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Hecarim Build

Jungle Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 39,936 gamesUpdated

48.0%win rate1.7%pick2.3%ban

Who counters Hecarim

Every Jungle matchup for Hecarim, ranked →

How to build Hecarim

Ionian Boots of Lucidity→Spear of Shojin→Endless Hunger→Death's Dance

Ionian Boots of Lucidity → Spear of Shojin → Endless Hunger → Death's Dance

55.1% win rate 12% of games 3,304 games
RunesSorceryStormraider's SurgeNimbus CloakCelerityWaterwalkingPrecisionLegend: HasteTriumph45% of games
SpellsGhostSmiteGhost + Smite96%
Skills
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Rampage
13457
Spirit of Dread
2891012
Devastating Charge
1314151718
Onslaught of Shadows
61116
StartGustwalker HatchlingGustwalker Hatchling
Full Hecarim build →
48.0%win rate
Patch 26.20: 48.0% over 98,482 gamesPatch 26.21: 48.0% over 39,936 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
49.2%at Emerald+
1.7%pick rate
2.3%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
52.1%under 22 min
45.5%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Hecarim champion portraitJ HecarimvsNunu & Willump champion portraitJ Nunu & Willump
21 / 4 / 7

Build

Gustwalker HatchlingGluttonous Greaves|Hubris→Endless Hunger→Mortal Reminder→Death's Dance

Spells & runes

GhostSmite|

Skills

QWQEQRQWQWWRWEEREE
Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Hecarim champion portraitJ HecarimvsShyvana champion portraitJ Shyvana
14 / 5 / 9

Build

Gustwalker HatchlingGluttonous Greaves|Hubris→Endless Hunger→Axiom Arc→Serylda's Grudge

Spells & runes

FlashSmite|

Skills

QWQEQRQWQWRWWEEREE
Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Hecarim champion portraitJ HecarimvsKarthus champion portraitJ Karthus
14 / 5 / 9

Build

Gustwalker HatchlingIonian Boots of Lucidity|Spear of Shojin→Zeke's Convergence→Black Cleaver→Death's Dance

Spells & runes

SmiteGhost|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWRWWEERE

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 48.7% win rate · 45% of games · 17,981 games
SorceryStormraider's SurgeNimbus CloakCelerityWaterwalking
PrecisionLegend: HasteTriumph
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 49.4% win rate · 12% of games · 4,693 games
SorceryStormraider's SurgeNimbus CloakCelerityWaterwalking
PrecisionTriumphLegend: Haste
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells

Ghost + Smite — 96% of games, 48.6% win rate. No real variation.

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Ionian Boots of Lucidity63%Gluttonous Greaves16%Mercury's Treads10%
Ionian Boots of Lucidity most often · 47.8% win rate
Jungle pet
Gustwalker Hatchling100%
10 of 10 recent games started Gustwalker Hatchling

Hecarim build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Death's Dance1st
  2. Spear of Shojin2nd
  3. Endless Hunger3rd
6% of games that reach a third item take this path54.8% win rate1,700 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Hecarim →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 40,517 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
62% · 47.9% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
16% · 52.0% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
10% · 48.1% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
7% · 47.2% win rate
BootsBoots
2% · 39.0% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
2% · 43.3% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Spear of Shojin+Ionian Boots of Lucidity4% of games · 37.0% win rate · 1,820 games
  2. Death's Dance›Spear of Shojin+Ionian Boots of Lucidity3% of games · 35.6% win rate · 1,412 games
  3. Black Cleaver›Spear of Shojin+Ionian Boots of Lucidity2% of games · 33.2% win rate · 846 games
  4. Death's Dance›Spear of Shojin›Endless Hunger+Ionian Boots of Lucidity2% of games · 50.1% win rate · 798 games
  5. Spear of Shojin›Death's Dance+Ionian Boots of Lucidity2% of games · 38.5% win rate · 749 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Hecarim against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Hecarim's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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