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 Arcane Comet as your keystone, followed by Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus and Scorch in the primary tree, as well as Biscuit Delivery and Magical Footwear 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 Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass and finish with Rabadon's Deathcap. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 54.9% winrate over 3 084 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being First Strike as your keystone, Magical Footwear, Triple Tonic and Cosmic Insight in the primary tree, and Manaflow Band with Absolute Focus 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 Blackfire Torch as your first item, then Sorcerer's Shoes as a second item and Liandry's Torment as a third item. You want to finish the build with Zhonya's Hourglass, Rylai's Crystal Scepter and Rabadon's Deathcap. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 53.9% win rate across 1 773 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Heimerdinger Top build in the current patch, try Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus and Scorch as your primary rune tree, and Biscuit Delivery with Magical Footwear as your secondary tree. Use Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Liandry's Torment as your first item, then finish Sorcerer's Shoes as your second item, and Rylai's Crystal Scepter as third item. The last 3 options are Zhonya's Hourglass, Rabadon's Deathcap and Void Staff. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 52.4% win rate over 870 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.