Brand with Ekko
How to Synergize Brand and Ekko
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Brand Ekko Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Ekko
Tips for Playing as Brand with Ekko
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Advice to Understand How Ekko Will Play
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.
Brand Ekko Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ekko as Brand in LoL
The Brand Ekko synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ekko, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Brand sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ekko. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Ekko helps Brand perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Brand tries to synergize with Ekko, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Ekko doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played with Ekko on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Ekko.
Additionally, when Brand plays with Ekko on the same team, he typically receives less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Ekko does a decent job of protecting Brand in team fights.
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Is Brand better when played alongside Ekko?
There is no top synergy for Brand that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Ekko is a very typical ally for Brand. By playing on the same side as Brand, he improves their win rate by 0.5% to 51.9%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Brand and Ekko that results in them performing better together than alone.
Ekko has a much greater difficulty compared to Brand. That means you need to be very careful when lining up Ekko teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Brand and Ekko together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of engage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Ekko teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Brand in order to synergize with Ekko during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Brand and Ekko synergy build include Banshee's Veil, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Ekko than with many other typical builds. In fact, Brand had an average winrate of 51.9% helping carry Ekko with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Brand players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.9% win rate overall.
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