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.
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
The Heimerdinger K'Sante synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with K'Sante, 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 K'Sante. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that K'Sante helps Heimerdinger perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Heimerdinger is an ally to K'Sante, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that K'Sante does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that their presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played together with K'Sante on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with K'Sante.
Additionally, when Heimerdinger plays with K'Sante on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that K'Sante does a poor job of covering Heimerdinger in teamfights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Heimerdinger that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, K'Sante is a terrible teammate for Heimerdinger. By being on the same side as Heimerdinger, they decreases their win rate by -5.0% to 44.6%. This proves that there is a terrible bond between Heimerdinger and K'Sante that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
K'Sante has a greater difficulty than Heimerdinger. That means you must be cautious when enlisting K'Sante teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by grouping Heimerdinger and K'Sante together, you may not be granting your other allies enough attack damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your K'Sante teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger to work well with K'Sante during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Heimerdinger and K'Sante synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger included at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside K'Sante than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average winrate of 44.6% when playing alongside K'Sante with this build.
To have the highest chance 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. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.6% win rate overall.
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