Talk:Heimerdinger/@comment-121.219.48.184-20120405134408/@comment-176.10.220.19-20120411112217

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Yes he's being reworked but it's taken a long time and the rework is curently on hold while FeralPony works on a new champion. It's great to see that Riot is prioritizing game balance over introducing shiny new things that often wreck the game balance...

And @OP yes he's difficult to use but at his current state i don't really think you can argue that he's viable or useful compared to other mages. Heimer is pretty much broken in his current state as he deals low damage for high manacosts with difficult to land abilities and he scales terribly into mid/late game with his low ratios. He's also one of the least survivable champions in the game with bad base stats (lowest base armor and armor per level scaling of all champions) and low movement speed (also ties for the lowest in the game with champions like Anivia and Nautilus).

The only thing he can really do well/better than other mages is farm and push but that's it. He has the ability to maintain the highest cs in a game even in the jungle (he's good at farming the jungle but his ganks are terible so he can't jungle effectively either) but his low ratios take that advantage out as no matter what items he buys he'll be outdamaged by other mages. He desperately needs a buff/rework or he'll just remain UP and completely unviable for anything but trolling.