The logic behind Blitz's new W - Hope it clears some things up for people!
So old blitz W was very "unhealthy. You basically had a consistent movement speed and attack speed steroid that made it easy to kite, land hooks, catch up to anyone, run away, and push towers decently quick.
New blitz W has greater logic behind it with better risks and rewards:
- You get more movement speed on cast essentially making it a "burst" of speed that decays over time which makes it fair both ways for catching up to land the hook and not just pounding after the enemy
- The decay in the speed over 5 seconds is very fair to say you're not constantly running like a madman avoiding everything and making it easy to knock-up a champion and giving no options for the enemy to run
- The slow at the end is more of a "Return for the favor" kind of thing where you get slowed because of your movement speed increase trying to land a hook or knocking up someone, making it a risk to use and logically is kind of like a "burnout" after using it
All in all, its more of a risk to use his W now as you need have proper positioning and right playing style to get him right instead of instant W chase into hook/knock-up.
Hope this clears things up :D