Ekko is one of the most balanced assassins i've seen

DesmondKaii·7/2/2015, 4:44:52 AM·4 votes·1,589 views

For all you people complaining about how "op" ekko is, consider this.

An assassins job is to 100-0 the most fed person on the enemy team.
A few examples of this are Akali Fizz Katarina Leblanc Talon Zed

Riot has been literally forced to gut almost every assassin due to the fact that they can 100-0 you with minimal effort. Champions like Katarina can almost never be "balanced" due to the nature of their kits, they can deal too much damage with too little effort involved. They literally just point and click a few abilities, then dash out.

Where Ekko stands out is, yes.. he can 100-0 like other assassins, but that damage isn't so front-loaded and unavoidable that his counter play is almost non-existent.

When a fed Fizz or Katarina jumps on you, what can you honestly do to escape? Nothing at all, they will just use their stupid easy point and click CC / resets to keep you in 1 place and 100-0 you while you just wait to hit the respawn button.

When a fed Ekko jumps on you, what can you do to escape? Tons. You can easily predict where he will throw his W, you can dodge his Q when it comes back around, and his biggest damage spell literally TELLS YOU where its doing to do its damage. All you need to do is keep ekko moving and dont be stupid enough to walk into this ult and you will have at least SOME chance of escaping or even winning a duel against him, even when he is fed.

And yes he is mobile, but ekkos ult is a double edged sword. He can use it as an AP nuke to do a shit ton of damage, but afterwards he is pretty vulnerable so its usually best to NOT just blow your ult that way. Ekko can use his ult to escape or commit, not both. Meanwhile FizzKatarina and others can just play Mario Kart Double Dash and race past you if something goes wrong.

So for all you people complaing about how ekko is too mobile with too much damage, id rather have 100 assassins like ekko roaming around that need to at least put effort into killing you, than a bunch of fizz, zed, katarinas, ect who just jump in, point and click, jump out.

16 Comments

SaltyKracka7/2/2015, 4:45:51 AM2 votes

From what I remember, most of the complaints had to do with him being too safe, and too good in lane for being an assassin.

DaspinnyX27/2/2015, 4:49:32 AM1 votes

I'd love to have it where the other team can't go 4 tanks and 1 damage dealer and just group mid and push you in with no effort. Assassin's can't 100-0 anyone besides the squishiest of champs(like other assassins) otherwise they made getting tanky too easy. I can't even play a game any more where it isn't go super tank and win. Last game was Nasus, j4, shen built pure tank basically. Then blitz, and Vel'koz built with a couple tank items and they just rolled over us, we couldnt kill any of them unless we caught them with multiple people. I was a FED diana. I couldn't 100-0 1 person in that game on my own. Now thats wrong.

ZED G0D7/2/2015, 6:08:56 AM1 votes

Zed is the best assassin in lane and in team fights in my opinion...Hook zed up with item 3074 item 3031 item 3142 item 3035 item 3078 item 3139 And this bad ass of an assassin can get triple kills in team fights within 3 sec flat. W+E+Q+Hydra Aoe out the ass and massive damage output. His waveclear is instant, he can clear a creep wave in a few AA's, clear a jungle camp in -1 sec. hes a beast

BeatzBoyFTW7/2/2015, 6:12:49 AM1 votes

So you're saying every game should be a 5v4 if your team has an assassin?

Shardbearer7/2/2015, 6:22:48 AM1 votes

I actually think Ekko is pretty weak. It might just be what I see. Maybe it means he is balanced I suppose. He takes so much more to be scary than Zed being like, "Hey I hit level 6."

Leblanc also doesn't need to seem a ton of items to seem nasty, or at least she didn't used to. Haven't seen her much lately.

Lugg7/2/2015, 6:42:28 AM1 votes

The problem is that EVERY assassin except Kassadin is either OP or broken. They are low risk/high reward and they snowball WAY too hard.

I laughed when I read that part about a fed Ekko jumping on you. Sorry but there is ZERO counterplay when you die in 2 seconds. And yes Ekkos ult is a double edge sword, it cuts you with both sides.

Ixoziel7/2/2015, 7:34:41 AM1 votes

I don't mind playing against Ekko. A fed Fizz is far, far worse. He's difficult to kill with pole, a shark on your ADC is basically a death sentence, and he has better sustained damage. A fed Rengar will just one shot your adc (i've been critted for 1720 before). Akali will heal through your damage with spell vamp.

Ekko is just really hard to kill. Really, really hard to kill.

Earl Eulrich7/2/2015, 7:47:58 AM1 votes

yea...that´s probably why he´s still effective even if he goes full-tank. That amount of utility is just outright ridiculous on an assassin.

Yakas7/2/2015, 8:07:27 AM1 votes

What i think is kinda ironic is that, people can sidestep ekkos q when he e'es to u. funniest thing in the world when it happens lol