Heimerdinger Build Guide by monckey100

Table of Contents

Which Heimer to go as against ----?
Videos of Heimerdinger gameplay
Abilities Explanation
Farming Phase(Mid)
Champions you can counter hard
Heimer vs Heimer, Mirror match up
Champions that counter you
Champions that work REALLY well with you.
Heimerdinger's lane compatability
Leashing like a boss
When to recall
Heimerdinger's hidden mechanics and tricks
Warding mid effectively
The secret Victory song

Defensive Heimerdinger's guide was scrapped due to it being too similar to Offensivedinger..
Overall the way Defensivedinger is built is just to keep players new to Heimerdinger alive.
If you want to go more in-depth, please review Offensive Heimerdinger.
Introduction
Video
Credits
Pros/Cons
Masteries
Runes
Summoner Spells
Abilities Order Explained
Items
Team Fighting
End Summary/Conclusion
Early Dominance Heimerdinger summary
Pushdinger Quickies and Tipies
Squishy Team? Come here!
Jungling Heimerdinger has been scrapped. With the new jungle, it's pretty hard to do and just isn't viable, he comes out with very little hp in the jungle although I'll try and experiment with the jungle and figure out a better way of pulling it off.
Support Heimerdinger is still viable but the old guide is outdated, none the less, you can still read it and understand what to do here: Supportdinger

Update: July 05/2012:
Created guide~
Update: Sept 25/2012:
I will be updating this guide this week for the last two guides!
Update: Dec 12/2012:
I have updated all the guides to suit the new season!
Update: Dec 13/2012:
Fixed skill orders!
Update: Dec 15/2012:
Added a fall back item for Offensivedinger and some pro-tips and tricks to turning a game around.
Update: Dec 16/2012:
Added another class of Heimerdinger and added some tips against laning vs another Heimerdinger.
Update: Dec 17/2012:
Tweaked masteries on Earlydinger to better suit his early dominance.
Tweaked his early game items and added to the farming phase section.
Update: Dec 18/2012:
Tweaked Defensive Heimers early game
Update: Dec 26/2012:
Updated Earlydingers secondary item
Update: Dec 29/2012:
Added Supportdinger!
Update: Jan 06/2013:
Added Pushdinger!
Added Tankydinger!
Update: Jan 11/2013:
Added secret OP song.
Update: Jan 18/2013:
Changed start up builds to suit the Crystalline price changes.
Changed Masteries to Pushdinger to better suit him.
Added another OP Song.
Added Compatible Champions.
Update: Jan 20/2013:
Added Heimerdinger's lane compatability.
Added details to Blitz/Darius on Champ Compatability.
Update: Jan 21/2013:
Added Burstdinger.
Added Total costs for final build (not including consumables with exception of ruby sightstone ONLY, not regular sightstone)
Update: Jan 31/2012:
Re-did burstdinger
Changed syndra from counter to countered
Update: Feb 15/2013:
Heimerdinger seems to be getting closer to becoming mainstream, just a little update on heim in general and not the guide, he also seems to be shelved for the rework for now due to his recent popularity. ^.^
Update: Feb 25/2013:
Added which Heimerdinger to face an enemy as.
Added videos section.
Update: Mar 10/2013:
Fixed early game build path for tankydinger.
Update: Mar 12/2013:
Added recall positions
Added hidden Heimerdinger Mechanics
Added effective warding spots
Updated Burstdingers build path to more effectively snowball him.
Update: Mar 14/2013:
Added Cheapdinger
Update: Apr 12/2013:
Added another song to listen to while playing Heimerdinger..Made the vid to it and all.
Update: Apr 21/2013:
Rehosted images onto imgur, Added how to grab blue / leash. Changed border
Update: Apr 23/2013:
Added heimerdinger match history
Update: May 05/2013:
Changed the guides to tweak to the new pot limit.

NOTE: IM ACTIVELY WATCHING THE DISCUSSION SO IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, LET ME KNOW!

Offensedinger

Good evening everyone, I present this guide for Heimerdinger, one of the most ignored champions around (my first guide ever!). Why ignored? Well 9/10 of my games, no one bothers to buy magic resist because Heimerdinger just doesn't seem like a threat, ha! My guide is built so not only can fellow heimerdingers all over the world become more scary and threatening, I had hoped that with enough popularity, enough stress will be put on riot staff to give him the buff he well needs. (He's an amazing champion but always lacks escape and as a squishy champion, it's pretty unacceptable, maybe even increasing the range on the stun from that circle could suffice)
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Credits to liHDlGinzo(me) for making this guide, jhoijhoi for the guide tips and template.
Thank you to DuskToGlory for helping me out with the table of contents!
Thank you, the viewers for taking the time to read the guide and be sure to take extra consideration when voting. The guide is not key set and stone as most of the time the last 3 items are situational however I have provided what I found to be an optimum build for Heimerdinger in order to maximize his capability as both a farmer and a poker.

Credits to jhoijhoi for the template, which you can find here.
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Pros + Amazing pusher + Epic crowd control capability + Amazing scaling + Two of his turrets can act like one big turret + Best leash in the game(still) + You literally have maybe 5 counters at best.

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Cons - Prone to ganks if you don't monitor your turret usage - Junglers love picking on Heimerdingers - No escape at all - Easy to steal farm - Squishy even with full build - Your head looks like a part of the reproductive system

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The masteries chosen for Offensive Heimerdinger were specifically selected to help him out in his late game dominance, poke harder and overall help him last hit. Feel free to change them to suit your style but I've personally felt the masteries are the best to use to help maximize Heimerdinger.

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• Greater Quintessence of Scaling Ability Power: This is a synergize rune it will help you out in your late game dominance which is what you are aiming for, it wont be as useful to you early game though, you can swap this out for Greater Quintessence of Ability Power but I just don't see heim getting any kills early game and you won't need extra AP to last hit hopefully.
  
• Greater Mark of Magic Penetration: Most players have some starting magic resist, the Marks basically drop their magic resist to around half or even nothing! Gotta hurt to feel rockets as if they were true damage, no? ;)
  
• Greater Glyph of Mana Regeneration: Keep you in lane longer, 7 is just enough to safely farm up and ready up for your tear of the goddess, even through mid game these will allow you to let your greedy jungler keep blue.
  
• Greater Seal of Gold: It's really a preference but I always felt a tiny bit of income coming in is always nice, use the extra income to buy some hp/mp pots which will allow you to stay in lane much, much longer.

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Exhaust: As offensive Heimerdinger you'll generally be back of the lines and there's always someone ready to jump you, exhaust them and let them eat turrets. if they are closing in pop your ult and secure that kill.

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Barrier: Honestly it's a better skill than heal to have in your kit and even better than flash for Heimerdinger. Flash is a very short range and if you're caught off they'll just jump right back on you even after flashing and due to how squishy heimerdinger is they can safely ignore tower. Barrier will put them in their place and even turn that fight around for a kill, don't underestimate it.

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Teleport: Grabbing teleport is never a bad choice on Heimerdinger, use it to lane gank bottom/top and teleport to wards inside of bushes, Heimerdinger is great at suppressing enemies even without his ult and can guarantee kills for your self or your team.

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Early game the sequence is made precisely to help poke the enemy champion effectively without over extending. One early point into turret is essential and an absolute must. It will help your Jungler intensively and they will love you for it. Then use your turret to help you last hit and farm if the enemy isn't last hitting or your really trying to put pressure into pushing the enemy to their tower. The rocket comes next so you can poke them behind the tower and let the enemy tower farm minions, if they get too close, poke 'em. One point invested into grenade so you can stun any jungler, by now they should be ganking you.
the last 2 points are to allow sustain, allowing you to really troll the enemy mage as you continue to farm while at base.
From there on we leave the rockets at level 4 and then invest in finishing the turrets as by now you will encounter some team fights. The grenade is maxed last, not because of the damage being low or anything but because it's such an easy skillshot to dodge unless you are right next to the enemy.
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• +3x : If you are new to Heimerdinger, you shouldn't have started with Offensivedinger, none the less, the Mana potions are to help you stay in lane longer, you basically should NEVER EVER get poked by the enemy, that's how far you want to be in relation to your minions and the enemy champion.
  
  will help regenerate your health. Grabbing 2 health potions and one mana potion is also viable or even 1 health potion and 2 mana potions. Even 3 mana potions could work too, it's all based on the enemy champion and how much aggro you are willing to commit.
  
• : We picked this item to really punish the enemy during lane phase, show them minions whose boss, yeah! rockets everywhere! The best part? Archangel's Staff! Your goal is to try and get around 300 to 400 bonus mana by the time you upgrade.
  
• : This is your snowball item, it may be useless early game but you only need 8 stacks on it to benefit from it! 8 stacks is very simple for Heimerdinger to get and this is just a naturally snowballing item.
  
• : If you are having trouble keeping your stacks(minimum 8) during late game(usually late game when 3 turrets or more is down and it's around the 25-40 minute mark), then don't hesitate to drop the mejai's and pick this up if your team is losing really hard and your team is always almost killing the enemy but the enemy is just slightly faster or you guys are almost getting away but the enemy JUST manages to catch up. I usually try to grab baron in order to set up a team fight around baron to stack my Mejai's if having troubles but setting up baron to your benefits requires practice! Review the video above as it shows me perfectly executing a Baron turn around.
  
• : 90% of the time I will decide to go with this item unless I don't have cleanse and the enemy is really pinning me down, if not I'll grab a Mercury's Treads. Doesn't take a lot of CC to catch a Heimerdinger. You could experiment with Boots of Swiftness but it's not advisable. Rushing the enchantment is very advisable as lane phase tends to end after grabbing a soulstealer.
  
  Cycle between these three items depending on the situation.
• : No magic resist? Punish 'em for it, the best item any mage can have.
  
• : Big bad meanie AD's chopping away at your health being trolls? Well show them whose boss, during team fights use your combo and zhonya away! free from any damage for a few seconds while your stun goes off cool down and you ready up three more rockets to throw, finally running away from the big meanies with a triple kill.
  
• : So they noticed you eh? Congratulations. Now show them you know what a void staff is and laugh. Voidstaff,rabadons and archangels staff, talk about unstoppable. They either stack armor for the two AD carries or stack magic resist which when taken into consideration, is quite useless against Heimerdinger. Magic resist protects based on a % of how much damage is done and if your turrets are dealing small amounts of magic damage, the % of magic resist applied to the damage will simply not benefit them unless they were trying to lower the damage on your rockets/grenade...which the void staff happily takes care of fixing. :)

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During teamfights, if you are unsure where the team fight will go down, you are best off waiting for your tank to initiate, afterall sometimes your teammates are willing to team fight but still the tank refuses to go in which really sucks if you left your turret a few paces behind with the ult already kicked in. If you have those types of teammates, I recommend dropping your turrets after the tank initiates and then the ult, and from there on you stay back, try to throw your grenade at whoever does the most damage in the cluster of enemies, you'll usually hit two or even three enemies, then pop in your rockets and run back a bit, reset your turrets into the fight (they die really fast) and repeat.

As repeated, if a team fight is happening your turrets are in there and the enemy is low, go through the jungle, go around and then drop turrets BEHIND the enemy lines and then wait in the bushes, by the time they retreat you can use your ult to kill the runaways and throw your grenade in for an easy ace.
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Long story short, Heimerdinger is one of the best AP champs because he doesn't even need to be in a fight to be useful. He's probably the most passive aggressive champion in LoL and the only flaw I see is that he needs a longer stun range for his grenade (or at least add a silence to compliment the blind).

by Monckey100 (liHDlGinzo)

Thank you again for reading through the offensedinger guide, if you enjoyed this guide be sure to check out the other 3 guides provided below!

Credits to jhoijhoi for the template and border, which you can find here.

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Earlydinger (Part of Offensivedinger Series)

Earlydinger is best suited for champions who are super bad early game or AoE champions. The main goal behind Earlydinger is to shut down the AP carry and be capable of nuking the AD carry/AP carry/Support late game to where they have to retreat to the back of the lines with their support.

Now the only way Earlydinger works is if the champion is intended to be late game, he doesn't work so well against early-mid game AP carries. Luckily for you there are some hints to tell if a champion is late game, if they have 3-4 of these then it's generally :
-They have a mana pool
-They have a lot of AoE skills[this is usually a sure fire that they are late game]
-They generally have no poke
-They are melee
-They are building late game items [Arch Angels, Mejai's, Zhonya's(ring a bell?)]
-If they want to poke..they have to get close enough for you to send a rocket to their face.

If you have 3 or 4 of these conditions, it's safe to say this build will be more viable over using Laterdinger, why? well you can shut them down safely and get some easy kills on them and end this mid game-start of late game.

Pushdinger (Part of Offensivedinger Series)

Pushdinger is best suited against roaming Champions such as Kassadin, Evelyn or if the enemy has way too much mobility and you know you wont be able to finish them off for the most part but can easily take them out of the lane. This guide will teach you to play as stereotyped Heimerdinger where he is best known for pushing but will not only utilize his capability as a pusher but maximize his potential to end the game early through turrets/ dragon while effectively surviving from ganks.

The reason why we got the particular runes is to help rush heimerdinger into late game. At level 11 scaling runes are better than regular AP runes so there's no reason to get them in the first place as in season 3 early game has been noticeably shorter. His masteries are suited to also fit this mindset of pushing him into late game while creating survive-ability.

His items are cored around kiting and escaping to help you continue to push while staying safe the whole time. Late game is all dependent on which goes first, if you are engaging more teamfights, grab a Rabadon's and then shurelya's, If you are pushing hard, rylai's and then shurelya's. If you are being ignored while pushing, Rabbies + rylai's and then finish shurelya's last.
You want to finish the arch angels when it's around 400-600 mana collected and this gets prioritized over all the other items.

Tankydinger (Part of Defensivedinger Series)

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Master yi Jungle.
Fiora Top.
Caitlyn Bot.
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Soraka support.
oh god what has happened?!

Fear not! for you have another tactic up that sleeve of yours! For great science!

I present Tankydinger!
Now you wont be as tanky as other tanks and you shouldn't be hated for it, but you can use tankydinger to help compensate for when your team is too squishy and you need some more Survivability. If you are missing a good bruiser and fiora is top and you have only one tank, you are better off going Tanky. These items provide not only some tank capability but give you a reasonable amount of AP and you already have good enough CC so that rylai's is just icing on the cake and will ensure no one on your team dies.

Everything is set up around keeping you tanky and alive as well as your teammates. By the end of that match, your enemy will think twice about initiating on you.

Supportdinger[old]

Hello! Welcome to my second guide to Heimerdinger! Please before trying out Supportdinger, go through Defensedinger at least once in a game.
At a first glance, one would think Supportdinger? watdaheck? Why would you even bother, no heals!
....Which is true.
However this guide presents Supportdinger with a totally different mindset than what other supports are used to.
We will start off with your laning partner: Graves, Corki(depends on the Corki, some like to really get in close and personal with enemies, others like to kite...you want the kiting Corki), Caitlyn and Tristana are all great laning partners while champions with no escape or no form of sustain such as Varus or Kog'Maw might lack while in lane with his green machine.
Basically any champion that likes to kite but does not have any form of cc or minimal cc will LOVE you. not to mention setting up turrets outside of graves grenade will not only hurt but will also give you the chance to throw that gravity defying grenade.

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Supportdinger full game inaction(coming soon)
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Credits to liHDlGinzo(me) for making this guide, jhoijhoi for the guide tips and template and finally Danykool for helping out test the jungler build. :)
Thank you to DuskToGlory for helping me out with the table of contents!
Thank you, the viewers for taking the time to read the guide and be sure to take extra consideration when voting. The guide is not key set and stone as most of the time the last 3 items are situational however I have provided what I found to be an optimum build for Heimerdinger in order to maximize his capability as both a farmer and a poker.

Credits to jhoijhoi for the template, which you can find here.
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Pros + Amazing pusher + Epic crowd control capability + Jungler wants Dragon at level 6? no problem. + Hurt all the gankers before they even get close with Free wards! + On your way to lane, you can quick leash your partner some golems (or yourself) + Grenade has a huge radius, nice way to harass enemy laners

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Cons - Even with Flash, heimer can still get caught...Flash has to be timed with enemy skills - Enemy Jungler will harass the hell out of bottom if you don't ward properly - No form of healing - Easy to steal farm - Squishy even with full build - You'll only shine during team fights and even your harass kind of sucks.

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The Masteries for Supportdinger focus on a few different support elements of Heimerdinger's mechanics while covering team mechanics which shall be explained.
Summoner's Wrath : The exhaust reduces the targets magic and armor by 10, doesn't seem like much but early game they will feel EXHAUSTED trying to slam that flash key while your cc just mows them down. (yes that was a funny) The weakened magic/armor can also mean better kiting against big bad meanies like Alistar
Mental Force : Always nice to start with some bonus AP, after all, you ARE a support
Sorcery : 4% cool down reduction, the more you can pop your ult in, the more painful the other team will realize you truly are. Also more grenades, kablewy.
Expanded Mind : Always nice to have, by level 18 this is literally 1 free turret from your summoner spells. not bad.
Improved Recall : You'd be surprised, that 1 second has saved my life so many times ever since I invested in it during risky pushes. IF your rolling support you also want to hop back into lane as soon as possible, you will most likely be out of sync when recalling with your partner you protecting the turret and grabbing the last hits he couldn't get while at tower.
Swiftness : Heimerdinger is no basketball player, even 2% movement speed helps a lot.
Greed : Heimerdinger SHOULD rarely get kills or even cs during lane phase with a partner. Greed is a great tool to not only synergize with his gp5 items but will also help you rush that Tear of the Goddess" so you can become more useful later in game.
Wealth : Free mana potion for sustainability! Your gonna kinda need it, especially while stuck in lane with another champion.
Awareness : It really sucks being a few levels behind but a few levels behind with 0 cs...ouch. You'll definitively need this so you won't be too far behind during team fights.
Intelligence : Oh my god. Both This skill AND Sorcery ?! that's 10% cool down reduction, can some one say "me gusta"?
Mastermind :Very useful, summoner spells have an awfully long cool down, especially since this is your only forms of escape as Heimerdinger.
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• Greater Quintessence of Gold: No cs means no touchy. You're going to need this if you want to be able to catch up and be useful in team fights. It's also a very great defensive item for the dinger who likes to play passive. :)
  
• Greater Mark of Magic Penetration: Most players have some starting magic resist, the Marks basically drop their magic resist to around half or even nothing! The worst part? Land even one grenade and they'll regret the day they chose sona over you.
  
• Greater Glyph of Scaling Cooldown Reduction: If you're fighting bottom, 90% of the time you won't need any magic resist. Cool down will be better off so you can pop in more grenades and s.
  
• Greater Seal of Gold: Again more mullah, You'll need it if you're going to support. An absolute for ALL supports going 0 cs.

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Exhaust: Tell your lane partner to grab heal if they really need the sustain, they will benefit more off having the heal directly on them rather than you having it and healing them from the distance. True story.

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Flash: Now you see me...now I'm there! Heimerdinger has no real escapes and as ANY role your number one goal is to, not die!

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Heal: If you grabbed this, then ******** is your lane partner stubborn. Not a good sign. None the less, it will heal your turrets, you, your lane partner etc. Yay. would be useful...but you already have 2 free wards, top should be doing their own warding.

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• Techmaturgical Repair Bots: As said previously, NEVER forget this skill, since you are laning with another champion they will also benefit off your health regeneration which will in turn give more survivability, more survivability, a faster turret down. Faster turret down means dragon, dragon means go mid, go mid means its down and suddenly omigawd all due to one tiny passive, the first three turrets of the enemy team is down!
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• H-28G Evolution Turret (Q): Ward heimerdinger ward! Yes your turrets are not invisible but they hurt! Junglers or other champions would be forced to clear your turrets because the poor support would sustain too much damage trying to clear it on his/her own. If you see the Support successfully placed a ward then for maximum trolling, you move that turret into a bush so the ganker can only break it AFTER they sustain at least 5-6 shots and at level 1 30x5, 150 damage when the jungler only has roughly 1k health, yeah. You have the advantage already. Forget about him.
  
• Hextech Micro-Rockets (W): A great skill if you weren't support! The rockets will naturally push the lane if you try to poke with them and most AD carries have a poor early game damage output so a gank would mean first blood on your behalf. The rockets will be great for tower diving and should be used accordingly, they will also be good to add that rylai slow if the enemy is chasing during a team fight.
  
• CH-1 Concussion Grenade (E): The problem with Heimerdinger is grenades are so incredibly hard to land, during the lane phase you'll want to do your ABSOLUTE best to try and hit them with the grenade, it will hurt a lot but the mana costs severely. It's a great harass tool but an even better escape tool to synchronize with .
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• upgrade!!! (R): Don't be shy to use your upgrade. Enemy Jungler coming into your lane, pop this skill in ASAP, you could very well not only escape but turn around and get a double kill for your lane partner or your self. (has happened MANY times to me)
  Also great to use if you see an enemy trying to escape and your ahead with no rylai's, use the ult get the kill if your lane partner is low, why not?
  The skill will be best used to help speed up dragon as a support or if 2-3 guys are coming down to bot lane to come tower dive both of you and are about to meet your turret, pop in the slow and you'll more than likely escape with your head. (even if that means a turret going down, you can always pop two more next to it so it has SOME resistance against the enemy.

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