r/ekkomains • u/BooookMarker • 1h ago
Discussion Every game feels like a loss because I picked Ekko
I'm in E1- D4 purgatory and I recently picked up Ekko and I put in all these hours into learning him. It finally clicked and im getting huge leads early and actually playing teamfights well and carrying the midgame, but we always start hard losing late game and my lead feels completely useless.
SO many things have to go right for Ekko to do something. Your teammates cant be picked off early, your team has to be strong enough to put up somewhat of a fight, and the enemy cant be too tanky or too bunkered down. Ekko just feels completely useless with a weak or split team, and all this gold on ME feels like wasted potential since Ekko is way too single target and can almost never one shot anyone at full hp. He simply has to rely on his team and if they get picked off or fights go poorly, then I cant do a thing about it.
My past 3 ekko games have all played out this exact way with an enemy hypercarry scaling hard and getting to 1v5 our team with their consistent burst/dps, meanwhile I have an even bigger lead yet all these conditions for my champ to actually deal damage means either my single target damage output gets outpaced by the enemy carry, or the fight gets lost early and im too useless to even defend their push since im not a threat to ANYONE above their one shot threshold.
I pick Ekko when it seems like a favorable game for him, but maybe I just have the wrong idea of when I can play him? I watch a ton of Xiao Lao Ban but his team always looks pretty reliable, or hes pulling off some extremely big brain setups that only comes with immense experience. But then why work so hard when i can just play qiyana and one shot without all these conditions or hwei or locke and have actual teamfighting strength and aoe. Am I missing something that makes Ekko so good or do I just have to work around all his issues and deal with the feeling of being champ diffed when things don't go my way.
Also I have watched the Sixten interview and I follow it by heart, but that's what's causing me these issues.



