the Shadow of War
Roles and difficulty from the global official site, lane from the China-server official site
| Rank tier | Win Rate | Pick Rate | Ban Rate | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All ranks | 46.1% | 1.2%#39 | 0.7% | D |
| Diamond+ | 49.4% | 1.7%#38 | 1.3% | D |
| Master+ | 49.7% | 1.9%#35 | 1.6% | D |
| Challenger | 48.9% | 3.5%#21 | 3.0% | B |
| Rift Apex | 52.4% | 4.1%#18 | 3.9% | B |
The tier list shows Master+ figures by default.
Taken from the in-game loadout screen as of 2026-10-07. The pick count and win rate are shown exactly as the game reports them.
Max Skill 1 first, the core of your sustained damage and jungle clear.
Prioritize farming, but look for ganks while keeping Skill 1 empowered. A high-speed gank with Ghost or your Ult up closes the distance before the target can react.
Use your mobility to cover the map and launch quick engages from out of vision. Catching isolated or poorly positioned enemies to hand your team an advantage is what Hecarim does best.
Raise your movement speed to its peak, then Ult into the enemy backline to take down squishy carries quickly. After engaging, use Skill 2's healing to survive their focus and keep moving through the fight.
Time your dive with allied assassins to break the enemy backline. Alternatively, fear several enemies with your Ult to set up an initiation your team can follow up on together. Either works.
Your passive damage scales with movement speed, so engaging with your Ult while holding Ghost and Skill 3 is a mistake. You deal little damage and simply die. Pop your speed buffs before you go in. From level 5, hit top speed before sending your Ult into the enemy backline.
Use the move speed from Skill 3 to dive with Ult and split them apart. Hit the area with Skill 2 and Skill 1.
Knock them toward your team with Skill 3, then grind them down with Skill 1 and Skill 2.
| Details | LVL 1 | LVL 2 | LVL 3 | LVL 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cooldown | 4.5 | 4 | 3.5 | 3 |
| Cost | 28 | 32 | 36 | 40 |
| Base Damage | 5 | 15 | 25 | 35 |
| Details | LVL 1 | LVL 2 | LVL 3 | LVL 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cooldown | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 |
| Cost | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 |
| Base Damage | 12 | 18 | 24 | 30 |
| Resists | 6 | 12 | 18 | 24 |
| Details | LVL 1 | LVL 2 | LVL 3 | LVL 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cooldown | 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 |
| Base Damage | 5 | 10 | 15 | 20 |
| Details | LVL 1 | LVL 2 | LVL 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooldown | 100 | 85 | 70 |
| Base Damage | 150 | 250 | 350 |
A three-step guide set by the official champion library. For difficulty, a higher number means harder to play.
Critical damage is 200% for every champion. These figures exclude items and runes.
Our take
This cuts straight into what Hecarim does best: building speed while he chases. Losing 12% movement speed from Rampage's on-hit effect slows how fast he closes from behind on a gank, how long he stays glued to a fleeing target, and how far he has to travel to reach a back line. Opponents get room to create distance, so he now needs terrain and ally crowd control to set his engages up.
Our take
Hecarim had been running away with games in high elo on the strength of his early roaming. Four less base AD with 0.4 more per level slows his first clears and his early gank conversions, while the gap closes as he levels and his late-game AD ends up higher than before. Spirit of Dread loses 3 damage at rank 1, 2 at rank 2 and 1 at rank 3 with rank 4 untouched, so what gets trimmed is the chip damage before the ability is maxed.
