Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
The second hit of Timewinder does more damage than the first; try to avoid it.
Ekko is significantly weaker when his ultimate is down. Watch for the trail he leaves behind to determine if Chronobreak is available.
Ekko's stun zone takes 3 seconds to arm. Watch for the image he creates on cast and try to guess where the zone was placed.
The stats shown here emphasize some critical Yasuo against Ekko matchup statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Yasuo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ekko’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Yasuo may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Ekko..
Yasuo usually has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Ekko. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Yasuo usually wins when facing off against Ekko, with a 51.1% win rate. Thus, Yasuo makes a good counter to Ekko.
While Yasuo does have a higher win rate than Ekko, when they face off with one another, Yasuo also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Yasuo into Ekkoas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Yasuo also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ekko. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yasuo vs Ekko matchups, Yasuo is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Yasuo is a decent counter to Ekko. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Yasuo against Ekko.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Yasuo in order to counter Ekko during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yasuo most often picks up more CS compared to Ekko. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Yasuo versus Ekko build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Yasuo bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Ekko than with most other typical builds. In fact, Yasuo boasted an average winrate of 51.1% battling Ekko with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Ekko as Yasuo, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Yasuo vs Ekko matchups, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.1% winrate overall.
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