Karma with Ekko
How to Synergize Karma and Ekko
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Karma Ekko Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Ekko
Tips for Playing as Karma with Ekko
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.
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.
Karma Ekko Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ekko as Karma in LoL
The Karma 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, Karma sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ekko. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Ekko helps Karma perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma plays on the same team as Ekko, she gets a small decrease in her total damage output. This may signal that Ekko does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played alongside Ekko on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Ekko.
Additionally, when Karma plays with Ekko on the same team, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Ekko does a decent job of covering Karma in teamfights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Ekko?
There is no one best companion for Karma that will no matter what be her best ally. Yet, overall, Ekko is a very typical ally for Karma. By locking into the same side as Karma, he raises their win rate by 0.6% to 48.9%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Karma and Ekko that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Ekko has a greater difficulty than Karma. That means Karma players need to be careful when arranging Ekko allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Karma players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Karma and Ekko together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates enough AD. Make sure to have other champions on your team that fills this gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Ekko ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Karma to pair well with Ekko during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Karma and Ekko synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Cosmic Drive. When Karma incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Ekko than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 48.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Ekko with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Karma players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Karma and Ekko pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.9% winrate overall.
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