Talk:Heimerdinger/@comment-8822710-20130906063150/@comment-5052127-20130907014016

Actually, he's been lined up for his rework since July 2010... they say every year that it's coming out then keep shelving it and pushing out new things in front of it... they will probably say the beginning of season four, like they said s2 that it would be beginning of s3, and they said in s1 that it would be near the beginning of s2... but to be realistic, we might see it by s5 or s6 if we are lucky, after about 20 more reworks of other champs.

Morello put it more succinctly about how they order projects... they pick them based on effort vs reward (read: reward=profitability). According to Morello, Heimer is high in the effort side of that equation... (and the potential reward isn't that great for them either considering how few people play him, and how bad he can be for the game if he's not balanced perfectly)...

and I think what IronStylus meant about risk, is how risky a rework is, as in, how likely it is to piss people off, and how likely it is to create a monster (very high risk of both in Heimer's case)... and reward, as in benefit for the game and the playerbase (again, not really that high reward, except for us few crazy Heimer players).

Either way you look at it, Heimer's rework project falls right to the bottom of priority behind practically anything else, because really almost ANYTHING they can do with other champs is easier and more likely to be beneficial the game and well received by players.