Ekko with Maokai
How to Synergize Ekko and Maokai
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Ekko Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Ekko and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Ekko with Maokai
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 Maokai Will Play
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Ekko Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Ekko in LoL
The Ekko Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Maokai helps Ekko perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ekko plays on the same team as Maokai, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Maokai supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Ekko is played alongside Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Additionally, when Ekko plays with Maokai on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Maokai does a decent job of protecting Ekko during teamfights.
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Is Ekko better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Ekko that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Maokai is a good companion for Ekko. By playing on the same team as Ekko, he increases their win rate by 2.8% to 53.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Ekko and Maokai that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Ekko. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Maokai teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, Ekko players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Ekko and Maokai together, you probably will not be granting your side very much attack damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Maokai ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Ekko in order to synergize with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Ekko and Maokai synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Ekko combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Maokai than with many other common item sets. In fact, Ekko boasted an average winrate of 53.8% when playing alongside Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Future's Market runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Ekko and Maokai pairings, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.8% win rate overall.
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