Akali with Ekko
How to Synergize Akali and Ekko
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Akali Ekko Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Ekko
Tips for Playing as Akali with Ekko
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
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.
Akali Ekko Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ekko as Akali in LoL
The Akali 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, Akali sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ekko. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Ekko helps Akali perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali plays on the same team as Ekko, she sees a small decrease in her complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Ekko does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played together with Ekko on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Ekko.
Additionally, when Akali plays with Ekko on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Ekko does a poor job of covering Akali during team fights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Ekko?
There is no one best synergy for Akali that will always be her top ally. Yet, Ekko is a not very good teammate for Akali. By locking into the same side as Akali, he lowers their win rate by -1.8% to 47.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Akali and Ekko that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Ekko has a greater difficulty than Akali. That means Akali players need to be cautious when arranging Ekko teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Akali and Ekko together, you will not be granting your team very much protection for burst damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Ekko teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Akali in order to synergize with Ekko during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to get in your Akali and Ekko synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Shadowflame. When Akali bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Ekko than with most other common item sets. In fact, Akali boasted an average winrate of 47.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Ekko with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Ekko with Akali are presented for all skill levels combined. To scope the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.