Who is Viktor in Arcane Season 2?

The instances of Viktor in Arcane and League of Legends are quite different from each other. Viktor saved Jayce's life in Arcane Season 1, and his life is endangered in Arcane Season 2. In League of Legends, he is part-machine with a third arm protruding out from his back.

One thing that stays the same through his different portrayals is his push for progress and evolution. See what we know about Viktor in Arcane and LoL here.

Viktor was hit quite hard in Jinx's bombing of the Councilors. Jayce, feeling guilty as he was the one who brought him there, took his limp body and allowed the Hexcore to assimilate him. Viktor was encased in a foreign matter while the Hexcore repaired his body.

When he awakes, Viktor finds the blueprints that Jayce used to weaponize Hextech - the weapons he geared up Caitlyn, Vi, and the other Enforcers with. Viktor, feeling betrayed and disappointed in Jayce, elected to leave Piltover and went back to Zaun.

Jayce, Ekko, and Heimerdinger then figure out that the Arcane has directly affected Viktor, and was the source of the foreign matter that cocooned him during his recovery. Meanwhile, Viktor dons the role of a messiah as he walks through the lowest level of Zaun.

We see him absolving Zaunites of their corruption and pain at the end of Season 2 Act 1.

We first lay eyes on Viktor when he was tasked to investigate the break-in at Jayce's, perpetrated by Violet, Powder, Mylo, and Claggor. By this time, Viktor was the Assistant to the Piltover Academy Dean, Heimerdinger.

Viktor and Jayce bond over their love for science, and the two progress Jayce's research on Hextech. While Jayce explored the practical uses (like the Atlas Gauntlets for miners), Viktor furthered his development of the Hexcore. The Hexcore, in Viktor's words, is a form of Hextech that can adapt and learn.

Arcane's Viktor has a strong will for progress and evolution. Eventually, he discovered that the Hexcore has the capability to repair his frail body. He spills blood for his work, and the Hexcore cognated itself onto Viktor's biological makeup.

He approached Singed for help regarding the Hexcore, and the latter provided him Shimmer to make the augmenting process more tolerable. This, of course, was done without the knowledge of Jayce.

Viktor continued to research the Hexcore and augment his body, but, when an experiment gone wrong results in the loss of his assistant and childhood friend Sky, he decided to give it up. He then asked Jayce to destroy the Hexcore.

"The Machine Herald" Viktor is a completely different character in League of Legends visually. Instead of the organic metal body he acquired from augmenting himself with the Hexcore, the LoL version of Viktor has a more manufactured look.

He was added as a playable champion in December 2011, and plays as a mage in the middle lane. His abilities all play into his machinist fantasy with lasers, gravity traps, and lightning storms.

An old version of Viktor's gameplay involved him having an item in his inventory. This item begins as the "Prototype Hex Core" and can be upgraded throughout the game into the "Perfect Hex Core." This was the initial way to evolve his abilities. Now, his abilities can be evolved without the Hex Core and requires unit kills instead.

His initial lore was also different. The fact that he and Jayce worked together remains. But, his mechanical body was a result of a surgery that he had done on himself after returning to Zaun. At odds with Jayce, he launches attacks on his lab and promises to bring the Glorious Evolution to people who follow him. Since Riot has decided to make Arcane canon, this version of Viktor be ret-conned soon.

Viktor is also credited for the creation of a metal golem named Blitzcrank. He intended for the golem to be a part of clean-up efforts in Zaun after a chem-spill.

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