Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
Keep your distance to avoid being Flung back into Singed's allies.
Singed needs to run close to your team to be effective. Try to take advantage of this by using crowd control effects on him while attacking his allies.
Be careful when chasing Singed. He's very difficult to bring down, and can leave his Poison Trail to damage you in your pursuit.
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several important Viktor vs. Singed matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences between the pair. Viktor’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Singed’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Viktor may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Singed..
Viktor usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes less damage than Singed. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Viktor usually loses when playing against Singed, with a 46.9% win rate. As a result, Viktor makes a bad counter for Singed.
While Viktor does have a lower winrate than Singed, when facing one another, Viktor also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Viktor into Singedas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Viktor also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Singed. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Viktor vs Singed matchups, Singed is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Viktor is a bad counter to Singed. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Viktor against Singed.
To truly master Viktor in order to counter Singed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Viktor usually accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Singed. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Viktor versus Singed build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Singed than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Viktor boasted an average winrate of 46.9% battling Singed with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Singed as Viktor, Viktor players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Viktor vs Singed counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.9% winrate overall.
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