Heimerdinger vs Locke Counter Pick

Locke spends health to fight. Soul Ignition grants attack speed and movement speed while damaging him, returning only part of it when the duration ends, and Silver Stake adds magic damage on-hit that grows with how much health his target is missing. Against an opponent who never lets him start even, that arithmetic collapses: Heimerdinger wins 60.7% of 155 top lane games on patch 16.13.1, difficulty Easy.

Distance carries the argument, 550 attack range against 125. Ashen Pursuit teleports to a location and then dashes into the next target, a two-part commitment that CH-2 Electron Storm Grenade answers with a stun on direct contact. H-28 G Evolution Turret occupies the ground he has to cross and fires a secondary beam through whatever stands in line, while Hextech Micro-Rockets converge wherever the cursor sits. Locke’s numbers are an ordinary melee package: 655 base health rising to 2,508, 32 base armour rising to 103.4, and 340 base movement matching exactly. His physical damage meeting 19 base armour is the one thing that keeps this from being free, and Purgatory can still execute and reward him for sealing a champion away. Ritual Nails marks whoever it hits so his following attacks hit harder, a reminder that this is an assassin needing one clean entry rather than a long exchange. Difficulty stands at 8 against 5.