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.
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.
Try to take Vladimir down before Hemoplague detonates, as it will heal him for each afflicted enemy Champion.
Making Vladimir use Sanguine Pool at the start of a fight will maximize the Health cost of the ability to him.
Items that counter Health stacking, such as Liandry's Torment and Blade of the Ruined King, are very effective against Vladimir.
The stats shown here underscore several significant Hecarim against Vladimir matchup statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between these two champs. Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vladimir’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Vladimir..
Hecarim often has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Vladimir. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Hecarim usually loses when trying to fight Vladimir, with a 44.8% win rate. As a result, Hecarim makes a poor counter to Vladimir.
While Hecarim does have a much lower win rate than Vladimir, when they face off with one another, Hecarim also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult character to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Hecarim into Vladimir.
Furthermore, Hecarim has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vladimir. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Hecarim vs Vladimir matchups, Vladimir is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Hecarim is a garbage counter to Vladimir. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Hecarim against Vladimir.
To learn all of the intricacies of Hecarim to counter Vladimir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim often racks up a lot less CS compared to Vladimir. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Hecarim versus Vladimir build include Turbo Chemtank, Muramana, and Death's Dance. When Hecarim combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Vladimir than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Hecarim boasted an average winrate of 44.8% battling Vladimir with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Vladimir as Hecarim, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Hecarim vs Vladimir fights, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.8% win rate overall.
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