Ekko isn't designed by CerainlyT?
Are you sure?
Jesus christ, if everyone starts designing champions like this, this game will turn into crap with only new champions being played (as if it already hasn't....)
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There are plenty of old viable champions. 
Those are all over a year old.
That is what the ChampUp team at Riot is for. That is why they updated Sion, Ashe and others. They of course release new champions with fancy mechanics because they want to have an interesting game. The older champions will be updated accordingly.
Riot's balance/design team is just one of the worst I've seen, I'm not talking about how fun/counter-fun a champion is, I'm just talking about unique their champions are and how they fit into the game without tipping the scale.
They overload their kits to mislead players to think they are fun and unique, but you can give a champion infinite dashes, unlimited damage, with 0 downsides and of course they'll be fun and unique since no one else has that type of stuff.
As for balance, there's so many errors they made in the past and continue to make almost every patch. They let people like CertaintlyT still design without being unchecked and the game, despite being extremely fun and addicting, is still easily one of the most poorly balanced I've seen.
Want a good game? Give a champion massive up sides and ginormous down sides.
Not enough passives. And while he may be overtuned at the moment, nothing in his kit is inherently toxic.
We've already violated 2 of CertainlyT's design values.