Blitzcrank - the epitome of anti-fun (why is he allowed to live?)

Blåbæret·Jul 22, 2016·4 votes·810 views

Seriously, guys.

I'm not saying Blitz is OP or any of the sort, it just puzzles me as to why this champ is even in the game. Literally is centered around one ability that's a guranteed kill. Playing against Blitz is the most stressful and unfun experience I've ever had.

His base dmg is far too high. A full Blitz combo will probably take 60%+ of your HP early game. The ADC doesn't need to do jack. He can deny you farm by just standing in a bush. He promotes extremely passive gameplay and is quite frankly ridiculous.

10 Comments

MarshbouyJul 22, 20163 votes

"blitzcrank is toxic because i don't understand how to fight a blitzcrank"

BlåbæretJul 22, 20164 votes

Look at his winrates. A steady 51% across all divsions, even higher when you factor in games played. There is no such thing as to how to play against Blitz. You stand behind minions when possible and keep your distance otherwise. However, he will land a hook sooner or later, and you're 100% dead when he does.

It's a BS anti-fun champ that wins games with 1 ability, I never said there werent ways to beat him. However, that fact that he recently got nerfed just proves my point. Shame that the nerf did nothing.

MarshbouyJul 22, 20162 votes

51% win rate shows that he is very balanced. Pretty much exactly what a league champion should have. Same thing with games played.

Or you can dodge a hook and punish the incredibly long cooldown his hook has. Ok? Any champion with a pick ability can make sure you are dead.

I never said that you said there weren't ways to beat him.

SlythionJul 23, 20164 votes

You're misinterpreting his frustration with a champion as him not knowing how to counter them.

In reality, he's just voicing his opinion that the way to beat Blitz (or at least not lose to him) is an incredibly anti-fun, stressful, and boring strategy that is as close to unforgiving as you can get. In which case, I agree. But hey, we all have our opinions

MarshbouyJul 23, 20161 votes

I whipped out statistics becasue he did too.

You can do the same thing with a wide array of champions. That does not mean they need a change.

SlythionJul 23, 20163 votes

You aren't making any relevant arguments, and are contradicting yourself a bit making this confusing:

His statistics were to prove that even higher elos don't "shut down" Blitz. The entire point of showing his winrate being constant across elos was to show that it isn't a matter of it being difficult to fight blitz, but that blitz's reliance on a single ability creates a cancerous environment and a constant success rate

He wasn't complaining about Blitz being OP as you seemed to think here:

51% win rate shows that he is very balanced. Pretty much exactly what a league champion should have. Same thing with games played.

(hell, win rate =/= balanced either. When Zed was running rampant he had a 52% winrate because teams were forced to counterpick him...much like teams do against Blitz through Sivir Morgana Thresh item 3102 or any champ with a blink/dash) and when you said

Any champion with a pick ability can make sure you are dead.

The only champion with a pick ability even close to Blitz's is Naut's which has serious setbacks such as not being able to travel through terrain and how it meets you half way. Blitz's pull is easily the best pick ability in the game and that's what we are discussing, not the other pick abilities that aren't even the same as Blitz's.

You haven't actually stated anything relevant to his argument really. You may think Blitzcrank's kit is a fun and fair situation, and that's completely your right to have that opinion. But in our opinion, having a kit that forces you to avoid him or die through all of lane phase (by nit picking every step and having to track minion movements + maintain bush control) and has the harshest punishment for mistakes as well as a consistent success rate seems pretty toxic and anti-fun to me.

Now you can keep downvoting every comment that disagrees with you in this thread, but at least understand our argument instead of making up your own