Talk:Heimerdinger/@comment-9705522-20130527105413/@comment-5052127-20130527231055

Yeah, The rockets actually haven't changed too much, except in pre-s1, he had rockets that prioritized champs and could hit multiple on one champ for full damage... they changed them to work like they do now and the scaling/mana cost they have because of how safe a harass move they are with his turrets around and how they are effectively automatic damage.

Basically, they want to make it very hard for him to abuse them unless he's building mana/has blue buff. This is because he still was too safe in lane, and it was impossible to touch him at the time, so he could just walk up lane, plant turrets and blow up your tower with no way to stop him, harassing you and farming with practically no risk at all.

So they reduced all his ranges, reduced his turret range, made his cc harder to hit with, and weakened his turrets and grenade scaling, all just to make his laning weaker. This still didn't work so they ended up having to remove a turret too, and weaken the other 2 even more, leaving him with 2 much weaker turrets and every other ability much weaker too, this of course ended up pretty much making him outclassed by everyone late game, because just to fix his laning they had to get rid of literally half his total damage and a huge chunk of his range on every ability... all stuff he needed late game to offset how squishy and slow he is.