Talk:Heimerdinger/@comment-78.130.195.167-20121012220859/@comment-5052127-20121024161741

To above: It was never about laning or holding lanes the way Heimer does it... He was just overpowered in lane. They had to nerf every ability of his literally to the ground to stop it (well they didn't really STOP it.. he is still able to counter almost every champ in lane, but he is beatable at least). They said back then he needed a total overhaul, because there was no way to give him back any of that damage, range, or utility back without making him a monster in lane again.

The switch to the ammo system was a partial rework after that to try and get him in a little better state, it restored some of his late game power and backdooring ability and gave his ult some of the usefulness they had taken away in the nerfs. It still didn't fix his damage ratios or anything like that... they couldn't give him the damage ratios back, or the range on all his abilities, or the reliability back on grenade that it used to have.