Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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 Lissandra Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Lissandra sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Heimerdinger. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Heimerdinger helps Lissandra perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lissandra tries to synergize with Heimerdinger, she sees a barely noticable drop in her complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Heimerdinger does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Lissandra is played together with Heimerdinger on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Heimerdinger.
Additionally, when Lissandra plays with Heimerdinger on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Heimerdinger does a poor job of covering Lissandra in teamfights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Lissandra that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. However, Heimerdinger is a terrible ally for Lissandra. By being on the same team as Lissandra, he lowers their win rate by -3.5% to 46.0%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Lissandra and Heimerdinger that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Heimerdinger has a greater difficulty than Lissandra. That means Lissandra players need to be careful when finding Heimerdinger allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, Lissandra players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Lissandra and Heimerdinger together, you will not be giving your team a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Heimerdinger ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Lissandra in order to work well with Heimerdinger during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to include in your Lissandra and Heimerdinger synergy build consist of Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Lissandra combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Heimerdinger than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lissandra had an average win rate of 46.0% helping carry Heimerdinger with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Lissandra players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.0% win rate overall.
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