Kai'Sa vs Ekko
How to Beat Ekko as Kai'Sa
based on 7,523 Kai'Sa vs Ekko matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Ekko Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Ekko Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ekko as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Ekko
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Advice to Win Against Ekko
The second hit of Timewinder does more damage than the first; try to avoid it.
Ekko is significantly weaker when his ultimate is down. Watch for the trail he leaves behind to determine if Chronobreak is available.
Ekko's stun zone takes 3 seconds to arm. Watch for the image he creates on cast and try to guess where the zone was placed.
Kai'Sa vs Ekko Counter Stats
How to Counter Ekko with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stats shown here show several vital Kai'Sa versus Ekko counter statistics that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ekko’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Ekko..
Kai'Sa usually has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. On average, she takes less damage than Ekko. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Ekko
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Ekko?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when playing against Ekko, with a 45.7% win rate. Thus, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter to Ekko.
While Kai'Sa does have a much lower win rate compared to Ekko, when they face off with one another, Kai'Sa also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Kai'Sa into Ekko.
Moreover, Kai'Sa also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ekko. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Ekko matchups, Ekko is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Kai'Sa is a trash counter for Ekko. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kai'Sa against Ekko.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kai'Sa
Additional Information for Kai'Sa Players
How We Calculated Our Kai'Sa vs Ekko Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kai'Sa to counter Ekko during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa usually racks up more CS as Ekko. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Kai'Sa versus Ekko build consist of Phantom Dancer, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Kai'Sa included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Ekko than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average win rate of 45.7% battling Ekko with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Ekko as Kai'Sa, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Kai'Sa vs Ekko LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.7% win rate overall.
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