Imperial Mandate Blitzcrank Build

Imperial Mandate Blitzcrank Build.

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!

Author: Wrekah

TLDR

Starting items
Bandleglass Mirror should be final item in your build.
Tear of the Goddess should be final item in your build.
Quick Skill Order
Blitzcrank ability Rocket Grab should be leveled first.
Q
Blitzcrank ability Power Fist should be leveled second.
E
Blitzcrank ability Overdrive should be leveled third.
W
Final items
Ionian Boots of Lucidity should be final item in your build.
Imperial Mandate should be final item in your build.
Spirit Visage should be final item in your build.
Kaenic Rookern should be final item in your build.
Morellonomicon should be final item in your build.
Rylai's Crystal Scepter should be final item in your build.
Quick Runes
Major rune Glacial Augment from Inspiration tree.
Minor rune Resolve.
Summoner spells
Pick Exhaust as your Summoner Spell.
Pick Flash as your Summoner Spell.

Imperial Mandate Blitzcrank Runes

Inspiration
Inspiration major tree Glacial Augment rune.
Inspiration major tree Unsealed Spellbook rune.
Inspiration major tree First Strike rune.
Inspiration major tree Hextech Flashtraption rune.
Inspiration major tree Magical Footwear rune.
Inspiration major tree Cash Back rune.
Inspiration major tree Triple Tonic rune.
Inspiration major tree Time Warp Tonic rune.
Inspiration major tree Biscuit Delivery rune.
Inspiration major tree Cosmic Insight rune.
Inspiration major tree Approach Velocity rune.
Inspiration major tree Jack Of All Trades rune.
Resolve
Resolve minor tree Demolish rune.
Resolve minor tree Font of Life rune.
Resolve minor tree Shield Bash rune.
Resolve minor tree Conditioning rune.
Resolve minor tree Second Wind rune.
Resolve minor tree Bone Plating rune.
Resolve minor tree Overgrowth rune.
Resolve minor tree Revitalize rune.
Resolve minor tree Unflinching rune.
Passive
Passive tree Adaptive Force rune (+9 Adaptive Force).
Passive tree Attack Speed rune (+10% Attack Speed).
Passive tree Ability Haste rune (+8 Ability Haste).
Passive tree Adaptive Force rune (+9 Adaptive Force).
Passive tree Move Speed rune (+2 Movement Speed).
Passive tree Health Scaling rune (+10-180 Health (based on level)).
Passive tree Health rune (+65 Health).
Passive tree Tenacity And Slow Resist rune (+10 Tenacity and Slow Resist).
Passive tree Health Scaling rune (+10-180 Health (based on level)).

Optional Summoner Spells

Heal

Heal

OK option if you want to play more support-ish as it provides extra healing.

Ignite

Ignite

Offensive option. Improves your damage.

Ghost

Ghost

Mobility option. Helps you position better to apply slows. Good for kiting or chasing. And running away.

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How it works

  1. This build is all about Imperial Mandate and immobilizing your enemies.
  2. 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

  1. ❄️

    Disrupt fights with CC.

  2. 🎯

    Immobilize enemies to proc Imperial Mandate and boost your team's damage.

  3. 🧰

    Adapt to the game and get items to counter enemy team.

How to play

Imperial Mandate Blitzcrank

Imperial Mandate

  1. 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.
  2. 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

  1. 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

  1. Your CC triggers Glacial Augment and Imperial Mandate, slowing the area and making targets Vulnerable.

How Imperial Mandate works

  1. 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

  1. Font of Life heal triggers various support items like Ardent Censer, Staff of Flowing Water or even Moonstone Renewer!
  2. If your team needs sustain, you can even get Diadem of Songs.
  3. If your team has auto attackers, get Ardent Censer. Your Font of Life will buff them constantly.
  4. Bandlepipes is excellent - gives MS and buffs allies' attack speed when you CC/slow enemies.
  5. Staff of Flowing Water is a good item if you have lots of AP scaling champions on the team.

Adaptation

  1. Enemy team heavy on AP? Buy MR items like Kaenic Rookern or Spirit Visage.
  2. Enemy team heavy on AD? Buy Armor items like Thornmail or Randuin's Omen.
  3. Your team lacks damage? You can buy damage items - Liandry's Torment or Blackfire Torch work well.

Items

  1. 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
Rocket Grab (Q)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Hook through dying minions - time your Q to pass through a minion as it dies to surprise enemies hiding behind wave.
  4. Be careful who you pull with Rocket Grab (Q)! As sometimes you might lose fight just by yourself.

Power Fist
Power Fist (E)

  1. Power Fist (E) resets auto attack. Use it for your advantage when fighting in melee range and when pushing turrets.

Static Field
Static Field (R)

  1. 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).
  2. Static Field (R) destroys shields, use it for your advantage and hold your R when enemy champions get big shields.

Blitzcrank Combo

  1. 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
  2. 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.
  3. 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

  1. The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
  2. 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.

Skill Order

  • Blitzcrank [object Object] ability.
    Q
    Rocket Grab
  • Blitzcrank [object Object] ability.
    W
    Overdrive
  • Blitzcrank [object Object] ability.
    E
    Power Fist
  • Blitzcrank [object Object] ability.
    R
    Static Field

Items

Starting items
Bandleglass Mirror item.
Tear of the Goddess item.
Rush this #1
Imperial Mandate item.
Optional rush #2
Rylai's Crystal Scepter item.
Boots
Mercury's Treads item.
Ionian Boots of Lucidity item.
Good support items
Additional considerations for these items is advised!
Moonstone Renewer item.
Redemption item.
Diadem of Songs item.
Locket of the Iron Solari item.
Ardent Censer item.
Staff of Flowing Water item.
Shurelya's Battlesong item.
Bandlepipes item.
Good tank items
Jak'Sho, The Protean item.
Warmog's Armor item.
Knight's Vow item.
Fimbulwinter item.
Good MR items
Spirit Visage item.
Hollow Radiance item.
Abyssal Mask item.
Kaenic Rookern item.
Force of Nature item.
Good Armor items
Thornmail item.
Dead Man's Plate item.
Frozen Heart item.
Sunfire Aegis item.
Unending Despair item.
Iceborn Gauntlet item.
Randuin's Omen item.
For mana problems
Tear of the Goddess item.
Fimbulwinter item.
Situational dmg items
Rabadon's Deathcap item.
Liandry's Torment item.
Rod of Ages item.
Blackfire Torch item.
Cryptbloom item.
Zhonya's Hourglass item.
Cosmic Drive item.
Counter healing
Oblivion Orb item.
Morellonomicon item.
Counter shielding
Serpent's Fang item.
For the last fight
Additional considerations for these items is advised!
Elixir of Iron item.
Seeker's Armguard item.
Elixir of Sorcery item.
Example final build
Ionian Boots of Lucidity item.
Imperial Mandate item.
Spirit Visage item.
Kaenic Rookern item.
Morellonomicon item.
Rylai's Crystal Scepter item.