Talk:Heimerdinger/@comment-4834593-20131006142536/@comment-5052127-20131006171952

Well, if you look at all the problems they had even just trying to make it so he wasn't literally impossible to stop in lane (4 patches in a row of straight nerfs didn't even slow him down back in 2010... he was basically laughing at them with his funny yordle laugh and crushing towers by 8-9 minutes the whole time...)  I tend to believe the hard to balance part...

He's caused all kinds of issues over the game's history that caused them to change things like tower mechanics, and give him even further stealth nerfs. Heck even nerfed as he is, he basically gave a team a win the Korean winter finals this year literally from champ select just with how powerful his mechanics are against towers early, just because the enemy team didn't have any one of the many champs that can counter him at this point.

But Morello and other rioters have also said things about his whole style of gameplay being bad for the game too, that it discourges diving and taking risks, and promotes a safe, poking style of play on both sides too much... I tend to think it's a little of both... Morello outlined their policy on him pretty well when asked why they keep delaying him, with his little speech about picking projects based on 'effort vs reward' ... basically, he IS high on the effort side, and (at least in Morello's view) a defensive champ is not really great for the game, so his project always has always been lower priority than anything that was either easier or could be more beneficial.