Nidalee with Ekko
How to Synergize Nidalee and Ekko
based on 650 Nidalee with Ekko pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nidalee Ekko Synergy Summary
Best Nidalee vs Ekko Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nidalee and Ekko
Tips for Playing as Nidalee with Ekko
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
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.
Nidalee Ekko Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ekko as Nidalee in LoL
The Nidalee 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, Nidalee sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ekko. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Ekko helps Nidalee perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nidalee plays on the same team as Ekko, she gets a little drop in her complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Ekko does not provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played alongside Ekko on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Ekko. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Ekko.
Additionally, when Nidalee plays with Ekko on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Ekko does a decent job of protecting Nidalee in teamfights.
Synergies between Nidalee and Ekko
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Is Nidalee better when played alongside Ekko?
There is no one best companion for Nidalee that will always be her top ally. Yet, Ekko is a pretty good companion for Nidalee. By being on the same team as Nidalee, he raises their win rate by 2.7% to 47.5%. This shows that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Nidalee and Ekko that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Ekko has a lower difficulty than Nidalee. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Ekko comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, Nidalee players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Nidalee and Ekko together, you will not be granting your other teammates much engage potential. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Ekko teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nidalee to synergize with Ekko during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Nidalee and Ekko synergy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Ekko than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 47.5% when playing alongside Ekko with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Nidalee players should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Ekko with Nidalee are shown for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a distinct division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.