Hecarim with Katarina
How to Synergize Hecarim and Katarina
based on 3,547 Hecarim with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Hecarim Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Hecarim vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Hecarim and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Hecarim with Katarina
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.
Advice to Understand How Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Hecarim Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Hecarim in LoL
The Hecarim Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Katarina helps Hecarim perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Hecarim is an ally to Katarina, he gets a little decrease in his total damage output. This may demonstrate that Katarina doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Hecarim is played together with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Katarina.
Moreover, when Hecarim plays with Katarina on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Hecarim during team fights.
Synergies between Hecarim and Katarina
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Is Hecarim better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no ideal synergy for Hecarim that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, Katarina is a very typical teammate for Hecarim. By being on the same team as Hecarim, she drops their win rate by -0.6% to 47.9%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small synergy between Hecarim and Katarina that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Hecarim. That means Hecarim players should be cautious when finding Katarina teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Hecarim and Katarina together, you probably will not be giving your side very much utility. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Katarina teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Hecarim to pair well with Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Hecarim and Katarina synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Death's Dance. When Hecarim included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Katarina than with most other common builds. In fact, Hecarim boasted an average win rate of 47.9% when playing alongside Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Hecarim players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
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