Hecarim vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Hecarim
based on 2,647 Hecarim vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Hecarim vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Hecarim vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Hecarim against Janna
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 Win Against Janna
Janna's at her strongest when buffing another ally. If you can harass her ally, it will weaken her ability to fight you.
Save an interrupt ability for when Janna uses her ultimate.
Listen for the charge up sound on Howling Gale in case Janna is trying to hit you with it from off screen or from brush.
Hecarim vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Hecarim in LoL
The stats provided here show several influential Hecarim against Janna matchup stats that can help you realize the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Janna’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Janna. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Hecarim normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives more damage than Janna. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Hecarim and Janna
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Who is Better, Hecarim or Janna?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Hecarim usually loses when playing against Janna, with a 47.9% win rate. As a result, Hecarim makes a bad counter to Janna.
While Hecarim does have a lower winrate than Janna, when facing one another, Hecarim also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Hecarim into Janna.
Moreover, Hecarim has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Janna. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Hecarim vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Hecarim is a garbage counter for Janna. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Hecarim against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Hecarim in order to counter Janna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Janna. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Hecarim versus Janna build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Spear of Shojin. When Hecarim used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs Janna than with many other common item sets. In fact, Hecarim boasted an average winrate of 47.9% battling Janna with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Janna as Hecarim, 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 sets players used for Hecarim vs Janna face-offs, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.9% win rate overall.
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