Hecarim with Talon
How to Synergize Hecarim and Talon
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Hecarim Talon Synergy Summary
Best Hecarim vs Talon Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Hecarim and Talon
Tips for Playing as Hecarim with Talon
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 Talon Will Play
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Hecarim Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Hecarim in LoL
The Hecarim Talon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Talon, 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 Talon. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Talon helps Hecarim perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Hecarim plays on the same team as Talon, he gets a little drop in his full damage output. This could signal that Talon does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Hecarim is played with Talon 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 synergisticly with Talon.
Moreover, when Hecarim plays with Talon on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Talon does a poor job of covering Hecarim in teamfights.
Synergies between Hecarim and Talon
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Is Hecarim better when played alongside Talon?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Hecarim that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, Talon is a below average companion for Hecarim. By locking into the same side as Hecarim, he lowers their win rate by -1.6% to 46.9%. This demonstrates that there is a bad bond between Hecarim and Talon that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Talon has a greater difficulty than Hecarim. That means Hecarim players should be cautious when arranging Talon teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Hecarim and Talon together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of crowd control. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Talon ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Hecarim to work well with Talon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Hecarim and Talon synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Hecarim combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Talon than with most other typical builds. In fact, Hecarim had an average winrate of 46.9% helping carry Talon with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating 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 builds players chose for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.9% win rate overall.
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