User blog:Usiar/More on Heimerdinger, Turret Positioning

These are the two turret placements that I commonly use.

In the first layout, the turrets are spaced out enough to avoid AOE damage on multiple turrets. However, they are positioned with a much larger overlapping area. In addition, only two turrets are placed forward, these are pretty much your offensive turrets (which is commonly all you need for minion waves). The 3rd turret is placed at the center towards the back, forming a triangular shape. This back turret is essentially a defensive turret and often won't be in range of incoming minion waves (though it will occasionally be able to fire on minions).

You should quickly notice that this covers a larger portion of the map, while also extending the area towards the back (using the defensive turret) that can fire on attackers should you need to retreat. In addition there is a decent sized section in the center of all three turrets where they can all fire on the same target.

The second layout is very similar to the first. The difference being that the turrets are much closer together as they are not threatened by AOE damage from your opponent. Immediately you'll see that the overlapping area in the center is much larger. This provides a bigger threat to champions such as Diana as they will be in range of all 3 turrets for a longer period of time than they would be if you used a more spread out pattern.

Of course, you don't want to stack each turret on top of each other as that reduces the total area that is covered by the turrets. These remain spaced out a little for that reason.

Who knows, maybe the majority of you Heimerdinger enthusiasts already understand much of this...

Or perhaps not, and its for those people I provide this for. Enjoy.