Discovering Blitz W Change
I remembered reading about the blitz w being changed from a continuous stream of speed to a quick burst, then a slowdown afterwards. I highly approved of this change and the direction it was in. Skip forward a couple weeks later, and actually using blitzcrank with his w. What I experienced was this, for reference to those who have heard of the blitz change like me and assumed it was worthwhile, but never played as blitzcrank using his w.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH1mvNRrBpo
Pictured: Blitzcrank's Max Rank W, compared not to pre-nerf W, but to standard walking.
Riot has a thing about "if it doesn't feel good, it shouldn't be in the game". Right now Blitzcrank's W doesn't feel good. I literally couldn't tell I was using his speed up most of the time, and I felt scared using his w as the slow outweighs the speedup. I love the intent behind the bliz w, but in practice I feel like they removed the skill. Here's what I'd do to get the feeling that they were going for with the speedup, without making w feel bad and be unusable.
Blitz W Changes: Speedup lasts for 1 second at full strength (this is important): Decays after this at the same rate it does now. Always has a minimum of ~10% move speed buff until the ability wears off.
Simple as that, you have a skill that you can actually notice is being used, with the intended tradeoff strength-weakness set riot said they intended, rather than the weakness-weakness set riot gave blitz.
E &
W pls 