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Rito pls fix Ekko

S2C2Xd9KOy··4 votes·813 views

So, I just played an Azir game and got lane against an Ekko, no big deal, didnt get stomped, just ended up like 2/4 at the end of laning phase which is odd for my Azir. Now he wasn't overly fed or anything, but like 25 mins in he was literally 2 shotting me... all he had was a Ludens and Lich Bane and he was Q+Eing me and I'd just die because he would chunk my health so hard. Another situation in the game where I don;t even know how it happened but I got caught by his stun and the stun honestly lasted so long that from the time he stunned me to the time I died I still couldn't move or flash away or anything.

For an easy champion I think he's too strong. He's bursty with a ton of AOE and easy to manage mana costs with an ult that can literally win him fights in 1v1s and 2v1s that he deserves to lose.

I hate to complain because I really do honestly appreciate all the new skins and champions and having a patch every couple weeks to keep things updated, but I mean, he's a bit much... (he's also so strong at the moment that every lobby I get into they waste a ban on him. I mean its not really a waste because of the fact that he's currently so strong, but he shouldn't be strong enough to have such a high ban rate...)

This may seem unorganized but its like 6am and I'm super tired, so excuse poor grammar/punctuation or if I generally seem too complain-y. I may be wrong and maybe it just wasnt my game but if he got near me I basically died. Ended up like 12/14/6. Simply embarrassing.

17 Comments

Erockandroll2 votes

How are you not making him go OOM, when all he has is a Luden's and a Lich bane? If you allowed him to walk out of the Laning phase, without a Mana item, Something had to have gone wrong. Yes he's blowing you up, He's got two key damage items at 25 minutes. (and I'm assuming your also Glass Cannon)

I do have some opinions on Ekko now that I have gotten a chance to play him (though only once in a bot game.) As well as seeing how the Pros use Ekko.

HIs passive damage is fine, his Q damage is considerable. The two together is a bit problematic. Now I don't think they should remove the Ability for abilities to stack the passive. But in that case make him more reliant on procing his passive for said damage. (which might explain the Q nerf on the PBE.)

His W is fine in most respects. It's a really good Zoning tool because it's pretty unreliable as a general stun, but the fact that it's so powerful means you have to stay away from it. (And if your not treating it as a Zoning tool, your doing everything to play into Ekko's hand.) I'll have to Reevaluate the shield he gets cause that's the most reliable part of his ability. The only Real problem with this Zoning is that he gets one Sh*t load of mileage from CDR. The 22 second cooldown practically means nothing to him.

His ult is actually fine, but a lot of people don't know how to handle it. (no one tries to work around a 4 second time jump to the past, They just all in him so that he can regain everything, making you look dumb.) The only way you can All in him is to Stun lock his ass for the duration. The better way to handle it though is to deal constant poke, so he can't heal for as much. And for the love of god, watch for his shadow, and don't chase him when his ults up.

Wheatloaf2 votes

Azir is actually a pretty difficult matchup for Ekko; you just need to make good use of your range, E, and Ult. His Q return and Ult damage are pretty easy to avoid, and you shouldn't really be getting stunned by his W unless he threw it from fog of war or just straight outplayed you. Yes he's kinda too strong right now, but everyone's talking like he's the Second Coming of Release Xin Zhao, and the statistics he's racking up aren't showing anything near that ridiculous.

EDIT: Scratch that about Azir being bad for Ekko, at least as far as winrates go, that's one of his better ones. Dunno how much that has to do with the playerbase's general inexperience with bird-man, though. Champion.gg stats point to Ekko being really good at getting kills, getting picked, and getting banned. After that, not much else.

S2C2Xd9KOy1 votes

Hes honestly just a nuisance to me. Ive hated him ever since his trailer whether Im playing him or against him or people are just talking about him, idk why but he generally just pisses me off. Azir is a horrible matchup against Ekko, when you E into him and ult him under tower he just ults and runs away and no matter how much damage you're doing, he'll just auto attack and his passive will shred you and theres really nothing you can do. It was just an annoying matchup.

I think what really bothers me about Ekko players is half of them are like those annoying kids on CoD that think they're better than everyone and think that Ekko takes skill... Idk. its just annoying to me that he's basically a male Katarina in a different way...

This might sound dumb but Im tired.

Wheatloaf1 votes

I've been thoroughly enjoying playing against him so far, but at least judging by the Boards, I'm weird for it :/

S2C2Xd9KOy1 votes

Im not Bjerg but I have a decent Azir and he just scales so much better damage wise. Like later game if you get a bit fed and keep your distance you can win a fight against hi.... Just kidding. What am I thinking. After you summon your soldiers and Q he will just E or ult away and be gone. nice. If they're gonna nerf my bae LB to hell then they can nerf the shit out of ekko too so he's not taking up ban spaces and being in every game that he can't be banned in -_- Just the fact that he's in every game is repetitive and unfun.

jDVL20eCYs1 votes

Azir complain about ekko.. Xd Rolf lmao. HAHA you play most broken bullshit champ with no weakness that is lane bully and late game god. Please stop stupid op. and no ekko don't kill you with eq passive in one rotation.

S2C2Xd9KOy1 votes

Your name is Ekko or Feed. I rest my case. And sure, go play Azir. Tell me how easy he is lol

jDVL20eCYs1 votes

Yes I got mad and played two games in row dimond 2 and collected freelo

S2C2Xd9KOy1 votes

Diamond doesn't make you good, you realize that right? You also havent played in 3 days. Such freelo. Much wow.

Demon King Maou1 votes

Doesn't help riot put him on the F2P list everygame I see him and he just 50 - 0 the game most of the time cant get near him because he either stuns or slows and cant kill him because he basicly full heals + does retarded damage to you atleast nerf his ult if anything or lower his stun time : /

jDVL20eCYs1 votes

Ekko 50-0 every game 100% brnosiz take ekko freelo train to challanger. That's what you say and you want us to care about your low elo trash words :)

MLDzXnRRR1 votes

Azur can 2shot Ekko too and has better DPS in tfs than him.

Singing Lark1 votes

You shouldn't really ever get stunned by Ekko as Azir, or anyone with mobility really. The moment you see him cast his W, toss out a sand solider somewhere far away and in the .5 seconds that the location of W is revealed but not activated, you can either dash to your solider or walk out of range.

Azir vs Ekko is (at least I think) a skill matchup, as you're both extremely squishy. Azir has the benefit of ranged poke, but Ekko has probably slightly higher instant burst than you do. (A properly timed blink can also negate your ult.) You should be bullying him early on, denying him farm, and dodging the second half of his Q as much as you can. Don't let him get all up close and personal for him to point blank Q + AA for his passive proc.

S2C2Xd9KOy1 votes

I know, but his jungler was sitting me so every time I tried to deny farm and get poke its like oh shit theres another person here sick. to say the least it just didnt go well.

Singing Lark1 votes

Probably should've played safe and told your jungler to gank other lanes/counter jungle if the enemy jungler was camping your lane.

But, whatever really, everyone has bad games.

Aráshi1 votes

Honestly, he should just be removed from the game. Everytime i face him i want to kill myself.

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