Years later, Blitzcrank is still anti-fun.

CritsAProcess··8 votes·2,455 views

Title says it all. Blitzcrank is anti-fun. It doesn't matter if he's a godcrank or a crapcrank, one hook can ruin your entire game. If you want to play champions that don't cater to Riot's Mobility creep he's basically hard counter to all of them. I have never hated any champion as much as I do Blitzcrank. He's literally cancer in this game and the fact that Riot allows him to stay the way he is says a lot about their balance team.

Blitzcrank's entire kit needs to be Olaf'd. Nerfed so hard no-one ever, ever plays him because I hate. HATE seeing him in my game, on the enemy team or my own. Even when Blitz is on my team when he lands a hook 'that's bullshit' runs through my head.

What's worse is how stupidly safe he is to play stupidly. His passive shield allows him to dive right onto your carry and not worry about getting bursted before he shuts them down. His Ult's damage ratio is way too high.

Riot, you need to fix that damn champion. And no, giving him an early game nerf is not fixing him. He needs to be nerfed into the ground while you come up with a way of making him NOT anti-fun.

13 Comments

Nekusen6 votes

cancer and anti-fun. the user can be as skilled as a board, miss 99 hooks and they 1 he connects will win his lane and the game.

he is just unfun to play against, his hook should be changed into a more healthy one like Nautilus Thresh

theArtifacts3 votes

Haters gonna hate.

madman himself3 votes

Sounds like salt to me

CritsAProcess7 votes

Yup. Salty as hell. But with justification because Blitz is anti-fun. He ruins games no matter what team he's on.

Unstoppable Monk2 votes

item 3102 and every tank in the game pretty much soft counters him. Tanky blitz does little damage. AP Blitz dies pretty easily. Solo lane Blitz is balanced.

CritsAProcess3 votes

Which does absolutely nothing to stop him from making lane absolutely horrible to play against. You basically have no choice but to farm under tower or he'll just speed up to you and ruin your day. Even that isn't safe because his shield allows him to dive far more safely than he should.

Also 45 seconds > CD on blitz's pull.

No flash no life2 votes

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Which does absolutely nothing to stop him from making lane absolutely horrible to play against.

Some solutions you might consider:

  • Freeze wave close to your turret against his oppression. Stand behind your minions so you don't get pulled, and he can't go around your minions since he would be in your turret range.
  • Even if you can't freeze, don't push too far out and stand within the group of your minions as you trade blows so he can't grab you
  • Sivir as adc, support as morgana, nautilus, leona, or alistar. Blitz instantly becomes useless unless he's near his tower or his junglar is ganking
  • Teleport from top lane the moment his hook lands - assuming he uses w to run up to pull and has extended too far
  • Fight him during winter. He's a steam robot so vapor will turn into ice, freezing his movement soon after he starts running
Nekusen1 votes

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  • Sivir as adc, support as morgana, nautilus, leona, or alistar. Blitz instantly becomes useless unless he's near his tower or his junglar is ganking

the problem with this logic are:

he could chose blitz after you picked your champs. blind pick is a thing.

CritsAProcess2 votes

<3 this comment. I appreciate the attempt to be a good member of the community, but Nekusen put up my counterpoint already. For some reason I'm first pick pretty often and that means unless my team bans blitz (and I generally ask them to), I run the risk of being against an enemy blitz which is one of the least fun things in the game. Less fun than getting stomped by a riven or a zed.

No flash no life1 votes

You focused too much on his strength that he excels at and completely left out his weakness/counterplay. He is high risk high reward; if he lands one grab on the right target then chances are his team wins, but if he lands the hook on the wrong target his team loses. The later the game gets the easier it is for his opponents to deny his strength.

tl;dr your tanks weren't blocking blitz hook properly, and blitz simply punished your team for it.

DU Baymax1 votes

nothing more fun than jg blitzcrank, your argument is invalid

(except maybe jungler heimerdinger)

Strawberrycocoa1 votes

I'd much rather see some of the "dead before you can react" assassins Olafed than a one-trick pony support like Blitz.

Mokkun1 votes

He's extremely feast or famine.

You deal with him in lane by beating the grease out of him until he can no longer safely pull you. Especially remember to pound on him and/or his partner every time he misses a hook. Alternatively, you play Morgana and giggle at him all lane long. Muting him tends to help for peace of mind if he's the kind that spams laugh. Same way you mute all Lux and Singed players for the duration of a game. It prevents stupid. Seriously.

You do NOT hang out and try to get those last couple hits on his tower. Dive him. If at all possible allow your jungler to try and dive him (though they will before level 6, be they bronze or diamond because he's a fucking iq-draining jungler magnet) Forget that diving him means being in range of grab while chasing him and he's in range of tower

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