Maybe Ekko should just be a tank

PapaGreg21··1 votes·534 views

Not only do I seem him all the time in my lowly silver games but he is consistently in the LCS because he is extremely mobile, has waveclear, has multiple forms of CC, can shield himself, heal himself and has great base damage. On top of that he has a get out of jail free card and/or a free teleport. If somebody is going to have that much utility maybe they shouldn't be a damage dealer in the first place. I don't know what he is giving up in exchange for all these strengths. I think the only reasonable thing to do would be destroy his base damage and just let him be an incredibly mobile tank with great utility.

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Phenyxs1 votes

People tank ekko now cause he was nerfed real good. Base damage, attack speed. So to make up for it he needs to survive so tank items and ad items work well with his passive and kit. He use to be more fun as ap. But I got him lvl 7 going ad,tank. And won some good rank matches also. If they nerf champs there is going to usually be a way around it or a adjustments to still play a champ. I would rather seriously him ap. Problem is riot created him and now to undue there creations they nerf it. Nothing new.

PapaGreg211 votes

I think he needs to be nerfed further. Nerf his damage into the ground so he either has to build all offense to do anything or his tank version has to just be utility and not provide damage.

WinBoat1 votes

He's not a classic champion. As champions come out, they are getting more unique and stronger than older champions, kinda like how new pokemon generations are stronger than the last and so on.

Just saying. You can also say the same for Zed, Yasuo, and Fizz, which all these champions have crazy outplay potential. I would argue the creator of Ekko made the perfect champion. A champion that can deal with most champions in the game, and make plays. He should not be destroyed, but should be a blueprint of how future champions should be.

Champions do have the right to have outplay. Eventually classic champions are being reworked, and stuff, and every 6 months or so there is big game updates with champions being changed around in their kits.

Anyhow, hes my favorite champion (Ekko). I think if anything, just take his movement speed he gets from his passive away, and that's all that should be done. I have said for over a year now the biggest problems is the items instead of the champions themselves. For example, Trinity Force just does too many things and gives every stat basically with the exception of a few like Crit and stuff. These items need to be tweaked, not the champions.

Gnar is probably going to be nerfed hard although really you can just nerf frozen mallet, and he will be put in place. Riot gets to nerfing champions and they get too weak.

Cubíx1 votes

Honestly I disagree entirely, Ap ekko is tons of fun and one of my most played champions, and I would hate for ap to go away.

If you want some solutions I think one thing that could be done is to increase the stun over levels, make it start at .75 and increase by .25 per W upgrade. Why would this work? well AP ekko is a burst mage so he doesn't need this same amount of time to deal damage, while Tankko strives off low CD and high utility, by making his stun so much less early on it'll do one of two things, either make Tankko players upgrade the W earlier and cause him to not upgrade one of his other abilities (Q- worse wave clear or E- less mobility/trade) or just cause Tankko to not stun as long, allowing more counter play than just hoping he doesnt stick to you.

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