Talk:Heimerdinger/@comment-186.136.186.166-20120929093955/@comment-5052127-20120929130100

Yeah, I don't know... I mean he did have a really ridiculous ban rate in ranked... and it got higher as you got to higher ranks, but basically Riot's attitude (at least with Heimer) was, 'This champ ruins the game and makes it unfun for a large number of players because of what he does in lane'.

I guess they wanted to totally kill him so people wouldn't have to worry about facing him in games. After all, even after all their nerfs, he is still practically uncounterable in lane (though he's far from the best farmer now), and he still has that very safe yet dominating lane style Riot said they hate. They did the same kind of thing to Eve. People hated facing her, and complained she made the game no fun, so they nerfed her to hell until they could rework her.