hey look im blitzcrank and im gonna zone you simply because i exist

^ people die to him and make heated threads when as a blitz main, if i dont land them i lose so much mana, you cant escape anymore because of his w nerf and you have decently long cool downs, also why not just bitch about blitzcrank cant magically pull a lantern out of his ass, his q doesn't give u a cool down for grabbing someone and his e is useless without hooking unless your in a team fight. If the enemy ADC was good, they would zone me constantly and let their support poke the adc..

The with this is that the enemy ADC is also enough of a threat that you can't easily punish Blitz for missing a Q or two. If you try to follow him while he backs off to wait for his mana to regen, the ADC's damage will zone you off. If you try to go in on his ADC he can still walk up to you and punch you. You might be able to zone the enemy ADC for a bit while Blitz's hook is on CD, but Blitz zones so much harder that unless he's literally just spamming it off cooldown his team still comes out ahead.

It also can't be a matter of "LRN 2 DODGE BRO" because he's often picked by professionals, who are obviously much better at dodging and playing around his cooldowns than the vast majority of the playerbase. He's apparently pretty balanced at that level of play (unless one believes LC$ BIG PLAY$ prevent nerfs), but a terror to lower-level players because of the huge impact of his hook.

I have literally been zoned by Blitzcranks that aren't even in lane. If he manages to get into a bush my team doesn't have vision of, it is suicide to try and get a ward in it. He can back and for all I know he's just waiting for me to take half a step out from behind my minions because good Blitz players actually wait until they have a good shot before firing.

Some of the Blitz QQ also probably comes from players that play at lot of blind pick or Teambuilder. They can't ban him or counterpick him, and there's a fair chance of having bot lanes that are countered by him. Getting hard-countered by Blitzcrank is probably less common in draft pick because the enemy support may well pick before your bot lane, giving you a chance for either your ADC or Support to pick someone to counter him or at least not completely fail against him.

EDIT: On the other hand I know he's not super easy to play. Bad Blitzcrank players remain bad. Everyone's met that one Blitz that kept grabbing the enemy tanks or spammed Q off cool-down and went oom two minutes into laning phase. The problem is that good Blitzcranks zone so well and seem so safe everyone forgets about the bad ones.

hi, i can jump to you and stun you then lock you down with my ult. If i get pulled without my adc... then i deserve to get owned.

fite me

So "outplayed" can lead to ban? What are we, a bunch of overly sensitive kids?

one e isnt a certain death especially behind minions as he cant q u then

There's a difference between "risk" and "you are either worthless or instantly win fights".

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But Blitz has the ability to force my laning phase into the shitter for free. Thresh can too, but it's harder for him. I'd rather not be made useless mid game.

Thresh is more late game oriented than Blitz, but I'd rather deal with that than Blitz's early game bullying.

A blitz lane is a walk in the park to gank, while thresh has 1 hard cc, a displacement, two slows, a shield and a potential MASSIVE dash for his adc. Blitz is so much more exploitable than thresh, and it's why thresh is played much more often.