How to win lane as Heimerdinger against Volibear · 52.08% win rate over 96 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | We are both weak at level 1, but with one turret and no stun I can't contest his minion-cover W-bite — it's a true coin-flip. |
| Level 2 | Heimerdinger | My second turret and beam slows come online, taxing his CS and making the empowered-Q dash easy to read and side-step. |
| Level 3 | Heimerdinger | Three banked charges plus the beam slow mean Voli can't enter my nest without eating chip his W bite can't fully heal back. |
| Levels 4-5 | Heimerdinger | Full nest plus the CH-3X center-stun makes any empowered-Q all-in suicidal — I stun him and the beams kill him before W heals. |
| Level 6 | Volibear | His R disables a turret and shields him, so he leaps the thinned nest and Sky-Splitter stuns an immobile yordle with no escape. |
| First item | Even / skill | UPGRADE!!! keeps my super-turret siege strong, but his R-dive answers the zone just as well — the architecture war stays even. |
| Two+ items | Volibear | He out-scales me hard: a bruiser-tank with items brawls through the beams, bites the heal back, and grinds me down through the buildings. |
I have to play level 1 even — neither of us wants to commit, but I have no stun yet and can't punish him, so I just secure CS and bank charges. By 2-3 my second turret and the beam slows turn the lane into my zone and make his empowered-Q dash predictable. I hold the grenade instead of poking with it; his only real threat is a minion-cover W-bite, so I soak that chip and keep him off my beam-protected CS.
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