Ekko vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Ekko
based on 3,032 Ekko vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ekko vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Ekko vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Ekko
Tips for Playing as Ekko against Alistar
Chronobreak is a potent escape tool, but it can also be quite powerful when used offensively. Don't underestimate its damage potential.
If you can proc Z-Drive Resonance on an enemy champion, it's worth taking risks to do so. The bonus Move Speed makes it easy to escape.
Phase Dive's dash is a great tool for setting up Ekko's other abilities. Use it to get double hits with Timewinder or get into position to detonate Parallel Convergence.
Advice to Win Against Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Ekko vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Ekko in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several critical Ekko vs. Alistar counter statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. Ekko’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Ekko may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Alistar. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Ekko often has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Alistar. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ekko and Alistar
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Who is Better, Ekko or Alistar?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ekko usually wins when trying to fight Alistar, with a 52.7% win rate. Thus, Ekko makes a good counter to Alistar.
While Ekko does have a higher winrate compared to Alistar, when they face off with one another, Ekko also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Ekko into Alistaras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Ekko also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Alistar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ekko vs Alistar matchups, Ekko is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Ekko is a good counter for Alistar. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Ekko against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Ekko in order to counter Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ekko most often picks up much more CS relative to Alistar. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Ekko versus Alistar build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Ekko used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better against Alistar than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Ekko had an average winrate of 52.7% when countering Alistar with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Alistar as Ekko, Ekko players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Ekko vs Alistar LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.7% win rate overall.
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