I hope you all realize that this supposedly minor change will make him hell in SoloQ. I already am paranoid of him invading JG, pulling 50HP red/blue buff, hiding in tribush, pulling teamate from FOW and now I have to worry about him pulling my buff/teamate through not 1 BUT 2 WALLS?
No, ty Riot.
That's the point. Blitzcrank exists to shield other hook supports from being banned. Pyke and Naut were too strong so they had to buff Blitzcrank even harder to bring his ban rate back up.
It's only fair he gets a longer hook when that's all he offers.
I rather deal with blitzcrank over Naut/Pyke/Thresh.
All 3 of those have more to offer than blitz besides their hooks.
And when I do play a hook champ, it's always Naut/Pyke/Thresh for the exact same reason.
The range buff to blitz Q isn't going to change this.
As Sona main this is like a real horror movie.
Should I return to ban Blitz like I was doing in bronze?
, what do you say?
Idk, I kind of like this change cause I think Blitz could really use some love, besides, the problem was never the range of the q, but hitting the skill shot in the first place xd
Not much of a change for lane phase. You already didn't countered his hook by outranging him. You did by going behind minions, or having a tank support cover, or dodging it with something. Ezreal, and Tristana is still pretty much immune to it. Any tank support can still cover it, and in teamfight positioning still ruins it. The only thing, that improved, and rarely used is using from the sideline to catch a non-tank champion.
Great now he can invade and steal buffs.
For the same reasons they keep buffing Vayne 
.
They made a clearly superior version of the exact same champion in Kaisa 
. Now to keep Vayne relevant they have to keep nerfing Kaisa or buffing Vayne ad infinitum.
As a enchanter Main I think, the increased range of his Q in combination with the shield breaking ult would be a bit to much for the likes of Janna and Lulu. With them being my mains means that he is my main ban atm, fuck pyke man, he destroys the whole lane (and in perspective the whole game) and keeps taunting us enchanter mains :/ 
[sg-soraka]
Adding even more nuisance to this game.
Good job once again, you competent people!
ive actually run into quite a few blitzcrank jungles lately. they're wildly inefficient but this one time he ran at me earlygame and pulled my buff while i was doing it, back and forth for 4-5 times and resetting it. wasting our time, the thing was even after the whole thing blew over and i managed to collapse on him and kill him, the scuttle on that side was still alive. but a malphite jungle who's 2 levels behind their midlaner with a chilling smite is definitely going to be less useful than a permaroam blitzcrank with mobis. this isnt a complaint on how the change will magically make blitz jungle viable, but from those experiences alone I've started to come to realise that blitzcrank will become the most dominant lvl 1 invade champion, and the regular game cheese in norms will be super annoying to deal with as a jungler
Riot is dumber than dirt.
Blitzcrank will be picked only for the early bs (they could make the range increase by rank but they apparently are too incopetent to think of that) and for the people saying that they are fine with the change or they think that Blitzcrank needed some love, the same people who will be the first to complain when blitzcrank grabs them from half a lane away with the broken hitbox, blitzcrank could use a reduced W slow, increased health regen, bonus base magic resist and maybe all blitzcrank skins having the same hitbox not just a lazy, unnecessary and unasked for buff
This looks stupid.
I hope nobody finds a viable way to play Blitzcrank jungle, or else is going to be "pick or ban".
Did...did they not playtest this?
I'd rather ban 
or 
over Blitz.
aww i wanted to post this lol.
i wonder how long this buff will stay... knowing riot: forever.
Still even knowing this, my pyke ban isnt changing.
Main blitz plat 1 here. Blitz is kind of brain dead champ. Beside his hook he is useless. His kit is worse than any other support champ. And in this damage meta he is falling behind because pulling isnt enough anymore, you need to deal some pretty good damage if you want to take the kill (talking for 2v2 situation which is bot). In TF pulling is crucial but really depends on the situation. If enemy team is ahead and you do the pull... it can cost you the game because now there are many mobile champs that will compensate the disadvantage you created. In TF most usefull thing is his ult because it has silence, thats it. For example vs other hook supports: Blitz -> best disposition hook, has passive shield, low damage, silence on ulti, low time CC
Thresh -> monster CC time , can set up ganks with W + shield ally, damage as blitz, mass slow R Pyke -> better damage, monster mobility, can share gold, health regen from grey health, CC time like blitz (higher with lethality on E ) Naut -> better damage, monster CC time, have escape tool, shield, mass slow E
So skilled players will always choose the champ which will be more complex and can bring more. Blitz is a one trick pony :) + 100 range doesnt change much.
From the youtube comments: "IMPORTANT UPDATE: Riot did a stealth update to Blitzcrank Q while shipping it live. They actually CHANGED IT without informing anyone (don't know why it took them so long). Quoting Caenen: "They hotfixed the edge-to-edge circle check at the end of the hook, so now it doesn't gain an extra 120/131 against Red buff/Blue buff's hitbox radius". So you can't grab Blue/Red like I did. I love Riot for their secret updates."
Imo this buff (100 range increase) is for making pro players pick 
in the upcoming world tournament and this should make players to learn side-stepping in laning phase especially in and around silver.
He's bugged as fuck atm. We are getting pulled from beyond the Q animation even worse than before and it's pulling two people at a time. Fuck this champion.
Blitz's whole point is to hook people and bust shields. Thresh, Pyke and Nautilus are way more important to ban than him, unless you really have a strong aversion to Blitz and play champions with no legs.
