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.
The stats shown on this page clarify several critical Hecarim against Rell matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences between the two. As an example, Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rell’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Rell. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Hecarim usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Rell. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Hecarim usually loses when taking on Rell, with a 47.3% win rate. Therefore, Hecarim makes a bad counter to Rell.
While Hecarim does have a lower win rate than Rell, when they face off with one another, Hecarim also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Hecarim into Rell.
Moreover, Hecarim has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rell. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Hecarim vs Rell matchups, Rell is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Hecarim is a bad counter to Rell. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Hecarim against Rell.
If you would like to truly master Hecarim to counter Rell 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 mind the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim on average racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Rell. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Hecarim versus Rell build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Spear of Shojin. When Hecarim combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Rell than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Hecarim had an average winrate of 47.3% when playing against Rell with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Rell as Hecarim, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Hecarim vs Rell fights, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Rell as Hecarim are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.