Veigar with Ekko
How to Synergize Veigar and Ekko
based on 3,135 Veigar with Ekko pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Veigar Ekko Synergy Summary
Best Veigar vs Ekko Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Veigar and Ekko
Tips for Playing as Veigar with Ekko
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
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.
Veigar Ekko Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ekko as Veigar in LoL
The Veigar Ekko synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ekko, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Veigar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ekko. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Ekko helps Veigar perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Veigar tries to synergize with Ekko, he sees a small decrease in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Ekko doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played together with Ekko on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Ekko.
Additionally, when Veigar plays with Ekko on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Ekko does a poor job of covering Veigar during team fights.
Synergies between Veigar and Ekko
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Is Veigar better when played alongside Ekko?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Veigar that will always be his best teammate. However, overall, Ekko is a very typical ally for Veigar. By playing on the same side as Veigar, he decreases their win rate by -0.7% to 48.6%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small synergy between Veigar and Ekko that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Ekko has a greater difficulty than Veigar. That means Veigar players must be very careful when lining up Ekko comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Veigar and Ekko together, you may not be granting your team enough protection for burst damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Ekko ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Veigar in order to pair well with Ekko during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to get in your Veigar and Ekko synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Ekko than with most other common item sets. In fact, Veigar boasted an average winrate of 48.6% helping carry Ekko with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.6% win rate overall.
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