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No Buff will make Blitz pro viable

PhantomGG·9/16/2019, 5:59:55 PM·8 votes·5,278 views

Lately Riot has been giving blitz crank a lot of buffs, and to be frank, some champions will almost always just remain pure solo q.

Some examples would be

katarina: Reason - her abilities are easily canceled by top tier players, champions who resemble this problem Khazix/Zed/Talon/Rengar, most assassins -All though zed sometimes sneaks in

For top lane good examples would be Darius, Darius is actually really fucking effective if we are talking about solo q, good damage, okay cc, great team fighter, but from the level of difference pros display when it comes to kiting and layering CC, darius doesn't stand a chance in coordinated play.

Blitz crank would also be on this list of champions who are GREAT for solo q, but will quite honestly almost never be pro viable unless you give him a sincerely very broken buff.

The big reason for this? If you are a pro player Why pick blitzcrank when you can just play

Nautlist/Thresh/Pyke

They do the same thing while having even more abilities that are just as effective, the only place you can argue where blitz is better, is the fact that blitzcrank has a FULL hook, and follow up lock down to fully isolate targets he captures. However, since blitz crank has ALL his power budgeted into a single combo, their isn't much else he offers to a team fight.

Nautlist: Very tanky, and can activate his passive on multiple targets while spamming AOE Thresh: Flay isn't that long a cooldown so he can use it at least twice in a team fight, while getting resets on his hooks, not to mention his autos are actually pretty decent damage to compared to other supports Pyke: an ult that offers insane resets to layer massive damage

Blitz crank is simply out classed here, the reason he shines in solo q, is just largely because of how dumb people play online, even at a chally level u see some really cringey mistakes, that simply don't happen in pro competitions.

The reason i'm addressing this, is for i'm afraid riot might eventually just give blitz crank an out of this world insane buff that completely breaks the champion as a desperate move to make him pro viable.

Riot, Blitz crank is a solid solo q champion, and will always remain that way, he will never be pro play viable, unless you give him a buff that's utterly broken.

That or you gutt the shit out of other hookers to make him look more appealing.

15 Comments

PARVDOX9/16/2019, 7:20:13 PM5 votes

He's got 2 arms, right just give him 2 hook charges like Vi's E!

There you go, now he's broken and offers a unique advantage pros can use by killing both bot laners at once or just rehooking if you miss your primary target just like Pyke gets no punishment with gray health.[slayer-jinx-wink]

Schenix9/16/2019, 7:34:14 PM3 votes

Countered by too many champions, high punish window, and offers very little otherwise unless all his major nerfs were reverted. His ult coming back to a low cooldown, his self-slow being removed, and his base tankiness buffed to be higher than before. Then there's a case, but at that point, he's overbearing in solo queue.

Saezio9/16/2019, 6:26:08 PM3 votes

The value of champions in pro play highly relies on their ability to be picked early without having to worry too much about getting hard countered.

So, binary champions are almost all the time not a good choice for pro play.

As for blitz, I think the "buff" or change they could give him to make him pro viable would be to give him back his Qflash interaction that I believe used to exist back in early seasons 1--2 or so. And I feel like it wouldn't be too exploited by low elo soloq players because they wouldn't be able to pull it off often enough.

Daddy Ants9/16/2019, 8:21:19 PM3 votes

Blitz is a low elo stomper, always will be.

SweedishGunner9/16/2019, 9:57:32 PM3 votes

Pretty sure K6 was pick ban in pro play like a year or two ago?

Anatera9/17/2019, 2:03:24 AM2 votes

Lol even if they did plan to buff him, I wouldn't trust them to do it properly.

Zero Shingetsu9/16/2019, 7:38:14 PM2 votes

You sure removing his mana and refunding Q cooldown on miss wouldn't make him pro viable? Are you very sure?

Daddy Ants9/18/2019, 9:13:02 AM1 votes

Blitz will NEVER be Pro play Viable while Braum Alistar Karma Nautilus Pyke Shen Thresh TahmKench Yuumi exist.

Bugog9/17/2019, 7:35:22 AM1 votes

Some champions come in and out of pro play depending on meta, items, etc.

Most of the champs you listed off have been pro meta now and again, but I can't ever remember blitz being so. I remember some of the reasons that he isn't, such as he telegraphs his hook by facing in the direction that it's going to go, and that gives the opponent time to react. Thresh has a longer windup, but he doesn't telegraph direction, so it's harder to predict. Another of Blitz's problems is that he doesn't really bring a lot other than hooks. Naut's hook isn't even the biggest part of his kit, and thresh has much more utility built in. The last problem is that blitz is best when he can hook from the fog of war, but pro games tend to have a ton of vision.

Overall I don't think they're going to try to make him pro viable, so he's going to be on the pro game bench with Teemo.

ImTheJuggernauty9/17/2019, 2:18:06 PM1 votes

Are you kidding OP? Rengar and Kha have been pro viable in MANY years. Maybe not now, but certainly they were almost omnipresent at times in past.