With Ekko, you always want to start with the W, as this not only offers you a passive with enormous damage, especially on jungle monsters, but also a shield, which helps you enormously to lose little life in the jungle. Then skill your Q, as this not only offers maximum DPS, but also important AoE damage, which is particularly useful in the jungle. Finally, you skill your E. When maximizing, however, it looks a little different, as you want to max your Q first, then your E and finally your W. Of course, you always skill your ultimate as soon as it is ready. However, Ekko-Mains sometimes use a special trick here: they don’t skill the ultimate directly, but wait until they really need it. This makes it look to the opponent as if it is on cooldown, as you have no shadow behind you.

Combo [W – Q – E – AA – R] : This is the standard oneshot combo for Ekko. You start the combo by throwing your W, it is usually not necessary to hit it and can be used to zone or just for the shield. Then throw your Q and immediately use your E so that you arrive at the same time as the Q and cancel its animation. Then autoattack your opponent and proc your passive for massive damage. Now you can either use your ultimate to escape directly from the action, or you can use the additional movement speed of the passive to escape.