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[10.22] HOLESSANDO's ULTIMATE EKKO JG GUIDE

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Hey there,

Here’s the review you asked for!

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Cheatsheet

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WRITE THE NOTES IN ALL CAPS. NORMAL TEXT IS FINE, ALL CAPS IS ANNOYING TO READ.
A mere demonstration of the effects of all caps - no hard feelings <3
An interesting note in the cheat sheet: ‘cosmic insight is also viable but I don’t recommend it’. If you do not recommend it, why is it in your guide? Apparently there is a reason why you think Future's Market is just straight up better, it might be a good idea to share that with your readers (in the runes section).
I’d avoid putting experimental builds in the cheatsheet (e.g. Omnistone) – they require some explanation as to why it might work and when it works, which should be done in the main body. If you explain neither of those then it’s really hard to figure out when/why you should run that build.
One could also argue that you shouldn’t put experimental builds in your guide at all – would you present your readers something that might not work?
The “first back” block is on the big side right now, I think it’s definitely possible to make it somewhat smaller. You can throw the “First back” and “First back (really ahead)” away and just keep the “First back (ahead) + some notes. You should also add notes to the two losing back options to explain when to go one over another (you could even throw those two away as well and just explain everything – concisely – in the notes).
You could add some explanation when (not) to go Lich Bane 3rd in the notes (as you explicitly mention it). And add some explanation when to go other situational items like dcap, void, morello etc.
You don’t have to use a note to explain why you start Parallel Convergence. That’s something to put in the main guide body at skill sequence.

Pros/Cons

A detail: you should treat bullets as sentences so you should capitalize the first word of every bullet.

Runes

If you do not recommend Electrocute it should not be in your guide imo. Unless you got a specific scenario where you think it should be taken, in which case you should mention that.
Avoid putting numbers in text. This is more of a writing matter but in general you should avoid mentioning specific numbers unless they are extremely important. In this case it’s mentioning the exact amount of AP Eyeball Collection gives, which is kind of redundant
Your reasoning for not taking Ingenious Hunter does not really make much sense since Hextech Rocketbelt is one of your core items.
It is a better idea to just call the rune shards “attack Speed”/"AS", “Armor”, etc without linking them. Stuff like Attack Speed, Shield, etc reads a bit weird.
I would not change to a MR shard when the enemy team has a lot of AP champs. You do not really benefit from the small amount of MR (especially because you do not really interact with other champs early on). You benefit much more from the armor shard since all the jungle monsters deal physical damage.
I firmly believe that everything that is mentioned/presented in a cheat sheet should be mentioned/be explained in the guide body as well. Following this line of thinking you should talk about Sorcery secondary, Precision secondary and Prototype: Omnistone in your guide.

Items

Stalker's Blade - Runic Echoes – again, avoid explicitly talking about numbers unless they are extremely important.
You should definitely explain when to get Lich Bane third and when not, since there are apparently some cases where you do not get it 3rd.
Zhonya's Hourglass: avoid saying things such as "when you think you need the active". This is incredibly vague and does not really tell your readers when this item should be build. In what kind of games/against what champions is the active useful?
You do not need Liandry's Torment to enhance your camp clear speed. By the time you’d get it your clear speed is fast enough… So when do you build Liandry's Torment?
If you are against a couple of tanks that stack armor (theoretically speaking – this will rarely happen in actual games) then you should not waste your gold on a % mpen item such as Void Staff. Only build Void Staff if the enemy team is actually building MR.

Ability description

This is basically a copy of the descriptions of the abilities. You could always look to expand it with the clips showcasing the abilities (you can yoink those from lolwiki) and explanations on how you should look to use abilities/what their main purposes are. You could also look to add some tips & tricks (such as Parallel Convergence proccing when you ult THROUGH it, rather than ulting towards it ;) )

Jungle Routes/game phases

You talk about a specific trick whilst doing raptors + red. I think having a clip of this trick might be beneficial as it is hard to guess where you have to stand and such.
Gromp/wolves implies that you either do Gromp OR Wolves, but that isn’t the case in the image. When do you do which or do you clear both?
At the lvl 1-4 section you say: “more info in the build section”. However you do not cover early bases in the items section…
What do you do when you’re red side at lvls 4-6? The explanation in the guide seems to be aimed at blue side.
You often say things like 'you want to', avoid doing this. When someone plays the game it's not like they 'want to do' something; they 'do' something. This gives your text a bit more weight rather than making things sound like a suggestion.
There is no need to talk about items in the gameplay sections since you already talk about those in the items section. It's okay to mention item breakpoints (like at what point in the game you should expect to have X item).
You could always add some clips to the combo section.
I'd move the paragraph about teamfighting up (below the mid game or late game section) it feels a bit out of place below combo's.

Presentation

The presentation is alright, you use some templates that make things easier to read & split the information a bit. There are some things that require some attention though:

There are some places in the guide where you center entire paragraphs. Do. Not. Do. This. Centered text isn't nice to read. Centered paragraphs are located in Why Ekko, Abilities and Combo's, teamfights & conclusion.
Inconsistent/non-existent headers. It is common to start sections with some kind of header. This can be a banner, some kind of divider, just text (with increased size), etc. Right now the first part of your guide lacks any kind of header, in the middle there is some random banner and in the last sections they are a bit random. I get the impression that the combo section is a part of the gameplay chapters, but I think that one clearly deserves a chapter of its own.
Some spelling/details:
- Runes ( Eyeball Collection): lately -> late ;for shutdown -> on takedown;
- Rune Shards: with stacking faster your passive -> to stack your passive faster
- Runes ( Future's Market): usefull -> useful; gold what I need -> gold that I need; is allowing me to buy -> allows me to buy
- Items ( Hextech Rocketbelt): damaage -> damage
- Items ( Rabadon's Deathcap): enourmous -> enormous
- Items ( Banshee's Veil): text is too dark (it is invisible)
- Items ( Mejai's Soulstealer): Otherwisely -> otherwise; powerfull -> powerful
- Items ( Morellonomicon): Morellonomicon is great item -> Morellonomicon is a great item; main reason taking this -> mean reason for taking this
The -> at combo's look a bit weird because they are not centered (vertically). You can circumvent this problem by putting all those things in a table/column (if you're unsure/don't know how to do this, tell me and I'll give you some code).
The amount of vertical open space is a bit lacking sometimes. The guide looks a bit cramped at some places (and sometimes it is a bit confusing, for example in the combo section). Try to avoid putting text/images directly on top/below dividers and add a space of a few pixels.

The guide is a good start. You got all the basic elements, but they still need some polishing and/or expanding as mentioned in the review. If you've done all that and are still looking for more things to talk about you can talk about things such as

When to pick Ekko
How to gank
How to execute dives
Vision
Expanding on current gameplay sections

I hope you are able to do something with the feedback, feel free to reply if you have any questions/remarks.
Anyways, good luck with updating & upgrading your guide and have a nice day!

Hey!

Thank you so much for the review! You can expect a big update coming soon. Thanks again, see ya!

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Hi HOLESSANDO!

I am an jungle main myself, and I was wondering why you disagree with ? is generally a good rune, I would understand why you'd choose that (it allows for earlier item powerspikes similarly to ), however is able to make use of CDR, so I was wondering why you don't like it?

HEY!

I never said I disagree with . I wrote in the rune section that it is also viable. However, my preferences are I guess a bit different from yours. is for sure a good rune on ekko, but I'd rather take . allows me to get items really early. For example, once in the game, I finished my FULL jungle item at 5:30.. and I think that's good. is viable for sure too, it gives you the extra cdr, which is powerful too. I think it's just a preference, and that both are fine.

Have a great day!
Holessando

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