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Ekko is broken as hell

Alpha Stigm4··13 votes·5,580 views

Before being accused of being a noob, I still have to lose against a Ekko. But that's not the problem since he has been relased recently and no one can still play him decently. But just look at his set. He has three slows and a 2+ seconds area stun. A 2+ seconds AREA stun! "but that's so easy to dodge!" yeah, but when you fight him you are ALWAYS slowed. So if you don't have some teleport skills like Leblanc w you can consider yourself stunned. Not to mention his stupid shield. At level 5 with a full build it absorb nearly 1000 damage. And it lasts TWO seconds! And people complain about Riven shield! Now his ulti. Makes him untargetable, restores a massive amount of hp and deals a ridiculous amount of damage. How is it balanced? Just one of those effects would be strong enough for a ulti. What's your opinion on this matter? I'd like to hear serious and motivated comments, not people trying to make themselves look like pros telling he's not strong and they can destroy him whenever they want to

17 Comments

Dragonface4 votes

My opinion is that almost his entire kit is overpowered. The exact words in his spotlight was "Ekko is a skirmisher assassin who lacks the raw power to burst down targets"

Excuse me Phreak, I think you must have been playing someone else, because when a champ can use JUST his ult, not being fed, and it heals him, makes him invuln for longer than a Shaco ult, blinks him to a different location, AND deals a shitload of damage...........there's a serious problem. It's essentially Shaco/Soraka/Malphite ult with a few bits taken out but with all the good parts left in.

Dragonface1 votes

Also, inb4 "omgahd gais lb just as op look at her burst"

LB can't heal herself, her burst is HEAVILY reliant on CDs. If she wastes her ult to Distortion away from you, her damage is severely lacking. Ekko doesn't have to make that choice, and he has low CDs which allows him to just spam spam spam spam LOL YOU'LL NEVER GET AWAY LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL DEAD

Shinji lkari2 votes

The whole purpose of his ult is to give you a second chance, that's why it heals him and that's why it only does damage when enemies are within his radius.

I played Ekko and got to shut down a fed Zed on my team thanks to my ult, you cannot say his ult hasn't served its purpose. Also his ult is on a minute cooldown at rank one, about 52 at rank two, and lowest is 42 at rank 3. Just engage after he ults.

Lugg2 votes

It wouldn't be a problem if the rest of his kit wasn't overloaded as hell.

Dragonface1 votes

Essentially, his ult gives you 2 choices, let him escape, or get punished for trying to predict him by going back to his ult point. You shouldn't be punished for being smart. The problem you aren't seeing is that his ult has no kind of downside and only upsides. There's no real way to stop it, or delay it, or counterplay it. It's an "oops" button that also is a Mini-Nunu ult that's instant.

darkhub2 votes

Hes squishy as fi, burst or poke him Down. He has no sustain

Kilane1 votes

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Hes squishy as fi, burst or poke him Down. He has no sustain

Sorry, they say the same with Azir.

In fact, Azir was nowhere near powerful as this Ekko in every single kit and he's squishy as fuck.

Knowing rito, they won't gut Ekko like people want to gut Azir.

darkhub1 votes

Azir is high ranged and he zones greater. thats why. ekko is meele

Kilane1 votes

You can say that to talon. Just because you are melee, that doesn't mean you are countered to every single champ having much great range than you.

aaronconlin4 votes

Most of his abilities have a decent amount of counter play, the only thing that's actually overpowered is his ultimate, and adding a mana cost to it would fix that I think

Dreadlocks1 votes

Broken? idk his kit is okay to me, but balanced? nah... his W is always 2.25 seconds (stun) at every rank, which to me is pretty dumb.. why not make it scale? 1.00 1.25 1.50 1.75 2.00 seconds This would also make his shield feel more engaging when he duels someone inside the W. This is just 1 of the few things i think could be adjusted..Thats my 2cents...

darkhub1 votes

It has got 3 sec delay, u gotta be blind to get into it.

Dreadlocks1 votes

it can be casted out of vision of your opponent and can only see the last .5 seconds of it before it lands. You have to be a map hacker to avoid it. SMD.

ShoddyG1 votes

Ekko Lol everyone thinks he is so broken when he isn't. His Q slow can be avoided because of its moderately slow speed. His W plays an animation which is very clear in what is happening, you just have to be aware and watch for it, as well as ward bushes so he can't do it where you cannot see. His Shield is only if he gets inside the W so by avoiding his strait up rushes you can defeat its purposes. His E jump can be predicted by him conserving mana or coming closer to you suspiciously more often. If you really think he is that bad get a knock up or stun on him, then burst him. He gets busted very easily if purely built for killing.

zeronif1 votes

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Ekko Lol everyone thinks he is so broken when he isn't. His Q slow can be avoided because of its moderately slow speed. His W plays an animation which is very clear in what is happening, you just have to be aware and watch for it, as well as ward bushes so he can't do it where you cannot see. His Shield is only if he gets inside the W so by avoiding his strait up rushes you can defeat its purposes. His E jump can be predicted by him conserving mana or coming closer to you suspiciously more often. If you really think he is that bad get a knock up or stun on him, then burst him. He gets busted very easily if purely built for killing.

i noticed you didnt say anything about his ult.

nrj64901 votes

u know Ekko's rly broken when he can get double and triple kills while taking 0 damage his farm is insane with his q's true dmg, he is one of the less squishy mid mages, the sheer AoE on his w makes it rly hard to dodge, and even if u dodge ur probably out of position because of it, his passive stacks do WAY too much, his q shouldn't apply stack, and his ult don't even get me started on his ult. even if its used for defense it can be used to just completely turn the tide of a fight, even if it was intended as an escape mechanism. "burst him down"? he can just ult, get ALL his hp back while u retain the dmg he did to u. and if he uses his ult for OFFENSE? faker (god) help you.

creatureplex1 votes

No what's really broken about Ekko now is just the fact that he builds like a tank but is an assassin and it works works way too well, nerf the shit out of his damage so he'll have to build full offense or at least mostly offense again he's not supposed to be a tank it's not his kit he's an assassin fighter but he's only op now because of the same reason ezreal is op, it's the items they build ekko should be a perma band he was nerfed and nerfed hard but he's still too broken it's not his kit that's the problem it's just the items that he builds with his kit that makes him op same with ezreal make iceborn gauntlee and guinsoo's rageblade melee, and nerfed the living crap out of Ekko down to where all other assassins are his damage should be cut by about half so he'll be force to actually buy items that are meant for assassins not tank because Ekko is not a tank he's an assassin that builds like a tank and that's not what riot intended at all.

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