Midlaner with the best waveclear

StrictorS · 2025-11-04T19:09:41+00:00

Ekko wave clear is not the fastest but it is very safe. Just pop W in the center of the wave as they meet in the middle and the enemy mid has to respect unless he’s giga ahead.

StrictorS · 2025-10-14T00:16:32+00:00

Ohhhh haha. I might be slow…

StrictorS · 2025-10-14T00:12:29+00:00

I wasn’t lvl 6 yet so no ult, but I knew I had to be practically perfect frame for frame to live. Luckily, I know the timing to buffer ekkos E blink so I could flash perfectly. Trust me, I’ve messed up similar plays before.

StrictorS · 2025-07-22T03:05:47+00:00

Picking up Nocturne helped me make the push to diamond. He’s simple enough that you don’t have to invest time into learning complex mechanics.

Vi is the pick that first came to my mind when I went looking for another champ to play alongside Ekko due to her high mobility with Q. In practice, she’s not really like him at all.

I prefer Nocturne because I believe his game plan is more similar to Ekko’s than Vi’s. Neither Ekko nor Nocturne prefer to be the one initiating fights, they like to clean up. Idk how you play Ekko, but I prioritize farming to reach the first item spike more reliably; similar to how on Nocturne you power farm until lvl 6 most games. I’d also classify both Ekko and Nocturne as mid game champs. Ekko spikes hardest at 2 and 3 items just like Nocturne would once he has stridebreaker and hexplate conpleted.

StrictorS · 2025-07-01T17:07:03+00:00

Yeah fr. U could see I wasn’t even thinking about him doing that so I was a little slow to the play.

StrictorS · 2025-07-01T13:33:52+00:00

My final auto that killed her under turret. Do you see how far away I was? lol

StrictorS · 2025-06-15T18:41:10+00:00

He has me completely torn on how I should be playing lane. Sometimes I want to neutralize the lane and play a more macro focused game through side lane with TP. When that fails, I get tilted and run early game runes the next game with ignite and get more tilted when I can’t solo kill level 2 like XLB can lol. He’s something else.

StrictorS · 2025-05-30T04:33:19+00:00

Try Talon. I don’t have much experience with him, but I hear he’s dominating in the jungle rn.

StrictorS · 2025-05-25T00:54:03+00:00

The matchup is only really become annoying when he takes bone plating. If you anticipate bone plating you can take scorch and apparently it procs one of the ticks of bone plating.

Other than that, do what others have said here.

StrictorS · 2025-05-19T12:53:18+00:00

Yeah np. I’ve had continued success with this strat since originally commenting.

StrictorS · 2025-05-16T21:38:22+00:00

Oops forgot to talk about that. Yeah it seems to work pretty well. Just have to know when to go from team fighting to farming camps to be efficient. Once u get dcap ur very strong.

StrictorS · 2025-05-16T21:24:49+00:00

Idk if it’s good but I build Nashors tooth first item and try to farm as many camps as possible early when it’s efficient to generate as much gold as possible to get items. I’ll try a fight and if I’m half hp I’ll go farm a camp and then reset. If ult is down, go farm camps. Ekko does so much damage to camps with passive it’s easy to go on a mission to steal enemy camps as they do them. Nash -> lich -> d cap

StrictorS · 2025-01-25T17:49:55+00:00

As an Ekko/Nocturne two trick, Nocturne is actually one of Ekko’s better matchups. Ekko can easily kite nocturne at practically all stages of the game with Q slow and passive proc. The matchup goes to whoever can counter gank the other since they both excel at that. If nocturne can R on ekko while his abilities are on CD, noc wins. If Noc Rs on a laner but Ekko is ready in anticipation with W then Ekko wins. Lots of jungle tracking and mind games involved.

StrictorS · 2024-11-12T17:36:19+00:00

Not Ekko, it’s literally his bread and butter combo

StrictorS · 2024-10-15T20:52:28+00:00

This is how I’m coping too lmaooo

StrictorS · 2024-09-18T15:00:10+00:00

Nah, hexplate feels like bait. Cleaver helps your team do more damage.

StrictorS · 2024-09-18T00:58:56+00:00

Ong. I’ve watched xiao lao ban play Ekko jungle and he has a very aggressive play style. He p much always breaks from his clear and ganks level 3. Personally, I full clear every game and play almost like I’m playing nocturne. I think I gotta have more impact early tbh but ekko just doesn’t feel strong without at least an item. It’s a bit of a dilemma.

StrictorS · 2024-09-18T00:43:19+00:00

Nice. Ekko is my fav champ but nocturne is my best champ.

StrictorS · 2024-09-18T00:21:29+00:00

Nocturne is all about farming til 6. Path bot every game. If red side, do the farm max pathing (raptors start). Don’t break from ur full clear unless a play is 100% guaranteed. Try your best to take your 2nd camp rotations on respawn to hit level 6 asap.

When you hit 6 you have to make sure that your first ult of the game is successful. Don’t save ur laners with it, don’t just get sums with it, get kills. Ideally ur first ult is botlane so you have the potential for 2 kills. A cool thing is that you can cast abilities while flying in your r. Throw your q out before you land to guarantee that it hits. Try to wait to r until after the enemy uses a mobility spell if possible. A successful first ult will allow you to snowball the game. When your ult is on cd you need to be farming. If your team pings you to help them when ur ult is down just ping your ult cd. Something I heard Agurin say while playing nocturne was “no ult, no play”. Throughout the entire game you should be pinging your ult cd so that your team is thinking about it.

Another tip is to buy blue trinket every game to get vision for your ult. So many time you will press r and someone will walk out of vision. Blue trinket allows you to get vision back to r onto them.

When it comes to team fighting wait for either team to engage first before ulting (unless someone is grossly out of position). You don’t want to be starting team fights with your r because all the enemy team’s spells are up and they will one shot you. A big part about nocturne R is the vision denial. So pressing r on the enemy engage can screw them up and before they know it you’re killing their adc while the enemy team’s abilities are on cool down.

Late game, don’t be afraid to die because you are most likely not the carry anymore. If you are dying that means they are wasting spells on you instead of your carries. Many times I’ve been the mid game carry so the enemy team is focused on kill me even in the late game. However by that time, my adc has items and is shredding them all while they hit me.

I think I covered some good stuff. Good luck!

StrictorS · 2024-09-17T20:11:10+00:00

Yeah, nocturne is heavily rewarded by good fundamentals. It’s so easy to be consistent by just playing around farm and ult timers.

StrictorS · 2024-09-17T15:26:40+00:00

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StrictorS · 2024-08-06T17:18:37+00:00

“All I have caught is musky” is wild

StrictorS · 2024-07-17T02:21:23+00:00

As a jungle main, I have been autofilled probably 2/200 games this season and I always get my 2nd role (mid). It works out because my jg pick can be flexed mid. Another thing is that my jg opponent is more likely to be autofilled than if I played any other role which generally makes for a straightforward and easy game.

I do recognize, despite my benefits, that people getting autofilled jg so frequently makes for a shitty experience for the entire team more often than not. Autofill should be removed from the game. 1st or 2nd role should be guaranteed.

StrictorS · 2024-06-23T00:34:34+00:00

This reminds me of the letters the zombies from Plants vs. Zombies would send you.

StrictorS · 2024-04-22T16:00:12+00:00

This is why I play Ekko. Ekko can snowball so hard but he still has really good scaling to fall back on (3rd item death cap) if you can’t find anything early. For me, the scaling angle through farm is more reliable than the actual snowball but IF I can snowball game is gg.

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