for all you ppl that think u have to build ekko full tank.

Ur not right. ap is the way to go.

There are two builds for ekko.

Theres the cdr build which is what you gonna build if you cant set certain members of the enemy team behind. U build this so that you can peel and never get caught with your pants down. rush for early teamfights.

Then theres the sick nasty build. rush into . U may have to switch the order.

Heres the rundown on what each thing helps you with:

The is going to help you snowball your lane cause it adds about 100 dmg to your combo, inflates your mana pool and the cdr is really important for your lane safety. Things that happen in these games/my priorities. 1) force midlaner out of lane. 2) ward wolf camp of enemy. 3) kill jungler or just fuck him up and set him behind. Bonus) Fuck the toplaner up. While it is really great to get kills, the key thing to snowballing is that you dont let the enemy jungler or top laner succeed in the early game. Since you can dominate your lane, you have lots of time to devote to doing this and sheen helps you do it. Sheen for dominating mid jg top.

If you have to deal with something like diana, then your going to need to buy the mr from . It sucks but you have to do it, unless you just fuck her up early on or something. Its much harder to snowball this game because u cant invest in cdr. Your best bet is to buy asap. The up side is that when you complete , your waveclear goes thru the roof and thats when i try and split push to make up for lost time. Be careful. Be lucky. And if things go your way in lane, delay abysal and pick up lich. The build paths have components in common.

The sorc shoes obviously help you roam, but they are really powerful when combined with abysal. Remember that. Its important. These items for survivng lane and for killing the adc (not exactly the best option).

I call this the sick nasty build not because it gives you the most dmg. It kinda does if everything goes well, but thats not why. Even with this build you arent one shotting ppl without landing that sweet ulti. This is the sick nasty build because the things you do with this build are so perfect for ekko. Its super flexible with the blasting wand component, thats nice, and I might be wrong here, but I think that when I go and kill the enemy jungler and top laner it sets them behind and that helps create the type of game in which ekko can dominate. Its sick because its not just about dmg and numbers and gameplay. Its about the timeline of the game and where ekko fits into it.

Usually, these are the two playmakers on the enemy team (top jg). They deal a lot of dmg early on and they can take a lot of dmg and they arent afraid to go out alone cause they dont die easily. Whenever they leave their lane, a teamfight usually happens soon after and thats not good for you. Actually, they would ordinarily take 3 rotations for ekko to solo kill. U dont want those guys around wasting your cooldowns. But when you set them behind, they stop wanting to leave their lane and plays that you would need help to deal with. Instead, they want to farm and catch up. That gives you time to hit your lich bane abysal powerspike AND it gives you even more time to set them behind even further with even more well placed wards et cetera, et cetera.

Heres something you might not realize until you play a lot of ap ekko. You dont have to kill someone to win hard. Just fuck them up move on! Disappear! Run! Then go fuck someone else up! Destroy a wave of minions, e the tower, go find someone else. Did you fuck him up at wolves, then he flashed from you? Go push a wave and catch him at his golems in 2 minutes. Then hurt the top laner and go catch your wave at tower. If you can dominate your lane with ekko, neither the enemy top laner or their jungler should be having a good day. The more time you make them waste, the longer its going to take them to get to the point where they can instigate a teamfight, and you dont want to have a "real" teamfight until you complete your first two items and are well into building zhonyas. U can do a lot to stop teamfights from ever happening. Ekko is a trouble maker. Its awesome.

Dont ever be afraid if you have cdr from runes and cdr from items. It should always take 2 champions to kill you. Theres not a lot of lockdown that outlasts the speed from your passive and the champions that do have that lock down cannot kill you by themselves, for the most part. So fuck them. Let yourself get cc'd, eq them and gtfo. Easy. And the champions that DO have the dmg to kill you? Fuck them too. I cant tell you how many times Ive kicked Xin or Yasuo's ass and made them run back to fountain, even though they can kill me in a straight up fight. Yasuo has WAY too much dmg. I cant just kill him without my ulti. What I can do is waste a shit ton of his time and the longer he wastes time chasing me, the more and more likely it is he will pass over my ghost. Thats the key to his ultimate. Its impossible to force the ulti. U can encourage it tho by fucking with some champions like yasuo who believe they can 1v1. Basically, what this means is that if someone is agressing on you in the jungle, then yay. Good for you. U want stupid bullshit like that to happen. It usually winds up worse for them. Just dont try to win. Try to fuck with them. Let them loose. Then mastery emote. Farm a wave. Its great.

BTW, do a quick if someone ever kills you because you e was on cooldown. It does happen sometimes. They get salty. They tunnel on you. Who cares. +10% cdr means you are over a wall before they have a chance, next time. The downside to the sick nasty build is that you dont rush a ton of cdr. Ur trying to snowball with a build that does better burst dmg than a cdr build, while also running a liiiitle bit of cdr from lich and from runes.. Ekko scales better with cdr than with ap, imo. BUT, he does better in games where hes pulled off this game plan, rather than any other. Again, not about the numbers, its about the way the game unfolds. Now, if you snowball with a cdr build, thats a different story and a lot of fun. I dont always win those, but I tend to spam mastery emote quite a lot more...

Just remember, the important thing with ekko is to fuck with people for the sake of fucking with them. Killing them is just a bonus. Thats probably why the tank build is so good, cause theres time for more fuckery, but ap is the way to go.

This is my sich nasty build for a bad ap match up, or for a really good match up (there arent many).

@Rito: Please dont nerf abysal.