Talk:Hecarim/@comment-68.42.26.63-20120911054829/@comment-68.42.26.63-20120911145708

The boots aren't for the passive, they're for those ganks. The extra speed ensures that you can not only catch people, but generally get around them to push them back towards your own tower. It's cheap enough to swap them out for Merc Treads once the game gets out of the laning phase though.