How to bring Blitzcrank back into the meta

Star Twister·9/20/2015, 5:27:04 PM·1 votes·685 views

I love blitzcrank and it makes me sad to see how little play he see's in the upper tiers of play. I have thought of 2 tweeks that might help blitzcrank make a return to the meta supports list. first tweek is to bake a targon's embrace effect into his ultimate, sharing the gold with the nearest team member when ever it's passive kills a minion, this would be a nice way not to steal CS from your ADC which is a small part of the reason why he doesn't see play in the higher tiers.

The second and much more interesting and fun tweek is to his Q. Adding a toggling ability to the fist in flight that will allow the fist to switch between it's current functionality of grabbing the first enemy it contacts and a new function where it will pass through enemy units, dealing damage to them as it hits them and a bit less damage on its return similarly to Arhi. This functionality would add a ton of flavor to his play, and allowing blitz to gain a bit of additional wave clear, and in toggling it mid flight could allow skilled players to have the rocket fist fly through a minion wave or even front line champions and at the last second opening the hand to grab an enemy champion on the other side.

10 Comments

Prospector Pete9/20/2015, 5:33:16 PM5 votes

So basically remove all counterplay from him?

Swollwonder9/20/2015, 5:32:58 PM3 votes

At first it was good and then the idea of mid flight toggle landed it in down vote zone for opness

Angelofchaos16x9/20/2015, 6:05:42 PM1 votes

Dude Blitz is literally in every fucking game, with the third highest win rate, the second highest play rate and the 5th highest ban rate. Not sure he need much of a "bringing back to the meta" since he never left

ShizukaNee9/20/2015, 6:07:02 PM1 votes

I don't know what you're talking about "out of the meta". I see him in almost every game lol. There are 2 metas really to look at. Pro-play meta (LCS/Worlds/Other Tourneys) and Solo Q meta (Bronze-Diamond). In Solo Q I see him in 1 out of ever 3 games as a support. Trust me he's not gone.

NapaIm9/20/2015, 6:09:42 PM1 votes

Toggle in mid flight....so minions are no longer a relevant form of protection from a skill that is strong enough to be an ult? As any immobile adc player will say, hell no. His hook is already strong enough. Minions NEED to be able to block it.

khorney9/20/2015, 6:10:20 PM1 votes

stop thinking htere is a meta cause there isnt

Sir Yamazuki9/20/2015, 7:27:08 PM1 votes

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I love blitzcrank and it makes me sad to see how little play he see's in the upper tiers of play.

http://champion.gg/statistics/#?roleSort=Support&sortBy=general.playPercent&order=descend

Yeah, that "low" pick rate.

Torkon9/20/2015, 6:02:31 PM1 votes

Blitz is in like every single game in normals and low ELOs, and he has a high possibility of dominating. I don't think anyone wants Blitz to relevant. He's one of the most annoying champions in the game.