User blog comment:Astanas7/Champion rant: Hecarim/@comment-8234800-20140221185814

Well, the problem isn't that he's very bad actually, but rather that he feels weak and ineffective. He has some hidden power - he has some pretty good base AD and with the free AD from his passive, it gets even better. But he's not like Trundle, who you can just right-click to your opponent to mash their face in and make you feel alpha from all the free stats.

Especially when you fall just a little behind with him, it feels like you're completely useless. From all the bruisers in the game, it just feels like he has such lackluster utility. There's others with little utility - Vi for example, but even when you fall behind with her, she still has very strong burst and the max health damage on her W to destroy tanks/bruisers. The one redeeming part you have on Heca when falling behind is your W - but that only applies if your whole team hasn't fallen behind, as well.

Maybe it's just that he's all over the place - he has a little bit of everything, but not much of anything. I rarely feel very good with him in any situation though, including team fights. There's others who are better at that, imo.