, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Lissandra vs Viktor clashes, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.5% win rate overall.
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