Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
Try to gank Anivia when she's laning. With multiple people, it is easier to ensure that her egg dies.
If you're playing a ranged champion, stay far enough away from Anivia so you can dodge Flash Frost more easily.
Try to fight Anivia in the lanes. In the jungle she can block pathways with lower ranks of Crystallize.
The stats shown on this page clarify several significant Hecarim vs. Anivia counter stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. For instance, Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Anivia’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Anivia..
Hecarim normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Anivia. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Hecarim usually loses when taking on Anivia, with a 47.7% win rate. Thus, Hecarim makes a poor counter for Anivia.
While Hecarim does have a lower winrate compared to Anivia, when facing one another, Hecarim also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Hecarim into Anivia.
Additionally, Hecarim also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Anivia. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Hecarim vs Anivia matchups, Anivia is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Hecarim is a bad counter to Anivia. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Hecarim against Anivia.
To learn all of the intricacies of Hecarim in order to counter Anivia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim most often accumulates a lot less CS as Anivia. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Hecarim versus Anivia build consist of Spear of Shojin, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Hecarim included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better countering Anivia than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Hecarim boasted an average win rate of 47.7% when playing against Anivia with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Anivia as Hecarim, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Hecarim vs Anivia LoL games, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.7% win rate overall.
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