Please, please change Blitz's W nerf.

Miqi·Apr 15, 2015·4 votes·920 views

Blitzcrank wasn't even a contested pick before the W change, and now there's almost no reason to ever use his W, because the exponentially decaying ms buff isn't worth 1.5 seconds of being a sitting duck-golem. Either the ms needs to be flat or decaying less punishingly. If the buff ramped up from his regular ms it might be more fun, and in keeping with "building steam". At the moment it's almost useless for escapes because you can't get far enough away before the debuff, and when you try to us it to engage landing a hook is way harder to position for.

Even though supports like Janna and Thresh will always outshine Blitzcrank competitively for their higher utility, I've loved and mained him since I started playing in late season 2. Please put our beloved golem back on his feet.

6 Comments

Derp PrincessApr 15, 20155 votes

Pull enemy champ.
Auto attack the person you pulled.
Knock up ability
Auto attack again
W + ult if level 6+
Walk and auto them until you're slowed.

Congrats, you've probably killed every non tank champ in existence for landing one ability. Make a misplay? Walk away. W speedboost is now an offense only ability, not a getaway tool.

MiqiApr 16, 20151 votes

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Walk and auto them until you're slowed.

The issue is you can't really do this. Because of the exponential decay, you're only sped up by a helpful amount for maybe half of the buff duration, and if you can't make the kill in that small window you are guaranteed to lose the chase and maybe get caught yourself (Particularly if you bought mobi boots).

Also, what champ could you possibly solo like that without building AP? Blitz' base AD may be high, but lategame I almost never manage to get kills by myself.

Maybe I'm just overreacting, but as it stands Overdrive just feels unhelpful to me.

AHeroNamedHawkeApr 15, 20153 votes

> one of the most popular/highest win rate champions in solo queue > uncontested

SirsirApr 15, 20152 votes

I haven't played him yet since the nerfs, so I can agree that maybe it needs to decay a bit slower. But it doesn't need to get reverted, this is probably the healthiest change they coulda made without a straight up nerf. It has its place, use it to re-position to land a hook. You can't use it for map mobility or raw chasing anymore. Thats a good thing.

MiqiApr 16, 20151 votes

I'm not saying it wasn't a healthy kit change, it's just that the speed boost is so marginal it feels worse than Draven's. So there's very little reason to use it as the buff and window you have it is small compared to the negative effects of using it. I definitely agree that it was dumb being able to spam W to get across map out of base for negligible mana, but an making an ability useless isn't the right way to balance.

EDIT: I've been informed this was a poor comparison, Draven's w is actually really good. My b, only played Draven for the lols.

Registeel1234Apr 16, 20152 votes

The problem that I have with it is that his W is even more boring than before. When I'm using it, I feel like i'm giving myself a debuff. It just doesn't feel like an ability that helps you. (and it kinda isn't helping you now)