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 Samira synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Samira, 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 Samira. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Samira helps Heimerdinger perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Heimerdinger is an ally to Samira, he gets a little drop in his full damage dealt. This may indicate that Samira doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played with Samira on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Samira. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Samira.
Moreover, when Heimerdinger plays with Samira on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Samira does a decent job of covering Heimerdinger during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Heimerdinger that will no matter what be his best ally. However, Samira is a very typical teammate for Heimerdinger. By being on the same team as Heimerdinger, she increases their win rate by 0.3% to 49.9%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Heimerdinger and Samira that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Samira has a lower difficulty than Heimerdinger. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Samira teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Heimerdinger and Samira together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of crowd control. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Samira ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger in order to work well with Samira during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to build first in your Heimerdinger and Samira synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Void Staff, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Samira than with most other common builds. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average win rate of 49.9% when playing alongside Samira with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating 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 that we analyzed for Heimerdinger and Samira pairings, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.9% winrate overall.
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