Gragas with Ekko
How to Synergize Gragas and Ekko
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Gragas Ekko Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Ekko
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Ekko
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.
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.
Gragas Ekko Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ekko as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas 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, Gragas sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ekko. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Ekko helps Gragas perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas plays on the same team as Ekko, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Ekko supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played alongside Ekko on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Ekko. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Ekko.
Moreover, when Gragas plays with Ekko on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Ekko does a decent job of covering Gragas in team fights.
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Ekko?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Gragas that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, Ekko is a very typical ally for Gragas. By being on the same team as Gragas, he decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 47.6%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Gragas and Ekko that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Ekko has a greater difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players must be very careful when lining up Ekko teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Gragas and Ekko together, you probably will not be providing your team much AD. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that fills this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Ekko ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 Gragas to work well with Ekko during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Gragas and Ekko synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Gragas combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Ekko than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 47.6% helping carry Ekko with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, Gragas players should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.6% win rate overall.
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