So Banner was removed because it was annoying to play against.

Dangerous Man··3 votes·1,216 views

[100% opinion based] [want to know how other people think, some insane people may actually enjoy fighting Heim]

Heimerdinger needs a rework then.

Who honestly finds it fun to get hard pushed and attacked by 3 minions with targeted attacks. Who actually enjoys not doing anything in lane without a gank. Who finds it fun to not dodge ONE stun and die to ~80 dps as a jungler ganking. Who thinks it's skillful to finally get the opportunity to kill Heim, but then he just uses zhonyas? A champion I find fun to play against is a Wukong, a Camille, Gnar, Akali, not turrets. When I lose to the champions listed, it really doesn't feel as stupid, it feels like I was genuinely outplayed and outskilled.

-Yes, you may be able to win against him. -Yes, there is counterplay. -Yes, he may not have a good win rate.

but...

-It's certainly not enjoyable. -It's an outdated kit. -It's been untouched for very, very long. (unlike Banner)

5 of these 6 points are basically what happened to Banner. You can win against it, you can outplay it, its not enjoyable, it's outdated etc...but the moment it got buffed/nerfed it's win rate changed drastically. Heimerdinger will do the exact same thing if you nerf him, his win rate will plummet and he'll be useless, so he needs a rework. Nerfing him to a 40% win rate won't make him more fun to play against imo.

I have never played against Heim and had fun. It's literally forcing a boring game onto me.

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Starcraft243ver1 votes

Who honestly finds it fun to get hard pushed and attacked by 3 minions with targeted attacks.

I'm sorry but if you play any champion with medium range abilities you can just kill his turrets and he's quite helpless.

Who actually enjoys not doing anything in lane without a gank.

You shouldnt be ganking heimer.

You are a melee player arent you ? Pick a mage and you'll start having fun.

A champion I find fun to play against is a Wukong, a Camille, Gnar, Akali, not turrets

Pick a mage against these and you'll stop having fun as well. Seriously ? Wukong ? Fun to play against ?

Who thinks it's skillful to finally get the opportunity to kill Heim, but then he just uses zhonyas?

You could say that while playing any assassin like fizz, zed against a zonia user.

Dangerous Man1 votes

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I'm sorry but if you play any champion with medium range abilities you can just kill his turrets and he's quite helpless.

You shouldnt be ganking heimer.

You are a melee player arent you ? Pick a mage and you'll start having fun.

Pick a mage against these and you'll stop having fun as well. Seriously ? Wukong ? Fun to play against ?

You could say that while playing any assassin like fizz, zed against a zonia user.

No I'm not going to play mages top lane. It's not meta and it's not something I play top lane for. I'm not going to start playing mages just because of Heim either, for the 0.2% chance I play against him. Sorry I'm not willing to change my entire playstyle and champion pool just in case I fight Heimerdinger. And no I'm not going to ban him either since I do win against Heim more than I lose, and his playrate is so miniscule.

Also the difference with any other mage using zhonya's is that they aren't dealing 300 dps while using it. Fiddle maybe, but you can walk out afterward, or he fears you but that forces you to walk away. If Fiddle uses zhonya's at any other time he's basically dead, Heim can use his at literally any moment and you're forced to run away. No other champion does that.

Anyway, so your argument to say he's fun to play against is...that he has counterplay? Did you fucking read my post by the way? Do you actually understand what I wrote or did you read the title? Did you read the point I made that he does have counterplay, he has a low win rate and that he's outdated and untouched?

Colton1471 votes

Syndra

Dangerous Man1 votes

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Syndra

Cool, don't own that champion, don't want to play a mage. If I wanted to play mages I would be mid (or bot) which I play neither. That also doesn't help for when I have to choose before my laner.

Pandemic Punch1 votes

Sion Destroys Heimerdinger. Sion can kick his turrets back including the upgraded turret.

Garen Destroys Heimerdinger if you play patient and build Adaptive Helm first. When you reach level 11 without feeding you win

Quinn Apparently beats him pretty bad but I haven't looked into this one

There are several other brain dead champions that can counter him but I just pointed out some of the most notable ones.

Dangerous Man1 votes

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Sion Destroys Heimerdinger. Sion can kick his turrets back including the upgraded turret.

Garen Destroys Heimerdinger if you play patient and build Adaptive Helm first. When you reach level 11 without feeding you win

Quinn Apparently beats him pretty bad but I haven't looked into this one

There are several other brain dead champions that can counter him but I just pointed out some of the most notable ones.

Cool, so he still isn't fun to play against. I feel like you didn't read anything I wrote 3 times in a row. You want to make it all about beating him MISSING THE POINT ENTIRELY AND IGNORING THE FACT THAT I'M NOT ALWAYS PICKING BEFORE HEIMERDINGER AS I MENTIONED TWICE NOW.

Hopefully 3 lines of text is simple enough for you.

ZephyrDrake2 votes

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Cool, so he still isn't fun to play against. I feel like you didn't read anything I wrote 3 times in a row. You want to make it all about beating him MISSING THE POINT ENTIRELY AND IGNORING THE FACT THAT I'M NOT ALWAYS PICKING BEFORE HEIMERDINGER AS I MENTIONED TWICE NOW.

Hopefully 3 lines of text is simple enough for you.

"Fun" is a subjective term. Sorry to say this but what you find "fun" and what others find "fun" can be completely different. You were given champions that can beat Heim very easily in lane and pretty much throughout the entire game. You not wanting to pick them for this or that reason is not our concern. Your complaints were essentially that you cannot do anything against heim... well you can! You just refuse to do those things because it's easier to whine and complain than learn how to play against champions with different playstyles

Dangerous Man1 votes

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"Fun" is a subjective term. Sorry to say this but what you find "fun" and what others find "fun" can be completely different. You were given champions that can beat Heim very easily in lane and pretty much throughout the entire game. You not wanting to pick them for this or that reason is not our concern. Your complaints were essentially that you cannot do anything against heim... well you can! You just refuse to do those things because it's easier to whine and complain than learn how to play against champions with different playstyles

Great, now you're ignoring the OG post saying this was opinion based. Neat.

Edit: Also I was comparing him to BoC to show he fit the exact criteria Riot had for BoC's removal.

ZephyrDrake1 votes

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Great, now you're ignoring the OG post saying this was opinion based. Neat.

Edit: Also I was comparing him to BoC to show he fit the exact criteria Riot had for BoC's removal.

great you can hide all you want behind "this is opinion based" all you want. People have given you answers but since it's not what you want to hear then you reject them. Heim is not going to get reworked because you don't find him fun and even if he does get a rework in the future it won't address your complaints since what you don't like about him is why people pick him to begin with

Dangerous Man1 votes

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great you can hide all you want behind "this is opinion based" all you want. People have given you answers but since it's not what you want to hear then you reject them. Heim is not going to get reworked because you don't find him fun and even if he does get a rework in the future it won't address your complaints since what you don't like about him is why people pick him to begin with

Alright fine, if you're going to complain about it being opinion based then complain that I agreed, I'm telling you right now that every rework decision is opinion based. Warwick didn't need a rework, but in most people's opinion, post-rework Warwick is a great champion with amazing design. Yorick needed a rework and, in most people's opinion, had bad design. Every single rework starts based off of opinions. I'm no crazy person to say that, in my opinion, Heimerdinger has terrible game design for a moba like League. Maybe for a 3D game but certainly not a top-down semi-2D game. Just like old Yorick, he was a dick to play against, his win rate wavered by up to 5% with each buff/nerf. His rework gave him good design while keeping him as the same champion. As long as the rework doesn't disappoint Heimerdinger players and includes good game design then it's a successful rework. I'm going to say right now that a Heimerdinger rework will basically be the mage version of the Yorick rework. The old Yorick had the EXACT same problems Heimerdinger currently has in terms of his predictability, inability to fit well into any meta, and lack of differentiation between different players/games.

Now if Pandemic wants to give me tips, he should tell me how to beat Yorick because I guarantee you I have like a 25% win rate against him. I don't complain and say Yorick needs a rework because I know there's hundreds of ways to outplay him. Heimerdinger is just, kill some turrets, go in, kill, gtfo asap. Every time you kill the fucker it's the exact same routine. Every time you die you don't feel like they're legitimately outskilling you, it just feels like you made a dumb mistake. Not much decision making is left up to the Heimer (extremely small decisions though as with every champion, the reason why Udyr's bad design is nothing to complain about, doing good on Udyr is entirely based on small decisions, Heim barely has to make any until somebody engages him and that's about it).

So that's my opinion, and you can say "well that's up to your opinion again" which misses the point entirely. The thing is, I already know that eventually Heimerdinger will get another rework because he fits all the criteria to get one and Riot knows it. They've done everything to him that would say "I give up, we'll ignore him, see how he does and then give him a rework later" like every other champion they've reworked (with the exception of Ryze/Aatrox where they constantly change them almost every 3-5 updates, Ryze is not like this anymore, Aatrox still is because his rework was garbo and we all know it). So the point of this post is basically reminding them the guy exists, he thrives on trash design and he is severely outdated.

Pandemic Punch1 votes

If you are first pick, it is your responsibility to pick something that isn't hard countered that badly if you want to win more consistently. Like Sion, Ornn, Garen, or Maokai.

I heard all of your points. They are just blatantly retarded. I was just trying to help. Reworking Heimerdinger won't be the answer. If Riot reworks him again, there is a 100% chance that he keeps the turrets and his primary identity which is shove the lane down your throat if you are a champion who struggles vs his turrets. Then 1v2 for double kill if the enemy jungler ganks without any foresight.

You aren't good enough at this game to play against hard match ups in BRONZE elo. Then you shout down people who are trying to make the game easier for you so that maybe you DO have more fun playing against him. If all you got is more baby raging, then I can no longer bless you with my presence. I am sorry my child but if you can't learn anything while I am holding your hand, then you will have to try to learn the hard way which you have proven that you are incapable of up until now.

Now I must go. Remember my child that if you are first pick and you aren't any good, pick a champion who can survive the lane no matter how bad the match up is. If you are good enough, you should be able to dominate any lane in Bronze.

I never see people complain about champions who are too easy to beat in lane. ;-)

Dangerous Man1 votes

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If you are first pick, it is your responsibility to pick something that isn't hard countered that badly if you want to win more consistently. Like Sion, Ornn, Garen, or Maokai.

I heard all of your points. They are just blatantly retarded. I was just trying to help. Reworking Heimerdinger won't be the answer. If Riot reworks him again, there is a 100% chance that he keeps the turrets and his primary identity which is shove the lane down your throat if you are a champion who struggles vs his turrets. Then 1v2 for double kill if the enemy jungler ganks without any foresight.

You aren't good enough at this game to play against hard match ups in BRONZE elo. Then you shout down people who are trying to make the game easier for you so that maybe you DO have more fun playing against him. If all you got is more baby raging, then I can no longer bless you with my presence. I am sorry my child but if you can't learn anything while I am holding your hand, then you will have to try to learn the hard way which you have proven that you are incapable of up until now.

Now I must go. Remember my child that if you are first pick and you aren't any good, pick a champion who can survive the lane no matter how bad the match up is. If you are good enough, you should be able to dominate any lane in Bronze.

I never see people complain about champions who are too easy to beat in lane. ;-)

First off, Heim is a heavily outdated champion compared to any other top laner. This boy is nothing like any other top laner so to pick a champion for him really limits my options. Also, picks that aren't countered that badly are generally met with a boring as shit lane against him. Maokai must wait for a gank. Garen would have to kill turrets and basically run off his W for long periods of time. Ornn is a champion I honestly don't play, not going to give an opinion. Sion is left to kill turrets first and his Q will be basically useless in that lane, he'll get stunned and shot down for at least 200 damage if he tries. If he's in a bush then he'll still have to run through turrets (because let's be real, if Heim sees you walk in to a bush he's not going anywhere near it). What I'm saying here is, basically every champion has to resort to farming and ganks. Hey doesn't that sound like an LCS match, unwatchable yawnfest lol.

Here's the other thing, your second paragraph says to make the game easier for me and that I'm shutting you down for helping. How are you helping? You're literally just telling me to play some shitty champions that will still end up having a boring lane. You've actually given me 0 tips and just told me 'you have to win in champion select' indirectly. Which is exactly how outdated champions are. You got people like Nunu, Udyr, Heimerdinger running around with these kits that just destroy specific champions and lose against every other. Like if I knew I'd have these 3 on the enemy team, I'd just play Zilean and destroy them easy. However, it's a bit more complicated than that.

"I never see people complain about champions who are too easy to beat in lane" there's a good fucking reason. They aren't boring as shit to play through. When you're 5/0 it's not as boring as beating Heim because you have a 20 cs lead. Yay how fun, CSing all laning phase and getting a gank occasionally so maybe you have a 1--3 kills by the end of laning phase. Or maybe you're one of the champions who can get a solo kill, great now you have to go through the annoying process of destroying turrets and throwing your one ranged ability out sometimes. Each time you go to cs you have to tank autos, stuns, missiles. It'll be worth it though when (in 60 more seconds!) you'll run up and kill him so you can finally free farm. Lucky me knows that if I play Zilean top, I'll eventually win after sitting through a 30 minute hellhole.

Also, just going to let you know I have complained about a champion being too easy. I made a post long ago about Gangplank, he was so bad at one point that I actually complained because every GP I encountered would end up sitting under tower for 15 minutes and hope for a gank to win for late-game. His early game was so garbage that I actually banned him because I hated CSing for that long. I tried not pushing but the moment he left turret he became such a target he would die and tower hug again. Basically GP forced me to cs for long periods of time but when I left I found he would hard push, so the best way to win was just pushing harder. Eventually he was buffed (I think) and I started playing Nocturne top so I could actually kill the dude under turret and/or roam with less time for him to push. He was certainly too easy to beat in lane and I definitely did complain because tower hugging seemed to be the only strategy until he was level 11 or 16.

Edit: Ok, so we've talked about irrelevant shit long enough. It'd be nice to see you make some points about good game design within League about Heim. Things like differentiation between players of the same champion, unpredictability and complication. These are things that make League fun and that Riot always points toward. I may not know shit about beating Kai'sa but I can tell you with the purest form of honesty that my personal mechanics don't have much relation to good game design and making a fun, competitive, PvP based game on an even playing ground. If I see you ignore these points once more I'm not responding to your next comment. Heimerdinger is predictable, to be good he has to build the same way, he is simple to understand and players cannot play him differently without his winrate plummeting (unlike champions with better game design eg. Tank Akali, Elise Support (jungle and lane are vastly different territories, Heim jungle doesn't exist lol), Shaco AP top, Morgana morphing into a support over the past __ years, Bard being a "do whatever you want and you'll enjoy it" champion.

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