Inspiration allows you to reach your Hextech Rocketbelt and Nashor's Tooth spike faster because you can use the extra 300 gold from Magical Footwear and put it into another item. Your mobility and the amount of versatility in your kit allows you to pull off some amazing plays. Lastly, Ekko just has an massive amount of outplay potential. Objective stealing is also easy due to Ekko's Z-Drive Resonance not having a cap so proccing your passive and Smite allows you to consistently do 1500+ damage to objectives mid to late game while also being able to Chronobreak out to safety immediately after. Ekko's skirmish power is also fairly good, if you can land your Parallel Convergence on multiple targets it can turn a fight extremely quick.

Your ultimate almost guarantees that you survive no matter how bad you misplay it. Ekko starts to become a one shot machine especially after Nashor's Tooth or Hextech Rocketbelt and a few Dark Seal stacks. You also snowball extremely hard being able to absolutely run over games if you get a few kills under your belt. I put this matchup as a 3 in low elo because Yi will always find a kill somewhere but in Plat+ its definitely a 2 matchup as people start to learn how to play around him.Īlthough Ekko is a scaling champ and relies on gold to do damage, you still have pretty good gank potential early after level 3. Care for Master Yi counterganks after 6 though, Yi is amazing at cleaning up low health enemies because of his R and Q resets. You need to be proactive on the map though because Yi turns into a monster mid and late game if your team doesn't know how to play around him or lacks reliable CC. He will end up either burning flash to escape it, get stunned and you can kill him or proc passive on him and run away. If Yi uses his alpha strike to gap close onto you then immediately lay your W down and play on it.

Many low elo Yi players will waste their Q. The nuance to fighting to Yi early is playing around your W. If they take ignite then definitely avoid fighting him early without help. Yi is still a threat in a 1v1 early on though. Majority of Master Yi's won't have much early game presence as he's weak early on and should focus on farming.

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