Ekko not living up to expectations

BreinRott·Jun 13, 2015·1 votes·793 views

"We’re about to send League’s next champion out to PBE! Ekko’s a powerful skirmishing assassin who thrives in extended fights, using his mobility and crowd control to slow and stun enemies as he whittles down his targets. And if he starts to lose a fight, the brilliant boy from Zaun can rewind time a little and try again."

That's the description of Ekko we were given before release, but I want to focus on one main point "Ekko’s a powerful skirmishing assassin who thrives in** extended** fights, using his mobility and crowd control to slow and stun enemies as he whittles down his targets" Extended fights, whittles down targets, but then he's released with an ap scaling on his abilities that gives him Leblanc level burst, I may be wrong but for a mage who's supposed to mainly focus and rely on utility doesn't his damage output seem a bit high?

7 Comments

Ra1dJun 13, 20152 votes

i was hoping he'd be a real skirmisher so that i could maybe replace garen as my main with him in toplane, but he turned into a midlaner who bursts down champions and is basically a run of the mill assassin who i silence and delete

disregardableJun 13, 20151 votes

If he was a utility based mage, it'd definitely be too much damage. He's not a utility based mage, though. He's an assassin that has utility for teamfights.

BreinRottJun 13, 20151 votes

That's what I gathered from Riot's description of him, but even as an assassin the description they gave (and all the teasers released) put emphasis on the whole extended fight/whittling down thing (admitablly is what got me psyched for him) and then he turns out to be just another bursty assassin/mage

disregardableJun 13, 20152 votes

He definitely has far more of that element than Leblanc, Akali, or Fizz. It's probably just because his kit is really broken right now, but I think he's a lot of fun.

BreinRottJun 13, 20151 votes

He is fun to play I will admit, I do worry a little that if they do tone his numbers down a bit when they fix his kit that they may over do it or people won't want to play him anymore because he'd be more skill than burst

Yobo123oJun 13, 20151 votes

No, Ekko dies from 1 hit combo mid game from enemy mid laner, or like 5 aa from adc. If he doesn't play sensible then he cant actually use his r to kill anybody and will be using it more defensively. If you want to make him totally useless, play lb, she kills him in less than 3 secs at lvl 3

Yobo123oJun 13, 20151 votes

Plus his early game sucks due to his mana problems, if you know how to play him you shouldn't have problem wiping him out