You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Hecarim's ultimate causes opponents to flee in terror. Spread out to reduce his power in fights.
Hecarim gains life from nearby enemies with Spirit of Dread but lacks durability, use burst damage.
The stats shown here highlight several important Brand versus Hecarim matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences between the two. Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Hecarim’s ratio of NaN, showing that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Hecarim..
Brand normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Hecarim. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Brand usually wins when playing against Hecarim, with a 52.9% win rate. As a result, Brand makes a good counter for Hecarim.
While Brand does have a higher winrate compared to Hecarim, when on opposite teams, Brand also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Brand into Hecarim.
Additionally, Brand has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Hecarim. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Brand vs Hecarim matchups, Brand is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Brand is a good counter to Hecarim. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Brand against Hecarim.
To learn all of the intricacies of Brand in order to counter Hecarim during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand most often accumulates more CS compared to Hecarim. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Brand versus Hecarim build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Void Staff, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Brand incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Hecarim than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 52.9% when countering Hecarim with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Hecarim as Brand, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Brand vs Hecarim matchups, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.9% winrate overall.
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