It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
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.
The Shyvana Ekko synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ekko, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Shyvana sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ekko. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Ekko helps Shyvana perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shyvana is paired with Ekko, she sees a little drop in her full damage output. This could demonstrate that Ekko does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played together with Ekko on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Ekko.
Additionally, when Shyvana plays with Ekko on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Ekko does a decent job of covering Shyvana during team fights.
There is no perfect companion for Shyvana that will always be her ideal synergy. However, Ekko is a very typical companion for Shyvana. By playing on the same side as Shyvana, he improves their win rate by 0.1% to 49.2%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong synergy between Shyvana and Ekko that results in them performing better together than alone.
Ekko has a much greater difficulty compared to Shyvana. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Ekko comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Shyvana players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Shyvana and Ekko together, you will not be giving your other teammates a lot of utility. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Ekko 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.
If you would like to truly master Shyvana in order to work well with Ekko during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to prioritize in your Shyvana and Ekko synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Ekko than with most other common builds. In fact, Shyvana had an average winrate of 49.2% helping carry Ekko with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.2% winrate overall.
If you would like to view Shyvana with Ekko cooperations tips and builds for a a specific division rank, feel free to choose one from the selection menu above. At first, the stats and strategies shown are computed using all matches with data with both champs.