How to win lane as Heimerdinger against Lucian · 52.63% win rate over 475 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Lucian | Lucian's Lightslinger double-shot off Q shreds your low base HP at level 1 before you have a nest — concede this window and soak XP near tower. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | By level 2 your second turret and the beam slow contest his step-ups, but his Q poke still trades even — it's a coin flip on execution. |
| Level 3 | Heimerdinger | A third banked H-28G charge walls the lane into your zone; he must enter turret range to poke and pays beam damage for every CS. |
| Levels 4-5 | Heimerdinger | Full three-turret nest plus the CH-3X center stun means his Relentless-Pursuit trade ends with him stun-locked under the beams and dead. |
| Level 6 | Heimerdinger | UPGRADE!!! adds a super-turret or a wider, longer stun — Lucian can't dash past three buildings and a fattened grenade, so he's zoned off CS. |
| First item | Heimerdinger | Your nest plus first item keeps the siege one-sided; you out-zone a Lucian who still has to walk into beam range to do anything. |
| Two+ items | Lucian | With crit/lethality and The Culling, Lucian out-ranges the turrets and bursts the immobile yordle through them — his scaling reclaims the lane if you didn't close it. |
Lucian's level 1 is genuinely scary for you — a Lightslinger double-shot off his Q chunks your low base HP before you have a turret nest to hide behind, so don't contest the first wave; plant one H-28G near your tower and just soak XP. Once you bank a second and third turret charge by Levels 2-3, the lane flips: the electron beams' slow punishes him for walking up to last-hit, and his short auto range means he has to step into your turret zone to keep poking. Take CS with turret fire, save W rockets to poke him when he commits, and let the beams tax every step he creeps forward.
The full Heimerdinger vs Lucian report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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