Illaoi with Ekko
How to Synergize Illaoi and Ekko
based on 3,362 Illaoi with Ekko pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Ekko Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Ekko Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Ekko
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Ekko
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi Ekko Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ekko as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi 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, Illaoi sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ekko. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Ekko helps Illaoi perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Illaoi tries to synergize with Ekko, she observes a little increase in her complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Ekko helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played with Ekko on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Ekko.
Additionally, when Illaoi plays with Ekko on the same team, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Ekko does a poor job of protecting Illaoi in teamfights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Ekko
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Ekko?
There is no perfect synergy for Illaoi that will always be her best synergy. Yet, Ekko is a very typical teammate for Illaoi. By locking into the same team as Illaoi, he raises their win rate by 0.1% to 49.7%. This demonstrates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Illaoi and Ekko that results in them performing better together than alone.
Ekko has a much greater difficulty compared to Illaoi. That means Illaoi players should be careful when enlisting Ekko teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Illaoi players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Illaoi and Ekko together, you probably will not be providing your other allies very much support. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Ekko teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi in order to pair well with Ekko during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Illaoi and Ekko synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Spirit Visage, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Ekko than with most other common builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average winrate of 49.7% helping carry Ekko with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Illaoi players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Illaoi and Ekko pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.7% winrate overall.
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