Talk:Heimerdinger/@comment-80.15.143.26-20120429080629/@comment-24.146.194.181-20120430123222

He can build fairly tanky and stay pretty far away in team fights while still putting out pretty decent almost constant spread out damage to the other team and stun them. An RoA, zhonyas or abyssal and some defensive runes and masteries along with good mpen make him someone you don't want to focus as much, and much better at 1v1, especially cause when you close with him he can stun you most of the time and with more survivability he is much more able to stick by his turrets and team and fight back.

However, I do agree about his late game being weak. His scaling and mechanics will not let him get the numbers that, well, any other mage can get... he can get close early-mid game by going all ap with no survivability items, but then he drops like a rock in team fights later on and still doesn't have the damage output to really do the job of an AP.