As a 500k Heimer otp, I have to say it's very hard to go back. I feel naked playing without my turrets. Everything said in the video is very accurate.

He's the anti gank, can't tell you how many times the jungler dives into the bowels of my turret nest.

"The big donger himself" -Vars 2020.

As a diamond heimer onetrick I love how accurate this video is there are a few things I would add but I must say it's an excellent video!

Heimer has a big problem: he automatically pushes the wave. We need to put down turrets to basically to anything, and turret autopush the wave till we r forced to get ganked. Fortunately that heimer is pretty good on antiganking but losing such opportunities like controlling the waves making him harder to play and play against.

I love heimerdinger but he's very buggy, sometimes his big turret will just randomly stop attacking enemies despite being immune to crowd control.

I love Heimer so much, although his community is small they are loyal af, idk which characters have one trick youtubers but we definitely do.. Also never count out the passive! Dodging skill shots and running away becomes much easier

Honestly I think that Jayce would be a pretty interesting pick for a video like this . Used to be really popular in the earlier days, and nowadays never seen. Not 100% poke nor 100% all in.

Aww man, as a Heimer main this made me feel so good about my life choices And I agree, a very big part of what's cool to me about Heimer is that he is a very rare pick but still good if played right, kinda like Kled

I use heimer for supp, when I first picked him up I went on a losing streak cause I had no idea what he was doing, but once you got a hang of him I think the satisfaction of killing enemy who’s chasing you under turret is amazing

I love Heimerdinger, one of my favorite champions and probably the first champion I truly main. ...I kite like a mad man when I play him. Works everytime.

i have 497k mastery points on my level 7 heimer, i love him. he can be good or he can be bad but he's fun to me

With Heimerdinger, your weakness is your biggest strenght actually. You really have to be ready to die in every teamfight in order to master this champion. Your outplay potential is over 9000! Not super flashy plays like Vars said, just the right setup and predictions.

I used to play him as my main when his rockets were homing. Ever since they changed that, I don't know who to play anymore. His passive doesn't repair his turrets and towers anymore either. It makes me miss the old Heimer.

Vars lists the three types of mages Controll mages: are we a joke to you?

11:09 This made me so proud

I have 301k points on heimer , I have been through a lot of hate for just using my q properly and outsmarting opponents.

Oh my god, Heimer is a Red Mage

Heimers biggest weakness is that his kit has to be strung together in a very specific way to make him work, and that way changes depening on the situation hes in. His turrets are most of his damage, but *only* the lasers, and the lasers only fire if you land a grenade or all 5 of the missiles. And since the turrets lasers take a moment to fire and they cant get any more charge until they do, that also means you cant do what other burst mages do and just fire off all your skills together and kill your opponent in 0.13 seconds, you have to wait a short time after the grenade hits to fire the missiles which gives your opponent time to leave the stun and react to either the missiles or the second set of lasers. So the second set of lasers rarely actually hit, but he has to be balanced around the fact that they *can* hit. You also have to be able to decide when someone engages on you if you should throw your grenade right away and then set up a turret (making them able to dodge the followup rockets and wasting that turrets first beam) or tank the damage with Heimers tiny HP pool to set up the turret first for more damage. Even when fishing for damage in lane or during sieges, you have to weigh the risk of trying to get a grenade to land to do damage to someone harassing your turrets with the chance that they could take that opportunity to rush over to you, making your only defense *AND* most reliable offense on cooldown, which almost surely means your doom. He also has difficulty securing kills if the opponent realizes theyre going to lose and just leaves. He has to use his entire kit to bring anyone close to dying, because technically he only has 2 abilities. The turrets are more like passive zones he sets up to enhance his 2 abilities, and even his ult uses the CD of his normal abilities (except Ult Turret, which cant be used to chase). Which means if someone just walks away, Heimers only options are to try and chase them away from his turrets in which case most enemies can easily turn on him and kill him even with 10% HP. This is also why I laugh every time salty opponents tell me Heimer takes no skill because "you just run around and let your turrets do all the damage". Yeah dude, but my turrets only do damage if I hit every skill shot perfectly, and if I miss one grenade Im already dead.

Burst Heimer can do something a bit more reliable than bush camping. Having a single turret down, grenading an enemy, and placing a second turret down while grenade is in the air can usually kill most squishys, and missles can finish them off if needed.

I really don't want him to be more popular lol, hopefully he stays hidden

I have a friend otp himer and he is so good that in some point of the match the enemies try to scapes of him, and he just follow them trowing basics like a maniac

Excellent quality video, made perfect sense. Subscribed.

"it's an interesting experience" this is a heimerdinger video, it's only painful in this scenario

I somehow managed to sync really well with his playstyle that I went from mastery 5 to mastery 7 in a week. Ever since, I have loved playing him and this video made me realize different perspectives and qualities of him. He's so versatile that every game feels different enough to keep me interested and I never get bored

Ahh this video is the exact reason why I want to main this guy :) He literally can be and do anything your team needs

As a former master elo Heimerdinger OTP I support this video. He's one of the best champions in the game due to his flexibility.

i really have to say u analysts on most champs is spot on .... i has played a few of them and like champs that are not banned

I love him so much. Still one of my favorite Champs ever since season 1

No one plays him because his turrets are so squishy that it's essentially a dead spell past the midgame.

i didnt know what to do when people broke my turrets, so in my first game i destroyed a noob cassio but then in the next i got destroyed by a cretin yone just because i didnt know what my e did

Heimer is so fun to play, i love "building" class/characters. looking at you deep rock galatic and tf2 engineers. I love the lil automated guns.

Whenever i get a kill in bot lane as herm supp, i like to brag saying "IM THE ADC NOW" to the enemies lmao

Heimer is actually very oppressive in lane . Me and my adc struggled against him SOLO

well the way you talk about him make me pretty excited to try to play him better haha

I primarily play Dota 2, but back around 2014 when I was in college, my friends kept nagging me to try LoL. (since I was the only Dota player in the group) So I tried playing with them and I had fun. This was the time where every team had a Ziggs and Teemo was the hot shit that everyone wanted to play. Then I came across Heimerdinger. Instantly loved playing him. Almost always played Heimer for I think about a year when an update came. Nerfed TF out of him. Seemed like I was using a new hero. Disappointed, I went back to DotA 2 and have never looked backed since. I still wonder if I should revisit LoL.

I find Heimerdinger to be an annoying champion in the same way Teemo is annoying. I never feel like they outplayed me, they just exploited my impatience. If I get impatient against Teemo I will run into too many mushrooms and die. If I get impatient against Heimerdinger, I will walk into his turrets for too long and die. I just feel like I outplayed myself instead of them outplaying me. I could just decide not to engage in their territory and in that case they would be pretty weak.

the full quote is "jack of all trades , master of none , is often better than a master of one" since its ideally better to be decent at many things than it is to specialize in a single thing and to completely suck at everything else, I only point this out since there's a general consensus that being a jack of all trades is a bad things and an insult when this couldn't be further from the truth.

He's my first main, I just started. I'm on my downward spiral

Very good video!

I loved his old kit before they reworked him, that and Banner of Command and ZZRot

I miss prerework heim, yes, ik, it was long ago, but that's when I mained him.

I didn't even know his passive until today lol

Nice video!

I love Heim! He is such fun champ!

Just curious! What rank are you currently in?

yes R should be able to upgrade 1/2/3 abilities, as what if Q could do 5 turrets? what if u could choose in game what his abilities are set as, Q 1) more aa dmg + other stats no laser (battle), 2) as is (poke), 3) only laser an come fully charged (burst), W 1) 1 big rocket that drags him shortly behind can release in direction (poke), 2) shorter range auto target all shorter cd (battle), 3) as is (Burst), E 1) big one above head (battle), 2) can lob at Q turrets which can shoot it to others or location (poke), 3) charges it for more dmg/knockback (burst).

I wish that no one played this champ.

I'm not sure if he's played too much to be featured in a video, but maybe you should do one on Vel'Koz?

Just started playing this game 3 days ago. This is my fav character to play, I dont even know anything about other characters lol

good music choice

Let me just say if you ever see a Leona support. Play heimer adc. If they’re smart they’ll quit before the match starts.

I know I'm late to the party but I've been retired from league for awhile but I quit because the repeat nerfs for years that heimer received. He just isn't viable as he used to or should. I have a lot of issues with what riot has done. Increasing the wait time for laser from 16 seconds to 90 seconds has no logical action besides to punish heimer. Most turrets will out level, be replaced, and heimer should never stay in a lane that long when it comes to a team fight game, when turtling at tower is only during 1-6 phase. Heimer used to be a phenomenal jungler, only because his turrets could acquire laser stacks by auto attack, which in the past it was 5% per hit, on top of the 16 second load time. Now you can't do shit. Any enemy jungler with a brain will punish a heimer jungler or steal all buffs available. Heimer used to be able to check bushes with his e(stun) and grant vision. Heimer has the worst escape kit out of most champions, and the 20% movespeed passive is meaningless if its not constantly hovering 100% of the time. This will punish all heimerdingers trying to help jungle or top/bot with ganking, assuming he always has 3 turrets available, which if you're playing against anybody good, you won't. And no heimerdinger can afford to lay down 3 turrets, while getting 1 shotted by a khazix or rengar. While using stun to survive with less than .1 second reaction time to live from bush checking, you gave up the only skill guaranteed to boost turret lasers. If still available, go read how riot comes up with bullshit comments in the notes that are literally troll logic of "oh damn ya boy heimer way too strong", as kat was doing 4k damage aoe, ult 5 players in 3 seconds, with infinite cooldown, and still get 5 seasons worth of buffs. Heimerdinger deserves more, not a mage carry, or solo pusher reduced to mediocre support role. To put in otherwords, to master heimer with his kit today, offers high risk with low reward with his low damage and awful scaling with abilities and stats. Any pentakill heimer has achieved by today standards is just kill steals and playing bronze players in high elo.

Cannon rusher in SC2 heim main in LOL makes sense

Kled and the D O N G E R are my favourite mid champs, it always depends.

I had come across a 4 million point donger. He had no idea how to play his champion

Big brain jungle is the most complicated thing u could ever see

Found your channel through the maple videos but I really love your analysis, calm approach and the work you put into these videos. Hope to see more from this series ^^

So I’m not crazy thinking heimer is confusing to play!

I had my first game with him yesterday I was doing pretty well and then BOOM Pentakill

I don't play Donger, because I have too small of a brain to do so *Cries in juggernaut*

Toplane HeimusDongus is a free ticket to gold

They should give him back his 6 turret and make his ult last forever like how yorick did plus if enemies is out of range the turret will auto shot energy shoot. Since the energy shoot is easy to dodge it will constantly shoot it instead of his normal shoot when enemies out of turret range.

Why no one plays heimerdinger. Except in my promos when I am playing top

As a heimerdinger one trick I approve this message XD, Of my 60 hours ish of league at least 48 are just pure heimerdinger and I'm still nowhere near good with him XD

Still waiting Why no one plays Veigar Day 5

What this vid has taught me: This is Donger territory - enter at own risk. This is Donger territory - do not enter. This is Donger territory - there is nothing in this bush *wink* *wink*. This is Donger territory - our fanclub already has enough members, we would rather you join another, but you are welcome regardless.

I love playing Heimer :D

All I want is melee champs to be garaunteed to destroy his turrets with 1 auto, It's so annoying when in toplane you get locked behind your own tower because his turrets outrange you and you can't destroy them quick

ngl I cant tell how many times the enemy jungler tried to gank me just to jump into my turrets and die to my empowered w and every time that happens they complain about how op my turrets are lol

He's the best top laner in the game right now lol after Liandry's his turrets hit harder than a Lux ult lmao.

siege heimer is fun enemy champs are helpless

2:55 Who is that champ that turns into a dino?

Ill always pick smite with unsealed spellbook against him

I play Heimerdinger lol About to get Diamond with him too :)

Heim

Support Heimer is a nightmare to gank for low elo junglers lol. Love it

I feel like yordles are all unpopular minu maybe tristana and veigar we got teemo, gnar, heimer, ziggs, rumble and poppy are all unpopular

that didnt age too well

Season 11, donger tier S top and adc, B on mid...

Im proud that heimerdinger is ny best pick lol

Maybe Shaco, but idk his playrate

Dude! This really brought my self-esteem up because I am a Heimerdinger main, and I am really really good! I didn’t realize Heimerdingner was one of the hardest champions to master!

I've mained Heimerdinger for awhile now (I'm not fantastic I'm silver ish if that but my Heimerdinger is level 7 with a little over 100k points) I do find this video very accurate of him and one of the "fixes" I'd like to see on him is to be able to pickup his turrets to be put down at a later time and also being able to set them all up at the same time in pre determined formations. Also I would REALLY like to see a cat in the hat Heimerdinger skin with his turrets being Thing 1, 2, and 3

Next video idea for this zyra

As a heimerdinger main we are more annoying than teemo and we dont need jungler

Heimer main here. Only smurfs with blitz or someother app will ban him. Love it. Stay obscure you yordle.

donger

Thats my champion back when I played the game. Just buy Zhonia and you can easily bait people to their deaths.

at least he does not get the Azir treatment ,like nerfs when he is low in play rate...and win rate...kinda sad to be honest

Jack of all trades but master of none, but master of many is better than master of one.

My main

Respect for the ffxiii theme, also completely hate playing against him in lane but he doesn't do much in teamfights

i personally hate heimerdinger and anyone that punishes you for pushing forward, either playing against them or as them.

Why do people act like Lee sin is hard to play?

i main heimer literally just because i like robotics

From an azir main. I think heimer has the same difficulty as azir.

no one plays heimer because they are all playing scion, hoping someone else will pick heimer so they can do the best thing in the game- kicking heimer's turrets with scion. kicking that ult is the best thing in the game. joy of joys.

No one plays heim, yet there are still too many

i play it botlane its busted. maybe because im in trash elo