Ekko with Swain
How to Synergize Ekko and Swain
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Ekko Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Ekko and Swain
Tips for Playing as Ekko with Swain
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 Swain Will Play
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
Ekko Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Ekko in LoL
The Ekko Swain synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Swain, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Swain helps Ekko perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ekko plays on the same team as Swain, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This change could signal that Swain doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Ekko is played with Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Swain.
Additionally, when Ekko plays with Swain on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Swain does a poor job of covering Ekko during team fights.
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Is Ekko better when played alongside Swain?
There is no top ally for Ekko that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, Swain is a very typical ally for Ekko. By playing on the same side as Ekko, he increases their win rate by 0.3% to 51.3%. This shows that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Ekko and Swain that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Swain has a lower difficulty than Ekko. That means Ekko players don't need to be cautious when finding Swain teammates to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Ekko and Swain together, you probably will not be granting your other allies enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ekko in order to work well with Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Ekko and Swain synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Hextech Rocketbelt. When Ekko incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Swain than with many other common item sets. In fact, Ekko had an average winrate of 51.3% helping carry Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Ekko players should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.3% winrate overall.
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