Katarina with Ekko
How to Synergize Katarina and Ekko
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Katarina Ekko Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Ekko
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Ekko
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.
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.
Katarina Ekko Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ekko as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina 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, Katarina sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ekko. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Ekko helps Katarina perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina is paired with Ekko, she observes a little decrease in her complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Ekko does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Ekko on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Ekko.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Ekko on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Ekko does a poor job of covering Katarina during teamfights.
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Ekko?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Katarina that will always be her ideal ally. However, overall, Ekko is a very typical companion for Katarina. By locking into the same side as Katarina, he lowers their win rate by -1.0% to 47.8%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Katarina and Ekko that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Ekko has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be very careful when finding Ekko allies to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Katarina and Ekko together, you will not be providing your other allies a great deal of utility. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Ekko ally's ability, you should 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, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to synergize with Ekko during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Katarina and Ekko synergy build include Lich Bane, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Ekko than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 47.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Ekko with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Katarina players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Katarina and Ekko pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.8% winrate overall.
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