Heimerdinger vs Tristana
How to Beat Tristana as Heimerdinger
based on 2,259 Heimerdinger vs Tristana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Heimerdinger vs Tristana Matchup Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Tristana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tristana as Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger against Tristana
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 Tristana
Stand away from your creeps in a lane to take less collateral damage from Explosive Charge.
If you see Tristana activate Rapid Fire in a fight, stun her and try to back off until the spell dissipates.
Heimerdinger vs Tristana Counter Stats
How to Counter Tristana with Heimerdinger in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some valuable Heimerdinger against Tristana matchup statistics that may help us figure out the differences between the pair. Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tristana’s ratio of NaN, showing that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Tristana..
Heimerdinger typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Tristana. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Heimerdinger and Tristana
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Who is Better, Heimerdinger or Tristana?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Heimerdinger usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Tristana, with a 50.3% win rate. Thus, Heimerdinger makes an ok counter to Tristana.
While Heimerdinger does have a higher win rate compared to Tristana, when facing one another, Heimerdinger also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Heimerdinger into Tristanaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Heimerdinger has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tristana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Tristana matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Heimerdinger is a decent counter to Tristana. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Heimerdinger against Tristana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Heimerdinger in order to counter Tristana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Tristana. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Heimerdinger versus Tristana build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Morellonomicon, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Tristana than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average win rate of 50.3% battling Tristana with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Tristana as Heimerdinger, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Heimerdinger vs Tristana battles, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.3% winrate overall.
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