Giving a Polish to Ol' Blitzcrank

DreamCrushed·8/28/2015, 3:11:32 PM·1 votes·601 views

Blitzcrank is very powerful. His CC can screw over an entire enemy team with a single pull. This however is not really a problem though: with good wards and playing with care, any enemy can avoid his pull.

Blitzcrank's problem is that after he pulls, knock-ups, and uses his ultimate, he can not do anything else for at least 7 seconds, due to his cooldowns, and becomes useless. Also, its way to easy to steal kills with the rocket grab due to its high early damage. To fix this, I thought of a solution.

  1. First of all remove the base damage of the pull and replace it with a 100% AD ratio, making it essentially be an auto-attack skill shot that moves the target it hits. This way Blitzcrank can't deal 300+ Damage at level 9 with an ability which is primarily used for it's CC.

  2. Next, remove the attack speed increase from Overdrive and move the Powerfist active to this spell. This way Blitzcrank needs to choose between immediate CC and chase potential. Also thematically, it makes sense.

  3. Lastly give Blitzcrank a toggle ability on his new E, making a reference to the Steam part of Steam Golem. On Active have Blitz emit Steam in a trail behind him that increases movements speed for allies significantly, say like 60 or 70%, while in the Steam and slows enemies by a tiny amount, say like 5 or 10%. This way Blitz has a way to contribute to Steam fights (get it?) after using all his pick/burst potential with constant small CC that helps his team.

2 Comments

xxxMadLionxxx8/28/2015, 3:38:01 PM1 votes

I hate blits and wish riot would delete him as a champ. His grab equals death

joebobby14128/28/2015, 3:46:05 PM1 votes

I find this strange, you essentially say that you think he has a lack of team fight potential, which while true, isn't a problem. But then, rather than move things around in a way to actually accent any kind of team fight mechanic you just give him one redundant ability and nerf everything else.

So, the reason Blitz doesn't need to be strong in a team fight is that he is the epitome of a "pick champion". You want to pull one enemy, preferably a carry, and have your team blow them up. Then you retreat. So his being useless for 7 seconds, doesn't matter. You should be running away right now.

If you are trying to play Blitz like he is Soraka, you have much bigger issues than the game balance.