Imperial Mandate Blitzcrank build with runes and items. Imperial Mandate Blitzcrank guide offers in-depth how-to play, skill order and tips. Play Imperial Mandate Blitzcrank build in League of Legends Patch 26.14!
This build is all about Imperial Mandate and immobilizing your enemies.
You support your team through disrupting fights, locking down enemies with CC, making them Vulnerable so they take more damage, and providing healing/buffs.
Playstyle
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Disrupt fights with CC.
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Immobilize enemies to proc Imperial Mandate and boost your team's damage.
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Adapt to the game and get items to counter enemy team.
How to play
Imperial Mandate Blitzcrank
Imperial Mandate
Rocket Grab (Q) hook and Power Fist (E) knockup both immobilize enemies and proc Imperial Mandate, making them Vulnerable so you and your team do more dmg to them.
Imperial Mandate also gives additional Ability Haste on Rocket Grab (Q) and Power Fist (E), lowering their cooldowns so you can hook and knock up enemies more often.
Core
Your core item is Imperial Mandate, which grants Ability Haste to your immobilizing abilities and marks immobilized targets Vulnerable, so they receive more damage from you and your team.
Runes
Your CC triggers Glacial Augment and Imperial Mandate, slowing the area and making targets Vulnerable.
How Imperial Mandate works
Imperial Mandate grants additional Ability Haste to your immobilizing abilities. Immobilizing an enemy marks them as Vulnerable, causing them to take increased damage from all sources, from you and your team.
Buffing your team
Font of Life heal triggers various support items like Ardent Censer, Staff of Flowing Water or even Moonstone Renewer!
If your team needs sustain, you can even get Diadem of Songs.
If your team has auto attackers, get Ardent Censer. Your Font of Life will buff them constantly.
Bandlepipes is excellent - gives MS and buffs allies' attack speed when you CC/slow enemies.
Staff of Flowing Water is a good item if you have lots of AP scaling champions on the team.
Adaptation
Enemy team heavy on AP? Buy MR items like Kaenic Rookern or Spirit Visage.
Enemy team heavy on AD? Buy Armor items like Thornmail or Randuin's Omen.
Your team lacks damage? You can buy damage items - Liandry's Torment or Blackfire Torch work well.
Items
Just remember that using Rocket Grab (Q) from afar is gonna proc your Fimbulwinter shields, so sometimes it might be a waste (but grabbing right enemy might outweigh it).
Tips and Tricks
Champion
Rocket Grab (Q)
Sometimes it is better to hold on your Rocket Grab (Q), rather than using it if you are not sure if you hit it. It puts pressure on the enemy, as they need to take into account your Q.
If enemy is juking you left and right, just get close to him with your Overdrive (W), then punch him with Power Fist (E) and then finally use Rocket Grab (Q) to catch him.
Hook through dying minions - time your Q to pass through a minion as it dies to surprise enemies hiding behind wave.
Be careful who you pull with Rocket Grab (Q)! As sometimes you might lose fight just by yourself.
Power Fist (E)
Power Fist (E) resets auto attack. Use it for your advantage when fighting in melee range and when pushing turrets.
Static Field (R)
Instead of using Static Field (R) right away, after you catch somebody, punch them few times (AA + E + AA) before using R. This way you will do more damage, thanks to your R Passive (on-hit proc explosion).
Static Field (R) destroys shields, use it for your advantage and hold your R when enemy champions get big shields.
Blitzcrank Combo
To make sure that you chain CC after pulling somebody with Q, use R before E (if they some good ways of getting out) - Q + R + E
If enemy has some kind of ability / item / Flash that can counter your Rocket Grab (Q) and they are waiting for your Q animation, use Static Field (R) first to silence them.
General combo is to Q + auto + E + auto + R. More autos you land, bigger damage you land thanks to Static Field (R) Passive (on-hit proc explosion).
Riot
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.