Heimerdinger with Soraka
How to Synergize Heimerdinger and Soraka
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Heimerdinger Soraka Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Heimerdinger and Soraka
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger with Soraka
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 Soraka Will Play
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.
Heimerdinger Soraka Synergy Stats
How to Play with Soraka as Heimerdinger in LoL
The Heimerdinger Soraka synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Soraka, 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 Soraka. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Soraka helps Heimerdinger perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Heimerdinger is paired with Soraka, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change could indicate that Soraka supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played with Soraka on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Soraka.
Moreover, when Heimerdinger plays with Soraka on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Soraka does a poor job of covering Heimerdinger in teamfights.
Synergies between Heimerdinger and Soraka
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Is Heimerdinger better when played alongside Soraka?
There is no top companion for Heimerdinger that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, Soraka is a very typical ally for Heimerdinger. By locking into the same side as Heimerdinger, she drops their win rate by -0.4% to 49.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Heimerdinger and Soraka that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Soraka has a much lower diffuclty than Heimerdinger. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Soraka teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by pairing Heimerdinger and Soraka together, you will not be granting your other allies very much attack damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Soraka teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 Heimerdinger to pair well with Soraka during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to build first in your Heimerdinger and Soraka synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Luden's Companion. When Heimerdinger used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Soraka than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average win rate of 49.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Soraka with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Heimerdinger players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Heimerdinger and Soraka pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Soraka with Heimerdinger are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.