Could the armor Tear item, Fimbulwinter, be good on Blitz?
It gives him a crap ton of mana, which goes well with his passive mana shield; a lot of ability haste, for him to miss more hooks(/s); and an extra shield on top of it. Not a lot of tanky stats but it's made up for with his passive shield and a lot of utility stats which he loves.
Thoughts?
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I HIGHLY recommend getting this first with Blitz.
The problem I have with this is that the shield passive from Fimbel turns on when I hook somebody, when I don’t need a shield.
There feels like there’s no synergy and I have no real control to when I want the shield to come up.
Your right the shield is a little less valuable for Blitz here, it'll still come into play in team fights but ya the shield is really the least valuable part for him.
He makes good use of the health, and the Mana means he can use abilities more. But he is also converting mana into his shielding with his passive, and ability haste so he can be even more if a CC bot. The Fimbul shield is really icying on the cake for him.
Yup. Love the health especially since Zekes only give resistances. Cooldowns good too.
Ya Im unsure what his second item should be, likely a boot enchant or situational item. Zeke's makes sense, specially with it's duel stats.
Isn't deadman's plate the go to first item as you can gapclose faster with w and the e knockup and then q so you can guarantee locking down a target instead of having more ability haste to miss hooking targets more because you can't close the gap
Definitely a great item for him, and rushing at a target can work. But you might not need the armor and Blitz rushing in to knock up means you don't get the displacement power that comes with a hook. The E>can be great for locking someone down but if that is what your looking for Leona or Alistair do it better, Blitz brings in the ability to hook your target while keeping yourself safe. The risk is the high CD and mana cost of Blitzcrank's Q. Fimbul removes that risk, while also making you tanky.
You're almost better off just getting a roa. Health+mana and some dmg for the ultimate.
But honestly I've always done a boots start to iceborn first item. Mana/armor/AH+/slowing effect. Then base the rest of the items on who the enemies are
Choosing based off your team and opponents is going to always be the best way to go, and actives are a strong start. I'm saying as your first non-boots item Winter's Approach is Blitz default best first item. AP does give you some extra damage sure, but Blitz doesn't win off his damage, he wins by making picks and his CC and the Mana+AH let him do that much more frequently.
Wouldn't iceberg gauntlets be a better choice? U get am extra slow to add to his cc plus all the other stats minus the extra shield
It can be a good one for sure, and they do have some great synergy together.
But Fimbul gives you 22 AH from the item itself + whatever other mana (from items and Blitzcranks own mana pool) so you end up getting much more. Fimbul is also slightly cheaper.
While Blitz doesn't use the shield as well as someone like Malphite, the shield still adds durability. And Blitz is uniquely able to double dip this because of his own passive, making use of the extra mana that Fimbul has over IBG.
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