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.
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
The Ekko Rumble synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rumble, 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 Rumble. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Rumble helps Ekko perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ekko is paired with Rumble, he gets a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Rumble doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Ekko is played together with Rumble on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Rumble.
Additionally, when Ekko plays with Rumble on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Rumble does a poor job of protecting Ekko during teamfights.
There is no top companion for Ekko that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, Rumble is a not very good ally for Ekko. By locking into the same side as Ekko, he lowers their win rate by -2.2% to 48.8%. This proves that there is a harmful synergy between Ekko and Rumble that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Rumble has a greater difficulty than Ekko. That means you should be careful when finding Rumble allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Ekko and Rumble together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of utility. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Rumble ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Ekko to synergize with Rumble during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to prioritize in your Ekko and Rumble synergy build consist of Lich Bane, Void Staff, and Stormsurge. When Ekko included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Rumble than with many other common builds. In fact, Ekko had an average win rate of 48.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rumble with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Ekko and Rumble pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Rumble with Ekko are given for all skill levels, merged. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.