Hecarim with Kassadin
How to Synergize Hecarim and Kassadin
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Hecarim Kassadin Synergy Summary
Best Hecarim vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Hecarim and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Hecarim with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Hecarim Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Hecarim in LoL
The Hecarim Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kassadin helps Hecarim perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Hecarim is an ally to Kassadin, he observes a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Kassadin does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Hecarim is played together with Kassadin on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kassadin.
Moreover, when Hecarim plays with Kassadin on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Kassadin does a decent job of covering Hecarim during teamfights.
Synergies between Hecarim and Kassadin
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Is Hecarim better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no top ally for Hecarim that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, Kassadin is a good teammate for Hecarim. By locking into the same side as Hecarim, he raises their win rate by 2.9% to 51.4%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good synergy between Hecarim and Kassadin that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Kassadin has a greater difficulty than Hecarim. That means you should be cautious when lining up Kassadin comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Hecarim and Kassadin together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates much support. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Kassadin ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Hecarim to work well with Kassadin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to include in your Hecarim and Kassadin synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Spear of Shojin. When Hecarim used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Kassadin than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Hecarim boasted an average winrate of 51.4% when playing alongside Kassadin with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Hecarim players should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Hecarim and Kassadin pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.4% winrate overall.
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