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 Nilah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nilah, 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 Nilah. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nilah helps Heimerdinger perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Heimerdinger is paired with Nilah, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Nilah helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that their support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played alongside Nilah on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nilah.
Additionally, when Heimerdinger plays with Nilah on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Nilah does a poor job of protecting Heimerdinger during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Heimerdinger that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, overall, Nilah is a very typical companion for Heimerdinger. By being on the same team as Heimerdinger, they drops their win rate by -0.7% to 48.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Heimerdinger and Nilah that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Nilah has a greater difficulty than Heimerdinger. That means Heimerdinger players need to be very careful when arranging Nilah allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, 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 champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Heimerdinger and Nilah together, you probably will not be giving your other allies much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Nilah ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger to synergize with Nilah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into 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 include in your Heimerdinger and Nilah synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Nilah than with many other typical builds. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average win rate of 48.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nilah with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing 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. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
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