How to counter Heimerdinger...

W procs thunderlords decree and for the most part bursts enemies down and q has low mana costs but most of the people qq'ing him have no idea how to lane against him.

Generally, his whole kit is designed for baiting, for countering aggressive players but he has easy counters:

Lux, Syndra, Malzahar, Xerath.. etc (Usually all ranged poke/burst champions)

But against melees or short ranged champions they usually do many mistakes..

1. Ping constantly for ganks. Not only does this pressure your jungler to make mistakes but it always places a risk for him to get two kills. If he has Zhonyas, then its not even worth unless you have some hard lockdown (WW, Sejuani, or Vi) or Displacement (Lee Sin)

2. They do not look at the laser cooldowns. Regular autos from turrets do not deal as much damage as people assume, for the actual burst comes from the lasers. Try going slightly near the turrets then back away before you all-in him or else you'll get rekt

3. They just try to walk up and auto the turrets telegraphically.. Of course the champion is practically defenseless without his turrets but that will just cause you to get a E, W, Laser, some Q autos and there, 35-40% of your life is gone.

And now for melees Good melee champs versus him: Nasus, Riven, Yasuo, Irelia, and Renekton.

The idea is that most decent heim players will try to bait out enemy champions trying to auto multiple times against his turrets by trying to place an grenade on them while unleashing dps. Use this to your advantage if he misses grenade then he is easy mode for all-in.

Sustain is really good vs him. If you cannot all-in him with any confidence whatsoever, then it becomes a farm-lane. Stand behind the minion wave so that his wave pushes by the random lasers. By that time, as the lane pushes, it will go past the usual triangle turret setup of doom. He will have one turret in front instead of all 3 or 2 early-on. Hexdringer does wonders. If you build full tank then you wont really do much