At least at the level I play at the constant bans aren't because the champs are OP, but because they are faceroll easy to be good with. Amumu and Blitz require you to hit one skill shot to be really good, Malphite requires even less.
Yup, really can't be said enough. Until I reach a tier where even my weakest teammate won't be susceptible to amumu/blitz type of hooks and bandage tosses in every single team fight.. you're much better off banning them.
I'm curious to what you main in ranked. Because the reason I ban blitz specifically, I jungle/top usually.. and when I duo queue my teammate often is mid. So i have no direct control over botlane. Sure I go to gank whenever opportunity presents, but otherwise it's up to random strangers to handle it. Which I don't trust, and with good reason.. I've seen too many games get snowballed early from the opposing ADC getting a double kill off bot with a good blitz hook. Or in a tight game, someone randomly getting caught to a hook over the wall, forcing a 4v5 engage or a major objective lost (baron/inhib). I'm on my Gold 1 promo and I still worry about blitz picking off teammates. Maybe if you main something in bot you have a good handle on controlling him, but I don't and won't trust randoms to be able to handle it. As far as other supports go, I'm surprised you mention Janna.. i feel like she's pretty trashy atm. Passive is okay, and her disengage is nice, but she feels really niche. All about disengaging the enemy off your adc, but her ult is way less devastating then say a flash crescendo from Sona, Lulu wild growthing a diving tank in the middle of the enemy team etc.. not really a big fan.
There's no way you can "always" win a lane in ranked. You sound like the guy during picks who says "I always win as irelia" and feeds the darius. Let's try to be a little more realistic. I'm assuming you've laned against blitz 2-3 times and happened to win those 2-3 games.
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Then you'd be taking a sub par champion in every situation but wall pulls. Being honest here, in laning or in a game my lane partner/team is never so far behind or away from me when I attempt a hook that they have to make any herculean efforts to get to who I hooked. Just looking at their stats Thresh has a higher win rate at Silver and up, and starts eating many more bans then blitz once you break in to gold. Also Thresh knocks people up too, with the bonus of direction control.
You are right Thresh is a better champion, but I think that's because of what he offers in total. I still think Blitz's pull/knockup is strictly superior.
I would not say one is better than the other. They work and behave differently (can you say situational?). Big difference in my opinion is it's easier for thresh to use his hook to make better use of his ult than blitz can since Thresh can pull himself towards his target.
