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.
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
The Ekko Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 Poppy. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Poppy helps Ekko perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ekko tries to synergize with Poppy, he sees a small increase in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Poppy supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Ekko is played together with Poppy 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 with Poppy.
Additionally, when Ekko plays with Poppy on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Poppy does a decent job of covering Ekko in team fights.
There is no perfect companion for Ekko that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, overall, Poppy is a good ally for Ekko. By being on the same team as Ekko, she improves their win rate by 1.3% to 52.3%. This demonstrates that there is a good synergy between Ekko and Poppy that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Poppy has a lower difficulty than Ekko. That means Ekko players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Poppy comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Ekko players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by bringing Ekko and Poppy together, you may not be providing your other allies very much AP. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Poppy ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Ekko to work well with Poppy during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Ekko and Poppy synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Ekko incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Poppy than with most other common builds. In fact, Ekko boasted an average winrate of 52.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Poppy with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Ekko and Poppy pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.3% win rate overall.
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