Taking a look at hecarim.

Just got out of a ranked game (which we won, thank god) But during the entirety of this game me and my team got dumpstered on by Hecarim.

So I took a step back and can see that it's not Hecarim that's the problem, it's the itemization in his core build that is.

Phage gives him hidden bonus stats because of it's passive, which makes itemization for Hecarim much much more gold efficient that it is for any of his counterparts, be it top lane or jungle.

I mean he's sitting at a 78.8% ban rate ontop of a 52.4% winrate, this means that something is inherently amiss about him that literally NO ONE wants to play against him.

IMO he needs a slight love tap on his passive so it's not so damn overbearing that when he gets one item he starts hammering you back to your tower.