Talk:Hecarim/@comment-208.95.49.148-20120428181831

Early game, you want to play cautious as he doesn't do alot of damage and quite easily taken down by cc or poke. You want to focus on farming and hopefully picking up a kill somewhere shortly after you get your ult. He really does need 1 or 2 kills by lv. 11 or it is more difficult to shine mid-game to late game. I love his ult personally, I usually wait till somewhere in the middle of a team fight, till some enemies are around half health and starting to retreat, or the team clumps together. His ult is a team fight changer if used correctly. Also can be used on someone turret hugging, low health enemy + ult + ignite, sure kill. Also can obviously be used defensively, if your team or you are trying to retreat.

I've been opening with Boots and 3 health pots, building Boots of Swiftness (Tenacity if faced with CC), Wriggle's for early help with stats/life-steal and if you want to jungle, even if not, it's a wortwhile item, Zeal, Sheen, Trinity Force, Black Cleaver, a tanky item, (Either Warmog's, FoN, Frozen Heart, or even Frozen Mallet, depending on enemy team) and then IE, works rather well. Black Cleaver can be swapped out for a different item, such as Phantom Dancer, but I find that his movespeed is already incredibly high with E and I just like the extra attack speed/lowers armor with it, really tears people up.