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.
Keep your distance to avoid being Flung back into Singed's allies.
Singed needs to run close to your team to be effective. Try to take advantage of this by using crowd control effects on him while attacking his allies.
Be careful when chasing Singed. He's very difficult to bring down, and can leave his Poison Trail to damage you in your pursuit.
The stat comparisons shown here show several critical Hecarim versus Singed counter statistics that may help us realize the differences between the pair. For instance, Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Singed’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Singed..
Hecarim often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Singed. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Hecarim usually loses when trying to fight Singed, with a 43.9% win rate. Therefore, Hecarim makes a poor counter for Singed.
While Hecarim does have a much lower win rate than Singed, when on opposite teams, Hecarim also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Hecarim into Singed.
Additionally, Hecarim also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Singed. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Hecarim vs Singed matchups, Singed is the better champ with a much lower 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 garbage counter for Singed. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Hecarim against Singed.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Hecarim in order to counter Singed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim most often racks up a lot less CS relative to Singed. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Hecarim versus Singed build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Spear of Shojin. When Hecarim used at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Singed than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Hecarim boasted an average win rate of 43.9% battling Singed with this counter build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Singed 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 runes players chose for Hecarim vs Singed counters, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 43.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Singed as Hecarim are shown for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.