Ekko with Zed
How to Synergize Ekko and Zed
based on 5,195 Ekko with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Ekko Zed Synergy Summary
Best Ekko vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Ekko and Zed
Tips for Playing as Ekko with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Ekko Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Ekko in LoL
The Ekko Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zed helps Ekko perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ekko is an ally to Zed, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Zed does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Ekko is played together with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zed.
Moreover, when Ekko plays with Zed on the same team, he usually receives much more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Zed does a poor job of covering Ekko in teamfights.
Synergies between Ekko and Zed
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Is Ekko better when played alongside Zed?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Ekko that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Zed is a very typical teammate for Ekko. By locking into the same team as Ekko, he lowers their win rate by -1.0% to 50.0%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong synergy between Ekko and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Zed has a lower difficulty than Ekko. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Zed comrades to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Ekko and Zed together, you may not be granting your team very much engage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Zed ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will 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 Ekko in order to work well with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Ekko and Zed synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Ekko incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Zed than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Ekko had an average win rate of 50.0% when playing alongside Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take 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 sets players used for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Zed with Ekko are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.