Why Isn't Solo Lane Blitzcrank a Thing?

Meep Man·Aug 18, 2016·2 votes·813 views

In a meta where there are better Supports to play, like Sona and such, but Blitzcrank's pull is still extremely valuable since the back line is still valuable AND in a meta where you can easily build damage while still being durable, why isn't Top Lane Blitzcrank a thing yet? He has extremely high ratios and natural durability through his Passive plus his W let's him easily escape most ganks as long as he isn't REALLY pushed up. Plus a Blitzcrank with 40% CDR can use his E every 3 seconds with a 1 second knock up, making him an extremely good duelist if someone builds a Trinity Force or Lich Bane on the guy! Trinity Force is, by the way, REALLY good right now. Why isn't Blitzcrank a thing in Solo Lane?

10 Comments

RalanrAug 18, 20162 votes

In my experience, solo lane blitzcrank has no kill potential without his turret.

Mysticman89Aug 18, 20161 votes

It is/was a thing, it's just lots of other champs bring more to the team.

KaiokoAug 18, 20161 votes

Because his ratios are mixed and don't actually make sense to really build damage on him? You've got one attack speed steroid with one ad ratio and 2 ap ratios. Most people would just go iceborn gauntlet.

Meep ManAug 18, 20161 votes

He has one "AD Ratio" being his E dealing double physical damage, and his W is more used for the movement speed than the attack speed in reality. Using a build like: item 3111 item 3078 item 3053 item 3003 item 3165 item 3001 Would easily make him a huge force to deal with for the enemy team. Now, I'm not saying he is a huge, upcoming force that is about to shake the meta or anything, but I'm very surprised that his game changing Q with a 100% AP Ratio and his extremely low cool down R that is an interrupt, deals tons of damage with a 100% AP Ratio, has a low cool down, and includes a passive Sunfire Cape-like effect isn't used in Top Lane. Other champions are used for similar impact purposes or less.

KaiokoAug 18, 20161 votes

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He has one "AD Ratio" being his E dealing double physical damage, and his W is more used for the movement speed than the attack speed in reality. Using a build like: Would easily make him a huge force to deal with for the enemy team. Now, I'm not saying he is a huge, upcoming force that is about to shake the meta or anything, but I'm very surprised that his game changing Q with a 100% AP Ratio and his extremely low cool down R that is an interrupt, deals tons of damage with a 100% AP Ratio, has a low cool down, and includes a passive Sunfire Cape-like effect isn't used in Top Lane. Other champions are used for similar impact purposes or less.

I mean I can't say I've tried personally but I've destroyed plenty of blitz that tried to solo lane. Maybe they were all awful who knows. You should try and let us know how you do. The best way to figure out if a build would work is to do it yourself in my opinion.

Trump2016MAGA12Aug 18, 20161 votes

I did that, once, in a normals game at about silver elo. Didnt work.

AD blitzcrank has worked for me later in the game (pre triforce "nerf/buff") item 3031 item 3087 item 3508 item 3812 item 3111 item 3022 .

I tried AP blitz crank in one of those weekend promotional games, "one for all" item 3027 item 3151 item 3089 item 3100 item 3116 item 3020 . The ult was pretty strong and so was the grab but his E was just cc, and so was the attack speed.

In general blitz is best used as utlility. He isnt really ranged because once he grabs you, punches you, ults you, he needs to kill you or he will die. If he doesnt manage to grab you/misses his hook, he is screwed.

As a support bot, he is quite strong if decent at landing grabs because in bot lane separation between the ADC and the support is key.

zlumpyAug 18, 20161 votes

His late game falls off a lot and the slow on W really hurts his solo potential.

Sire HippingtonAug 18, 20161 votes

CS! I tried him a few times, and i find his AA animation to be most awfull in exiatence to cs with. He also has no waveclear, though hydra/sunfire help with that. His trades in lane are rather unreliable and draw minion aggro, and his dps for extendet trades is farily low(actually, it simply doesn't exist) , and he's easy to gank if he ever pushes up. He also doesn't scale that well into lategame, the 'lucky' pull that insta wins the fight works with support blitz just the same, and he neither scales great as ad bruiser nor as cc tank, as he lacks aoe cc and reliable acces to more ikmprtant targets, and for peel bot only, support is totally suffcient.

The most succes i've seen so far was mid as full ap, since the ult alone would hit the entire team like a truck, and landing your grab would insta kill squishys without the help of your team already. Hiwever, since the ult cs nerfs, ap blitz really has issues clearing waves, and his early lane has huge issues dealing with the ranged poke.

The only thing that Blitz has over other toplaners is the hook, and he has that as support aswell. There is no real boon from funeling sololane farm into blitz, unless he goes full ap,which makes it quite hard to get that farm actually onto him.