Hey everyone, I know a lot of you have trouble creating your own gameplan like we do here,
because even though you know the strengths of your champion, youre not sure how or when
to use it. It can be tricky to figure out, even for the best players.
In this video, were going to analyze a perfect example of this, as Faker playing jayce, takes
advantage of the enemy ekkos gameplan and turns it against him to win lane at level
1.
Alright, let's break down the matchup.
Jayce is a melee ranged bruiser vs Ekko an AP melee assassin. They have equal burst damage,
with Jayce having more poke and extended damage. Jayce has more range when in cannon form,
and ekko has more waveclear.
So, if you were ekko, you would probably think that you should just push push push to use
your waveclear to your advantage.
The ekko in this game thinks the same thing, so let's see what happens.
Before getting into the gameplay though, let's make a gameplan.
Mission 1: Let them push
Ekko has more waveclear, so odds are hes going to try to use it to push the wave
If he doesnt, then jayce will have lane pressure anyways.
Mission 2: Use our ranged advantage to Harass and get a health lead
Since jayce has more range in cannon form, and ekko will be using his abilities on the
wave, it should be easy to get a health advantage
Mission 3: Freeze to force ekko away from his tower, then punish
When the wave is frozen, ekko knows he needs to break it, so he's going to walk up, giving
windows to punish.
Alright, lets get into the gameplay.
Alright, before the lane starts, the first thing Faker does is put a ward here to get
vision of gragas early on. If gragas starts red, he has the potential to level 2 gank.
He walks into lane now, and ekko starts mission 1 for him by using Q on the wave as expected.
This is actually where ekko digs his own grave. Ekko is thinking that he wants to get lane
pressure and a level advantage by pushing the wave with his waveclear advantage. But
the problem is, hes going vs Jayce, a lane bully like Pantheon, yasuo. or syndra. Faker
is going to take advantage of this mistake to the fullest, lets see what happens.
He walks right up to ekko and starts mission 2 with auto attacks. Ekko walks up to him
thinking that his minions will win the trade for him, which would be true if Jayce wasn't
an AD champion.
Also, Faker stays in cannon form instead of going into hammer form to use Q. If ekko procs
his passive it will also proc his electrocute giving him a nice chunk.
Ekko misses his Q, which gives faker the green light to keep harassing like this.
Now ekko is forced so far away from the wave, that when faker goes for this next bit of
harass, the minions dont even aggro him.
Ekko walks up and uses his Q to grab these 2 CS. This is a perfect example of why ekkos
gameplan cant work when vs lane bullies, ekko can't even get close enough to the wave to
hit the whole thing with his Q, so its impossible to break the freeze that ekko gave faker from
throwing his first Q at level 1.
Faker backs off now for 2 reasons.
1. First of all, the second minion wave is arriving, so if he stays here the whole wave
will aggro him and do a lot of damage to him.
2. Second, Camille is here looking for a level 2 gank because the wave is pushing to faker
and he's half health. So faker backs up making ekko think hes safe.
Also, look where faker goes in the lane. He moves to the other side to make ekko also
swap sides, being closer to camille.
Camille goes in, forces ekko to flash, then faker Q - Flashes to secure the kill. If he
flashed then used Q, it would have gave ekko the chance to dodge it, so he buffered the
Q first, then flashed to make it close to impossible to dodge.
This was just another flaw in ekkos gameplan, Ekko knows hes vs camille who is notorious
for lvl 2 ganking, he didnt ward for her like faker did, and it sets faker up for first
blood.
After he gets the kill, he goes to recall because the wave is pushing to him, so theoretically
he could recall and come back to a big wave, denying ekko CS. But, he cancels his recall.
He realizes that he's not low on health or mana, and can abuse this freeze even more.
He grabs a few CS, then walks up behind the red wave getting ready for ekko to come back
to lane.
As soon as he gets back, faker continues mission 2 and lands an empowered shockblast plus an
auto attack for some nice harass.
Then he switches to hammer form because he sees Camille ready for another gank over the
wall.
Camille slingshots over, and faker finishes ekko off.
Honestly, league is such a crazy game because such small decisions can make or break your
lane. Ekkos using Q at level 1 is the most obvious one, but if we look at when Faker
decided not to recall...let's say he does recall here, which is what I would have done,
since the wave would push and would deny CS from ekko, giving him a free base. But, when
he got back to lane, the wave would have been huge and almost on his tower, and ekko would
have got back to lane before him, and would have been able to break the freeze. Faker
realized this and his jungler helped him punish it even more. And i'm sure you're wondering,
"how is ekko supposed to prevent this? He's just getting camped theirs nothing he can
do". Don't worry, we will go over this soon so stick around.
Anyways, Faker goes to recall again, but since the wave is too big and is about to crash
on the tower, he stops the recall and collects the big wave.
After clearing it, hes level 3, with ekko still level 1. And since the wave is this
close to his tower, ekko is forced to be this far up in the lane to try and get some experience,
leading faker right into mission 3.
He starts with hammer form and uses it to close the distance, then uses E to push ekko
away before he can proc his passive, then switches to cannon form to finish the trade
dropping ekko to 40% health.
Faker continues to zone since he has a 3 level lead , but the wave IS pushing back to Ekko
now though, so he should be able to get some experience soon.
Faker backs off to collect his own CS, and the predator alert goes off meaning gragas
is looking to gank or relieve some pressure. Camille comes for the counter gank, with fiddle
heading over as well. Before this play even happens, I can already tell you this is a
huge mistake from gragas to come anywhere near mid. Not only is jayce 2 levels up on
ekko, but even if they were even, jayce is so much stronger than ekko this early in the
game, if camille counter ganks they lose 2v2 hard, so gragas shouldnt be looking to make
plays around mid.
Anyways, Camille ends up almost solo killing gragas, with faker and fiddle killing ekko
for the third time now. He finishes pushing in the wave, and recalls.
When he gets back to lane, the wave is pushing back to him, so he can pull the wave from
hitting the tower and start his freeze again. He puts a pink in the brush as somone else
already has one on his bottom side. Hes basically giving ekko no way back into the game as it
has to come from a gank.
The wave is set up for mission 3, so he walks straight at ekko and goes all in just like
before. He ends up missing his shockblast which would have killed him but he still dropped
him to 15% health.
Ekko is forced to recall now, so faker shoves in the wave to deny some more experience and
gold, then recalls himself.
The lane has been over for a while now so we're not going to go any further. But, for
those wondering what ekko could have done in this game. It's actually really simple,
all ekko had to realize was
Jayce is really strong early game, and has camille, a jungler that excels at early ganks,
especially at level 2. So he should have just let jayce push, gave up whatever cs he needed
to get to the point where he could clear the wave with 2 Qs, then look to roam. He would
have prevented all of these deaths just by not using his Q at level 1.
Anyways, let's do a quick recap before closing this one out.
As soon as the lane started, ekko made a crucial mistake by using his Q on the wave, as it
was obvious his gameplan was to use his waveclear advantage to push. But, since Faker was playing
a lane bully like Jayce, he went straight in and chunked ekko to 40% health. As the
next wave arrived, he backed off and pushed ekko towards camille who was looking for a
gank, and got First Blood.
He was going to recall, but since he wasnt low on mana or health, he decided to stay
and abuse the freeze even more. As soon as ekko got back to lane he went in for more
harass, and camille came over raptors wall, giving faker another kill.
After killing him, he still couldn't recall because the wave was really big and would
have crashed on his tower. He collects the wave and chunks ekko to 15% health, with ekko
still being level 1 to Faker level 4. The wave was pushing to ekko though so Faker collected
his own CS while being cautious of gragas at the same time since gragas used predator
which alerted him.
Camille and fiddle came for a counter gank and they ended up killing ekko again.
Faker finally recalls, and as soon as he gets back to lane he freezes, then goes in just
like before, chunking ekko out of lane, making him fall even further behind.
Alright, that's going to be it for this video, thanks for watching!