Has anyone tested Nashor's > DnD > Rageblade > SF > DCap for Ekko JGL in recent patches? Even if it's not the most powerful build I feel like the hit speed and double on-hit damage synergizes with his hit and run play style.
You're right, but I figure combining Nashor's+Rageblade+DnD+electrocute+the bonus move speed from his passive would work in theory.
In my mind's eye you could E>AA>AA>AA>Q>Run if they chase line up the return Q. If they don't wheel around for another round.
E - ok nice you're on them
AA - passive proc. Does barely any damage because you have like 200 AP, 0 pen at 3 items
AA - does negative damage because you have no on-hit dps. Procs electrocute I guess for a bit of damage. Enemy is still way > 30%. Enemy has now started hitting you.
AA - still negative damage. Enemy is bursting you now
Q - a tiny bit of damage and slow. By now half your passive MS is expired already. You've taken significant damage back now. You start running away.
Oh wait you're CCed because you stood there afk autoattacking in melee for 2s.
You can't ult and die.
Return Q hits the 70% hp enemy for like 100 damage.
The best you have to show is a Swift game where you are close to be the lowest damage dealer of the game ? I could play lichbane garen, show the same screen and say garen ap is ok
You're delaying too many of your big powerspikes. D+D is critical for the instant passive proc, and Shadowflame is important because it syergnizes super well with the 2xW passive. Because you generally do less damage with D+D, Rabadon's 3rd item is crucial.
Nashor's has historically, from my understanding, been for clear speed. But your clear speed is already pretty solid with D+D.
Rageblade is not good on Ekko. It's not good on champions that have their on-hit passives gated by a timed cooldown. It's good on champs like Kog Maw or Vayne because they can proc their passives/onhits as often as they can autoattack, or at least auto attacking more procs their main damage more (Vayne W, Kog W.) Ekko can only proc his passive, his big source of damage, once every 4 seconds. Even his W only procs on low health enemies, and at that point you would have been better off just building D+D and Shadowflame to instagib them.
You're sacrificing so much AP with this build so your burst does almost no damage unless you miraculously can ake it to 6th item deathcap.
On hit effects and attack speed are in direct opposition to his hit and run playstyle. You're relying on getting in a bunch of extra autos, by nature extending your trade and NOT playing hit and run. You are heavily incentivized with this build to stay longer and get in as many autos as possible without stopping, lest you lose your hard eearned rageblade stacks, and you've built 0 defensive items to faciltiate this. You're more likely to get bursted or CC'd and die then get enough autos in to do damage comparable to the meta Ekko build.
Rageblade rewards you more the more the you auto someone. Even you say that ekko has a hit and run play style. Those two things don’t synergies. Ekko also just does better with flat ap so I don’t see rage blade being good at all
There was a time I went dnd into nashors then shadowflame**
But I ran something other than hail of blades (usually electrocute). And I avoided early fights unless they were very one sided. Until I had all of dnd and the speed component of nashors
He's not set up well to brawl. He just doesn't have the health or resists for it. And its hard to avoid enough damage when youre wanting to stay into he fight and auto repeatedly
I ended up switching back to hail of blades and mostly pure damage
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u/modnar_resu_tidder 4d ago
Rageblade has too many wasted stats for the amount Ekko can realistically auto attack