How did he did so much damage to a fed freaking Volibear and still kill him with that much mobility and tankiness, I mean. Look at Ekko's win-rate or ban rate. Do you guys think he needs a nerf or should we just leave him alone?
What's going on right now, from what I can tell, is just a lack of reliability from the way Assassins and ADCs are supposed to be built. Assassin Ekko is fundamentally one of the hardest Assassins to play in this game, couple with slow burst. His utility makes up for this, but people have eventually realized that it's easier to contend and contribute to the team by being able to survive instead of doing huge damage.
By the way this game is built, building damage is worthless unless you can instantly kill your enemy or survive/evade CC. Tanks/Champions that can build tanky don't have this weakness because they can take burst, CC, or what have you and keep dishing out damage. This happens all while the Assassin will have to wait on cooldowns or run out of mana.
Nerfing his base damage & increase his AP ratio is a good way to go, since due to his high base damage, it gave him an excuse to go full tank while being a high damage threat.
Isn't he being nerfed next patch...?
