Ekko with Katarina
How to Synergize Ekko and Katarina
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Ekko Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Ekko and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Ekko with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Ekko Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Ekko in LoL
The Ekko Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Katarina helps Ekko perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ekko is an ally to Katarina, he observes a measurable drop in his total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Katarina does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Ekko is played together with Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Katarina. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Katarina.
Moreover, when Ekko plays with Katarina on the same team, he often receives much more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Katarina does a poor job of protecting Ekko in teamfights.
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Is Ekko better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no ideal ally for Ekko that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, overall, Katarina is a very bad companion for Ekko. By being on the same team as Ekko, she decreases their win rate by -3.2% to 47.8%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Ekko and Katarina that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a lower difficulty than Ekko. That means Ekko players don't need to be very careful when lining up Katarina allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, Ekko players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Ekko and Katarina together, you will not be giving your side a great deal of utility. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 learn all of the intricacies of Ekko in order to pair well with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Ekko and Katarina synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Ekko used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Katarina than with many other typical builds. In fact, Ekko had an average winrate of 47.8% when playing alongside Katarina with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take 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 runes players used for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.8% win rate overall.
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