Why did Hecarim stop getting played?

Visigoth·Sep 26, 2015·2 votes·698 views

I get that he got nerfed, but he did also get some compensation for jungle Hec. I don't get why people just completely stopped playing him though. A lot of new items also really benefit him (Cleaver is nice, although unnecessary because TriForce) like Righteous Glory and Dead Man's Plate. Both give him good amounts of damage, mobility, and durability. And yet people stopped playing him completely. And not only were plenty of items added to benefit him, but he's also still a great team fighter with lots of AoE

7 Comments

TeemoJenkinsSep 26, 20151 votes

Hec was popular because of his immense mobility, now juggernauts are here and you can have big beefy guys instead... although I'm really interested in trying Hec with some of the new items, just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Doctor JarvisSep 26, 20151 votes

Deadman's plate Hec with Mobi boots/homeguard and trinity force with his innate charge. Your first hit will decimate anyone

ActinSep 26, 20151 votes

Juggernauts pretty much own top lane right now and he's still comparatively very weak in the jungle

BluePolarizerSep 26, 20151 votes

I played almost exclusively jungle Hecarim and Master Yi to plat back in April and pretty much never stopped playing Hecarim jungle until I reached plat 1. When I stopped playing Hecarim because I got influenced by the devourer craze, I tilted back down to plat 5. Now I'm climbing back - with Hecarim. He is one of the best tanky initiators in solo queue because he not only has CC, he also does a ton of both burst and sustained damage, reaching up to 1000 damage on his E combined with item 3078 item 3742 or item 3748 and having 400 DPS from his Q and empowered autos. Jungle is far safer for Hec than top as long as you do not have to give up too many camps to mid which is usually the case in solo queue.

RalanrSep 26, 20151 votes

Try him in the jungle. With devourer gone you have a better chance I imagine.

Do it fast!

VisigothSep 26, 20151 votes

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Try him in the jungle. With devourer gone you have a better chance I imagine.

Do it fast!

I already play him jungle. I have since I first bought him in Season 4, pre-FF. Chilling is Good, both Warrior and Cinderhulk are nice, and there are so many items that are insane on him, ranging from Homeguard enchantment to Righteous Glory. He hits like a fucking truck, and even in the jungle you can take TP and be relevant as hell whenever because 1k damage HecaTrain TPs are OP if used properly.

RalanrSep 26, 20151 votes

Sweet. Any jungler that doesn't use devourer is one I enjoy hearing about.