Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
Hecarim's ultimate causes opponents to flee in terror. Spread out to reduce his power in fights.
Hecarim gains life from nearby enemies with Spirit of Dread but lacks durability, use burst damage.
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some significant Kayle vs. Hecarim matchup stats that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Hecarim’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Hecarim..
Kayle often has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Hecarim. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kayle usually wins when facing off against Hecarim, with a 52.1% win rate. Therefore, Kayle makes a good counter for Hecarim.
While Kayle does have a higher win rate compared to Hecarim, when on opposite teams, Kayle also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Kayle into Hecarimas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kayle also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Hecarim. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Hecarim matchups, Kayle is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Kayle is a good counter to Hecarim. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kayle against Hecarim.
To learn all of the intricacies of Kayle to counter Hecarim during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle most often accumulates much more CS relative to Hecarim. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Kayle versus Hecarim build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Kayle included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Hecarim than with most other common builds. In fact, Kayle had an average win rate of 52.1% when countering Hecarim with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Hecarim as Kayle, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Kayle vs Hecarim matchups, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.1% winrate overall.
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