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.
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
The Heimerdinger Zoe synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zoe, 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 Zoe. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zoe helps Heimerdinger perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Heimerdinger plays on the same team as Zoe, he gets a little increase in his full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Zoe supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played with Zoe 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 alongside Zoe.
Additionally, when Heimerdinger plays with Zoe on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Zoe does a poor job of covering Heimerdinger during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Heimerdinger that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, overall, Zoe is a very bad companion for Heimerdinger. By locking into the same side as Heimerdinger, she decreases their win rate by -3.7% to 45.9%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Heimerdinger and Zoe that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Zoe has a much lower diffuclty than Heimerdinger. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Zoe teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Heimerdinger and Zoe together, you may not be giving your side very much AD. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Zoe ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger in order to pair well with Zoe during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Heimerdinger and Zoe synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger bought at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Zoe than with many other common builds. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average winrate of 45.9% helping carry Zoe with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Heimerdinger players should take 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 chose for Heimerdinger and Zoe pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Zoe with Heimerdinger are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.