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.
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
The Hecarim Azir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Azir, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Hecarim sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Azir. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Azir helps Hecarim perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Hecarim is an ally to Azir, he observes a little increase in his total damage output. This difference may signal that Azir provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Hecarim is played together with Azir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Azir.
Moreover, when Hecarim plays with Azir on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Azir does a decent job of covering Hecarim during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Hecarim that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Azir is a very typical teammate for Hecarim. By locking into the same team as Hecarim, he lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 47.9%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Hecarim and Azir that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Azir has a greater difficulty than Hecarim. That means you need to be careful when finding Azir comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Hecarim and Azir together, you may not be giving your side a great deal of utility. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Azir teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Hecarim to pair well with Azir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Hecarim and Azir synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Spear of Shojin. When Hecarim included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Azir than with most other common item sets. In fact, Hecarim had an average win rate of 47.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Azir with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use 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 builds players chose for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
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