Lissandra vs Heimerdinger
How to Beat Heimerdinger as Lissandra
based on 561 Lissandra vs Heimerdinger matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lissandra vs Heimerdinger Matchup Summary
Best Lissandra vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Heimerdinger as Lissandra
Tips for Playing as Lissandra against Heimerdinger
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
Advice to Win Against Heimerdinger
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
Lissandra vs Heimerdinger Counter Stats
How to Counter Heimerdinger with Lissandra in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some valuable Lissandra versus Heimerdinger matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences between the pair. Lissandra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Lissandra may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Heimerdinger..
Lissandra often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes more damage than Heimerdinger. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lissandra and Heimerdinger
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Who is Better, Lissandra or Heimerdinger?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Lissandra usually loses when playing against Heimerdinger, with a 47.6% win rate. Thus, Lissandra makes a poor counter for Heimerdinger.
While Lissandra does have a lower winrate than Heimerdinger, when on opposite teams, Lissandra also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Lissandra into Heimerdinger.
Additionally, Lissandra has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lissandra vs Heimerdinger matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Lissandra is a garbage counter to Heimerdinger. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Lissandra against Heimerdinger.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lissandra in order to counter Heimerdinger during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lissandra on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Heimerdinger. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Lissandra versus Heimerdinger build consist of Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Lissandra included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs. Heimerdinger than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lissandra had an average winrate of 47.6% when countering Heimerdinger with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating Heimerdinger as Lissandra, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Lissandra vs Heimerdinger counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.6% winrate overall.
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