Hecarim with Poppy
How to Synergize Hecarim and Poppy
based on 802 Hecarim with Poppy pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Hecarim Poppy Synergy Summary
Best Hecarim vs Poppy Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Hecarim Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
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Guide to Synergizing Hecarim and Poppy
Tips for Playing as Hecarim with Poppy
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 Poppy Will Play
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Hecarim Poppy Synergy Stats
How to Play with Poppy as Hecarim in LoL
The Hecarim Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 Poppy. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Poppy helps Hecarim perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Hecarim is paired with Poppy, he gets a noticable increase in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Poppy provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Hecarim is played alongside Poppy on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Poppy.
Moreover, when Hecarim plays with Poppy on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Poppy does a poor job of protecting Hecarim during teamfights.
Synergies between Hecarim and Poppy
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Is Hecarim better when played alongside Poppy?
There is no perfect ally for Hecarim that will always be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Poppy is a very typical ally for Hecarim. By locking into the same team as Hecarim, she raises their win rate by 0.4% to 48.9%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Hecarim and Poppy that results in them performing better together than alone.
Poppy has a lower difficulty than Hecarim. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Poppy teammates to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Hecarim and Poppy together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a great deal of magical damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Poppy teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Additional Information for Hecarim Players
How We Calculated Our Hecarim Poppy Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Hecarim to pair well with Poppy during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to use in your Hecarim and Poppy synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Hecarim incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Poppy than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Hecarim had an average win rate of 48.9% when playing alongside Poppy with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating 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. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.9% winrate overall.
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