you can have one, but you sure as hell can't have both. ffs i get assassin should burst and mobility but why does he get a fking riven shield (scaling with ap) that stuns and a aoe burst that heals a quarter of his health. just give him one... please... rito, just one of those
Ishka1 votesHe gets burned down easily, if you just focus him it's not even that hard.
TeemoJenkins1 votesHe gets burned down easily, if you just focus him it's not even that hard.
Ah, so just lose lane and then late game have the team focus him. Got it.. Sounds balanced.
no dad stop1 votesHis cooldowns are pretty high on all of his base abilities, he's pretty easy to punish when he uses his Q and especially if he messes up his W.
Honestly you just need to trade with him and not be scared "he gonna ult doe". If you keep making him use his ult to get away he's not going to have that when he comes back to lane and you can bully him all you want as that's one of his main damage tools so you really knocked two birds out with one stone.
People are complaining about him for the same reason they complained about Zed, only because they can't recognize his downtimes. Granted, in the hands of extremely skilled players they both can be overwhelmingly stupid to play against, but in most cases (not LCS), you can punish players in how they play these champions.
Rustling Bush1 votes[{quoted}](name=If I were Jesus,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=X0qOiMcN,comment-id=0001,timestamp=2015-06-08T19:11:48.221+0000)
His cooldowns are pretty high on all of his base abilities, he's pretty easy to punish when he uses his Q and especially if he messes up his W.
Honestly you just need to trade with him and not be scared "he gonna ult doe". If you keep making him use his ult to get away he's not going to have that when he comes back to lane and you can bully him all you want as that's one of his main damage tools so you really knocked two birds out with one stone.
People are complaining about him for the same reason they complained about Zed, only because they can't recognize his downtimes. Granted, in the hands of extremely skilled players they both can be overwhelmingly stupid to play against, but in most cases (not LCS), you can punish players in how they play these champions.
its hard to mess up his w when its the size of a football stadium, laning ideally he can miss it, in a team fight however hes bound to catch 2 or 3 people in it. i thought the whole motto of hyper carry was high risk high rewards, where is the risk when that ap shield pops up and grants him half hp bar then proceeds to faceroll me even with all my armor and hp because of his %hp damage and obviously hes a assassin so can deal with squishies fairly well. other champions like 
have to commit, they mess up i guess they have to blow an ult to escape, nah for ekko if he misses his w he won't go in, going in? well great heres this scaling ap shield for your troubles and if things still go south he can use that "get out of jail free card while doing burst damage to anyone near by and healing yourself" ace, you certainly won't outrun him with how most people build him (luden + lich), manage to pull threw all that shit, he'll somersault out of most cc's range then can still pull a 
and blink to a minion. its just very hard to punish him you have to deal with all that, i don't know how many times ive seen ekko has get away with a smidgeon of hp and that shield being his saving grace, where he clearly fucked up bad.
but for the sake of argument, lets say ekko is a balanced assassin, what about ekko jungle? i've seen it go down and by lv 6 as i was walking past gromp he was clearing faster then a udyr could, playing with that ekko (granted he was plat 5) made me think HE WAS THE TEAM, he would carry us even if we all lost lane. i've also had the unfortunate pleasure of dealing with support ekko as well, when you have a leona tier stun up every 20 to 15 seconds things become absolutely oppressive. when you stuff so much into a kit, people find ways to abuse it and create cancer play, thats why riot has nerfed almost every released champion the following patches.