Ekko vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Ekko
based on 6,399 Ekko vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ekko vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Ekko vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Ekko
Tips for Playing as Ekko against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Ekko vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Ekko in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several significant Ekko versus Leona counter statistics that may help you understand the differences between the pair. As an example, Ekko’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ekko may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Leona. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Ekko normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Leona. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ekko and Leona
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Who is Better, Ekko or Leona?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ekko usually fairs equally well when playing against Leona, with a 49.1% win rate. Thus, Ekko makes an ok counter for Leona.
While Ekko does have a lower winrate than Leona, when they face off with one another, Ekko also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Ekko into Leonaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Ekko has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Ekko vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Ekko is a somewhat poor counter to Leona. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ekko against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ekko to counter Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ekko usually accumulates much more CS relative to Leona. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Ekko versus Leona build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Ekko included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Leona than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Ekko boasted an average winrate of 49.1% when playing against Leona with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Leona as Ekko, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Ekko vs Leona matchups, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.1% win rate overall.
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