Dat Blitz Tho

Anyone tired of Blitzcrank as I am? Granted I'm not in the highest elo, but it seems like every game one is in, there will be a crapload of kills on him (or if he's slightly better, his ADC) but he above all fits the old "binary playstyle" that Riot took out of Nidalee before.

Not only is Blitz's Q's hitbox often times very deceptively huge (the amount of times I've been hit but swore I was out of it's range is staggering) but also he has the definition of a binary playstyle: Land your Q? Wombo-combo with your E and ult to do insane burst damage, and if you don't get a kill, you've done something wrong. Miss Q? Wait until it's up again and try, try again because it only takes a single hook in a late-game teamfight to win the game.

Yes, I've heard all the counterarguments: it's a slow projectile, learn to ward, move out of the way, it's on a fairly long CD (if Blitz doesn't have CDR which would be silly, let's face it), it costs a lot of mana, hide behind minions..... you know what these arguments were used for before as well? Nidalee! She got nerfed/changed (then again, it was hardly a nerf...) because Riot didn't like the safe, spammy, "hide outside the fight and wait for you to get lucky so you can go in 4v5" playstyle that it encouraged. Blitzcrank is the epitome of this.

So what can Riot do? Well, ideally delete Blitzcrank because I swear nobody likes the champion other than the low-elo players who do it to get some freelo because dodging is hard (I'll admit, I'm guilty of this myself sometimes) but even in LCS play it's only brought on and used for that same pick-style comp of "Chances are we'll get a kill and snowball really really hard. If not, late game I can still get a grab and win the teamfight." The biggest thing I'd encourage is to nerf his base damages being so incredibly high. His ult alone does a staggering amount of damage to ADCs who lack magic resist at that point in the game and many a support does as well. His Q, as well, does an immense hit of damage and is almost always ranked up first. The ADC he has with him should be able to do the damage, he shouldn't need this super spike when he has a spell that is "hit and win". Given Riot is unlikely to change Blitz's hook because it's become so iconic to the character, it seems like the base damages are the only real recompense Riot could give to those of us who groan every time we see a Blitzcrank because we know all too well that the game is just a few key Q grabs away from the Defeat screen, no matter how well we do.