2014-05-22, 02:22 AM
Oinks Wrote:The cooldown on Blitzcrank's hook is already high. The mana cost were too high after they nerfed it. Using his hook in the early stages of the game cost half your mana. You have to realize that Blitzcrank is a high risk high reward champion. You aren't able to snowball lanes as hard as you used to, but Blitz can be shut down with hard engage like Leona. If he lands a hook, then you were probably already out of position if you weren't able to engage on Blitz in the first place.
Again the cooldown on his Q should go up, the mana cost is not an issue. Blitzcrank is such a pain to deal with because he probably is the support that punishes mistakes the best in the game, which makes the laning phase so tense against him. Sure there are some champions that shut him down easily, but he has a really easy play against any squishy supports which are the mayority. You can't simply engage on him first because his passive gives him advantage and a misstep would let you open for a pull. There's no high risk on his pull either, he takes you out of position in an instant then CC's you for a second, unless you're quite ahead the first thing you will do is try to get back in a good position and during that time half your HP will be gone (and a flash if whoever is pulled doesn't have any escapes). If his adc has a stun a pull can potentially mean a death and most adcs can snowball hard so if they get a kill, you probably will be playing under your turret the rest of the lane phase.