Mid Year Mage Update Heimerdinger PLEASE!

WhiteTalon420·3/1/2016, 9:20:19 PM·2 votes·874 views

Heimerdinger Needs some attention seriously hope Cassie is not the only Mage you all are going to work on. I seen Cass in riot updates and tweaks in the last year, at least she get attention both buffs and debuffs. I have in the last year, and in search archives not been able to find almost any real changes on Heimerdinger at all until like 2 patches ago you debuffed his flash grenade from showing people in the bush for a few seconds to barely showing them for a second at all. That really kind of a lame thing to do in general.

Heimerdinger really has very unique game play, but any OP'ed champ out there and almost half of all Champs in league have major advantage over this little guy. He needs some real love, he needs a reworking.

  1. His flash grenade should bounce on regular throw, and he should shoot 3 instead on his ult.

  2. When in a completed circle of his turrets maybe he should get a high powered shield, or maybe instead, like all lot of other champs out now have bought upgrades at the store, maybe he should be able to do the same to his turrets like make them shoot faster, stronger laser blast, or what type of blast (ice, heat, bullets, rail-gun), or mobile or heck maybe even flying drones.

  3. His Ult for rockets should be heat sealers or something more cleaver, or if once again to make it upgrade-able to pick between the two.

  4. Maybe a passive or some sort of escape hover board. He is the tech king of invention in some ways he should freaking really have a hover board or something for movement.

  5. He is squishy, its cute sometimes, but some way he should have a better defenses being a tech mage.

  6. He should never be so easily killed by over half the champs in the game with 2 or 3 hits in the first 3 min of the game. A few champs that is understandable every champ should have difficult champs to fight rivals mostly. But seriously every marksman, every melee almost, and over 75% of mages and Tanks and a bunch of supports can take him out way to easy with almost no items. (I might not have this issue much, but this is why i hear people complain about even trying to play him. To get good with him you really have to spend a few months losing almost every game.

  7. Hextech, he was at one point in the lore connected to almost all of it. Now not so much, now his lore is weak and should really be reworked. As a writer I could come up with so many ideas for his lore and background its not even funny. He was interesting before I started league but his current lore just lacks any sort of luster. It is to quick, and undeveloped and gives no really story other than he was a smart Yordle, and another smart Yordle notice he could re purpose his invention a ball shooting toy to be a weapon and off Heimy went to League. I seriously just told the majority of his tale in 3 lines or less of text. Everyone else currently has much much more to their tale, even Rumble one of his rivals and the one who played with his Ball throwing turret seems to have more of a developed back story. Sure as heck all the other Yordles do......

  8. He is so quirky and unique he has earned a Nobel Spotlight in the game.

IF you leave Heimerdinger alone for a minute or two he can sure take down a tower quickly, that's almost all, hence why he is almost never been seen in any Tournament or Worlds Championships now of days. I really looked and only found a few sighting in the past few years and all discussion about him in pro play is that he cant be played cause he is to easily counteracted.

I say all of this not because I never get to win with him. I actual do a lot, but because I don't see any other players able to get 30+ kills with him and carry their team like I do, I play him rough, I don't play him meta, I play him top mostly, and I can usually hold my own. I just don't see him enough and people often will even ban him on my own teams with the excuses that no one can win with him. But when ever I do well with him even from my own team mates I told oh he an easy champ, or it only happened cause the other person is a new player. ( I had 38 kills on a game with pro players fighting against me and was still dogged about it being heimy and a fluke before.) This stuff gets old. Why let a great champ have no respect when there is so much you can do to make him viable and loved.

6 Comments

EcchiOtakuTM3/2/2016, 1:08:13 AM2 votes

Heim doesn't need a rework.

If anything he needs slight buffing but his kit is amazing the way it is and again only needs slight buffing.

He doesn't need the mage update.

Paladin 0f Life3/1/2016, 9:53:01 PM1 votes

I honestly dont like his turrets now. They are the main reason he is not played in pro and why he is a "easy" champ. I mained him almost for ten 10 levels... nothing but heim and the occasional ryze who got reworked and now i cant play him well enough. If he got reworked and picked up a super machine that gave him awesome abilities then I would be fine with that. The turrets are hard to balance and just makes him such a weird champ... its not bad but not good in some respects either. Now that I actually can play the game I woulndt mind seeing the turrets go away. I love the Donger and want him to be a harder champ that doesnt detriment his team so much by his unique play style. He doesnt fit the meta... he never will. He is not bad but still if he was a more normal mage or more like Gangplank then maybe he would see more play.

ModWulf Helhammer3/1/2016, 10:31:50 PM1 votes

Are you seriously asking for Heimerdinger buffs? Really?

WhiteTalon4203/1/2016, 11:11:13 PM1 votes

I am not saying all of those per say those are all Idea on how to update him. Like I would love for him to be able to custom one or two of his abilities in a game at the shop like with other champs currently in play do. I just was putting forth a few idea's. Heimerdinger

He needs reworked. Some of these Idea's would be good together. Some maybe not. He would not be that much OP compared to how some champs are currently even if most of these were used though if balance correctly. Heimerdinger

Like I said I not think all of these need to be implemented but these are some ways that he could be improved if he was to be reworked. Heimerdinger

Also this whole immobile mages is what riot is saying they are trying to change. Immobile is not a good thing it rarely is able to be balanced out. Heimerdinger

More than anything I want more people playing Heimy, yes his mechanics are easy, does not mean he is an easy camp to win with, those are two very different things. Because of those two things together people play him less and less. I want to see people playing him more and right now to get that to happen I think we need to talk about him more. Heimerdinger

So I do thank you both and anyone else who talks about my or responds to this thread, only way to get a chance to see him become a more viable champ. Heimerdinger

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