Talk:Heimerdinger/@comment-4878039-20121021124746/@comment-5052127-20121026200848

@Leyrann...

A little bit of an exaggeration but not much.. after a few patches of trying to stop his shenanigans and failing... trying harder nerfs, he really started to sound almost scared of him in the priviews... I can't find video of them, but his tone changed from 'ok this change will get him around where we want him..' to 'OK people I think we broke the game and he makes it unplayable... we HOPE these changes stop him..'

Removing his third turret was a desperation move after nerfing him in every other way possible to stop his laning, and they knew it was going to destroy him late game combined with all the other ap ratio and range and utility nerfs they had to give him. It ended up that he was STILL too strong early game even after those 5 patches (94b-99), so that the partial rework in patch 109 made him even weaker early by nerfing his turret cd and making him need higher level to get 2, and also lowering their life from ranks 1-3.

The partial rework was an improvement overall though, since he could much more reliably have 2 turrets to cast for late game fights, and got some backdooring ability back, also the enhanced utility on his ult made it a LITTLE better (really it just made it so his rockets wouldn't ALWAYS miss in a teamfight... they would at least hit someone).. but they never gave him back any range or ap ratios, or the utility on the slow or grenade that he used to have... and that's what really killed his late game.