Heimerdinger vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Heimerdinger
based on 1,489 Heimerdinger vs Lee Sin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Heimerdinger vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger against Lee Sin
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
Advice to Win Against Lee Sin
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Heimerdinger vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Heimerdinger in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several strategic Heimerdinger vs. Lee Sin counter statistics that may help us appreciate the differences between the two. Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lee Sin’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Lee Sin..
Heimerdinger usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives less damage than Lee Sin. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Heimerdinger and Lee Sin
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Who is Better, Heimerdinger or Lee Sin?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Heimerdinger usually wins when playing against Lee Sin, with a 54.1% win rate. Thus, Heimerdinger makes a great counter for Lee Sin.
While Heimerdinger does have a much higher winrate compared to Lee Sin, when facing one another, Heimerdinger also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Heimerdinger into Lee Sinas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Heimerdinger has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Heimerdinger vs Lee Sin matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Heimerdinger is a great counter to Lee Sin. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Heimerdinger against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Heimerdinger to counter Lee Sin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger typically accumulates much more CS relative to Lee Sin. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Heimerdinger versus Lee Sin build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Heimerdinger used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Lee Sin than with many other common builds. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average winrate of 54.1% when playing against Lee Sin with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Lee Sin as Heimerdinger, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Heimerdinger vs Lee Sin LoL games, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 54.1% win rate overall.
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