@Riot - Could we pay a visit to Blitzcrank's W now? (In regards to Patch 5.7 Nerf)

> W - Overdrive > REMOVED MOVEMENT SPEED16/20/24/28/32% movement speed over 8 seconds > NEW MOVEMENT SPEEDNow gains a burst of 70/75/80/85/90% movement speed, rapidly decaying over 5 seconds > YOUR STEAM IS ESCAPING When Overdrive ends, Blitzcrank is slowed by 30% for 1.5 seconds

After playing Blitzcrank a lot throughout the past 5 seasons this is probably the most out of the blue nerf I've seen for his kit. He wasn't overbearing and just barely maintains above 50% winrate depending on region/rank. It really felt like there wasn't context to the nerf. He's already gated quite a bit by mana costs and cooldowns, once you use your combo in lane, you have quite a long time just utilizing nothing but auto attacks, which is fine, that's how his weaknesses work.

However with the slow on W, it feels so terrible to use that ability when engaging. Sure you get a great boost up front which helps land grabs for sure, but I still feel like it's crippling to win trades in lanes where both adc and support are on equal footing. You get kited by pretty much every other champion because of it.

Does Riot have any plans on removing this slow in the future? It really serves no purpose other than forcing a weakness on a champion with plenty of weaknesses already.

If you're looking for a practical nerf in exchange for eliminating the slow on W, you can increase the cooldown on E by 1 second or heavily increase the mana cost of W by 20-30 to justify the removal of the slow.

Thoughts?