Chronobreak is a potent escape tool, but it can also be quite powerful when used offensively. Don't underestimate its damage potential.
If you can proc Z-Drive Resonance on an enemy champion, it's worth taking risks to do so. The bonus Move Speed makes it easy to escape.
Phase Dive's dash is a great tool for setting up Ekko's other abilities. Use it to get double hits with Timewinder or get into position to detonate Parallel Convergence.
Stay behind minions to make Charm difficult to land, this will reduce Ahri's damage potential significantly.
Ahri's survivability is dramatically reduced when her Ultimate, Spirit Rush, is down.
The stats shown on this page emphasize some strategic Ekko versus Ahri counter stats that can help you interpret the distinctions between this pair of champions. Ekko’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ahri’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Ekko may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ahri..
Ekko typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Ahri. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ekko usually wins when playing against Ahri, with a 52.8% win rate. Therefore, Ekko makes a good counter for Ahri.
While Ekko does have a higher win rate than Ahri, when facing one another, Ekko also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Ekko into Ahrias his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Ekko has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ahri. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ekko vs Ahri matchups, Ekko is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Ekko is a good counter for Ahri. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Ekko against Ahri.
If you would like to truly master Ekko in order to counter Ahri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ekko usually picks up less CS relative to Ahri. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Ekko versus Ahri build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Ekko combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Ahri than with most other common item sets. In fact, Ekko boasted an average win rate of 52.8% when countering Ahri with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Ahri as Ekko, Ekko players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Future's Market runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Ekko vs Ahri fights, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Ahri as Ekko are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.