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.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several significant Blitzcrank vs. Nilah matchup stats that can help you understand the differences between the two. As an example, Blitzcrank’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nilah’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Blitzcrank may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nilah. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Blitzcrank usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Nilah. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Blitzcrank usually loses when trying to fight Nilah, with a 46.9% win rate. Thus, Blitzcrank makes a poor counter for Nilah.
While Blitzcrank does have a lower winrate compared to Nilah, when they face off with one another, Blitzcrank also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Blitzcrank into Nilah.
Additionally, Blitzcrank has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nilah. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Blitzcrank vs Nilah matchups, Nilah is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Blitzcrank is a trash counter for Nilah. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Blitzcrank against Nilah.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Blitzcrank to counter Nilah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Blitzcrank on average picks up a lot less CS as Nilah. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Blitzcrank versus Nilah build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Blitzcrank combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better against Nilah than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Blitzcrank had an average win rate of 46.9% battling Nilah with this counter build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Nilah as Blitzcrank, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Blitzcrank vs Nilah clashes, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Nilah as Blitzcrank are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.