Talk:Hecarim/@comment-26808509-20170205182406/@comment-26203093-20170208133032

It's not low, but you're greatly exagerating the damage. He's not an assassin. Khazix does as much damage with an ability on a 4 (potentially lower and more damaging) second cooldown and comes at you way faster and potentially out of nowhere. Exhaust also triple cripples Hec. It makes him slower, potentially unable to reach you at all and if he does, he has reduced damage from the ability, and reduced damage because he's slowed.

Yes, he comes in fast, but you have time to get into better positions unless you've basically set yourself up for failure. And if he can tower dive you like it's nothing, he's either way ahead, or you've whittled yourself down. Otherwise, you should be able to be safe under the tower, even if he hits you, you can then flash to leave his range and have him flail wildly under the tower.

The speed and range at which he has to come at you if this was supposed to be a dash at this cooldown wouldn't be much better, trust me. And they chose to build up speed instead of granting it immediately for multiple reasons - predictability is one of them, even if it does lock on, if it catches you by surprise, he must have ulted over a wall.