Caitlyn with Ekko
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Ekko
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Caitlyn Ekko Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Ekko
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Ekko
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn Ekko Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ekko as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn Ekko synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ekko, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ekko. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Ekko helps Caitlyn perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Caitlyn is an ally to Ekko, she gets a small increase in her full damage output. This change could indicate that Ekko supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played with Ekko on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Ekko.
Moreover, when Caitlyn plays with Ekko on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Ekko does a poor job of covering Caitlyn in team fights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Ekko?
There is no top companion for Caitlyn that will always be her top synergy. However, Ekko is a decent companion for Caitlyn. By being on the same team as Caitlyn, he increases their win rate by 1.1% to 50.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important bond between Caitlyn and Ekko that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Ekko has a greater difficulty than Caitlyn. That means you should be cautious when arranging Ekko allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Caitlyn and Ekko together, you may not be providing your other allies very much tankyness. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Ekko ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Caitlyn to work well with Ekko during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Caitlyn and Ekko synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Opportunity. When Caitlyn combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Ekko than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Caitlyn boasted an average winrate of 50.4% helping carry Ekko with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.4% winrate overall.
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