Talk:Hecarim/@comment-115.70.176.196-20130214070645

I happened to Solo Q with FeralPony, the designer of Hecarim today. After  being destroyed by the enemy Hecarim, and having watched his current dominance on high Elo streams  (Saintvicious, Oddone) I asked him if Hecarim was a bit too strong atm,

to which he replied; "Not really, probs a bit"

I added that the Spirt of the Elder lizard was such a strong item on him given the recent buffs, which he agreed.

It is in my opinion that Hecarim has a unique synergy with this item, being an AD AOE jungler when most  AOE champions are of course AP. He can constantly proc the passive on surrounding targets with his low cooldown Q and DPS AOE W, whilst scaling much better with  its stats  than other AOE DPS junglers (udyr, shyvana, amumu, etc).

Hecarim is still very weak early and a Tanky monster late game, however this aside, I believe that  such a cheap and easily built item (builds from machete-spirit stone)  synergises too well with Hecarim, giving him  too much early-mid game damage output for its cost.

Tl;dr  Hecarim has a unique synergy with Spirit of the Elder lizard (like muramana on ryze) that is perhaps too strong atm.