[Matchups] Fenrir vs Hercules

There's mulitple things that you have to look out for when facing Herc (as any God) aswel as a few specifically as Fenrir. Generally, Herc is very strong if you don't know what he does - if you do, however, you can often outplay him.

#General
##Knock-up

Everyone knows and fears Herc's knock up (his 2), but people often don't understand how it works. The knock up only applies to enemies who stand at the very end of skill. In general it's advicable to keep your distance so that he can't pull you in, but if you can't (because he's too close or because you need to clear) you can counter it by standing close to him. While you will take a little bit of damage, you won't get knocked up and thus ruin his CC combo potential. After a while you'll get a feeling for how far he can reach with that skill.

##Heal
Herc's heal is a big part of what makes him such a monster in the solo lane, but if you grasp the finer mechanics it's often quite easy to negate a big part of it. His heal consist of two phases. The first phase - marked by a orangeish glow - is the phase where he soaks up damage and heals a set ammount (60/100/140/180/220 in total) of health. This phase lasts 4 seconds. After that, during the next 10 seconds, he heals a percentage of the damage he took in the previous phase (30/45/60/75/90% depending on the level). So when he's in his first phase, don't bother attacking him unless you're sure you can do loads of damage or straight up kill him, as he'll just heal back up and you'll often end up taking more damage than you dealt to him. Anti heal is obviously also a great choice when going up against Herc.

##Combo
Herc heavily relies on getting his 2-1 combo off to kill you. Make sure you counter that any way you can (as mentioned before, not getting knocked up by his 2 is a good start) - so buy beads, it's worth it. Even if you're a great player and know how to play against Herc there's always situations where you imply can't escape his knock up or where you get ganked and that's when you'll be happy you bought them.

#Fenrir vs Herc
##Brutalize
When playing Fenrir into Herc you have to watch out for his knockback when you're using your brutalize. While you're immune to knock up (which is part of the reason why Fenrir isn't too bad a choice against herc) you're not immune to knock back. So either keep a safe distance only use it when you know that his 1 is on CD.
Keep in mind that Brutalize also allows you to do a very short leap. This might not seem like much, but it can be used to break his combo if he caught you with his 2 and doesn't follow up with his 1 fast enough. The same goes for his ult - use brutalize to leap out of the way if you can't escape it otherwise.
###Clear
Make sure to get full runes on your passive before you use brutalize to clear, as you'll get 75% of your main damage as AOE dmg, which really helps with clear.

##Your ultimate
###Offensive
Herc doesn't really have an escape other than the small dash that his 1 provides. As such, he's prey for your ult. Try to grab him when his 3 is on CD or when he's in the second phase of it, so that your initial grab wont count towards his healing (it doesn't make a huge difference but still). Depending on your damage and his defences you should use it when he's at about 1/3-1/2 of his health. You grab him and drag him back towards your tower, dealing a bit of damage and getting him out of position. Due to the way his 3 works, he wont be able to heal up very much in the next few seconds (he has to go through the first phase of minor healing first), which usually gives you enough time to finish him off.

###Defencive
Herc heavily relies on his 1 and 2 to keep enemies close enough for him to get his damage off. As you are CC immune in your ult, he wont be able to do that. Combined with the additonal defences and movementspeed you get you should be able to get out most of the time. Even his ult isn't too hard to evade if you're prepared for it.

##Weakening Curse
Personally, I like to use Weakening Curse against him. While you could opt for something like brawlers beatstick (not sure how that fits into Fenrirs build, haven't played him enough to say anything about that, sorry) and you might want to, Weakening Curse gives you the advantage when you need it, allowing you to easily kill him even if he's at high health, as you can keep him close to you and just keep beating away at him with your buff.


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That's all that I could think of atm, but I'm far from a Fenrir expert so maybe someone has some additional tips.

Edit: Forgot to mention Clear.