Ekko with Gragas
How to Synergize Ekko and Gragas
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Ekko Gragas Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Ekko and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Ekko with Gragas
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 Understand How Gragas Will Play
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Ekko Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Ekko in LoL
The Ekko Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Ekko sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gragas. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Gragas helps Ekko perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ekko tries to synergize with Gragas, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This may indicate that Gragas supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Ekko is played alongside Gragas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Gragas. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gragas.
Additionally, when Ekko plays with Gragas on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Gragas does a decent job of covering Ekko in teamfights.
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Is Ekko better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Ekko that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, overall, Gragas is a very bad ally for Ekko. By being on the same team as Ekko, he lowers their win rate by -3.4% to 47.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad synergy between Ekko and Gragas that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Gragas has a much lower diffuclty than Ekko. That means Ekko players don't need to be careful when lining up Gragas allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Ekko players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Ekko and Gragas together, you may not be providing your team a lot of sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Gragas teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Ekko to work well with Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Ekko and Gragas synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Ekko combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Gragas than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Ekko boasted an average win rate of 47.6% when playing alongside Gragas with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Ekko players should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.6% winrate overall.
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