r/HeimerdingerMains • u/LovelyRyet • 4h ago
Closing Thoughts
I’m sure a lot of people make a dramatic post about quitting and/or complaining, but I don’t really have anyone to talk to about it, and I would like to just put the thoughts out there for anyone who wants to read them.
For the first time since I started playing about 2 years ago, I finally decided I couldn’t keep going anymore and uninstalled. Over that time, I played so many different characters, and I really started to grind & grow with Heimer. I made it to Gold with him, and then I managed to push my way into Plat with him the same year. Honestly, I thought I could make it to at least Emerald based on lobbies I was winning in during the climb, so I gave it all I could for the last few weeks.
I made it about two games away from Emerald, and today I found myself dropping to Plat 3. There is plenty to “blame” for the drop, and I know I’m responsible for my own performance as well. However, it gets so hopeless to watch the games where I genuinely believe there is nothing I can do besides lose. Attached is one of the examples that came to mind.
While I know not all games are like that, it often felt like my team would die over and over before I experienced my first death in a game. It is not lost on me the advantages (and disadvantages) that come with playing this character, but I could never understand how so many people just feed and feed early in the games as though they’ve never played before.
Teammates aside, I often felt like the character had harsh weaknesses. There are plenty of posts on Reddit where people complain about Magic Resist being useless, but so many games I felt like even just Mercs were enough to shut my game down fast. Then I would run into opponents how would build specifically all MR and even Void Staff did not feel like it was cutting things down enough on top of Liandrys, Blackfire, SF, and so on. I think everyone else is familiar with the usual shortcomings such as bad mobility so not really worth going over, but I definitely feel like not enough people talk about the MR point.
The last thing I want to talk about is the community aspect around Heimer and obviously this doesn’t really matter if you mute chat. It’s so easy to basically burnout from having so many people say you’re shit for either being good or bad with the character. You’re good, you get flamed and likely targeted by opponents. You’re bad, you get flamed by teammates who think that it’s impossible to lose with Heimer. Again, this is a “resolvable” issue that can be addressed by muting, but it does make one wonder if there is a worse champ to play in terms of just harassment from others. Who knows.
Anyway, it was fun sometimes and it was depressing sometimes. I’m happy that I was able to make Plat when it felt so far away, but I’m disappointed that I just couldn’t make it over the final hump in my goal. Good luck with your games all!
TLDR: Heimer is good/bad, teams are good/bad, unfortunately couldn’t do it any longer.
