As most anybody that has ever played with me knows, I love Blitz. Easily my favorite S2 hero to come out since monkey king and I am yet to play a game where I get to the end and think "Damn, I wish I didn't pick Blitz". So why is this hero so fun? What makes me desire to play him? Well aside from the fact that next to nobody else plays him(lets be honest, this hero is bad), I love soloing mid with him and find it stupid easy against pretty much any other hero.
Reasons why he kicks ass solo:
1. W provides awesome damage potential in the early levels, especially against a melee hero. The amount of slow it compiles is fairly strong +stun=tons of damage at levels 2-5.
2. Despite the fact that he lacks an AOE nuke, he still manages to have strong rune control because of W and E. Unless the hero has a blink mechanism, you can get damn near every rune. Knowing you will win the rune battle gives you the ability to play stupidly aggressive with W and Q making easy kills early.
Typically even if you are facing someone of equal skill, you can kill any hero mid multiple times pre-level 6.
A standard Blitz game starts off with facerolling mid and starting like 7-0.
So why does Blitz suck so much ass?
Well there are multiple reasons why Blitz is seen as awful by the general community.
1. People try to play him as a support. this is just silly because he pales in comparison to every other support hero in the game. Sure he can get the job done in lane but once you get to mid game with shit levels and no gold, you can barely even use all your skills before running out of mana and being utterly useless.
2. Energizer. Inexperienced Blitz players read his skillset and think "Hmm Energizer would synergize awesome with this hero!" In theory yea sure it does, but its un-necessary. Between your E and Phase boots you can manage to almost always be near max movement speed, you don't need to spend the extra 1300 gold on energizer for an extra 60 movement speed. Too often skill builds are generally built around that extra 100 damage you can get from your stun, rather than utilizing the massive levels/gold you gain on your opponent by shitblasting mid.
So how do I make blitz useful past 25 minutes?
What you need to do is build as if you are a carry hero when you have a huge lead. Rather than getting energizer and push book with your gold, get a nullstone. In most games below 1700, if you are destroying early game people are going to focus fire you in fights. My typical blitz build is phase boots/nullstone/shroud/savage mace(maybe dawnbringer if you are feeling risky).
As I stated before it is really easy to stomp mid with this hero, like....too easy. That being said you can pound up an easy nullstone by like 18 minutes and all of a sudden players start to freak out. Now not only are you running around smashing people with your stupid burst damage at 18 minutes, but people are wasting shit on you and ignoring your actual good heroes!
What makes Blitz a more viable carry than say FA/Silh?
Nothing, absolutely nothing. This hero does suck, but there are ways to make him slightly more useful especially in the 1500-1750 range. He is by no means a beast late game, but because of his burst potential you can get a good jumpstart on the other team. I think Blitz is the most fun hero in the game, and it is worth sacrificing a little bit to have a blast. Just make sure you are mid, he is pub-tier sidelane.
Blitz's problems:
What usually happens is you do really well early and come mid game you are still squishy and put out no physical damage. This being said you can be 7-0 and have 3 levels on the entire enemy team and they can still squish you like the feline that you are. However, if you get a nullstone you can be much more tactical in fights and have a blast crushing 1600s, leaving their jaws dropped at losing to a blitz.Now go out there, pick Blitz and make me proud!!!
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