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.
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.
The Hecarim Soraka synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Soraka, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Soraka. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Soraka helps Hecarim perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Hecarim plays on the same team as Soraka, he gets a small increase in his total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Soraka provides cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Hecarim is played with Soraka 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 Soraka.
Moreover, when Hecarim plays with Soraka on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Soraka does a poor job of covering Hecarim during team fights.
There is no one best companion for Hecarim that will always be his best ally. Yet, Soraka is a very typical teammate for Hecarim. By being on the same side as Hecarim, she drops their win rate by -0.5% to 48.0%. This proves that there is a weak strategic relationship between Hecarim and Soraka that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Soraka has a much lower diffuclty than Hecarim. That means Hecarim players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Soraka teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by pairing Hecarim and Soraka together, you may not be granting your side much sustained damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Soraka ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Hecarim to synergize with Soraka during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Hecarim and Soraka synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Hecarim combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Soraka than with many other common item sets. In fact, Hecarim had an average winrate of 48.0% when playing alongside Soraka with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, Hecarim players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Soraka with Hecarim are shown for all ranked divisions. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.