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.
Rengar's passive enables him to leap out of brush, so avoid fighting him when near bushes.
Rengar puts an indicator over the nearest enemy champion when he is camouflaged during his ultimate.
Rengar gains an empowered ability when his resource bar is full. Try to confront him when it's low.
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some strategic Hecarim vs. Rengar counter stats that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the pair. Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rengar’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Rengar..
Hecarim normally has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Rengar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Hecarim usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Rengar, with a 49.0% win rate. Therefore, Hecarim makes an ok counter for Rengar.
While Hecarim does have a lower winrate than Rengar, when facing one another, Hecarim also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Hecarim into Rengar.
Furthermore, Hecarim also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rengar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Hecarim vs Rengar matchups, Rengar is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Hecarim is a somewhat poor counter to Rengar. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Hecarim against Rengar.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Hecarim in order to counter Rengar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Rengar. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Hecarim versus Rengar build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Hecarim used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Rengar than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Hecarim boasted an average winrate of 49.0% when countering Rengar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Rengar as Hecarim, Hecarim players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Hecarim vs Rengar counters, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.0% winrate overall.
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