Talk:Heimerdinger/@comment-4644013-20130423050729/@comment-5052127-20130429062020

R IS instant cast now... they changed that recently. E was made more unreliable deliberately by Riot because they basically had to stomp every single one of his abilities in every way thanks to how his turrets multiply his power in lane. When it hit more often in important moments, it would also hit more often when people would try to kill his turrets in lane, and that made his turrets harder to counter there... basically all his abilities just work too well together in lane.

He is definitely not very good anymore, as they removed a ton of damage from his kit while leaving every single weakness there... he has many hindrances other mages don't have to deal with, and NO place or situation where he does a lot of damage compared to anyone else... even hitting you with every single ability and several seconds of turret dps (you dived him and he cc'ed you), he will still do less damage than ANY other mage will do in that amount of time. Actually he will do less damage than almost any other champ in the game... Do the math on it if you don't believe me... they SLAMMED his numbers and his kit MUCH worse than what they did to Eve before her rework.. what you describe about him being able to kill people if they engage on him USED to be true, that was how they originally designed him, but it is no longer.