Blitz is balanced, but lets talk about some of his health issues.

Arakadia··1 votes·241 views

He's a one trick pony:

Blitz completely relies on his Q. Its overpunishing to the enemies it hits, and overpunishing to blitz if it misses. His whole kit relies on his Q and without it he's very weak compared to someone like Janna, who can miss a Q and be usefull still. His W is weak, his E is very low range, and his ult is low range.

He's a tank support, yet his abilities are ridiculous for his role:

He relies on high scalings to be effective. His only scaling actives, 3/4 of them, have 100% scaling on a tank, support. The two classes who are supposed to do the least damage of all classes. He is squishier then most tanks, his passive is strange considering the only mana item you will get most likely is IBG and maybe frozen heart. He relies on this scalings to be at all effective, which isn't necesarrily a bad thing but not a good thing.

One of his abilities hurts him for using it: Very few champions can actually hurt themselves by using an item/ability. This is even more punishing for blitz and doesn't even reward skilled players. Sion's ult can hurt himself, but rewards skilled players and punishes only if mistakes are made. This ability makes him even more reliant on his Q as this ability is weak.

He has little counterplay except "Dodge the Q":

He lands a Q. If your a squishy, your dead. If your a tank, he just gave you a free engage. The CC lock doesn't help either. If your hooked, as a squishy, you either must have a great team, bad enemy team, or have mobiliy/cc for you to survive. He's either gonna take your life, or your summoners if he hooks you.

Summary: I'm not saying that blitz is broken. He would be in lcs if he was. His winrate is low and he is not broken imo. I'm saying he has semi-severe health issues that should probably be adressed by a red. He is not the highest priority for a rework, but if the end year class update was a supp update (Which I think it should be to encourage supp to become more popular) he could be included maybe. He is not severly unhealthy, nor severely OP/UP, but he could use some work imo.

Tell me what you guys think. Please don't just downvote. It doesn't help me become a better boards user and the idea may not look bad to you, but to others is thoughtful and insightful. Constructive comments help enormously. Thank you for your time.

2 Comments

CoolKnightST1 votes

He was original designed as a toplane so that's your first answer. The second one is that his entire kit is just straight out outdated. Just like the old Sion and the current Chogath his kit just can't compeet with the current state of the game. Their are not weak & possible even broken on certain patches. They just don't have a middleway.

Blitz is a very strange champion that scales with AD, AP, MANA, MANA REGEN, MR, AR, CDR & HEALTH. Overal those a some rediculus amount of options even for someone in the support role. Not to mention he's one of the only champions in the game that has an AOE silence. What he provides is not that bad honnestly but it's hard to rework him something (possible towards the support role) while still maintaining his identity.

What I would like to see on his is an steam resources that would great with his theme. Still how to answer this with this mana scaling ability is still a mistery to me. If he becomes viable as a peeling support he will probaly rise in solo lanes too what's actually can be an unhealthy thing in some scenario's. That's probaly the reason why they didn't touch him yet. Their scared they will screw him up. What most likely will happen when they do an attempt on him.

Arakadia1 votes

Good point, I shoulda added this.

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