Talk:Heimerdinger/@comment-62.198.82.5-20120827015422/@comment-5052127-20120827045713

His base stats and cooldowns were based on a champ with much higher AP scaling and ranges who had an extra turret (at least) to defend himself with... It was ok late game, his weak base stats balanced out his relatively safe damage and range late but they had to nerf his scaling and range hardcore to make him not totally ridiculous in lane (seriously, he used to just push ANYONE way behind their tower, farm everything, was ungankable with less than your entire team, and would destroy mid tower in about 8 minutes every game no matter what the other mid did...)

For 5 patches every spotlight was Morello and Phreak talking about how Heimer broke the game with his laning and how parts of his kit were either 'broken' or a 'mistake' (morello) or how they were trying to get rid of his 'anti-fun passive laning' (phreak), and why they were aiming yet more nerfs at him every single patch to stop his early game (he was top ban in ranked at all levels because he was literally unbeatable in mid).