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.
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
The Heimerdinger Darius synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Darius, 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 Darius. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Darius helps Heimerdinger perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Heimerdinger is an ally to Darius, he sees a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Darius doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played with Darius on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Darius.
Moreover, when Heimerdinger plays with Darius on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Darius does a decent job of covering Heimerdinger in teamfights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Heimerdinger that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, Darius is a very typical teammate for Heimerdinger. By locking into the same side as Heimerdinger, he raises their win rate by 0.3% to 49.9%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between Heimerdinger and Darius that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Darius has a much lower diffuclty than Heimerdinger. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Darius comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Heimerdinger and Darius together, you probably will not be providing your team a lot of support. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Darius teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger to pair well with Darius during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Heimerdinger and Darius synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Darius than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average win rate of 49.9% when playing alongside Darius with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Heimerdinger players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.9% win rate overall.
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