Talk:Heimerdinger/@comment-4924564-20130722170623/@comment-5052127-20130723020933

His poking mechanic with the missiles and large zoning area are nice, in lane, and that's the only place it helps him... and It doesn't really help him after all... Because of this, all his damage and abilities had to be nerfed into the ground just to compensate for how hard it is to trade damage with him in lane. His damage was nerfed so hard it's quite possible for enemies to just farm and sustain even through him throwing everything at you every cooldown he can.

One major reason they nerfed his damage so hard is, as you pointed out, he does still have the potential to demolish towers fairly fast (although MANY champs are faster than him at it, and right now many champs have much better waveclear that can easily outfarm him and push him back too), but with his missiles and permanent zoning, he could still totally hardcounter and drive most champs out of lane and just eat their tower every time if he actually did better damage. He would NEVER really have to engage the enemy.