Talk:Heimerdinger/@comment-5197983-20120615025951/@comment-5052127-20120615161101

He seems a lot better in normals and at lower levels than he really is due to noobs and weak players that chase him stupidly and don't know how to deal with him. But if you compare his stats, cooldowns, and abilities to any other mage champ you will see just how weak he is... at higher level play and especially at ranked, things like low AP ratios and low base stats start making a very big difference.

Thanks to his garbage ratios and long cooldowns, he really does do negligible damage in teamfights if the enemy isn't running into his turrets and trying to ignore their damage. All they need to do is blow them up, and all his damage is gone until his other cooldowns come back up, by which time the fight is probably over and he's dead.

Also, everyone knows each champs strengths and weaknesses for the most part at higher level, and they will not chase him or his team into heimer's little trap areas, and during fighting they will either just jump heimer and kill him since he is so squishy, or break his turrets and ignore him until the rest of his team isn't around.