Blitz

Competitive games are tough because there's just so much going on at once, and it's a given that experienced players will trample over the novice or casual ones. To bridge the gap in knowledge when getting into a new competitive game, the internet is plenty filled with guides to help players improve their gameplay.

More recently, though, dedicated software to help and guide new and aspiring players through competitive games has surfaced, which means that users now have more opportunities to learn. Blitz is a program that was designed to coach the players of many competitive titles — such as League of Legends, Valorant, and more — to improve and climb up the ranks via interactive training and guidance. We tried it on League of Legends, so here are our thoughts on it.

There isn't anything, in particular, to comment about getting started with this app: all we had to do was install it, then it automatically recognized the account we were logged on in League.

We hopped in a League match after, and the app was already doing its job: while in the lobby, it suggested the appropriate runes and summoner spells to go for, based on the enemy team's picks, recommending them based on winrate and pickrate.

During the game, there are various other ways the program aims to help users: there's a creep score overlay near the top-right corner, as well as ability priority indicators, all appearing in-game, unobtrusively. What's more, the app also imports builds into the game's menus, so they're more easily reachable.

Even before starting a game, you can peek at tier lists to see the most popular picks at the moment, and the synergy menus help users pick the most efficient and robust team compositions.

There's also a post-game screen, where the program goes through your performance and gives you pointers on how to improve. Whether it is stepping up your ward placements, creep score, damage, or the kill/death ratio, the app is very forthright in showing you what areas need refining.

Blitz is a versatile app: it provides users lots of means through which they can enhance their competitive gaming performance. We only tested it in League but glanced over at the other games and saw it operates much the same.