Hecarim's ultimate causes opponents to flee in terror. Spread out to reduce his power in fights.
Hecarim gains life from nearby enemies with Spirit of Dread but lacks durability, use burst damage.
The stat comparisons shown here show several influential Briar against Hecarim matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Hecarim’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Hecarim..
Briar usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their enemy does. Typically, they takes less damage than Hecarim. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Briar usually wins when taking on Hecarim, with a 51.5% win rate. As a result, Briar makes a good counter for Hecarim.
While Briar does have a higher winrate compared to Hecarim, when on opposite teams, Briar also has a lower difficulty level that makes them a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Briar into Hecarim.
Moreover, Briar has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Hecarim. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Briar vs Hecarim matchups, Briar is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Briar is a decent counter to Hecarim. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Briar against Hecarim.
To truly master Briar in order to counter Hecarim during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Hecarim. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Briar versus Hecarim build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Death's Dance. When Briar combined at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better vs Hecarim than with many other typical builds. In fact, Briar boasted an average win rate of 51.5% when playing against Hecarim with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Hecarim as Briar, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Briar vs Hecarim LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.5% winrate overall.
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