Ekko with Garen
How to Synergize Ekko and Garen
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Ekko Garen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Ekko and Garen
Tips for Playing as Ekko with Garen
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 Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Ekko Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Ekko in LoL
The Ekko Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Garen helps Ekko perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ekko plays on the same team as Garen, he sees a small decrease in his total damage output. This could indicate that Garen does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Ekko is played together with Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Garen.
Additionally, when Ekko plays with Garen on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Garen does a poor job of covering Ekko during teamfights.
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Is Ekko better when played alongside Garen?
There is no one best companion for Ekko that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, overall, Garen is a very typical ally for Ekko. By locking into the same team as Ekko, he drops their win rate by -0.5% to 50.5%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Ekko and Garen that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Garen has a much lower diffuclty than Ekko. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Garen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Ekko players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Ekko and Garen together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates much crowd control. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Garen ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Ekko to work well with Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Ekko and Garen synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Ekko combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Garen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Ekko boasted an average win rate of 50.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Garen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.5% winrate overall.
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