Hecarim with Lucian
How to Synergize Hecarim and Lucian
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Hecarim Lucian Synergy Summary
Best Hecarim vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Hecarim and Lucian
Tips for Playing as Hecarim with Lucian
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 Lucian Will Play
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Hecarim Lucian Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lucian as Hecarim in LoL
The Hecarim Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Lucian. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Lucian helps Hecarim perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Hecarim is an ally to Lucian, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Lucian helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Hecarim is played together with Lucian on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Lucian. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Lucian.
Moreover, when Hecarim plays with Lucian on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Lucian does a poor job of covering Hecarim during teamfights.
Synergies between Hecarim and Lucian
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Is Hecarim better when played alongside Lucian?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Hecarim that will always be his top ally. Yet, Lucian is a very typical companion for Hecarim. By playing on the same side as Hecarim, he decreases their win rate by -0.9% to 47.6%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Hecarim and Lucian that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Lucian has a lower difficulty than Hecarim. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Lucian comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Hecarim and Lucian together, you may not be providing your team much crowd control. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Lucian ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Hecarim in order to pair well with Lucian during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Hecarim and Lucian synergy build consist of Spear of Shojin, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Hecarim incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Lucian than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Hecarim had an average winrate of 47.6% when playing alongside Lucian with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Hecarim players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.6% win rate overall.
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