Hecarim with Kai'Sa
How to Synergize Hecarim and Kai'Sa
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Hecarim Kai'Sa Synergy Summary
Best Hecarim vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Hecarim and Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Hecarim with Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa Will Play
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Hecarim Kai'Sa Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kai'Sa as Hecarim in LoL
The Hecarim Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, 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 Kai'Sa. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kai'Sa helps Hecarim perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Hecarim plays on the same team as Kai'Sa, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Kai'Sa doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Hecarim is played alongside Kai'Sa on the same team, 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 alongside Kai'Sa.
Moreover, when Hecarim plays with Kai'Sa on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Kai'Sa does a decent job of covering Hecarim during team fights.
Synergies between Hecarim and Kai'Sa
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Is Hecarim better when played alongside Kai'Sa?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Hecarim that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Kai'Sa is a terrible teammate for Hecarim. By being on the same team as Hecarim, she lowers their win rate by -3.7% to 44.8%. This shows that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Hecarim and Kai'Sa that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Kai'Sa has a lower difficulty than Hecarim. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Kai'Sa comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, Hecarim players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Hecarim and Kai'Sa together, you may not be granting your other teammates a great deal of support. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Kai'Sa ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Hecarim in order to pair well with Kai'Sa during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Hecarim and Kai'Sa synergy build consist of Spear of Shojin, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Hecarim incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Kai'Sa than with many other common builds. In fact, Hecarim had an average win rate of 44.8% helping carry Kai'Sa with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Hecarim players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 44.8% winrate overall.
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