Should You Main Heimerdinger? Tier D
Heimerdinger is tier D for maining. Only 6 of its mains are Challenger or Grandmaster across the three major regions, against 320,258 games played worldwide.
Reviewed for League of Legends patch 16.15.
Verdict. Heimerdinger scores 1.76 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, against a median of 2.26.
The numbers
Score 1.76 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, ban-adjusted · 1 Challenger · 5 Grandmaster · 65 tracked mains in KR, EUW and NA · 320,258 games played worldwide · 3.48% pick rate · 5.84% ban rate
What this means
From the video: Vambient's breakdown, lightly cleaned from speech
Very versatile. But yes, Heimerdinger, I'm going to go into the D tier. So the only player that plays Huckaram Heimerdinger in Challenger right now is I think I released that video, that one guy.
I'm blanking his name now cuz that is what I do. But yeah, he is an NA. And he plays Heker in bot lane.
I mean he Heimerdinger bot lane. So he sets up his turrets and he basically pushes you in. It's I was playing support rom against him and we ended up I guess I won't spoil it but things happened in that game.
I might have it posted already, I might not. But yeah, that is the one guy that is challenger on Heimerdinger. And then there are five GM hybriders.
For his play rate, 3.5%. And only one challenger for it. 6% van rate.
It's fairly It's fairly safe to say that Heimerdinger is not the best right now. That isn't to say he can't get reworked and become better later on. We don't know what Riot can do.
This is only as of season 16 split three. So, that is kind of my thoughts on Heimerdinger. I would say do not main this champion.
All right, we get over to Hay. So, this is one of the newer champions that were released to League.
How this was measured
Two numbers, one division. First, how many players are currently in Challenger or Grandmaster maining this champion in Korea, Europe West and North America, from onetricks.gg. Second, how many ranked games the entire playerbase plays of this champion worldwide across every rank, from op.gg. The result is high elo mains per 100,000 games played, then reduced by the champion's ban rate, because a champion you cannot pick is a champion you cannot main.
This is not a win rate list and it is not a patch strength list. It measures availability-adjusted high-elo main density: how much Challenger and Grandmaster main representation a champion has relative to how often it is played. It is not the probability that maining this champion will get you to high elo. The score counts Challenger and Grandmaster mains only, drawn from a tracked pool that starts at Master; it does not include the Chinese server, and it counts accounts rather than people, so one dedicated player with several high elo accounts shows up more than once. Patch 16.15. The full plain English explanation, including everything this list cannot tell you, is on the main list page.
Popularity is not the signal. What matters here is how densely high elo mains appear relative to how often the champion is played.