Ekko with Karma
How to Synergize Ekko and Karma
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Ekko Karma Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Ekko and Karma
Tips for Playing as Ekko with Karma
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 Understand How Karma Will Play
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
Ekko Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Ekko in LoL
The Ekko Karma synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karma, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Ekko sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karma. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Karma helps Ekko perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ekko is paired with Karma, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This could signal that Karma does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Ekko is played with Karma on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Karma.
Moreover, when Ekko plays with Karma on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Karma does a poor job of protecting Ekko in team fights.
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Is Ekko better when played alongside Karma?
There is no ideal synergy for Ekko that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Karma is a relatively poor teammate for Ekko. By locking into the same side as Ekko, she drops their win rate by -2.1% to 48.9%. This demonstrates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Ekko and Karma that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Karma has a much lower diffuclty than Ekko. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Karma teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Ekko and Karma together, you will not be granting your other allies much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Karma ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Ekko in order to pair well with Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to include in your Ekko and Karma synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Ekko combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Karma than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Ekko boasted an average win rate of 48.9% when playing alongside Karma with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you 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. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.9% win rate overall.
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