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 Lillia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lillia, 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 Lillia. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Lillia helps Heimerdinger perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Heimerdinger tries to synergize with Lillia, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Lillia doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played together with Lillia on the same side, 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 Lillia.
Additionally, when Heimerdinger plays with Lillia on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Lillia does a poor job of covering Heimerdinger in teamfights.
There is no one best ally for Heimerdinger that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Lillia is a pretty good companion for Heimerdinger. By being on the same side as Heimerdinger, she raises their win rate by 1.3% to 50.9%. This signals that there is a good synergy between Heimerdinger and Lillia that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Lillia has a lower difficulty than Heimerdinger. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Lillia teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Heimerdinger and Lillia together, you will not be granting your side a great deal of attack damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Lillia ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger in order to work well with Lillia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Heimerdinger and Lillia synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Lillia than with most other common item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average win rate of 50.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Lillia with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Heimerdinger players should use 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 builds players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Lillia with Heimerdinger are given for all ranked divisions. To scope the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu at the top of this page.