Leona with Ekko
How to Synergize Leona and Ekko
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Leona Ekko Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Ekko
Tips for Playing as Leona with Ekko
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Ekko Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ekko as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona sees a large worsening 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 Leona perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona tries to synergize with Ekko, she observes a barely noticable drop in her full damage dealt. This could indicate that Ekko does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played alongside Ekko on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Ekko.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Ekko on the same team, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Ekko does a poor job of covering Leona in teamfights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Ekko?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Leona that will no matter what be her ideal ally. Yet, overall, Ekko is a very typical ally for Leona. By being on the same side as Leona, he raises their win rate by 0.7% to 52.9%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Leona and Ekko that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Ekko has a much greater difficulty compared to Leona. That means you should be cautious when arranging Ekko teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Together, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by grouping Leona and Ekko together, you may not be granting your team a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Ekko ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Leona in order to synergize with Ekko during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Leona and Ekko synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Frozen Heart, and Celestial Opposition. When Leona combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Ekko than with many other common builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 52.9% helping carry Ekko with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Leona players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.9% winrate overall.
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