Talk:Hecarim/@comment-83.82.192.239-20120728105223

After playing around 60 games with Hecarim there's one thing you must keep in mind. Hecarim is the strongest scaling jungler in the entire league, by a large margin. This guy can't die in teamfights, and deals freakishly high amounts of damage lategame. You can kill their AD or AP carry in 5 seconds without help. You can 1v1 every single champion lategame. I found that he ganks extremely well from behind the turret. From as early as lvl 5, you can just walk in their jungle and E them from behind their turret. Guaranteed kill if they dont burn flash, and u end up only tanking 2-3 turret hits. He counterjungles extremely well since he can get out of sticky situations with his E. He is the biggest snowballer in the jungle. Get early kills and his clearspeed gets out of control, which makes counterjungling and small skirmishes even easier.

I advice you to run 0/21/9 with everything in movespeed and start with boots3. For runes take armor pen and AD. Make sure to get a leash and get W lvl 2 first. Rush philo and HoG first. After that I like to buy 2 health crystals if I gotta withstand burst from APs like Brand. For damage, rush hexdrinker and sheen. After that you should finish triforce and shurelya. If their APs get kills you should finish Maw of Malmortius now. If you get to the point where you have Trinity Force, Shurelya and Maw of Malmortius, it's basically GG. You can escape every sticky situation, and deal insane amounts of damage. After this you should finish Randuin (with shurelya and the sheen you shouldn't have mana problems, so Frozen Heart feels like a waste. The CDR is nice, though with Shurelya, Randuin and masteries you should hit around 30, which is enough).

I feel that rushing Frozen Heart (like saintvicious does), isn't really worth it. If you focus purely on tanking, people will just ignore you. He isn't a CC bot like Nautilus, which you can't ignore. However, Hecarim can tank really well with just his W. Just make sure you use it at the right moment (when your APs start to deal damage).

I hope this 'guide' helped you in some way. Let me make a statement: The next Hecarim buff (like more armor early) will shoot him right to the top junglers.