Heimerdinger

Heimerdinger is an AP mage in the mid, and on patch 16.11 they grade out as a solid mid-tier pick — a 55.3% win rate, 0.3% pick rate, 3,954 ranked games sampled. On the power curve, Heimerdinger holds a fairly even power curve, staying relevant at every stage rather than relying on a single timing.

How Heimerdinger wins: sieging objectives and turrets with sustained pressure, and winning the wave and turning push priority into map control. The kit grades 8/10 siege, 8/10 waveclear, 7/10 split-push. Heimerdinger grades low on engage and mobility (3/10, 2/10), so don't take fights that turn on those dimensions.

The most-played core build is Blackfire Torch, Liandry's Torment, Zhonya's Hourglass, which holds a 58.9% win rate across 129 games this patch. The build above re-optimizes once you lock in the enemy composition.

The matchup to respect is Jinx, where Heimerdinger sits at just 48.4%, the lane swings the other way into Lee Sin (59.4%), and on the team side, Heimerdinger gains the most from a Garen (+12.2% pair win rate).