Ekko vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Ekko
based on 3,311 Ekko vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ekko vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Ekko vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Ekko
Tips for Playing as Ekko against Illaoi
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 Win Against Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Ekko vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Ekko in LoL
The stats shown here show some strategic Ekko versus Illaoi counter statistics that can help us figure out the distinctions between the two. For instance, Ekko’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Illaoi’s ratio of NaN, showing that Ekko may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Illaoi..
Ekko normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Illaoi. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ekko and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Ekko or Illaoi?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ekko usually wins when playing against Illaoi, with a 53.7% win rate. Thus, Ekko makes a great counter for Illaoi.
While Ekko does have a higher winrate than Illaoi, when on opposite teams, Ekko also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Ekko into Illaoias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Ekko also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Illaoi. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ekko vs Illaoi matchups, Ekko is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Ekko is a great counter for Illaoi. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ekko against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ekko in order to counter Illaoi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ekko usually picks up less CS compared to Illaoi. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Ekko versus Illaoi build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Ekko combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better against Illaoi than with many other common item sets. In fact, Ekko boasted an average winrate of 53.7% battling Illaoi with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Illaoi as Ekko, Ekko players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Ekko vs Illaoi counters, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.7% win rate overall.
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