Heimerdinger with Poppy
How to Synergize Heimerdinger and Poppy
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Heimerdinger Poppy Synergy Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Heimerdinger and Poppy
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger with Poppy
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 Poppy Will Play
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Heimerdinger Poppy Synergy Stats
How to Play with Poppy as Heimerdinger in LoL
The Heimerdinger Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 Poppy. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Poppy helps Heimerdinger perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Heimerdinger is paired with Poppy, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This may signal that Poppy helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played with Poppy on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Poppy. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Poppy.
Moreover, when Heimerdinger plays with Poppy on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Poppy does a poor job of covering Heimerdinger in team fights.
Synergies between Heimerdinger and Poppy
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Is Heimerdinger better when played alongside Poppy?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Heimerdinger that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, Poppy is a below average companion for Heimerdinger. By locking into the same team as Heimerdinger, she drops their win rate by -1.4% to 48.2%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Heimerdinger and Poppy that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Poppy has a lower difficulty than Heimerdinger. That means Heimerdinger players don't need to be careful when arranging Poppy allies to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by grouping Heimerdinger and Poppy together, you will not be providing your other teammates a lot of attack damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Poppy ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Heimerdinger in order to work well with Poppy during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to build first in your Heimerdinger and Poppy synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Poppy than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average win rate of 48.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Poppy with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use 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 builds players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.2% win rate overall.
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