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.
Use Brushmaker to set up future ambush spots!
Try to help allies follow up a good Rootcaller hit with Triggerseed!
Daisy can block skillshots and slow down enemies. Use her to peel for your teammates!
The Heimerdinger Ivern synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ivern, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ivern. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Ivern helps Heimerdinger perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Heimerdinger plays on the same team as Ivern, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage output. This change may indicate that Ivern does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played alongside Ivern 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 alongside Ivern.
Additionally, when Heimerdinger plays with Ivern on the same side, he typically receives less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Ivern does a decent job of protecting Heimerdinger in teamfights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Heimerdinger that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, overall, Ivern is a not very good teammate for Heimerdinger. By playing on the same side as Heimerdinger, he decreases their win rate by -2.6% to 47.0%. This signals that there is a bad synergy between Heimerdinger and Ivern that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Ivern has a lower difficulty than Heimerdinger. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Ivern comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Heimerdinger and Ivern together, you will not be providing your side enough attack damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Ivern ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger in order to pair well with Ivern during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Heimerdinger and Ivern synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Ivern than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average win rate of 47.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Ivern with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Heimerdinger players should take 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 combinations players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.0% win rate overall.
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