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.
LeBlanc's ultimate can create fake LeBlancs during her spellcast or, rarely, at a distant position.
The fake LeBlanc created at a distance will always run at the nearest Champion, cast a harmless spell, then immediately disappear.
Attacking LeBlanc first avoids most of her tricks, especially if she's recently used her dash, Distortion.
Stunning or silencing LeBlanc will prevent her from activating the return part of Distortion.
The stats provided here show several critical Hecarim against LeBlanc counter stats that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between this set of champs. Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than LeBlanc’s ratio of NaN, showing that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than LeBlanc..
Hecarim typically has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than LeBlanc. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Hecarim usually wins when taking on LeBlanc, with a 51.4% win rate. Thus, Hecarim makes a good counter to LeBlanc.
While Hecarim does have a higher win rate compared to LeBlanc, when facing one another, Hecarim also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Hecarim into LeBlanc.
Moreover, Hecarim also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to LeBlanc. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Hecarim vs LeBlanc matchups, Hecarim is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Hecarim is a decent counter for LeBlanc. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Hecarim against LeBlanc.
To truly master Hecarim in order to counter LeBlanc during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim typically accumulates a lot less CS relative to LeBlanc. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Hecarim versus LeBlanc build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Hecarim used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing LeBlanc than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Hecarim boasted an average winrate of 51.4% when countering LeBlanc with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating LeBlanc as Hecarim, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Hecarim vs LeBlanc counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.4% winrate overall.
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