Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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 here show some important Taliyah against Hecarim matchup stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the two. For instance, Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Hecarim’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Hecarim..
Taliyah usually has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. On average, she receives less damage than Hecarim. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Taliyah usually fairs equally well when taking on Hecarim, with a 49.3% win rate. Therefore, Taliyah makes an ok counter for Hecarim.
While Taliyah does have a lower winrate compared to Hecarim, when they face off with one another, Taliyah 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 Taliyah into Hecarim.
Furthermore, Taliyah has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Hecarim. This often 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 Taliyah vs Hecarim matchups, Hecarim 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 team fights.
Taliyah is a somewhat poor counter for Hecarim. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Taliyah against Hecarim.
If you would like to truly master Taliyah 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 listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah on average accumulates much more CS relative to Hecarim. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Taliyah versus Hecarim build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs. Hecarim than with many other typical builds. In fact, Taliyah boasted an average win rate of 49.3% battling Hecarim with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Hecarim as Taliyah, Taliyah players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Taliyah vs Hecarim LoL games, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.3% winrate overall.
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