Twitch vs Heimerdinger
How to Beat Heimerdinger as Twitch
based on 2,297 Twitch vs Heimerdinger matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Twitch vs Heimerdinger Matchup Summary
Best Twitch vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Heimerdinger as Twitch
Tips for Playing as Twitch against Heimerdinger
Contaminate has a large range; apply as many stacks of Deadly Venom as possible before using it.
You can catch up to an enemy out of attack range with Venom Cask.
Twitch's Attack Speed is among the highest in the game; try purchasing items with on-hit effects such as Black Cleaver or Wit's End.
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.
Twitch vs Heimerdinger Counter Stats
How to Counter Heimerdinger with Twitch in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some strategic Twitch against Heimerdinger matchup stats that can help us figure out the differences between the two. Twitch’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Twitch may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Heimerdinger. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Twitch typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Heimerdinger. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Twitch and Heimerdinger
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Who is Better, Twitch or Heimerdinger?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Twitch usually wins when trying to fight Heimerdinger, with a 51.2% win rate. As a result, Twitch makes a good counter for Heimerdinger.
While Twitch does have a higher win rate than Heimerdinger, when on opposite teams, Twitch also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Twitch into Heimerdinger.
Additionally, Twitch also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Twitch vs Heimerdinger matchups, Twitch is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Twitch is a decent counter to Heimerdinger. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Twitch against Heimerdinger.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Twitch to counter Heimerdinger during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Twitch most often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Heimerdinger. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Twitch versus Heimerdinger build consist of Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Twitch used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Heimerdinger than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Twitch boasted an average winrate of 51.2% battling Heimerdinger with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Heimerdinger as Twitch, you should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Twitch vs Heimerdinger battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.2% winrate overall.
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