Talk:Hecarim/@comment-62.244.136.197-20120409145243/@comment-86.160.72.197-20120409154613

If you play him AD, you should be building Trinity Force on him. It combo's so well with his Q and his E. He's not a tank, he's not an AD, he's not an AP. He's a Bruiser. Got a strong initiate, with a secondary disruption/counterinitiate (Use E, ult into teamfight, smash their tank away). Like, you'd build him similarly to Irelia, except his healing comes in a burst, rather than continuously. He also has a faster wave clearance than a lot of top laners, with a lot of sustain and a decent counter-gank mechanism. You say his ratios aren't good. But his W is a DoT effect, 0.2 AP per tick, probs looking at 5 ticks total, so that's a 1.0 AP ratio AoE effect, his ult has a total ratio of 1.2 AP. Sure his passive damage is low. But bear in mind that gives something like, 25 AD with boots and Trinity Force alone, that's 25 AD more than anyone else is going to get from movespeed. The lack of unit collision is also very useful for him, more so than Fizz, because Fizz already has an evasive kit, his removal of unit collision is relatively minor because he can just jump over the wave or Q through it anyway.

Also, re-read the text on his W. It's damage dealt to enemies within the area from ANY source. So your carry dealing 800 crits is healing you for like, 240 per shot, at a rate of something like, 2 shots per second on someone like Tristana? That seems pretty damn good if you ask me.