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.
Deny Vayne the opportunity to pin you against walls.
Vayne is fragile - turn the pressure up on her and she will be forced to play cautiously.
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several influential Hecarim vs. Vayne matchup stats that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vayne’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Vayne..
Hecarim typically has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Vayne. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Hecarim usually loses when taking on Vayne, with a 47.8% win rate. Therefore, Hecarim makes a poor counter to Vayne.
While Hecarim does have a lower winrate compared to Vayne, when on opposite teams, Hecarim also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Hecarim into Vayne.
Additionally, Hecarim also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vayne. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Hecarim vs Vayne matchups, Vayne is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Hecarim is a garbage counter to Vayne. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Hecarim against Vayne.
To truly master Hecarim in order to counter Vayne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim usually accumulates a lot less CS as Vayne. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Hecarim versus Vayne build include Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Spear of Shojin. When Hecarim used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better against Vayne than with most other common builds. In fact, Hecarim boasted an average win rate of 47.8% battling Vayne with this counter build.
To have the best chance of crushing Vayne as Hecarim, you should take 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 we have analyed for Hecarim vs Vayne counterpicks, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.8% win rate overall.
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