Blitzcrank is so damn frustrating to play against

imo it's worse than nidalee in a sense. while nids is on a lower cd, costs less mana, and does tons of damage, it moves slow and if you get low you can just back out. with blitz, it's a fast projectile that pulls you into his team, effectively destroying you unless you have a godly escape ()

And if he hits he just won his lane. Or a dragon. Or game.

He still has a speedup escape, he has a knockup and an AoE silence. And he's really tanky, especially with the passive.

I agree, for a robot, his gameplay is very binary.

Bad joke aside, I seriously think that blitzcrank should be looked at, his kit is a mess. He has two AP ratios, a 1:1 AD ratio on his E, a movementspeed/attack speed buff, and a current mana ratio. None of these really synergize with the total kit. And none of that matters, you could build him with anything, as long as you hit sometimes with your Q, you're golden.

Blitz was my first champion ever played, my first champion ever bought too, and with him I made my first steps as a support in a MOBA game. I still like him, but he is a one trick pony, and is really too tanky for a grabber.

I don't know how that would work, but I'd like to see Blitzcrank use the heat resource instead of the mana gating. Not only because that would fit his theme, but also because early game, his mana bar is the only thing preventing him to be dangerous, and he has no mana issue lategame. We could balance that with a heat system that would prevent him to attempt to grab (or not as far, I dunno) if he doesn't have a full heat bar.

Both of those have other things they can use from safety, though, unlike Blitz. But that's because Blitz is just a hook with a champion attached, instead of the other way around. Terrible design.

You can realistically only expect to dodge it at it's max range. Otherwise, you're not getting out of the way without a blink/genuinely good dash

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Nautilus and Thresh are way better than blitz atm...

Thresh loses most of his games to Blitz while Naut is basically even against him. They are also required to actually jump into their opponents where as Blitz forces his opponents to his ally, Blitz is much safer than the other two for that. Naut is only really better because he's easier to play of the three while Thresh is the hardest.

That's kind of ridiculous. It must've been before season 3, because I started in season 3 and it was a skillshot.

Sort of, Thresh is only a short pull, nautilus is a gapcloser/pull, Blitz is just a full on melee range pull. Lee also isn't a support.

As long as they're still alive after the knockup+silence plus focus fire from your team.

have u ever pulled an ulting

Thresh's hook is so much less painful.

Mostly because it's not chained into a knockup and a silence, and doesn't instantly put you in the middle of the enemy team.