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.
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several critical Ekko versus Taliyah matchup statistics that may help us interpret the differences between these two champions. Ekko’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taliyah’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Ekko may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Taliyah..
Ekko often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Taliyah. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ekko usually fairs equally well when playing against Taliyah, with a 50.4% win rate. Therefore, Ekko makes an ok counter to Taliyah.
While Ekko does have a higher win rate compared to Taliyah, when on opposite teams, Ekko also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Ekko into Taliyahas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Ekko has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taliyah. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ekko vs Taliyah matchups, Ekko is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Ekko is a decent counter to Taliyah. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Ekko against Taliyah.
To truly master Ekko to counter Taliyah during both the lane 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 stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ekko usually racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Taliyah. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Ekko versus Taliyah build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Ekko bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Taliyah than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Ekko boasted an average win rate of 50.4% when playing against Taliyah with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Taliyah as Ekko, Ekko players should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Future's Market runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Ekko vs Taliyah battles, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.4% winrate overall.
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