Talk:Heimerdinger/@comment-216.37.232.12-20110125193732

I'm 90% sure his turret range is less than 600. A fair amount of champions can simply out-range him with auto-attacks. Then there are all the champs with long-range abilities. His turrets are near-useless against quite a few champions during the laning phase and merely give them another source of gold. And if Heimy dies, they killer is also awarded the gold of any turret that was placed. Turrets can be good pushers and farmers, yes. But I often ponder how cost-productive it is giving the enemies another source of gold that Heimy just delivers to their door-step.

As well, his grenades are incredibly easy to dodge (the upgrade buff helps this, but not much overall). Simply stand behind your minions and he can't hit you with missiles, as they only target the nearest, no priority to champs.

Usually, you don't want to be pushing very hard early game, just last-shotting and letting them push. Good luck with that on Heimy. Everything he does has some sort of AoE effect.

Heimy has far too many cons for me to think too seriously of playing him. Certainly there are other champions out there that are just as good at pushing without it being forced on you.