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.
The Heimerdinger Briar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Briar, 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 Briar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Briar helps Heimerdinger perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Heimerdinger plays on the same team as Briar, he sees a small increase in his total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Briar provides cover for him to deal more damage or that their presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played with Briar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Briar.
Additionally, when Heimerdinger plays with Briar on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Briar does a poor job of covering Heimerdinger in team fights.
There is no top synergy for Heimerdinger that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, Briar is a top-tier teammate for Heimerdinger. By being on the same side as Heimerdinger, they improves their win rate by 3.4% to 53.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a very strong strategic relationship between Heimerdinger and Briar that results in them performing better together than alone.
Briar has a much lower diffuclty than Heimerdinger. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Briar allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Heimerdinger players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Heimerdinger and Briar together, you will not be giving your other allies a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Briar teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger in order to work well with Briar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Heimerdinger and Briar synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Briar than with many other common builds. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average winrate of 53.0% when playing alongside Briar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Heimerdinger players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Heimerdinger and Briar pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.0% win rate overall.
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