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.
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
The Heimerdinger Tristana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tristana, 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 Tristana. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Tristana helps Heimerdinger perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Heimerdinger is an ally to Tristana, he sees a small decrease in his full damage output. This could demonstrate that Tristana does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played together with Tristana on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Tristana.
Moreover, when Heimerdinger plays with Tristana on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Tristana does a decent job of covering Heimerdinger in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Heimerdinger that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Tristana is a very typical teammate for Heimerdinger. By being on the same team as Heimerdinger, she drops their win rate by -0.2% to 49.4%. This proves that there is only a small synergy between Heimerdinger and Tristana that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Tristana has a much lower diffuclty than Heimerdinger. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Tristana teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Heimerdinger players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Heimerdinger and Tristana together, you may not be giving your other allies much utility. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Tristana ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger in order to pair well with Tristana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Heimerdinger and Tristana synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Tristana than with most other common item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average winrate of 49.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Tristana with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, Heimerdinger players should equip 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 used for Heimerdinger and Tristana pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Tristana with Heimerdinger are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.