Ekko with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Ekko and Vel'Koz
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Ekko Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Ekko and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Ekko with Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz Will Play
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Ekko Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Ekko in LoL
The Ekko Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, 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 Vel'Koz. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Vel'Koz helps Ekko perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ekko tries to synergize with Vel'Koz, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This may indicate that Vel'Koz does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Ekko is played together with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Ekko plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Ekko during team fights.
Synergies between Ekko and Vel'Koz
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Is Ekko better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no one best ally for Ekko that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, Vel'Koz is a very typical ally for Ekko. By locking into the same team as Ekko, he lowers their win rate by -0.8% to 50.2%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Ekko and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a lower difficulty than Ekko. That means Ekko players don't need to be careful when finding Vel'Koz allies to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Ekko and Vel'Koz together, you will not be providing your team much tankyness. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 to synergize with Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Ekko and Vel'Koz synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Ekko used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Vel'Koz than with most other typical builds. In fact, Ekko had an average win rate of 50.2% helping carry Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, 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 builds we have analyed for Ekko and Vel'Koz pairings, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.2% win rate overall.
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