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Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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 on this page clarify some influential Illaoi vs. Hecarim matchup statistics that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between this set of champs. For instance, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Hecarim’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Hecarim..
Illaoi usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Hecarim. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually wins when playing against Hecarim, with a 51.5% win rate. As a result, Illaoi makes a good counter to Hecarim.
While Illaoi does have a higher win rate than Hecarim, when on opposite teams, Illaoi also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Illaoi into Hecarim.
Moreover, Illaoi also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, 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 overall in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Hecarim matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Illaoi is a decent counter to Hecarim. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Illaoi against Hecarim.
If you would like to truly master Illaoi to counter Hecarim during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi often accumulates much more CS as Hecarim. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Illaoi versus Hecarim build include Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi used at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting Hecarim than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average winrate of 51.5% battling Hecarim with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Hecarim as Illaoi, Illaoi players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Illaoi vs Hecarim counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.5% winrate overall.
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