Talk:Blitzcrank/@comment-24971427-20181009030951/@comment-4091261-20181025232715

Not much unfortunately. has a very specialized build. Notably using and. > because  doesn't have the means to do extended chasing like say  or. It also helps his horrific waveclear.

His base damage is too weak to compete against champions like. His damage scales up too slowly to be relevant in this meta. He straddles the line of weak glass cannon and support in another lane.

Are there benefits to him? Of course. He is good at forcing fights and preventing escape. He actually makes good use of his steroid, thus he has DPS that can't be ignored.

The only real benefit to  over tank or  is that he has the potential to deal with tanks better with. He could technically use and buy  to get more true damage on. The added expense is going to be rough though.

Laning is awkward due to his weak waveclear. Jungle is awkward because he needs. In any case, his early game strength isn't really that good--particularly before his first back.

I tried making it work personally, but man is it rough. is absolutely necessary because he does no damage otherwise. He needs to farm up somehow despite his completely lacking strength. is his only good early powerspike. It's very difficult to justify when you compare it to his version.

The only notable benefits to his build early on:
 * 1) He's faster since you actually want to max.
 * 2) He gets more use out of the passive lightning boop from

is mainly known for its lategame. While is weak, it's horrendous. However, when he actually scales up to kill people with autoattacks, it's actually quite terrifying. He kills people back to back without delay from his abilities. With, his abilities are his kill moves. With, his abilities support his killer autoattacks.

I don't recommend it because while it can scale up to be good, he most likely will feed early game due to powerful enemies robbing him of the opportunity to do the most basic things.