Katarina vs Hecarim
How to Beat Hecarim as Katarina
based on 3,343 Katarina vs Hecarim matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Hecarim Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Hecarim Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Hecarim as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Hecarim
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Advice to Win Against Hecarim
Hecarim's ultimate causes opponents to flee in terror. Spread out to reduce his power in fights.
Hecarim gains life from nearby enemies with Spirit of Dread but lacks durability, use burst damage.
Katarina vs Hecarim Counter Stats
How to Counter Hecarim with Katarina in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several critical Katarina versus Hecarim counter stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Hecarim’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Hecarim..
Katarina typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she takes less damage than Hecarim. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Hecarim
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Who is Better, Katarina or Hecarim?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Hecarim, with a 50.4% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes an ok counter to Hecarim.
While Katarina does have a higher winrate compared to Hecarim, when facing one another, Katarina also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Hecarimas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Hecarim. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Hecarim matchups, Katarina is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a decent counter to Hecarim. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Hecarim.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Katarina in order to counter Hecarim during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina usually accumulates much more CS compared to Hecarim. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Katarina versus Hecarim build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Katarina used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Hecarim than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 50.4% when countering Hecarim with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Hecarim as Katarina, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Katarina vs Hecarim counter picks, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.4% win rate overall.
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