Is Ekko Jungle still Good?
Ive been trying out ekko jungle lately and I havent been doing too well, although lane ekko im destroying. What do you guys think?
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tl;dr I love ekko in the jungle, he is my main jungle pick.
I do not know what you build on him, but these are items that I use when I jungle with him:
-Skirmishers into Cinderhulk -Swifties or Sorc Shoes -ROA -Frozen Fist (Iceborn Gauntlet) -Abyssal Scepter -Zhonyas Hourglass -Liandry's Torment -Rarely: Dead Mans Plate or Banshee's Veil
I think one reason why people dislike him in the jungle is his early clear, but with the proper runes/masteries and path, it is a breeze. But this issue of this early clear "snowballs" into more problems specifically lack of counterjungling and lack of pre-6 ganks. If you fix the early clear issue by getting better runes, finding a better path, or getting better at kiting, these problems fix themselves.
Now, I am not saying that he is a premo early game jungler, because he is not (especially compared to Lee Sin, Kindred, or Graves which are all very popular picks right now) but he has a great potential to match them very closely, and will usually be more relevant in the late game because of how much damage his ult deals and his astounding outplay potential. Plus, I mean, he just scales better than those picks in general.
Just my opinion. I actually prefer him in the jungle as compared to in the lane. Everything that I just said may sound crazy.
I usually do AP Ekko Jungle, but man, this season...I just die. I don't mean "I try to gank and then die" I mean "I try to CLEAR and I die". Which is odd because I thought they NERFED the jungle monsters, but I can't seem to do the first clear without dying (or recalling b4 second buff)