It's not like you're expecting Blitzcrank to be pulling out Jinx's gun
My question in this case would have been why has blitz ult not been replaced by jinx ult? It still seems to me that he has two ultimates.
that will just take up a fuck-ton of time to create such a game mode.
Even your version will take time as the meta would settle very quickly and make the mode boring.
So yes, they had to re-use their original animation to make life easier.
Surely they could have just cut the original animation. This should not have taken long.
And no, that Blitz's Q thing is just pure animation, nothing gameplay-ish at all.
Again where are you getting this info from? If it the one april fools video then there is no reason to assume this. I might as well say that in this game mode karthus ult always kills everyone.