Blitzcrank is the most toxic champion in the game.
Now I'll admit my bias in how I've long hated this OP, One trick pony.
He's completely binary! Land q and all in, or miss q and run around doing the COD command run until q CD ends...
Combine this with about 4 seconds of CC, a speed steroid, natural tankiness, and a really grating laugh... You get one tall glass of annoying. :/
But there's something else about him that took me a while to notice. Something that finally became clear when a bad
I was supporting raged at me. Not for playing
poorly , but for picking
INSTEAD of
(or Thresh) to begin with! and that's when it really hit me!
Blitzcrank makes players worse at the game!
That Vayne was not the only time I've had an ADC whine that "I NEED Blitz supp!" either, just the most recent. Blitz's Q followed by his all -in is OP as heck in that with very little precision you can just feed your team kills in a way not even Thresh or Nautalis can; And this doesn't just apply to the laneing phase either!
Eventually players will group up to siege towers and this is normally where team work, precession and placement have to be used. But NOT if either side has Blitz... Now If your attacking, your entire team just has to kill minions, gather around the robot, and wait for him to pull some one into the 5 man gang bang! If your defending, All he has to do is grab the first one to actually hit the tower, and they are killed 90% of the time too!
Combine all of this with how popular he is! I see him in 4 out of 5 blind pick matches I play! So now, You have Blitz players thinking they're hot stuff, ADC's who get so used to being spoon fed kills that they can't get them w/o a hook champ! And entire teams who don't need to get better at game fundamentals because They can just lean on this crutch!
What can be done about this? Honestly it's a tough call, taking away or overly nerfing his q would make him weak. I think the biggest problem is the rest of his kit, If the q were his only CC he wouldn't be so toxic. Maybe have his e knock the target away rather then up, AND removing the silence from his ult?
is one of my mains and I couldn't tell you how many times someone has flashed immediately after I cast my ult on them.. And its not nearly as big a "screw you" as Blitz's ult is after his q! I think retricting the CC of the rest of his kit would be a great move myself! ... Of coarse I'll admit, I hate Blitz as he is, so I'm a little bias. :P
and
. Yeah, it sucks.
and just body block every grab for your team.
