Darius with Heimerdinger
How to Synergize Darius and Heimerdinger
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Darius Heimerdinger Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Darius and Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Darius with Heimerdinger
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Advice to Understand How Heimerdinger Will Play
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.
Darius Heimerdinger Synergy Stats
How to Play with Heimerdinger as Darius in LoL
The Darius Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Darius sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Heimerdinger. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Heimerdinger helps Darius perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Darius is an ally to Heimerdinger, he gets a small increase in his total damage output. This could signal that Heimerdinger helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Darius is played with Heimerdinger on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Heimerdinger.
Moreover, when Darius plays with Heimerdinger on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Heimerdinger does a poor job of protecting Darius during teamfights.
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Is Darius better when played alongside Heimerdinger?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Darius that will always be his best ally. However, overall, Heimerdinger is a very typical companion for Darius. By being on the same team as Darius, he improves their win rate by 0.7% to 49.9%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Darius and Heimerdinger that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Heimerdinger has a much greater difficulty compared to Darius. That means Darius players need to be careful when arranging Heimerdinger comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Darius and Heimerdinger together, you may not be giving your side enough support. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Heimerdinger ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Darius to work well with Heimerdinger during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Darius and Heimerdinger synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Darius used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Heimerdinger than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Darius boasted an average winrate of 49.9% when playing alongside Heimerdinger with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Darius players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.9% win rate overall.
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