Talk:Blitzcrank/@comment-25122281-20160820152946/@comment-26808509-20160825104125

Well Blitz si supposed to punish mistakes, but to my mind his Q is enough for that. The real Problem is that he isn't balanced for the support role since he wasn't supposed to be one. If you look at his kit, there is nothing supportive, he is a tank/fighter with high base values and high scalings, who picks someone who is out of position and kills him. To kill someone he doesn't even need someone else, he can do it on his own. The reason why he was picked into the support role is because he can help the ADC snowballing pretty fast and pressures the enemy laners. This concept became popular really fast (now the solo lane Blitz is called a troll pick, although it works pretty well), but Riot failed to Balance Blitz for his new role. Partly because he doesn't offer any safety for his ADC and can only try to pick someone. He has no Tools to help his ADC outside of that (no lock down, no peel, no buffs, no shields, no heals, ect.)and everything he has is really selfish (shield only for him, speedboost only for him, his ultpassive is better if he is solo for pushing lanes), so he is pretty weak, if he is behind. But this doesn't change the fact that he isn't nearly balanced for this role. Supports mostly have high base values, Blitz has These too, but they are pretty over the top (300 is really damn high) and mostly they have low or only okay'ish scalings, so they don't miss anything when buying support items. Blitz has two 100% AP scalings and a 200% AD scaling. That being said, he is really strong if he goes tanky, because of how his kit is build up and he still deals good damage and if he goes AP he can oneshot the enemy botlane on his own with the only possible counterplay to dodge his Q (and you can avoid this weakness with running up to them/ flashing and then knocking them up, ulting and then Q'ing).

To my mind, Riot should finally accept, that Blitz is played as support and not as solo laner and balance him around it.