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Choose Champion Build:
Spells:
Flash
Clairvoyance
Ability Order
Mana Barrier (PASSIVE)
Blitzcrank Passive Ability
Introduction

Started 1st writing this guide: 7th May 2012
1st time published: When I finish...
WELCOME!
This is my another guide I will be doing for quite a while because I want to make a real guide that will cover almost everything. I will be short now, no wasting your time :)
I always play a support

Even though I play a support

Here are some diffrences between these two builds(this is like pros/cons):
Some stuff needed to explain
Damage
Tanky
CD
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Good supporting
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My Support ![]()
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My Offensive Support ![]()
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If you don't understand explanations above, read this:
Offensive support


My normal support mastery tree:

My offensive support mastery tree:

My offensive support mastery tree:
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Brute Force for dealing more damage
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Improved Recall for faster going to base and returning to lane
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Swiftness for escaping and chasing enemies (great combined with
Overdrive to hit with
Rocket Grab)
- Removed magic pen., CDR and AP from offensive tree
I think that my rune choices are just fine (I didn't take a look at other Blitzcrank guides, I'm just writing guide how I play
Blitzcrank) and that he doesn't need any other runes. Lets explain my choices:

Normal support
Blitzcrank:
Offensive support
Blitzcrank:

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Offensive support ![]() Greater Mark of DesolationGreater Seal of Vitality ![]() |

Normal support

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x9 --> Gives you nice boost to magic pen. from masteries and bonus damage. I pick them just for bonus damage on
Static Field and
Rocket Grab.
- Greater Seal of Replenishment x9 --> Helps you with early game mana. I don't pick
Greater Seal of Scaling Mana Regeneration x9 because later I have enough mana and mana regen. from items. These give you better mana regen. early when you need it combined with
Faerie Charm and
Meditation x3
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x9 --> As I mentioned before,
Blitzcrank has really long CD on
Rocket Grab and we need to get it as lower as possible, that's why I pick these.
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x3 --> This is just for bonus gold to buy sight wards,
Vision Wards,
Oracle's Elixir and other items. Gives you big boost combined with
Heart of Gold, philosopher's stone and
Greed x4 as mentioned before.
Offensive support

- Greater Mark of Desolation x9 --> You will need bonus armor pen. to get bonus damage. You can pick greater mark of strenght x9 if they work better for you, but I think these are just fine for offensive support
Blitzcrank.
- Greater Seal of Vitality x9 --> This is needed for more survivability because you aren't so tanky as normal support is because of focusing on chasing enemies and dealing damage.
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x9 --> This is a boost for your
Overdrive. You will see how fast you will attack when you have
Overdrive on level 5.
- Greater Quintessence of Desolation x3 --> Same explanation as for marks. Just for dealing better amount of damage.
There is nothing special to say about it, but I will go trough all of them. Positive, some useful and useless spells. So lets start with Positive ones.
Positive summoner spells on any type of support
Blitzcrank:
Spells that can be useful on any type of support
Blitzcrank:
Spells that are useless on any type of support
Blitzcrank:
Positive summoner spells on any type of support

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: gives you vision where enemy is moving, to safely place wards and to check dragons or suspicious bushes
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: gives a big amount of disables on enemy champion which can turn the teamfight.
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: for escaping or chasing enemies (
Flash +
Rocket Grab)
Spells that can be useful on any type of support

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: it may be good, but replacing for other spells isn't so worth it
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: same as clarity, you choose if you want to replace with one of listed above
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: change with exhaust if you have enemies that can heal or you want to finish someone off
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: good for chasing and escaping, but
Flash works better for me
Spells that are useless on any type of support

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: you aren't AD carry and it isn't the end of world if you are focused from all ultimates, stuns, etc.
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: im not playing support
Blitzcrank on dominion
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: who needs this??
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: cmon, you aren't
Karthus...
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: im making support
Blitzcrank guide
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: funny, isn't it?
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: just not for support
Blitzcrank

There is nothing special to say. It is a shield which uses mana and occurs once a minute. You must think if you can enter fight and barely get out thanks to this shield if you enter first!

Cooldown: 20 / 19 / 18 / 17 / 16 (CD is lower when you level up the spell)
Cost: 110 Mana
Range: 1000
This is




If playing normal support, I recommend leveling it up first because it lowers CD and gives some damage too.
If playing offensive support, I recommend leveling it up last because other 2 skills are more important for damage.

Cooldown: 15
Cost: 75 Mana
This is really useful for offensive support



If playing normal support, I recommend leveling it up last because it is only used for chasing to hit with

If playing offensive support, I recommend leveling it up second because it gives you really good boost to damage you deal.

Cooldown: 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5
Cost: 25 Mana
This is main damage source when playing offensive support

If playing normal support, I recommend leveling it up second because it lowers CD and you can knock up + deal nice amount of damage to your enemy.
If playing offensive support, I recommend leveling it up first because it is your main source of damage so you can use it more often.

Active: Deals 250/375/500 (+1) magic damage and silences surrounding enemy units for 0.5 seconds. The passive is not in effect during the cooldown.
Cooldown: 30
Cost: 150 Mana
Range: 600
This skill is just AWESOME. So low CD and you can use it even for killing wraith camp or making enemy unable to

Level it up whenever you can (levels 6, 11, 16) and don't use for nothing, every second in LoL can change whole game. Be smart! (i didn't mean Smart like car, of course)
This is chapter I'm writing last (of those things I have to explain and are really important). My
Blitzcrank build has good stats for a support, but offensive one really does need to be explained because of that aggression and stuff. Let's get into it.

Now, people would think that those 2 builds above are the same. Diffrence is in the buying order and one big item diffrence(masteries and runes too, of course),
Bloodthirster <-->
Frozen Heart and that one item gives a lot of diffrence.
Frozen Heart makes you very tanky,
Bloodthirster makes you deal big amount of damage. I will make some organisation so you can take a look before reading explanations:
This boots are the best for
Blitzcrank, you will easily gank other lanes, place wards faster, chase enemies and escape. I found them better then all, I think you should agree. I think that I really did replace that CD from
Ionian Boots of Lucidity by adding CD on really every way, masteries, runes, leveling up
Rocket Grab first, buying all types of CD items. I'm sure that
Mobility Boots are better when you replace the CD like me.
This item is great. Gives you all bonus stats you need, slow from
Phage, bonus damage from
Sheen combinde with
Power Fist, movement speed from
Zeal. I think this is a must on both support and offensive support
Blitzcrank. Gives you chance to dominate the game and chase them really faster and on an easy way.
This item has to be used wisely. It is a big movement speed boost and on normal support
Blitzcrank you have to activate it when you see you and your team can beat enemy team or for your team to escape from stronger enemy team. When you are playing him offensive support, use it the same way, but I use it for myself too to catch the enemy. Passive gives you some nice defensive stats and 15% CDR, holy cow!!
This is, in my opinion, a must have item on normal support
Blitzcrank. Gives you mana for
Mana Barrier, gives you CDR, AoE attack speed slow to their team and 99 armor, wow... When you get this item, you will be tanky as hell and you will be able to slow their attack speed by 20% and that is a big diffrence to their AD carry or similar strong champions.
This item is great for offensive support
Blitzcrank, you can stack AD and life steal by killing creeps. After buying this item, last hit creeps in jungle, or when your AD carry isn't in lane to farm (or he is stupid enough not to last hit in lane). It is the truth that you will be less tanky without
Frozen Heart but you will kill them a lot faster with your team or 1v1 unless he is fed AD carry or similar.
It is a great defensive item, gives you mana for your
Mana Barrier, HP, MR and spell block shield which can be really annoying to enemy team if you are skilled enough to dodge some weak spells they want to hit you with to disable shield.
Another awesome tanky item, gives HP, armor, HP regen., and is important for that AoE slow from active. Make sure to use it vs some melee champions like
Xin Zhao that wants to rush to your ranged AD and do everything so that your carry die. It can be used for escaping too because item effects are short and recharge fast.
Oracle's Elixir. If your jungler did buy it, don't waste 400 gold on it.

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Now, people would think that those 2 builds above are the same. Diffrence is in the buying order and one big item diffrence(masteries and runes too, of course),




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Boots of Mobility
This boots are the best for





Trinity Force
This item is great. Gives you all bonus stats you need, slow from






Shurelya's Reverie
This item has to be used wisely. It is a big movement speed boost and on normal support


Frozen Heart
This is, in my opinion, a must have item on normal support



Bloodthirster
This item is great for offensive support



Banshee's Veil
It is a great defensive item, gives you mana for your


Randuin's Omen
Another awesome tanky item, gives HP, armor, HP regen., and is important for that AoE slow from active. Make sure to use it vs some melee champions like

Note:
If you have enough money or you see enemy warding is strong or you want to clean their vision, buy

THANK YOU!
I want to say thank you to jhoijhoi for writing her amazing BBcoding guide. It gave my Mordekaiser guide really awesome upgrades if you take a look at my 2 first guides. It helped me so much and makes my 2 new guides look fantastic.

History
7th May 2012
- First time started writing guide
- Introduction chapter
- Summary chapter
8th May 2012
- Masteries chapter
- Fixed and added something more to chapters
9th May 2012
- Summoner Spells chapter
- Blitzcrank's Skills chapter
- Fixed and added something more to chapters
10th May 2012
- Thank you + History chapter
- Runes chapter
- Items chapter
- Fixed and added something more to chapters
Thank you for reading my support
Blitzcrank guide. I hope it was useful and short enough (for detailed guide). If you think I should remove or add something please comment below. As always, I want to see what you think about reading this guide so I added "Require comment to vote" option.
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If you like
Mordekaiser and want to see my guide to him: Detailed Guide to Mordekaiser by Horvat4
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Don't downvote without telling me reason, please.
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