Hecarim ARAM Mayhem Build

The Shadow of War. A strong pick in ARAM Mayhem on patch 26.21: #30 of 173 champions.

APatch 26.21FighterTankNo runes in Mayhem

Tier: A
Win rate: 51.9%
Pick rate: 10.9%
Rank: #30 of 173
Games: 2,518,792
Patch: 26.21

How to play Hecarim in ARAM Mayhem

Hecarim is a strong pick in ARAM Mayhem on patch 26.21: tier A, #30 of 173 champions, with a 51.9% win rate over 2,518,792 games. It is also one of the most picked champions, showing up in 11% of games, so expect to see it on both sides.

75% of Hecarim's damage to champions is physical, so enemy armor is what slows it down. It soaks 53,508 damage per game and mitigates another 65,901, so it belongs at the front: start fights and absorb the poke your carries can't. It dies 13.5 times per game on average: it trades its life for impact, so time your engages with your team.

The Bruiser build, bruiser items that mix damage and health, is both the most played and the top-ranked path: Spear of Shojin, Endless Hunger and Manamune, with a 53.7% win rate over 1,539,599 games. For boots, Gluttonous Greaves are both the most bought and the top-ranked pair.

The cards that do best on Hecarim are The Boom and the Bass, Take'em Down Down Down and Blue Barrier. Cards built around ability haste fill most of the top of its list, followed by attack speed and on-hit. Most of its S-tier cards are prismatic, so a prismatic offer is often the pick that shapes the game. Skip Dashing and Steel Your Heart when you can: they do worst on Hecarim. A pair to look for: Ethereal Weapon with Mystic Punch.

Take Ghost and Mark (17% of players); Flash is the common alternative. Max Q (Rampage) first, then W, then E.

Hecarim ARAM Mayhem build

ARAMKit groups every Hecarim game by build path. The top-ranked path comes first, with the items most players start with, buy first and add later.

Bruiser build · top ranked

53.7% win rate · 74% of Hecarim games · 1,539,599 games

Start

Tear of the Goddess
Guardian's Blade

Core items, in buying order

Spear of Shojin
Endless Hunger
Manamune

Boots on the Bruiser build for Hecarim, top ranked first, with the share of players who buy them
Boots, best first	Players
Gluttonous Greaves	35%
Mercury's Treads	24%
Boots of Swiftness	4%

Situational, after the core

Death's Dance60% buy it
Spirit Visage20% buy it
Black Cleaver7% buy it
Eclipse5% buy it
Jak'Sho, The Protean3% buy it

Other build paths

Other Hecarim build paths with share of games, win rate and core items
Path	Core items	Games	Win rate
LethalityHubris, Axiom Arc, Manamune		0.7%	59.7%
TankHeartsteel, Unending Despair, Warmog's Armor		1.3%	44.7%

Games: the share of all Hecarim games that went this way.

Most bought items

Spear of Shojin69% of games
Death's Dance68% of games
Manamune64% of games
Endless Hunger55% of games
Gluttonous Greaves26% of games
Mercury's Treads26% of games
Hubris25% of games
Spirit Visage17% of games
Heartsteel9% of games
Eclipse9% of games

Best augments for Hecarim

Every card with enough Hecarim games, by tier and best first within each tier. Tiers are Hecarim's own: a card can be S tier here and C tier on another champion. As Riot's policy asks, cards are shown by tier and order only, never with a win rate. Click a card for its own page; the augment tier list ranks them over all champions.

PrismaticBest prismatic cards

GoldBest gold cards

SilverBest silver cards

S- and A-tier cards for Hecarim

11 S tier and 27 A tier, best first.

The S- and A-tier augments for Hecarim in ARAM Mayhem, best first, with their rarity and what they do
Augment	Rarity	Tier	What it does
The Boom and the Bass	Gold	Tier S	After casting an Ability, your next Attack within 6 seconds is faster, deals Melee (50–200 (by level) +50% Bonus Attack Damage+30% Ability…
Take'em Down Down Down	Gold	Tier S	Attacks and Abilities apply a stack to enemy champions for 5 seconds and deal Melee (5–30 (by level) +35% Bonus Attack Damage+15% Ability…
Blue Barrier	Silver	Tier S	Gain 200–450 (by level) % of the Max Mana Mana you spend as a Shield for 1.5 seconds. Shields up to 300–800 (by level)
Infinite Recursion	Prismatic	Tier S	Gain 60 Ability Haste, plus 3 Ability Haste per takedown.
Mystic Punch	Prismatic	Tier S	On-Hit Effects On-Hit reduce the cooldown of your abilities by 1.25 seconds Ability Haste.
Mad Scientist	Prismatic	Tier S	On each Revive, you grow large (gaining 30% Adaptive Force and 20% Health) or tiny (gaining 70 Ability Haste and 40% Movement Speed).
Stay Resolute	Silver	Tier S	Damaging enemy champions with selected ability grants you 1–3 (by level) Armor or Magic Resistance based on their Adaptive Force Damage…
Ultimate Awakening	Prismatic	Tier S	Gain 30 Ultimate Ability Haste. After using your Ultimate, refresh your basic abilities and gain 300 basic ability haste for 15s. (20s…
Back To Basics	Prismatic	Tier S	Your Ultimate Ability is sealed. Gain 35% Ability Damage, Healing, Shielding, and 70 Ability Haste.
En Passant	Prismatic	Tier S	Periodically identify Vitals on enemy champions. Hitting Vitals with Attacks or Abilities deals an additional 6% + 1.5% per stack max Health…
Escape Plan	Silver	Tier S	Gain a massive (65% Max Health) decaying Shield, decaying 150% Movement Speed, and a decaying shrink effect upon reaching 35% Health (75…
Armored Impact	Gold	Tier A	After casting an Ability, your next Attack deals (50–125 (by level) +250% Bonus Armor) bonus physical damage to nearby enemies.
Weapon of Destiny	Gold	Tier A	Your first Legendary Item becomes the Weapon of Destiny. When a champion you damaged within the last 3 seconds dies, increase the Weapon of…
Hellbent	Prismatic	Tier A	Striking enemy champions with Attacks or Abilities grants you a stack of Revivemaxxing for 6 seconds (max: 10). At max stacks become…
Hand of Baron	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 25% Adaptive Force. Nearby allied minions are greatly empowered.
Triggered Inferno	Prismatic	Tier A	Damaging enemy champions with Attacks or Abilities different from the previous one grants Style (from F to S). Gain 4.25–5 (by level) %…
Giant Slayer	Prismatic	Tier A	Become tiny, gain 20% Movement Speed, and deal between 10% and 30% bonus damage to champions based on how much larger they are than you.
Clown College	Prismatic	Tier A	Backstab: You deal (20–35 (by level) +35% Ability Power +50% Bonus Attack Damage) bonus physical damage when striking from behind. Deceive…
Final Form	Prismatic	Tier A	After casting your Ultimate, gain a 50% max Health Shield, 20% Omnivamp and 30% bonus Movement Speed for 10 seconds. (20 seconds Cooldown).
Tooth Fairy	Gold	Tier A	When you deal more than 25% of an enemy champion's Health in less than 2.5 seconds, they drop a Tooth. 4 seconds cooldown per target
Blunt Force	Silver	Tier A	–
Shadow Runner	Silver	Tier A	After using a Dash, Blink, or Teleport Ability or exiting Stealth, gain 300 Movement Speed for 2 seconds.
escAPADe	Silver	Tier A	Convert Ability Power to Bonus Attack Damage and gain (15%) Attack Damage. Converts at a rate of 0.6 Attack Damage per point of Ability…
Spin To Win	Silver	Tier A	Your spin Abilities gain 30 Ability Haste and deal 30% more damage, increase to 50% for Ultimates
Sap Magic	Gold	Tier A	Every 20 seconds, your next Attack deals (80–300 (by level) +5% Bonus Health) bonus physical damage and restores (50–250 (by level) +8% Max…
Transmute: Prismatic	Gold	Tier A	Gain a random Augment Tier Prismatic Augment.
Forged By The Master	Silver	Tier A	Your Item and Augment damage are increased by 45%.
Double Time	Gold	Tier A	Damaging an enemy champion with 2 separate Abilities within 4 seconds deals (10% Max Mana) magic damage and grants 25 max Mana. 4 second…
Transmute: Chaos	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 2 random Augment Tier Augments.
Donation	Gold	Tier A	Receive 1750 Gold. Thanks chat!:)
Stats on Stats!	Gold	Tier A	Gain 3 Stat Anvils, with a higher chance of Gold and Prismatic Anvils!
Stats on Stats on Stats!	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 4 Stat Anvils, with a higher chance of Gold and Prismatic Anvils! On your next Augment selection, gain one additional reroll per slot.
Upgrade Ravenous Hydra	Gold	Tier A	Your spell hits trigger Cleave against enemies. Increase Ravenous Hydra's Life Steal to 20% Gain 500 Gold.
Recursion	Gold	Tier A	Gain 60 Ability Haste.
Purist - Caster	Silver	Tier A	Conversion Rate: 0.65 Ability Haste per 1% Attack Speed
From Beginning To End	Gold	Tier A	Gain the First Strike and Dark Harvest Keystone Runes. First Strike: When you initiate champion combat, deal 10% extra damage for 3 seconds…
Twin Fire	Silver	Tier A	On ability damage, fire 1 plus (3% Critical Strike Chance) missiles that deal (10–30 (by level) +7% Bonus Attack Damage+7% Ability Power)…
Ethereal Weapon	Gold	Tier A	Your Abilities apply On-Hit Effects On-Hit effects. 1 second Cooldown per target.

Average on Hecarim
51 cards, best first

Below average on Hecarim
33 cards, best first

Weakest on Hecarim
9 cards, best first

Best first augment for Hecarim

Your first card decides the early fights, and a card that is great as a first pick can be a weak fourth. ARAMKit ranks Hecarim's cards for each pick on its own; these are the top five per pick, with their tier in that pick. For the first pick, The Boom and the Bass, Take'em Down Down Down and Infinite Recursion come out on top.

The best augments for Hecarim in each pick of an ARAM Mayhem game, best first, with their tier in that pick
#	First pick	Second pick	Third pick	Fourth pick
1	The Boom and the BassTier S	Bread And ButterTier S	The Boom and the BassTier S	The Boom and the BassTier S
2	Take'em Down Down DownTier S	The Boom and the BassTier S	Take'em Down Down DownTier S	Take'em Down Down DownTier S
3	Infinite RecursionTier S	Take'em Down Down DownTier S	Mystic PunchTier S	Blue BarrierTier S
4	Armored ImpactTier S	Stay ResoluteTier S	Mad ScientistTier S	Mystic PunchTier S
5	Back To BasicsTier S	Mystic PunchTier S	Blue BarrierTier S	Mad ScientistTier S

Strong card pairs

Two cards that do especially well together on Hecarim, best pair first.

Summoner spells and skill order

Summoner spells

Ghost + Mark17% of players · 53.5% win rate
Flash + Mark64% of players · 51.7% win rate
Flash + Ghost19% of players · 51.4% win rate

Skill order

QRampage
WSpirit of Dread
EDevastating Charge

Max Q first. 76% of players use this order (53.3% win rate); put points in R whenever you can.

Hecarim in an average Mayhem game

Averages per game over every game on this patch.

K / D / A: 12.4 / 13.5 / 23.5
KDA: 2.83
Damage to champions: 41,232
Damage taken: 53,508
Self-mitigated: 65,901
Healing on allies: 1
Shielding on allies: 0
Crowd control: 23 s
Kill participation: 67%
Game length: 16:20

Damage type

Physical 75%Magic 20%True 5%

Questions and answers

What is the best Hecarim build in ARAM Mayhem?

On patch 26.21 ARAMKit ranks the Bruiser build first for Hecarim: Spear of Shojin, Endless Hunger and Manamune. It is also the most played build.

What are the best augments for Hecarim in ARAM Mayhem?

The S-tier cards for Hecarim, best first: The Boom and the Bass, Take'em Down Down Down, Blue Barrier, Infinite Recursion and Mystic Punch. The full list by tier is on this page.

Is Hecarim good in ARAM Mayhem?

Hecarim is tier A on patch 26.21, #30 of 173 champions, with a 51.9% win rate over 2.5 million games. That makes it a strong pick in ARAM Mayhem right now.

What is the best first augment for Hecarim in ARAM Mayhem?

For Hecarim's first pick on patch 26.21: The Boom and the Bass, Take'em Down Down Down, Infinite Recursion, Armored Impact and Back To Basics, best first. Cards rank differently in later picks; the table on this page has all four.

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ARAM Mayhem tier list
Every champion by tier on patch 26.21.
ARAM Mayhem augment tier list
Every card from S to D over all champions.
All Mayhem builds
Pick a champion from the full list.
ARAM Mayhem rules
Augment levels, rerolls and why there are no runes.
ARAM Mayhem guide
How the mode, the cards and the picks work.
Hecarim counters
Its lane matchups on Summoner's Rift.
ARAM Mayhem overlay
The card picker and build in the app.

Source: ARAMKit, used with permission. Patch 26.21, 23,177,263 ARAM Mayhem games, data of October 28, 2026. Riot keeps Mayhem games out of its public match API, so these aggregates come from ARAMKit. Card tiers are shown without win rates, as Riot's developer policy asks.