Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
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 stats shown on this page show some vital Soraka against Hecarim counter statistics that can help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Soraka’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Hecarim’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Soraka may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Hecarim. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Soraka often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Hecarim. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Soraka usually loses when trying to fight Hecarim, with a 48.3% win rate. Therefore, Soraka makes a poor counter for Hecarim.
While Soraka does have a lower winrate compared to Hecarim, when facing one another, Soraka also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Soraka into Hecarim.
Moreover, Soraka also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Hecarim. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Soraka vs Hecarim matchups, Hecarim is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Soraka is a somewhat poor counter for Hecarim. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Soraka against Hecarim.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Soraka to counter Hecarim during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Soraka often racks up a similar amount of CS as Hecarim. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Soraka versus Hecarim build consist of Mikael's Blessing, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Soraka included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Hecarim than with many other common item sets. In fact, Soraka had an average winrate of 48.3% battling Hecarim with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Hecarim as Soraka, you should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Revitalize, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Soraka vs Hecarim battles, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Hecarim as Soraka are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.