In the past year of League of Legends, the ADC meta has fluctuated immensely. What once was a role where players could have thrived on any champion should they win laning phase and scale properly became one entirely dependent on specific combinations—those that would become vital win conditions in pro play.
One of these specific bot lane duos consists of Ashe and Heimerdinger, which first gained popularity at last year’s World Championship, where it successfully threw the standard Lucian/Nami, Zeri/Yuumi, and Sivir/Yuumi pairings that had dominated the international meta to that point.