Soraka vs Heimerdinger
How to Beat Heimerdinger as Soraka
based on 1,285 Soraka vs Heimerdinger matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Soraka vs Heimerdinger Matchup Summary
Best Soraka vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Heimerdinger as Soraka
Tips for Playing as Soraka against Heimerdinger
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
Advice to Win Against Heimerdinger
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
Soraka vs Heimerdinger Counter Stats
How to Counter Heimerdinger with Soraka in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several vital Soraka vs. Heimerdinger counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Soraka’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Soraka may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Heimerdinger. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Soraka typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Heimerdinger. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Soraka and Heimerdinger
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Who is Better, Soraka or Heimerdinger?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Soraka usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Heimerdinger, with a 49.5% win rate. As a result, Soraka makes an ok counter to Heimerdinger.
While Soraka does have a lower win rate compared to Heimerdinger, when they face off with one another, Soraka also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Soraka into Heimerdinger.
Furthermore, Soraka also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. 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 overall in League of Legends, in Soraka vs Heimerdinger matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Soraka is a somewhat poor counter to Heimerdinger. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Soraka against Heimerdinger.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Soraka in order to counter Heimerdinger during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Soraka usually accumulates a lot less CS as Heimerdinger. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Soraka versus Heimerdinger build include Redemption, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Soraka incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better versus Heimerdinger than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Soraka had an average win rate of 49.5% when countering Heimerdinger with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Heimerdinger as Soraka, Soraka players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Soraka vs Heimerdinger battles, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Heimerdinger as Soraka are displayed for every ranked division. To filter the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.