Blitzcrank is completely unfun to play against.

SkyBlade79··13 votes·2,143 views

I'm really tired of Blitzcrank. I've been playing a lot of ADC's lately, and almost every game I'm vs Blitzcrank, and it's really ticking me off. Blitzcrank absolutely ruins any bottom lane, worse than any other support.

He's got the pull on a 15- second cooldown. That's honestly the worst part about him. Even if the Blitzcrank misses all of his pulls, the entire lane will just be you and your support cowering behind minions, afraid of getting chain cc'd and instantly killed. In late game, he doesn't even have to use his completely unfair kit to kill you! Just pull anyone with less than 3000 hp into his team, and they get destroyed in milliseconds!

The entire nature of the pull is horribly executed. It is far too easy to hit, especially because for some reason, ADCs have completely dastardly movespeeds. The hitbox is broken. There are so many times when the hook definitely does NOT connect, but I still get pulled. The only ADC that can really play against blitz is Ezreal, because honestly, Vayne and Lucian often get pulled OUT of their dashes. At least with Thresh, the hitbox is mostly accurate, and the support is given a chance to peel for you when you get hooked. With Blitz, it's just Q=Dead.

As if the pull wasn't bad enough, for some stupid reason, Blitzcrank has a knockup. That means that after you get hooked, you just have to watch as you get knocked up and quickly killed. You can't even flash away, and half the time I find myself flashing after I'm already dead, effectively wasting the spell. They need to make this a stun, at the very least. Even QSS is useless against this POS champion. And people are still complaining about Fizz...

The only balanced part of his kit is his speed boost.

And then there's his ult. So utterly unacceptable. An AOE silence on a 30- second cooldown? Rito, plz. You can't even use your movement abilities and your support can't even peel for you on the small chance that you do survive his Q-W. Not much to say about this.

I know this thread is going to get downvoted into the dirt, because it's not a thread complaining about Dynamic Queue. Just had to get this off my chest.

Yes, this is a repost; somehow, it got posted in Memes and Games. Some people said that it was because I was bronze, and I kind of agree, but not really. Most of the silvers (including me) are in bronze now due to season 6 re-placements, so the average bronze player is better than the average bronze player at the end of Season 5. In higher elos, Blitz just gets better; he's more likely to land grabs if given an opportunity, and more likely to save his grab for the right enemy (not tanks).

37 Comments

LatetotheRace3 votes

Blitz is a hilarious troll champ 100%. It's just because of his simple kit, which makes him easy to play. But at the same time, he's a low elo champion so if you can escape bronze/silver you're going to see a lot less of him. Also, due to his weak kit, and limited uses he's not played in competitive. If you want aids, I think Nautilus Thresh Leona are seriously far worse. If you can just survive laning by properly placing yourself in lane, then he's going to do very little late game.

SkyBlade791 votes

Nautlius, yeah. I can deal with a Thresh, he telegraphs his hook, and like I said, Thresh gives opportunities for my support help peel. Same with Leona.

LatetotheRace1 votes

Just remember Blitz is a phase, and it will pass.

Sniper 03 votes

Sivir Morgana Hilarious vs blitz.

OurLestrade2 votes

He's the perfect pub stomper, but that also means that once you learn he's pretty useless :P

Maximum Morde3 votes

Nope. You don't even have to fire your Q to do your job as Blitz. Just stand there and run at someone and that's good enough. They have to back off or risk dying because his base damages and ratios are higher than .

SkyBlade791 votes

Wow, people that actually agree with me? I do agree that he can just run at you, and you know that you'll never escape because he can just Q unless you flash.

Nanuk Pihoqahiak3 votes

There's nothing to learn. He could throw out a thousand hooks. All it'd take is a handful of them landing at the worst times and he's done his job. It's quite frankly poor design. The only reason it hasn't been changed is because it's 'iconic' and Riot doesn't want to piss off his playerbase.

Sariat11 votes

Its kinda the same problem that Illaoi has. You can miss your E every single time in lane except for one, and BAM the enemy laner is at half hp and can't focus on cs for 15 seconds. And then, by the time you've killed 3 tentacles, her E is back up again and you can get cursed again.

FurretHasAGlock2 votes

[slayer-pantheon-popcorn]

Sariat11 votes

Great username. Love it.

KrugLyfe2 votes

Knew you were a bronzie from the moment i saw your name

Jbels2 votes

Sure he is! Play Alistar and watch him give you free engages onto the enemy adc! That's fun af

SkyBlade791 votes

Hmm, that's actually a very good idea. Never really thought of that...

HexaDecimel1 votes

Champions like Nautilus, Leona, Braum, and Alistar are pretty good in the early game against blitz. Just understand that Blitz will not be dishing out alot of damage in the early levels, so if you get hooked you just instantly engage on the adc. Chances are the adc will start getting salty every time he gives you a free engage on her :p.

Morgana or Sivir's Shield will also block the grab.

If you are facing a blitzcrank you need to constantly be on the move going from side to side. He also has a short animation that you can see before he uses his grab. And as a general rule never get close if he is near his turret.

Honestly blitz isn't half as bad once you learn how to play against him. Sure he is frustrating, but he falls of pretty quickly and is reduced to nothing more then a pick champ. Hard engage is his worst nightmare.

CoolKnightST2 votes

His Q is a typical part of his kit. This will never change. He might need a rework add some point in time in order to keep up with the more modern life of a support. He's fine, their are a fell reasons why you are struggling against him:

  • The bronze division is not a really safe place for an adc. You will often have to rely on your own peel and often an adc without selfpeel will make your life terrible. It won't get any better in silver. Than the support might have a brain but your team will still end without a frontline 90% of the time.
  • You have to be carefull when playing immobile marksman in lower divisions. Their Blitz favorite snack. An dash can safe you from those nasty Q's a lot. When you are playing an immobile marksman make sure you have an tanky support to back you up. The ones with disengage tools are often more prefered in those cases like Thresh TahmKench Braum Alistar but probaly the one you will like the most Nautilus since the other 4 have a pretty high skillcap that often will not end well in bronze.

So when you are playing an immobile pick like Ashe just make sure someone of your team can zone/peel for you. If not I highly recommand to not pick her when Blitzcrank is open. It's just a typical counterpick for him.

For Caitlyn I think you don't use your traps correctly. Try to smartcast them. Trust me this will help a lot. Try to smartcast E ones you get used to it. This will allow you to react on Blitz Q.

If you still getting pulled than take Graves and build item 3812 item 3111 item 3053. You will have to change to AD caster runes & masteries if you want this to work. You won't deal massive damage but you can still kill people with it and you will die a lot less.

Also when you struggle early, when taking an early adc like Caitlyn, try Thunderlords. This can give you some really nice early pressure.

SkyBlade791 votes

Thanks. I already do smartcast w/ indicators everything, but these are some nice tips. I prefer frenzy on Caitlyn .

CoolKnightST1 votes

With frenzy your damage might spike on a longer duration. With thunderlords your damage spikes over a shorter duration. Basicly in lane you will have to auto attack less in order to get the same damage. Unlike frenzy you can are not forced to keep attacking your target so it will feel you will have more controle over your damage output towards enemies. So it will be easyer to dodge Blitz Q if you have to focus less on maintaining your frenzy stacks.

Erockandroll1 votes

No one wants to play support because they can't impact games and carry, falls far behind of everyone in terms of Gold and XP. And yet, we still complain about Blitz, raka, whoever.

[zombie-brand-clap] Nobody thinks their strong, and nobody want them to be strong.

Fondling Gems1 votes

As a sup main who plays a ton of Naut, seeing blitzcranks is seeing a second angle I can attack the adc from. Bait, pop shield before you get hit, give 0 fucks about being under turret, q auto e the enemy adc and walk out. Honestly blitzcrank is just a cheese champ. As someone who has mast 5 on Naut and Thresh, I can say blitz has the worst/hardest to hit hook out of all of them in most situations and brings no sustain.

Mimy1 votes

I'm really tired of Blitzcrank. I've been playing a lot of ADC's lately

Sivir Once you hear his pull go off train your finger to automatically press E You will never be hooked.. You can even BAIT his hook with this, and then punish him for being created...

Have fun. xD

I reccomend cooldown reduction with AD and Crit and mana regen.. item 3508 to keep blitz off your tail and to do a ton of damage.

Remeber! Skills reset your AA So AA-W-AA-Q-AA Tons of damage within about 1-2 seconds.. easily bring blitz to his knees and if you have a Soraka staying behind you healing you and she can scilence the blitz punch... even better.

SkyBlade791 votes

Hmm, I might try more sivir. I used to play her alot, but I've never been a huge fan of her ult, so I haven't played her in quite a bit. The thing is, I know that when I play Sivir, Blitz will never be picked, and when I pick anyone else (I've been playing Ashe, Jinx, and Caitlyn recently) here comes Blitz!

Mimy1 votes

with Caitlyn, you can net away from a blitz pull, but the rest don't have a lot of escapes, which is why they choose blitz. They know once you are pulled, you won't go anywhere easily. Sivir is an all around good and safe pick. played right, she can counter a lot of people.

Her ult is useful. you just need to know when to use it. say.. malphite ults into enemy team but your team is picking their nose trying to get in.. that's when you ult.. to make a bad enguage a good one.. or to fall back from something. or to secure a kill.. many reasons.. you do it when you and your team needs the speed.

Mimy1 votes

A lso think about your position in team fights.. Are you against a wall with no vision over it? Always assume blitzcrank is over there ready to pull you out a fight, and or into a trap..

Stellafreyja1 votes

Exactly how I counter Blitz. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Tyrone Lannister1 votes

Then why dont you just ban him...

SkyBlade791 votes

Too busy banning the ridiculous OP champions, MasterYi and Zed

The Deckowner1 votes

He's got the pull on a 15- second cooldown

that is a extremely long cd, I dont see how that cant be played round by the enemy.

agbudar1 votes

costs loads of mana especially early on. is not as easy to land as you make it out to be it takes practice. and landing it on a vayne for example who knows how to tumble out of it you need to time it as well. if he doesn't snowball his lane he has a lot less to offer when it comes to utility and engage then others. when you hide behind minions he basically becomes worthless Leona can dash through the minions and blow a 4 second stunlock on you with her entire kit

MunchCrunchLunch1 votes

lmao. he has such a high winrate too. but that said. I don't go bot lane unless i ban blitz. or pick him. yesterday I was gonna pick blitz support. enemy picks him. I was like "dammit". my adc said " you will be fine". am not worried about myself the thing is. literally the first pull. ezreal used his flash and heal. had to back and had half their adc cs. he continued to get pulled. it always happens. the worse you are at dodging the better blitz is. but then again he only needs to land one hook most of the time to win a team fight.

the point is. blitz goal is simple. he does his job with little effort. one pull and he done his job the rest is on his team. other adcs do have to put in more work but yeah whatever. hes fun to play. but certainly not fun to play against. do I get pulled by blitz. yeah but I don't lose my 2 summs in the first 2 minutes of the game.

its easy for him to pull you into a minion wave at levels 1-3 forcing you to flash or heal if you dont have any mobility. if your jinx or vayne or any immobile adc your gonna have bad time dealing with blitzcrank.

his base stats are really high. so he can 1v1 ad carries early game. you just run at the enemy and you got yourself a cs lead for your ad carry. your ad carry has to be really bad to not win lane with you as a competent blitzcrank.

outside the pull. thresh leona are far more annoying due to the cc they have. especially leona. one of the tankiest champions n the game.

idk play amumu or malphite or alistar and let him pull you. free 5 man ult.

anyway if your playing bot lane just ban him. hes a good ban in low elo considering his really high pickrate

hes not a pub stomper. he has the 5th highest winrate as a support in plat+. there is nothing to learn. there is no such thing as perfect skill shot dodging. especially a fast one like blitz hook. he lands one he did his job for the next 2 minutes. mid late game a pull = a guarnteed death even with flash because of the knockup and silence

Strawberrycocoa1 votes

I don't really agree with the notion of Blitz falling off, his utility is equally effective all game if you position for it. And I've given people nightmares running in with W, knocking up with E, R-ing to burst and silence them, and when they try to flash away, Q them back in. In AND out of lane phase.

Oleandervine1 votes

My biggest beef is that I find him incredibly hard to kill. The aforementioned Grab+Knockup+Silence is bad enough, but that absurd mana shield for like his entire HP bar coupled with the move speed makes him obnoxious.

JusticePauldrons1 votes

Tahm kench says hi

Dataless1 votes

Phreak said something once during his stream that really struck a chord with me, and it's relevant to this topic. "Blitzcrank whose hook is down is basically not a champion for the next 20 seconds"

Truer words have never been spoken. Learn to anticipate and dodge the hooks and he ceases to be an issue.

JusticePauldrons5 votes

I actually disagree with that, his ultimate and ratios are fine enough that he can still provide for his team. His knock up, silence and speed boost still allow him to do pretty decent damage and peel for his team.

Truly Prideful1 votes

I just ban him if the important things are already banned. I can dodge the hooks fine, he's just so stupidly annoying to play against that I would rather just ban and get it over with. He can miss 50 hooks in a row then hit one and win the game for his team.

SkyBlade791 votes

Exactly what I do. I always make sure that Zed and Yi are banned first.

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