Hecarim Assassin is now viable.

SkyBlade79·Jan 15, 2016·12 votes·2,653 views

Due to the changes with stormraider's surge, my main Hecarim is now actually a really solid assassin. If you build Yommu's, Warrior, Death's Dance, and Swiftie's, Hecarim can completely destroy squishies, while still holding his own in a teamfight. Basically, if Hecarim pops his Yommu's for the extra passive AD and movespeed, and manages to deal 30% of an enemies health in the large window of 2.5 seconds, he gets a huge chunk of AD from the 40% MS buff, as well as getting 100% slow from the Swifties + Stormraider's. Combine that with a distortion ghost, and Hecarim can completely destroy just about anything completely out of nowhere. He even has a great escape/engage/cc with his ult. The problem is, everyone thinks that Hecarim Assassin is stupid. Can someone explain why Hecarim Assassin wouldn't work?

16 Comments

N3mO06Jan 15, 20168 votes

If Lucian Ap works, Then Even assassin Hecarim is a thing.

RozairJan 15, 20165 votes

Why did you have to tell everyone my secret weapon.

www GOHAM orgJan 15, 20163 votes

BRO FUCK YOU. This was my fucking secret o'penis build. Not to mention you could also build strait ap/movement items with new jungle item and be as fast as fucking quin. Also, storm raider is fucking amazing on nocturne.

gochu botJan 15, 20162 votes

this is what all the hecarim players know y tell other people

La BarbotteJan 16, 20162 votes

if assassin zac works (AP zac call it what you want) then yeah why not, people need to stop following the competitive scene as the only good thing, they fight in a different environement than us (communication, team oriented picks) so assassin hecarim can work yeah

XenomancersJan 15, 20161 votes

Hecarim always functioned better for me as a damage carry. Hes always been weak to slows so naturally this storm raiders buff really helps him plus his passive will just be going off with it too. I think it's totally viable. In fact I think you are on to something here. Basically if you get item 3139 nothing is going to stop you from killing your target or escaping a bad situation when you dive into a fight now. This is even a buff to tank Hecarim. Hell still be building swifties anyways.

SkyBlade79Jan 15, 20162 votes

Great idea with the scimitar! Will definitely add that to my build.

SpoofghoulJan 15, 20161 votes

Go for it

just notify your team you wont be tanky at all so they can pick accordingly

Old Man TeetoJan 15, 20161 votes

Oh my, didn't even think about Stormraiders on Hecarim.

Sounds amazing.

SasogwaJan 15, 20161 votes

Why would you build full assassin when you can actually still do the job of an assassin because you have huge damage already with 2 offensive items and the rest full tank? is kind of the reasoning imo.

SkyBlade79Jan 15, 20161 votes

Hecarim does have really high damage early game with those two offensive items, but he falls off late game even with natural scaling armor and health. With assassin, he can do a LOT more damage per attack, that could even carry into late game

SkyBlade79Jan 15, 20161 votes

wow, I didn't know that this was a big secret among the other, non-bronze (unlike me) Hecarim players. I actually got a quadra on the first and only time I've tried Hecarim Assassin, yesterday.

DroogzyJan 15, 20161 votes

Tried this for the first time today.

Oh my god it works so well. I forgot to put ghost on, and I was still annihilating squishies.

The only downfall I can see is that Hecarim transitions from being an initiator to being a follow up. So just be careful about when you pick off a squishy. He has always been a backline threat even with the tankier build, but you trade off tank stats for deleting squishy.

SkyBlade79Jan 15, 20161 votes

I forgot my ghost the first time too, and I got a quad. It's really fun too. I also built Cleaver so he got slightly less squishy

LadyRenlyJan 16, 20161 votes

Damage hecarim has always done damage and has been viable, even if beefier hecarim was viewed as better(because survivability)

EcchiOtakuTMJan 16, 20161 votes

Hecarim assassin has always been a thing dont act like it's something new............ People who think assassin hecarim as stupid dont know how to play hecarim in the first place. (Although this is only for jungle hecarim, I would never lane hecarim after the nerf)