Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several critical Tristana against Heimerdinger counter statistics that can help us realize the differences between this set of champs. Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Heimerdinger’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Heimerdinger..
Tristana typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Heimerdinger. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Tristana usually fairs equally well when taking on Heimerdinger, with a 49.7% win rate. As a result, Tristana makes an ok counter for Heimerdinger.
While Tristana does have a lower win rate compared to Heimerdinger, when they face off with one another, Tristana also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Tristana into Heimerdinger.
Additionally, Tristana has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Heimerdinger matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Tristana is a somewhat poor counter for Heimerdinger. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Tristana against Heimerdinger.
To truly master Tristana in order to counter Heimerdinger during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Heimerdinger. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Tristana versus Heimerdinger build include Bloodthirster, Rapid Firecannon, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better countering Heimerdinger than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Tristana boasted an average win rate of 49.7% when countering Heimerdinger with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of beating Heimerdinger as Tristana, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Tristana vs Heimerdinger LoL games, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.7% win rate overall.
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