Heimerdinger vs Cassiopeia
How to Beat Cassiopeia as Heimerdinger
based on 458 Heimerdinger vs Cassiopeia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Heimerdinger vs Cassiopeia Matchup Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Cassiopeia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Cassiopeia as Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger against Cassiopeia
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
Advice to Win Against Cassiopeia
Be wary of Cassiopeia's damage potential with Twin Fang when she has you poisoned.
Turn away from Cassiopeia when she is casting Petrifying Gaze to get slowed instead of stunned.
Heimerdinger vs Cassiopeia Counter Stats
How to Counter Cassiopeia with Heimerdinger in LoL
The stats shown here show several influential Heimerdinger versus Cassiopeia counter stats that may help us appreciate the distinctions between this set of champions. For instance, Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Cassiopeia’s ratio of NaN, showing that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Cassiopeia..
Heimerdinger typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Cassiopeia. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Heimerdinger and Cassiopeia
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Who is Better, Heimerdinger or Cassiopeia?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Heimerdinger usually wins when taking on Cassiopeia, with a 52.4% win rate. Therefore, Heimerdinger makes a good counter for Cassiopeia.
While Heimerdinger does have a higher win rate compared to Cassiopeia, when on opposite teams, Heimerdinger also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Heimerdinger into Cassiopeiaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Heimerdinger also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Cassiopeia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Heimerdinger vs Cassiopeia matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Heimerdinger is a good counter for Cassiopeia. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Heimerdinger against Cassiopeia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger in order to counter Cassiopeia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger often gets a similar amount of CS as Cassiopeia. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Heimerdinger versus Cassiopeia build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Cassiopeia than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average win rate of 52.4% battling Cassiopeia with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Cassiopeia as Heimerdinger, Heimerdinger players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Heimerdinger vs Cassiopeia counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.4% win rate overall.
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