Riot, Whats the end goal vision for Ekko?

For Ekko we have the big problem here, we have one of the more unique and fun champions in the game, on the other hand he has hands down the most overloaded kit in the game which can cause major problems,

He has 2 slows a 60% AP scaling shield a % missing health passive a % speed boost passive A dash A Blink A conditional stun (replaces 1 slow) and a massive burst AOE ult which ALSO heals him for up to 70% of the damage from the last 4 seconds

Honestly its no wonder both are pretty damn oppressive, on the assassin side you have an assassin that can go in, delete anything in front of them, tank up a storm and get out with minimal health lost, something which Riot has time and time again tried to quell in assassins (See Talon/LB/Kass silence removal and Zed ult nerf) but decided Ekko was an exception, OR you get essentially a mixture of Irelia and Diana with Ekko tank, able to shurg off most damage, lock down a team and shred said team with few qualms.

So basically, whats the end goal for Ekko? is he meant to be a brusier? a tank? an assassin? with his kit he can literally be any, which is BAD since it makes playing/building against it near impossible.

So what options are there? well heres a few

If Riot wants Ekko to go the Assassin route I think this would be good

1. Remove the heal on his ult

• In the video Seconds (yes I know it's not a 100% representation of how the champion turns out hang on) Ekko doesn't heal, he gets his arm broke him going back in time doesn't instantly heal it's still broken which conflicts with the ult in game.
• Removing his survivability increases his risk BUT it also makes tank Ekko a less big issue, you don't need to worry about your near 100-0ing of Tank Ekko going to waste since now you can only expect a last resort pop as opposed to a Ekko gaining 70% of his health back, this ALSO puts his risk in line with the other assassins (well maybe not LB but shes still less safe then Ekko)

2. Focus on burst not DOT

• What does an assassin do? they go in, burst a target and ether get out or die, well most assassins now have the get out but heres the thing, baring a few assassins (Zed) they all depend on Burst, Ekko not so much with his W passive dealing % missing health per hit (NOT per proc of his normal passive, per HIT) along with his slow + speed on his passive means Ekko is still an effective force without his abilities, changing it to say have his W passive only apply when off CD or per proc as opposed to per hit while also upping to damage to compensate gives opponents a bigger advantage against a Ekko with things on CD and gives Ekko more threat when he's off CD (or as I call it, the Annie stun effect)

If Riot wants tank Ekko then I think these would be good

1. Focus on DPS not burst

• opposite of above, hit his Q and E scaling and give them to his W passive

2. make his W more reliable

• 5 seconds before it even hits, not terribly useful so why not give it a second cast to speed up the hit while having the shield weaker the faster it's thrown (the shield has 60% ap scaling so 10% less per second skipped)

3. Lessen the ult damage

• goes hand in hand with point 1

And yes I did also did this partially cause I got stomped by an Ekko, but its also because it's not fun to fight against him