in overall ranking, better than only Azir and Morde. Much needed and long ignored bugfixes aside, can Heimerdinger get some love during preseason?
Please save your salt and responses that show you clearly don't know how to play against him.
...what's his top lane winrate?
If it makes you feel better, for the preseason, they removed AP from Banner of Command.
Also, if you are a heim player and have been on the rise since the relegations of zed, talon, rengo...etc from the meta, fear not, to help you stay rising, they added MR to AD assasin-core items, gave those items more armor pen, and still havent added any new AP+armor items, and...well yea, keep your head up! At least other mages will soon have something in common with him! (a 40% or below winrate)
I've never won my lane against a heimerdinger. People say that he does 0 damage, and that attacking his turrets to get them down right away is the way you fight him but with his jungle camp taking at level 1 he gets his turret and his missiles, so if I try to attack them I'll get a missile to the face if there aren't minions to block it. Otherwise, he autoattacks, and autoattacks HURT at early levels especially if he has thunderlord's. If you try to go straight for him he activates zhonya's after putting down his ult turret and you die if you don't get out right away. I think he's really strong rn tbh.
The only reason why I think he's bad is because he can't really be played at a higher skillcap since he can only really push, but he does it very well.
Heimerdinger good in lower elo because people are idiots and dont smite the big turret or fights within the turret zone. It really depends on the enemy's intelligence.
I think he is fine as a champion. I wish his passive was better and that he could pick up his turrets but whatever.
He just isn't in the meta right now. Probably won't ever be. Welcome to the club :) 
As much as I love Heimerdinger, lots of people hate playing against him with a passion (particularly top laners). So being down in the Azir and Morde bucket seems to make sense. He still has his passionately dedicated fan base (seriously, average Heimer has twice as many Heimer games as average Yasuo has Yasuo games), and he's not super weak.
He might become more weak after item and meta changes. But I don't really think he needs to be touched right now.
