Hecarim vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Hecarim
based on 1,683 Hecarim vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Hecarim vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Hecarim vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Hecarim against Illaoi
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
Advice to Win Against Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Hecarim vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Hecarim in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some important Hecarim against Illaoi counter stats that can help you understand the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Illaoi..
Hecarim usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Illaoi. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Hecarim and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Hecarim or Illaoi?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Hecarim usually loses when playing against Illaoi, with a 48.5% win rate. Thus, Hecarim makes a poor counter for Illaoi.
While Hecarim does have a lower win rate compared to Illaoi, when facing one another, Hecarim also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Hecarim into Illaoi.
Furthermore, Hecarim has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Illaoi. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Hecarim vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Hecarim is a somewhat poor counter for Illaoi. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Hecarim against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Hecarim in order to counter Illaoi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim most often accumulates a lot less CS as Illaoi. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Hecarim versus Illaoi build include Trinity Force, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Hecarim bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Illaoi than with many other typical builds. In fact, Hecarim had an average winrate of 48.5% when countering Illaoi with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Illaoi as Hecarim, Hecarim players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Hecarim vs Illaoi face-offs, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.5% win rate overall.
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