Heimerdinger vs Kindred
How to Beat Kindred as Heimerdinger
based on 1,138 Heimerdinger vs Kindred matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Heimerdinger vs Kindred Matchup Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kindred as Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger against Kindred
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 Kindred
When Kindred uses Lamb's Respite get inside, it stops all champions from dying.
Kindred is fragile - turn the pressure up on her, and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Clear the Hunts Wolf activates on jungle camps to slow down Kindred's damage output.
Heimerdinger vs Kindred Counter Stats
How to Counter Kindred with Heimerdinger in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several vital Heimerdinger against Kindred matchup statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kindred’s ratio of NaN, showing that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kindred..
Heimerdinger usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he takes less damage than Kindred. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Heimerdinger and Kindred
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Who is Better, Heimerdinger or Kindred?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Heimerdinger usually wins when playing against Kindred, with a 54.3% win rate. Thus, Heimerdinger makes a great counter for Kindred.
While Heimerdinger does have a much higher winrate than Kindred, when facing one another, Heimerdinger also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Heimerdinger into Kindredas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Heimerdinger also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kindred. This often 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 overall in League of Legends, in Heimerdinger vs Kindred matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Heimerdinger is a great counter for Kindred. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Heimerdinger against Kindred.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger to counter Kindred during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger usually gets more CS compared to Kindred. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Heimerdinger versus Kindred build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Heimerdinger included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Kindred than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average win rate of 54.3% when countering Kindred with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Kindred as Heimerdinger, you 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 combinations players chose for Heimerdinger vs Kindred clashes, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 54.3% win rate overall.
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