Talk:Heimerdinger/@comment-24.187.23.1-20120608014138/@comment-5052127-20120608121031

Yeah, I get top damage in games a lot, even with a crappy number of kills, but I always get tons of assists... its because of how spread out and undirected his damage is.

Another reason is how easy it is for most champions he's damaged to get away from him before he can finish them off, leaving teammates who are better at chasing or with better burst potential to get those kills.

I tend to think of him more as a supporting damager (pretty much the mage equivalent of what a fighter/bruiser does, since he puts out pretty much constant but medium level damage with occasional spikes, has the utility to mess up enemy carries with his stun and blind, is good at getting people low enough for the assassins and carries to finish off, and can lay down areas of control in fights... the only difference is that Heimer can't offtank well and doesn't have good tools to help him chase).