His play pattern is engaging with as much movespeed as possible, assassinating someone with no counterplay, and waiting for cooldowns. Whoever decided to make his passive entirely dictate his playstyle completely fucked that champion up.
BluePolarizer1 votesHow is he assassinating with no counterplay? His ult is extremely slow with a tiny AOE and you can flash it or dash it. He is entirely melee. His movespeed is severely capped without early TP/homeguards and his burst damage is mediocre compared to real assassins and if he doesn't finish you off he's just an AD Amumu with less stickiness.
Hayaishi22 votesHow is he assassinating with no counterplay? His ult is extremely slow with a tiny AOE and you can flash it or dash it. He is entirely melee. His movespeed is severely capped without early TP/homeguards and his burst damage is mediocre compared to real assassins and if he doesn't finish you off he's just an AD Amumu with less stickiness.
yeah mediocre, you obv haven't seen what a Hecarim with Triforce and Warrior enchantment do 3/4 a squishies HP with just his E.
BluePolarizer1 votesMathematically it's still less than basically what every assassin does with less gold. Triforce + Warrior is a huge 8000 gold investment and a real assassin would kill a squishy outright with just 6-7000 gold.
Hayaishi23 votesMathematically it's still less than basically what every assassin does with less gold. Triforce + Warrior is a huge 8000 gold investment and a real assassin would kill a squishy outright with just 6-7000 gold.
a "real assassin" isn't tanky and has a good initiation ult.
BluePolarizer1 votes
has more burst, a better initiation and is tankier with less gold. Pros in season 4 worlds used 
as a tanky initiator with flare ->ghostblade -> full tank, while Hecarim never showed up either top or jungle.
Hayaishi21 votes
And Hecarim is still retarded, Vi and Rengar have nothing to do with this.
BluePolarizer1 votesGuess 80% of the junglers and top laners must also be OP since that's how many are superior to Hecarim.
VictoryDance961 votesBut his ganks are so Much FUN!
LadyRenly1 votesEver since the removal of homeguard boots, he lost all his cheese
Malix Farwin1 votesEver since the removal of homeguard boots, he lost all his cheese
you get it passively at 20m now....
LadyRenly1 votes[{quoted}](name=Malix Farwin,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=9fPQKNAR,comment-id=00020000,timestamp=2015-12-19T17:39:55.505+0000)
you get it passively at 20m now....
you could buy homeguards way before 20 minutes
insaiyanbacca1 voteshe used to buy it at about 10-12 mins in m8
jjookkeerr1 votesimo twitch has more cheese than him
Bouncemaster Zac1 votesThere's these things called knockbacks, they're really good at making Hecarim not able to do anything to anyone. 
Feathermane1 votesYeah, there are better champions than Hecarim. That doesn't mean Hecarim's playstyle is compelling. What I am saying is that his passive currently takes up too much of his power budget, as well as his forced synergy with Triforce. Nerf the Sheen proc and he's garbage. His kit is comlpletely streamlined to do one thing: rush a squishy down and kill them, then do nothing until the cooldowns reset. The playstyle has virtually no windows of interaction.