Talk:Heimerdinger/@comment-5224716-20140328101516/@comment-15280970-20140402212432

No it has nothing with heimerdinger countering melees. He got a VU. He got smoother to play and popular at the same time. More people were interested into learning how to play him and learning how to play him is easier.

Now this is speculation:

However, Heimerdinger is still a short utility skillshot reliant champion. Unless his skillshots are ridicously easy to land (like ziggs) he shouldn't be so high in rates. So my bet is that now that people can play him better, they can abuse his passive.

30 AOE HP5. This combined with the fact that heimer has one of the smoother laning phases makes this a very easy to exploit passive.