Viktor vs Hecarim
How to Beat Hecarim as Viktor
based on 1,328 Viktor vs Hecarim matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Viktor vs Hecarim Matchup Summary
Best Viktor vs Hecarim Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Hecarim as Viktor
Tips for Playing as Viktor against Hecarim
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
Advice to Win Against Hecarim
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.
Viktor vs Hecarim Counter Stats
How to Counter Hecarim with Viktor in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several valuable Viktor against Hecarim matchup stats that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Viktor’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Hecarim’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Viktor may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Hecarim..
Viktor typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Hecarim. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Viktor and Hecarim
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Who is Better, Viktor or Hecarim?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Viktor usually loses when playing against Hecarim, with a 46.8% win rate. As a result, Viktor makes a poor counter for Hecarim.
While Viktor does have a lower win rate than Hecarim, when they face off with one another, Viktor also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Viktor into Hecarimas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Viktor has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Hecarim. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Viktor vs Hecarim matchups, Hecarim is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Viktor is a bad counter to Hecarim. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Viktor against Hecarim.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Viktor to counter Hecarim during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Viktor usually gets much more CS as Hecarim. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Viktor versus Hecarim build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Hecarim than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Viktor had an average win rate of 46.8% battling Hecarim with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Hecarim as Viktor, you should take 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 players used for Viktor vs Hecarim counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.8% winrate overall.
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