Victor build guide

Ansonex Press W (fully annotated)

by AnsonexVersion 14Updated Jun 18, 2026Guide #520625

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Author's notes

Victor is all about understanding his limits and pushing the limit harder & longer than the enemy. He is the only hero that gets stronger by taking damage. You can take much better trades & extended fights because of regen, jumpstart, and having to take damage to charge pain battery.

Item categories

1Early/Mid
Author's category · 10 items · Use regen/jumpstart to take strong trades. Use your ult/tormet pulse to play extremely aggresive in lane.
1. 1
  Extra Spirit
  99% of the time first buy
2. 2
  Extra Regen
  Buy first if u get fucked opening
3. 3
  Improved Spirit
  Built from Extra Spirit
  Victor needs this to do damage & heal
4. 4
2breakfastoptional
Author's category · 1 items
1. 1
  Golden Goose Egg
  if u wanna lose but have fun doing it
3Late game
Game stage · 6 items · Go time. Be aggressive, stand under walkers. Get in the enemy's face and stay there.
1. 1
  Compress Cooldown
  Need healing from pain battery as much as possible
2. 2
  Superior Cooldown
  Built from Compress Cooldown
  More healing, jumpstarts, you name it!
3. 3
  Warp Stone
  Use this to keep people in the aura & escape CC, skip if u buy gun items
4Countersoptional
Author's category · 5 items
1. 1
  Dispel Magic
  You need this in 8/10 games, but it's not important to buy in order like the early game items, buy whenever, skip if huge leadbnbvb
2. 2
  Metal Skin
  Yoshi's favorite item, get only if u need, but so so so good
3. 3
  Suppressor
  buy if 3 or more gun heroes or fed Vyper, metal skin is so much better
5Situationalsoptional
Author's category · 7 items · Annotations say when :D
1. 1
  Greater Expansion
  If having trouble keeping people in the aura, but warp stone is better
2. 2
  Spirit Resilience
  lots of spirit heroes
3. 3
  Spellbreaker
  Break in case of Yamato (get TCD ASAP if u get this)
6Slot Cappedoptional
Author's category · 4 items
1. 1
  Rapid Recharge
  Built from Extra Charge
  First buy if slot capped, good but not needed anymore
2. 2
  Healing Tempo
  Built from Healing Booster
  This is actually good but there's more important stuff to get first. If u get this regularly get after early game section.
3. 3
  Juggernaut
7Bad but Funoptional
Author's category · 14 items · These items are so much fun (except bullet resilience), and that's why we play video games!
1. 1
  Cursed Relic
  if everyone else on ur team is sucking their thumb buy this, but really they should get it instead of u
2. 2
  Bullet Resilience
  would almost never buy this but if there's literally 5+ gun heroes
3. 3
  Phantom Strike
8BELT 2 ASSoptional
Author's category · 6 items · Go crazy twin, pick one T3 and one T2 for 4.8k spike
1. 1
  Cultist Sacrifice
  Buy before 8 mins if u do, for max value. Get fleetfoot as well, no enduring speed
2. 2
  Berserker
  this is better than Ballistic Enchantment now, buy KDash 100% if you buy this`
3. 3
  Blood Tribute
  I believe in this item so much on this hero but haven't made it work yet
9you're still here? It's over. Go home. Go!
Author's category · 0 items · shiishikaaaaaa
No items listed.

Categories appear in the author's order. Only the editor's default Early, Mid and Late sections are marked as game stages; the author's own categories keep their names. “Built from” links come from the game's item recipes.

Published ability order

Published ability order: unlocks and upgrades in the author's order, one row per ability in slot order
Pain BatteryPain Battery	Pain Battery: Ability unlocked, step 1	Pain Battery: 1 AP upgrade, step 2		Pain Battery: 2 AP upgrade, step 4					Pain Battery: 5 AP upgrade, step 9