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.
Intentionally breaking a wall of The Box can allow a vulnerable ally to escape unscathed.
Thresh's Death Sentence has a long cast time. Watch for the cast to begin to take evasive actions.
Thresh relies on collecting souls for a portion of his defense and damage. Try punishing him when he moves to collect them.
The stats shown on this page highlight several vital Hecarim vs. Thresh matchup stats that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Thresh’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Thresh. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Hecarim usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Thresh. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Hecarim usually fairs equally well when playing against Thresh, with a 49.8% win rate. As a result, Hecarim makes an ok counter for Thresh.
While Hecarim does have a lower win rate than Thresh, when they face off with one another, Hecarim also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Hecarim into Thresh.
Moreover, Hecarim also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Thresh. This 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Hecarim vs Thresh matchups, Thresh is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Hecarim is a somewhat poor counter for Thresh. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Hecarim against Thresh.
To truly master Hecarim to counter Thresh during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Thresh. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Hecarim versus Thresh build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Death's Dance. When Hecarim bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Thresh than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Hecarim had an average win rate of 49.8% when countering Thresh with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Thresh as Hecarim, Hecarim players 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 sets players chose for Hecarim vs Thresh fights, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Thresh as Hecarim are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.