Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
The Poppy Hecarim synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Hecarim, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Poppy sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Hecarim. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Hecarim helps Poppy perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Poppy plays on the same team as Hecarim, she gets a noticable increase in her total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Hecarim provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played together with Hecarim on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Hecarim.
Additionally, when Poppy plays with Hecarim on the same team, she often receives less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Hecarim does a decent job of protecting Poppy during teamfights.
There is no one best synergy for Poppy that will 100% of the time be her #1 ally. However, overall, Hecarim is a very typical teammate for Poppy. By being on the same team as Poppy, he decreases their win rate by -0.8% to 48.9%. This demonstrates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Poppy and Hecarim that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Hecarim has a lower difficulty than Poppy. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Hecarim comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, Poppy players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Poppy and Hecarim together, you will not be granting your other teammates enough magical damage output. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Hecarim ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Poppy to pair well with Hecarim during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Poppy and Hecarim synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Kaenic Rookern, and Sunfire Aegis. When Poppy used at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Hecarim than with most other common item sets. In fact, Poppy boasted an average winrate of 48.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Hecarim with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Poppy players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Revitalize, Biscuit Delivery, and Time Warp Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
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