Heimerdinger·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Heimerdinger Top build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Conqueror as your keystone, followed by Presence of Mind, Legend: Haste and Cut Down in the primary tree, as well as Absolute Focus and Gathering Storm in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Blackfire Torch as your first item, followed by Sorcerer's Shoes and Liandry's Torment. For your last 3 items, you should build Zhonya's Hourglass, Rylai's Crystal Scepter and finish with Rabadon's Deathcap. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 54.1% winrate over 2 444 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Conqueror as your keystone, Presence of Mind, Legend: Haste and Cut Down in the primary tree, and Absolute Focus with Gathering Storm in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Liandry's Torment as your first item, then Sorcerer's Shoes as a second item and Rylai's Crystal Scepter as a third item. You want to finish the build with Zhonya's Hourglass, Rabadon's Deathcap and Void Staff. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 51.1% win rate across 325 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Heimerdinger Top build in the current patch, try Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Haste and Cut Down as your primary rune tree, and Absolute Focus with Gathering Storm as your secondary tree. Use Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Rabadon's Deathcap as your first item, then finish Sorcerer's Shoes as your second item, and Shadowflame as third item. The last 3 options are Void Staff, Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 62.2% win rate over 156 matches played.

Situational Heimerdinger Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Heimerdinger build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.