She's very hard to shrug off and will chase you down: don't try to walk it off, kite with walls.

Matchups › Ekko › vs Briar

Ekko vs Briar

YOU · MID

ENEMY · MID

Skill matchupPre-6 MediumPost-6 MediumTake Ignite

How to play it

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Wall after her Q

She can dash over walls with her Q: use walls to escape only after she's spent it.

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Bait your ult

It's easy to make her step into your ultimate: set it up and punish.

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Outscale late

You easily outscale her late-game: after your 3rd item the 1v1 is easy, before that it's skill-based.

Never burn a wall before she's used her Q: she'll just dash over it.

Runes

DOMINATION

SORCERY

SHARDS

Spells

FLASH

IGNITE

Items

Start

Core

→

16.14 Emerald+ - 54% WR - 656 games

Skill order

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q			Q	Q		Q	Q
		W											W	W		W	W
	E							E	E		E	E
					R					R					R

MAX

Q→

E→

Ekko · Mid · Patch 26.17 · Ranked Solo · Updated Sep 5, 2026

Ekko vs Briar in Mid lane is a skill matchup on patch 26.17. The one thing to respect: her Q, she dashes over walls with it, so she's very hard to shrug off.