Heimerdinger with Lucian
How to Synergize Heimerdinger and Lucian
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Heimerdinger Lucian Synergy Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Heimerdinger and Lucian
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger with Lucian
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 Understand How Lucian Will Play
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Heimerdinger Lucian Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lucian as Heimerdinger in LoL
The Heimerdinger Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Heimerdinger sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Lucian. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Lucian helps Heimerdinger perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Heimerdinger tries to synergize with Lucian, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This difference could indicate that Lucian helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played with Lucian on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Lucian. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Lucian.
Additionally, when Heimerdinger plays with Lucian on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Lucian does a decent job of protecting Heimerdinger during teamfights.
Synergies between Heimerdinger and Lucian
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Is Heimerdinger better when played alongside Lucian?
There is no perfect companion for Heimerdinger that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Lucian is a not very good ally for Heimerdinger. By being on the same side as Heimerdinger, he lowers their win rate by -2.3% to 47.3%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Heimerdinger and Lucian that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Lucian has a lower difficulty than Heimerdinger. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Lucian allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Heimerdinger and Lucian together, you probably will not be giving your side a great deal of support. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Lucian ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger to work well with Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to include in your Heimerdinger and Lucian synergy build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Lucian than with many other typical builds. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average win rate of 47.3% helping carry Lucian with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.3% win rate overall.
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