I will just say it: Ekko is borderline broken. His kit is completely overloaded.
Can someone from Riot get over here and explain to me why Ekko is allowed to be a high mobility tank assasin???? His kit is the combination of Riven+Zed+Ahri+Oriana. He deals too much damage while being able to build too tanky, has way too much ways to stick to his target and too many ways to survive a fight. There are very few windows of opportunity against him and they aren't even that great because he can still counter them.
Lets sum it up: -His passive slows, deals damage, gives movement speed and applies spell effects. I really had to read that a couple of times. Some champs get 1 tool from their passive and other ones like Zyra and Kog have useless passives and this guy gets 2 utility and 2 damaging tools and he even has another great passive on his W! -His Q slows and can strike twice. -His W either AoE stuns for 2.25s and gives a shield or slows. And the passive makes his autoattacks deal bonus magic damage based on missing %HP -His E has a dash and a blink and increases basic attack range and applies spell effects. -His R makes him untargetable, dash and heal and tons of base damage and is the reason why he is so difficult to punish
You see the tendency. Too much and...and.....and So we end up with 2 passives, 3 slows, 2 additional ways to trigger spell effects, ms boost, AoE stun, huge shield, 2 dashes, blink, increase in basic attack range, basic attacks deal bonus magic damage based on missing %HP (mini BotK), heal, overall tons of base damage because of passives and spells and spell effects. It is too much!
- Ekko can make quadra kills with only 120AP and rest tank build
- Ekko gains a huge shield that by definition makes him pseudo tank/assasin
- The only way to kill Ekko is when you can OS him after a hard cc spell. So you have like on avarage 1.5-2 seconds to kill him or he will just ult away. In other words if he buys QSS it becomes impossible to kill him.
- His passives are insane with Runeglaive/Lichbane and combined with his W passive these are in fact his 7th-8th items and the reason why he can 'sacrifice' AP items for tank items.
- His passive slows and gives movement speed, his Q slows, his W slows or stuns (and gives him a shield). Then his E has a dash and a blink! So you know for sure you can't outrun him.
- His passive and E both trigger spell effects.
- His basic attacks have a build-in mini BotK.
- Ekko can do everything by himself. He covers every aspect of the game. He has engage and disengage, tons of mobility and slows, he can absosb damage, he can heal, he blows people up etc etc. He goes in with his W+E and goes out with his R and is very hard to punish.
This champ is not about numbers alone. His kit is so completely overloaded and especially those passives are the reason why he will always remain a high mobility tank assasin until you start removing abundant parts from his kit to make him either a squishy high mobility assasin or a utility tank but with way less damage.
