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 Qiyana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Qiyana, 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 Qiyana. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Qiyana helps Heimerdinger perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Heimerdinger is an ally to Qiyana, he observes a small increase in his full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Qiyana provides cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played together with Qiyana 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 with Qiyana.
Moreover, when Heimerdinger plays with Qiyana on the same team, he typically receives more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Qiyana does a poor job of protecting Heimerdinger during team fights.
There is no top synergy for Heimerdinger that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Qiyana is a very bad companion for Heimerdinger. By locking into the same side as Heimerdinger, she lowers their win rate by -4.1% to 45.5%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Heimerdinger and Qiyana that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Qiyana has a lower difficulty than Heimerdinger. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Qiyana allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing together, Heimerdinger players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Heimerdinger and Qiyana together, you will not be giving your side a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Qiyana teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger in order to synergize with Qiyana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Heimerdinger and Qiyana synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Qiyana than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average winrate of 45.5% helping carry Qiyana with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use 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 picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Qiyana with Heimerdinger are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.