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.
Aqua Prison is a very powerful ability with a long cooldown, take advantage of the situation if Nami misses this ability.
Tidal Wave has a very long range but travels slowly, be aware of when it is coming your way as you can move out of its path.
Try to avoid fighting an opponent affected by Tidecaller's Blessing, it lasts a short duration so waiting it out can help you greatly.
The stat comparisons shown here show several influential Hecarim vs. Nami matchup statistics that may help us grasp the distinctions between the two. Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nami’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nami. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Hecarim normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Nami. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Hecarim usually wins when taking on Nami, with a 51.3% win rate. As a result, Hecarim makes a good counter to Nami.
While Hecarim does have a higher winrate than Nami, when facing one another, Hecarim also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Hecarim into Nami.
Additionally, Hecarim has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nami. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Hecarim vs Nami matchups, Hecarim is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Hecarim is a decent counter to Nami. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Hecarim against Nami.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Hecarim in order to counter Nami during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Nami. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Hecarim versus Nami build consist of Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Hecarim used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better against Nami than with many other common item sets. In fact, Hecarim had an average winrate of 51.3% battling Nami with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Nami 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 builds players picked for Hecarim vs Nami fights, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.3% winrate overall.
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