How to win lane as Neeko against Heimerdinger · 39.83% win rate · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | You are both weak and passive at level 1 with no combo — he has only one turret and you have only single-target Q, so neither breaks the other yet. |
| Level 2 | Heimerdinger | His turret beams plus a W rocket punish you the moment you step up to last-hit, and you have no level-2 answer to the zone. |
| Level 3 | Heimerdinger | He walls the minions off and pokes with W; your only counterplay is a perfect max-range E, and one missed root leaves you down CS and HP. |
| Levels 4-5 | Heimerdinger | Through Levels 4-5 his turret fort and rocket poke out-zone your Q waveclear, and you cannot all-in without ult. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Pop Blossom is your spike — a clone-baited, disguised ult that eats his E grenade and stuns him is your one even window to fight back. |
| First item | Heimerdinger | His Rylai/Zhonya spike re-zones every cooldown, and he E-stuns your channel if you dive the turrets, out-DPSing your single rotation. |
| Two+ items | Heimerdinger | Full-item Heimer holds his turret fort and W poke; you cannot break the wall 1v1, so your value shifts to roams and teamfights, not this lane. |
Heimer owns the lane the second his first turret goes down — it beams you for walking into Q range and walls you off the minions, so you cannot freely Q-poke or last-hit up close. Stay back, farm with the outer edge of Blooming Burst (Q), and accept you will miss CS. Your only early threat is a max-range Tangle-Barbs (E) that roots him through or past the turret line before his grenade comes up; never throw it at the turret itself or you waste your one tool.
The full Neeko vs Heimerdinger 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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