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.
While ganking, consider aiming Dredge Line at nearby terrain and following it up with Riptide for a higher hit rate.
Riptide has a delayed blast timing on activation - you can use this while running away or when enemies are incoming to serve as a deterrent.
The Heimerdinger Nautilus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nautilus, 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 Nautilus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nautilus helps Heimerdinger perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Heimerdinger is an ally to Nautilus, he observes a little increase in his full damage output. This could signal that Nautilus provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played alongside Nautilus 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 alongside Nautilus.
Moreover, when Heimerdinger plays with Nautilus on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Nautilus does a decent job of covering Heimerdinger in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Heimerdinger that will always be his #1 ally. However, overall, Nautilus is a pretty good teammate for Heimerdinger. By locking into the same side as Heimerdinger, he increases their win rate by 1.0% to 50.6%. This shows that there is a good strategic relationship between Heimerdinger and Nautilus that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Nautilus has a lower difficulty than Heimerdinger. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Nautilus comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, Heimerdinger players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Heimerdinger and Nautilus together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough AD. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Nautilus ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger in order to synergize with Nautilus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Heimerdinger and Nautilus synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Nautilus than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average win rate of 50.6% when playing alongside Nautilus with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.6% winrate overall.
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