Talk:Heimerdinger/@comment-83.250.130.205-20130101202620/@comment-5052127-20130102042129

People think he's useless because Riot declared his laning broken, then proceeded to slam every single one of his abilities hard in just about every way imaginable with 5 straight patches in a row of pure nerfs just to stop his laning.

One of the main things they did is nerf ALL of his ranges and slash his AP ratios, to the extent that it nearly HALFED his maximum damage output AND reduced the range of every ability by 15-20%...This made him beatable early, but REALLY hurt his late game since he was already considered one of the weakest champs late game because of how much he relies on stationary turrets. Lowering every one of his ranges and his grenade AP ratios, while also taking away a whole turret's worth of damage AND making the remaining turrets even weaker did nothing to help his already weak late game.

Since then he has gotten NO buffs and has not been looked at for balance at all because Riot has been saying this entire time that he was nerfed into the dirt for being broken, and that only a full rework will fix him.