Caitlyn with Heimerdinger
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Heimerdinger
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Caitlyn Heimerdinger Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Heimerdinger
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Advice to Understand How Heimerdinger Will Play
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.
Caitlyn Heimerdinger Synergy Stats
How to Play with Heimerdinger as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Heimerdinger. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Heimerdinger helps Caitlyn perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Caitlyn tries to synergize with Heimerdinger, she observes a little drop in her complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Heimerdinger does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played alongside Heimerdinger on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Heimerdinger.
Additionally, when Caitlyn plays with Heimerdinger on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Heimerdinger does a poor job of covering Caitlyn during teamfights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Heimerdinger?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Caitlyn that will no matter what be her best teammate. Yet, Heimerdinger is a very typical ally for Caitlyn. By playing on the same side as Caitlyn, he raises their win rate by 0.3% to 49.6%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Caitlyn and Heimerdinger that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Heimerdinger has a greater difficulty than Caitlyn. That means you should be careful when lining up Heimerdinger comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, Caitlyn players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Caitlyn and Heimerdinger together, you may not be giving your other allies a great deal of cover. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Heimerdinger ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Caitlyn to work well with Heimerdinger during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Caitlyn and Heimerdinger synergy build include Infinity Edge, Rapid Firecannon, and The Collector. When Caitlyn incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better as an ally of Heimerdinger than with most other common item sets. In fact, Caitlyn had an average winrate of 49.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Heimerdinger with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.6% win rate overall.
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