Hecarim with Annie
How to Synergize Hecarim and Annie
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Hecarim Annie Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Hecarim and Annie
Tips for Playing as Hecarim with Annie
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 Understand How Annie Will Play
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
Hecarim Annie Synergy Stats
How to Play with Annie as Hecarim in LoL
The Hecarim Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Hecarim sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Annie. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Annie helps Hecarim perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Hecarim tries to synergize with Annie, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Annie helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Hecarim is played with Annie on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Annie.
Additionally, when Hecarim plays with Annie on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Annie does a decent job of protecting Hecarim in teamfights.
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Is Hecarim better when played alongside Annie?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Hecarim that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Annie is a good teammate for Hecarim. By locking into the same team as Hecarim, she increases their win rate by 1.2% to 49.7%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Hecarim and Annie that results in them performing better together than alone.
Annie has a lower difficulty than Hecarim. That means Hecarim players don't need to be careful when enlisting Annie allies to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing alongside, Hecarim players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Hecarim and Annie together, you may not be providing your team enough engage potential. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Annie ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Hecarim in order to pair well with Annie during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to include in your Hecarim and Annie synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Spear of Shojin. When Hecarim used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Annie than with most other common builds. In fact, Hecarim had an average win rate of 49.7% helping carry Annie with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.7% winrate overall.
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