Hecarim Build Guide by RainLiss

Introduction

Hey guys! It's RainLiss with another build! In this guide we're looking at Hecarim: My Undead Pony. I personally think he's a very fun champion to use but maybe be hard to play with. Enjoy!

P.S If you have any Hec gameplay vids with my build, send me a YouTube URL and I'll include it.

Pros / Cons

Pros: +Fast.. Very. Very. Fast. + Warpath comes in handy a lot! You get to move at the speed of light and dish out tons of damage + Devastating Charge increases your speed dramatically

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Cons: -It's tough to land a hit with Rampage -Can be very mana hungry throughout the whole game. (I try to counter with Manamune and Trinity Force -Health amount isn't too great.

Masteries

I feel this 21-0-9 build gives Hecarim all the damage and armor penetration to get the job done. The life steal and speed add on.

Offense Masteries

Summoner's Wrath : Increases AP and AD while on cooldown for Ignite. If you are using Ghost, this increases your speed.

Brute Force : Gives a nice Attack Damage bonus that helps with early game bullying.

Alacrity : Helps dish out more damage faster.

Weapon Expertise : Helps with harassing tanky enemy champions.

Deadliness : The bonus Attack Damage per level helps with the final outcome of the build.

Lethality : The critical chance improvement helps a lot with early game harassment as well as assisting late game critical strike outputs.

Vampirism : Better lane sustainability and less of a need to Recall

Havoc : The nice Attack Damage bonus helps a lot with early game lane bullying and late game damage output.

Executioner : The damage bonus will aide you in taking out enemies low on health with moves such as Rampage or Onslaught of Shadows

Utility Masteries

Summoner's Insight : Reduces the cooldown of Flash

Good Hands : I'm sure that no one likes being dead. This will help you spend less time in that state of rage.

Swiftness : This helps with Warpath's damage bonus

Runic Affinity : This extends the duration of buffs which is always useful.

Runes

Greater Mark of Attack Damage: Extra early game damage for harassment and farming.

Greater Seal of Armor: Extra early game resistance.

Greater Glyph of Attack Speed: Helps dish out more damage.

Greater Quintessence of Movement Speed: Helps utilize the effect of Warpath.

Summoner's Spells

There are many reasons why I pick these specific Summoner's Spells and I'll show you now.

Flash: Great escape spell Can jump to fleeing enemies to seal the kill Steal buffs with Flash's "wall-jump" like qualities

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Ignite: Can pick off enemy champions in early, mid, and late game Can scare away/intimidate enemies that could kill you easily* With Summoner's Wrath Ignite can grant bonus AD and AP while on cooldown *The scaring away and intimidation depends on the enemy player's point of view towards the battle.

Hecarim's Fabulous Skill Set

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The order for building your skills should go like this.
1st - Decimate
2nd - Apprehend
3rd - Crippling Strike
Finally just level up Onslaught of Shadows like any other ultimate.

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Warpath: Gives bonus damage equal to a percentage of your health. The champion also ignores unit collision. Okay, the unit collision thing is kind of stupid but the bonus damage makes Hecarim way more fun to use.

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Rampage: This skill has an extremely low cool down and mana cost as well as a very high damage. The only con is that this has no range whatsoever.

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Spirit of Dread: This isn't too good of a healing spell but functions better as an AoE spell. I'd use this after using Devastating Charge to add damage to my spamming of Rampage.

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Devastating Charge: This spell can set up a good chain of skill combos for a nice kill.

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Onslaught of Shadows: This skill is a used more as a finisher/catcher move since I don't build a lot of AP with Hec.

Items

Early Game:

: You need to get around the map fast. This will help you.

: Depending on who you're matched with you could get into some rough fights. These will help ease off the pain.

: Gives massive speed and helps utilize Warpath.

Mid Game:

: Gives insane attack damage and critical strike chance. The unique passive on Infinity Edge also helps with the insane damage output.

: Gives a great amount of overall speed and critical chance which helps utilize Warpath.

: Gives great attack damage and life steal. It's also not very hard to maintain the unique passive stacks.

Late Game

: It's the hybrid weapon of the game. I pick it for the smooth boost to mana, movement speed, attack speed, and critical strike chance.

: This weapon is great with Hecarim. The mana bonus and attack damage bonus will leave Hec overflowing with mana and attack damage.

Combo to get a quick kill!

First, use Devastating Charge to knockback the enemy champion and deal a huge amount of damage (make sure to charge). Next, use Spirit of Dread to add a damage boost while spamming Rampage. If the enemy gets out of range, use Onslaught of Shadows to catch the champion and finish the fight.

Summary

Overall, Hecarim's a great character to use and this build makes the best of him. Be sure to practice because he has a unique play style. Go ahead and bend the rules to my build, be creative! You never know, you may have a chart topping build yourself!