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.
Taste Their Fear deals bonus damage to targets that are isolated. Gain an advantage by fighting near allied minions, champions, or turrets.
Leap and Void Assault have long cooldowns. Kha'Zix is very vulnerable when these are not available.
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some significant Ekko against Kha'Zix matchup statistics that may help us explain the differences between the two. Ekko’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kha'Zix’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Ekko may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kha'Zix..
Ekko normally has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kha'Zix. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ekko usually wins when playing against Kha'Zix, with a 51.6% win rate. Therefore, Ekko makes a good counter to Kha'Zix.
While Ekko does have a higher win rate compared to Kha'Zix, when on opposite teams, Ekko also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Ekko into Kha'Zixas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Ekko has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kha'Zix. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ekko vs Kha'Zix matchups, Ekko is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Ekko is a decent counter to Kha'Zix. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Ekko against Kha'Zix.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ekko in order to counter Kha'Zix during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ekko usually racks up much more CS compared to Kha'Zix. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Ekko versus Kha'Zix build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Ekko bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Kha'Zix than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Ekko boasted an average win rate of 51.6% battling Kha'Zix with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Kha'Zix as Ekko, Ekko players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Ekko vs Kha'Zix clashes, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.6% winrate overall.
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