Talk:Heimerdinger/@comment-66.112.230.233-20120914161114/@comment-5052127-20120914212324

I never take ignite on him... always teleport or ghost + flash... and aggressive does work in lane, depending on your opponent, since you can ignore a lot of hits from minions, auto-attacks, and even harass abilities from your opponent with your regeneration, and just bully them, get in their face and drop turrets right there past the minion line (no worrying about AI... the turrets in their face and is GOING to hit them... especially if they try and stick around or hit you for dropping it so close), harass them with autoattacks and other abilities constantly when they try to farm or go after your turrets... hit them with rockets every time they are vulnerable (some people think they are safe behind minions with low health, but you can just flash closer to them and rocket to kill them).

It's pretty hard to trade damage with him unless you are one of the few mages that can nuke him all the way down from full health very quickly, and if you are one of those mages, he outranges you so hard that he can farm safely against you forever.

Ironically, as squishy as he is, I also find him to be a very effective turret-diver. Rush up and drop a turret or 2 right there as the tower starts attacking a minion... if the other player tries to fight you under the tower, they get hit by your turret(s) right away; the tower goes to focus you and not the turret so the turret keeps hitting them... all you have to do then is walk away and shoot a rocket and then your turret finishes them off a lot, with you only taking one or 2 hits from their tower at most.