Taric vs Hecarim
How to Beat Hecarim as Taric
based on 969 Taric vs Hecarim matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Hecarim Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Hecarim Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Hecarim as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Hecarim
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
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.
Taric vs Hecarim Counter Stats
How to Counter Hecarim with Taric in LoL
The stats shown here feature some influential Taric versus Hecarim matchup statistics that may help you figure out the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Hecarim’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Hecarim. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Taric usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes less damage than Hecarim. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taric and Hecarim
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Who is Better, Taric or Hecarim?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Taric usually wins when taking on Hecarim, with a 55.9% win rate. Therefore, Taric makes a fantastic counter for Hecarim.
While Taric does have a much higher win rate compared to Hecarim, when on opposite teams, Taric also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Taric into Hecarim.
Additionally, Taric has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Hecarim. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Taric vs Hecarim matchups, Taric is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Taric is a great counter for Hecarim. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Taric against Hecarim.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Taric in order to counter Hecarim during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric most often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Hecarim. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities 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 numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Taric versus Hecarim build consist of Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Hecarim than with most other typical builds. In fact, Taric had an average win rate of 55.9% when countering Hecarim with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Hecarim as Taric, you should take the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Taric vs Hecarim matchups, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 55.9% winrate overall.
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