Ekko vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Ekko
based on 2,962 Ekko vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ekko vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
Best Ekko vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Ekko
Tips for Playing as Ekko against K'Sante
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 K'Sante
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Ekko vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Ekko in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some influential Ekko versus K'Sante counter stats that may help you interpret the differences between the two. For instance, Ekko’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than K'Sante’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Ekko may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than K'Sante. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Ekko often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to K'Sante. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ekko and K'Sante
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Who is Better, Ekko or K'Sante?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ekko usually wins when playing against K'Sante, with a 53.4% win rate. Therefore, Ekko makes a great counter to K'Sante.
While Ekko does have a higher winrate than K'Sante, when on opposite teams, Ekko also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Ekko into K'Santeas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Ekko has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to K'Sante. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ekko vs K'Sante matchups, Ekko is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Ekko is a great counter to K'Sante. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ekko against K'Sante.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ekko in order to counter K'Sante during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ekko on average accumulates less CS as K'Sante. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Ekko versus K'Sante build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Ekko used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs K'Sante than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Ekko boasted an average winrate of 53.4% battling K'Sante with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing K'Sante as Ekko, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Ekko vs K'Sante matchups, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.4% winrate overall.
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