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.
Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
The Heimerdinger Anivia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Anivia, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Heimerdinger sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Anivia. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Anivia helps Heimerdinger perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Heimerdinger plays on the same team as Anivia, he observes a little drop in his full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Anivia does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played alongside Anivia on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Anivia. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Anivia.
Moreover, when Heimerdinger plays with Anivia on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Anivia does a poor job of protecting Heimerdinger in team fights.
There is no top companion for Heimerdinger that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, Anivia is a decent teammate for Heimerdinger. By being on the same side as Heimerdinger, she increases their win rate by 2.7% to 52.3%. This signals that there is a somewhat important synergy between Heimerdinger and Anivia that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Anivia has a greater difficulty than Heimerdinger. That means you need to be careful when finding Anivia teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Heimerdinger and Anivia together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Anivia ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger in order to work well with Anivia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Heimerdinger and Anivia synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Anivia than with many other common item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average win rate of 52.3% when playing alongside Anivia with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip 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 rune combinations players picked for Heimerdinger and Anivia pairings, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.3% win rate overall.
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