Shaco with Hecarim
How to Synergize Shaco and Hecarim
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Shaco Hecarim Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Hecarim
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Advice to Understand How Hecarim Will Play
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.
Shaco Hecarim Synergy Stats
How to Play with Hecarim as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco Hecarim synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Hecarim, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Shaco sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Hecarim. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Hecarim helps Shaco perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shaco tries to synergize with Hecarim, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Hecarim helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played together with Hecarim on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Hecarim.
Additionally, when Shaco plays with Hecarim on the same side, he usually takes much less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Hecarim does a decent job of protecting Shaco in teamfights.
Synergies between Shaco and Hecarim
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Hecarim?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Shaco that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, Hecarim is a terrible teammate for Shaco. By playing on the same side as Shaco, he lowers their win rate by -3.1% to 47.6%. This proves that there is a very bad bond between Shaco and Hecarim that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Hecarim has a much lower diffuclty than Shaco. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Hecarim comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Shaco and Hecarim together, you may not be granting your other allies very much utility. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Hecarim ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 learn all of the intricacies of Shaco to synergize with Hecarim during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to get in your Shaco and Hecarim synergy build include Liandry's Anguish, Shard of True Ice, and Demonic Embrace. When Shaco included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Hecarim than with many other common builds. In fact, Shaco had an average win rate of 47.6% when playing alongside Hecarim with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Shaco and Hecarim pairings, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.6% winrate overall.
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