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Riot, just one little thing about Ekko, it's important to me.

BurstKing·5/22/2016, 3:03:49 AM·9 votes·826 views

I love Ekko. The guy is full of sass, really fun to listen to, has fluid, amazing animation and the idea of having a skirmishing, time travelling, team fight oriented assassin is amazing.

Ekko is the first champion I've fully embraced and enjoyed playing since Talon. It took 4 years for me to fall in love with a new champion and actually have a good time in League. So I wanted to ask of you to please make sure what makes Assassin Ekko feel good and fun to play stays the way it is.

I know currently you are trying out some nerfs on the PBE to stop Tank Ekko, which is good. I hate that build, it's not how Ekko was meant to be played, and it's pretty toxic and anti-fun all around. But please keep your eye on him to make sure the mid lane / jungle, AP building Ekko's among us still have a chance to do our best.

I am not yet sure how nerfing the timing on his Passive is going to affect AP Ekko, but I am hoping thanks to the burst, he wont need it to proc twice on the same target to actually finish them off.

All I wanted to say is: Do everything you have to, in order to remove Tank Ekko, or reduce his effectiveness. But please, please compensate enough so that AP Ekko can continue to do his thing, even if people will never recognize him the same way they do with Fizz or Zed.

11 Comments

Avent5/22/2016, 3:08:41 AM4 votes

dude i feel the exact same way as you do. Ekko was and still is my first true main/fav shampion and hate the tank build ruining everything but still really want the ap ekko to be a viable option.

71883083DEL15/22/2016, 3:07:01 AM2 votes

I hate Ekko, he is hard to counter. Any tips on what to do against him?

The Whamboozler5/22/2016, 3:23:22 AM1 votes

I... don't think Talon has even been around for four years. No... no this whole story doesn't hold together.

ViashinoWizard5/22/2016, 4:02:38 AM1 votes

The passive nerf shouldn't hurt AP Ekko too much. He doesn't really want to stay in extended fights to proc his passive multiple times anyway.

Darth StepVader5/22/2016, 7:18:19 AM1 votes

Well, i strongly believe that the last few patches' buffs to the original ap/assasin ekko should do the trick at keeping him powerful in his proper role. Truth be told, if they nerf his base values more, he won't be able to easily survive the early levels even in midlane. So, they are somewhat turning some of his cc into ap ratios for compensation. Either way, it'll take some time before tankko is relinquished and ap/assasin ekko is balanced towards something more viable throughout the duration of a game.

bulldoggamer5/23/2016, 7:24:20 PM1 votes

I posted an idea that i had about how to take another step towards the removal of tank ekko. I don't wanna type it all out again so here's the link. http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/PPrPE9EA-nerf-ekko-well-kinda