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Ekko Jungle Wild Rift Guide
Ekko jungle counters include Pantheon and Master Yi. See the best build, runes, matchups, and game plan for Wild Rift Patch 7.3.
How to play
- Clear camps and look for short fights Land three hits with attacks and spells, then use the burst of speed to move away.
- Place your stun where enemies will run Cast your 2nd ability where enemies will run before they see you. Enter its circle as it activates to stun enemies inside.
- Watch your ultimate's return point Your ultimate returns you to the position shown by your trailing copy and heals you. Check that spot is safe before using it to escape.
Strengths
- Elite pick and reset threat once his ultimate is up: he dives a backline, kills, and rewinds out while restoring part of the health he lost recently.
- His built-in slow, stun, and burst make his ganks very hard to escape once he reaches a lane.
- He scales into a self-sufficient duelist who can fight outnumbered, because the rewind cancels the part that went wrong.
Weaknesses
- Soft and slow early: his clear is average, and junglers who invade before his spike simply kill him.
- Hard crowd control that lands before his W (2nd) or rewind shuts the whole champion off, since he has no resists.
- He is a snowball champion, so a bad early game leaves him a squishy carry who never reaches the timing that makes him scary.
Build Snapshot
Rune Setup
Summoner Spells
Ekko Jungle Counters
Who counters Ekko Jungle in Wild Rift (WR)? These champions beat Ekko in the jungle matchup, with how each one wins. Learn to play around them or ban them in ranked.
- Pantheon: Pantheon blocks your trades with Aegis (3rd) and stuns you out of any combo before your items come online, and his level-three burst deletes your fragile frame while he invades a clear you cannot yet defend.
- Master Yi: Master Yi outscales you into the late game, and Alpha Strike (1st) goes untargetable straight through the stun your combo depends on. If the stun misses, Meditate (2nd) shrugs off your burst and Highlander (Ult) chases you down past your reset.
Champions Ekko Is Strong Against
Ekko's best matchups in Wild Rift. Ekko holds an edge against these picks in the jungle role, so look to press the advantage and contest objectives.
- Taliyah: Taliyah controls space from range, but your blink goes straight through her zone and onto her fragile frame, and she has no answer to an assassin who ignores the ground she is trying to control.
- Zed: Zed wants to burst you and slip out on his shadow, but your shield eats his opening and Chronobreak (Ult) rewinds whatever damage he lands, so he cannot out-trade your reset.
- Nocturne: Nocturne commits everything to one dive, and your shield and blink slip the engage while Chronobreak (Ult) undoes whatever burst he lands, leaving him stuck with empty cooldowns.
Early Game
Your first clear is functional, not fast, so route for a full clear instead of a race: lead with Q (1st) to soften camps, weave the passive third hit, and use W (2nd) on the bigger camps. Take scuttle after it, since that is what brings your ultimate online, and an aggressive dive stops being a gamble the moment you have the rewind behind you. Use the camp respawn timer to hunt: land the W (2nd) stun from fog, drop the Q (1st) slow, and commit knowing you have a way out. Clear again when the camps are back, then look for the next lane. You reach scuttle with real dueling tools, since your Q (1st) slow and a landed W (2nd) stun win most early contests, so take the crab your pathing favors and do not be shy about it. Watch your own jungle in this phase, because early junglers want to catch you mid-clear with no escape ready.
Mid Game
Parallel Convergence (2nd) makes pit walls and narrow entrances unusually valuable. A clean W (2nd) stun on the enemy jungler at the dragon pit or against the Herald wall flips the contest before it starts, and your burst plus Smite wins most coin-flip steals, so contest whenever your team is ahead on early fights. In an even game take Herald and let dragon go, unless your team wants the soul and can hold the fights that come with it. Between objectives, keep hunting rather than farming: gank while your camps respawn, then slip into their jungle behind that pressure, steal what you can, and rewind out before the collapse arrives. Every snowballed lane is another lane that lets you keep hunting.
Late Game
Late game Ekko is the one assassin who can survive a failed dive each fight. You are the pick threat their backline checks the map for, the flank that arrives from a wall nobody warded, the diver who kills a carry and rewinds home before the peel matters. Baron and Elder Dragon fights come down to starting with a stunned target or punishing anyone who strays from their group, so hold the flanks and let your W (2nd) set up the pick. Keep the ultimate as your real escape, not your opener: rewinding out of a lost dive is what keeps you in the game late, and dying wastes the best reset in the match. Do not commit on the first body you see; the fight is yours when the carry becomes reachable.
Teamfights
Your job in a teamfight is to remove their most important player and survive doing it. Wait for the engage to commit, then flank in, land your passive and W (2nd) stun on the carry, dump your combo, and rewind out of the collapse while restoring part of the health lost recently. The rewind is what makes the dive sane, so do not spend it as an entry tool: it is the part that turns a suicide run into a clean trade. If their frontline stands between you and the target, do not wade in, because you die fast to focus fire and the reset cannot save you from a stun chain. Reposition, wait for the angle, and use your slow and stun to peel for your own carry in the meantime. One clean pick and a healthy rewind usually decides the rest.