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 stats shown here highlight some vital Yuumi vs. Heimerdinger matchup statistics that can help us understand the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Yuumi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Yuumi may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Heimerdinger. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Yuumi usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes less damage than Heimerdinger. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yuumi usually loses when playing against Heimerdinger, with a 42.3% win rate. As a result, Yuumi makes a poor counter for Heimerdinger.
While Yuumi does have a much lower win rate than Heimerdinger, when facing one another, Yuumi also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champ to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Yuumi into Heimerdinger.
Moreover, Yuumi also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Yuumi vs Heimerdinger matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Yuumi is a trash counter to Heimerdinger. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Yuumi against Heimerdinger.
To truly master Yuumi in order to counter Heimerdinger during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yuumi typically picks up a lot less CS compared to Heimerdinger. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They 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 a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Yuumi versus Heimerdinger build consist of Ardent Censer, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Yuumi combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Heimerdinger than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Yuumi had an average win rate of 42.3% battling Heimerdinger with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Heimerdinger as Yuumi, Yuumi players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Yuumi vs Heimerdinger clashes, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 42.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Heimerdinger as Yuumi are given for all ranked divisions. To narrow the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.