Every nerf to Tank Ekko

The thought of a CC assassin is failed from the beginning. If the CC is too good he's will be played as a tank who does damage, if the damage is too strong you get an assassin that can CC to death. There's no middle ground, both option are unhealthy for the game.

The thing I hate most about the fucker is his Q. At early levels the outgoing damage is on par with other mid mages, and the incoming damage is just icing on the cake. The slow also starts at the high end of non-decaying kit slows in mid and then rapidly scales to bullshit levels.

It's one of those abilities that it good in literally every situation. Poke, waveclear, zoning, chasing, kiting, duels, team fights, etc. And it's basically spammable given it's forgiving mana cost.

The Q is bullshit. But also having two other slows that scale from 40-60% is what makes him so fucking broken. That's basically support tank level cc.

As someone who enjoys playing him as intended, this saddens me.

Instead of nerfing the %damage, they should just remove it entirely. Boom, problem solved. He doesn't need it as an AP assassin anyway.

Just something I thought id throw out there.

Current "tank ekko" is actually just a bruiser. It builds 1 dmg item maybe two (Triforce and maybe abyssal usually) and then goes tank, and late game his dmg with this build falls off really hard against anything with a few defensive items, especially due to his bad ad scaling. Similarly Jax and Irelia build 1 or two dmg items and then go tank and have escapes and cc too. Is bruiser ekko annoying? Yes. Is he impossible to deal with when ahead? Often times yes. Is he broken? Personally idk, but since he was initially intended to be an "assassin" everyone gets super mad that ekko isnt being one.

Maybe his destiny is to be an ap diver or skirmisher instead of an assassin (something like jarvan/vi/diana or either fiora/yasuo/irelia/jax) that deals decent consistent dmg and is often not full glass cannon. In my opinion ap assasin ekko would still be somewhat viable (like ad jarvan) but unless his dmg becomes more reliable, specifically his Q, he will always tends towards tankier builds that let him get his dmg off. And maybe this diving or skirmisher role with the option of full ap as just an optional build can be accepted as ok by riot and the community.

As it turns out, giving an assassin tiny mana costs, tons of mobility, AoE CC/Damage, sustain (In the form of a heal and a shield), utility and huge bases was a terrible idea.

Who would have guessed, eh?

Honestly riot should be balancing ekko around having him build bruiser. His kit just screams bruiser with all those slows, the stun + shield and the heal. Why they don't balance him around the assumption that he will be built that way really confuses me.

It's not like people are going to start building him AD because of this.

In the end I'm sure they'll find a way to get him balanced. Maybe removing his slow or something like that.

Ekko should be on the list for the Assassin Update

Personally, I feel like they should just change the W to an entirely new ability.

It's so highly telegraphed that landing it is impossible if they see you, and if you run up to them they'll typically back off, making an attempted stun useless unless you can chain a good E into it.

Slow From Q Slow from Passive Slow from W Stun from W Shield from W Mobility from E Heal on R Mobility on R Speed buff from Passive

Now lets look at "utility" mid laners like: Morgana Root on Q Anti-cc shield on E Anti-magic shield on E Slow on R Stun on R Spell Vamp on passive And she's a character build around the concept of being an utility mage.

or Karma Snare on W Heal on W Shield on E Move speed on E CD reducing passive skill buffing ultimate

Lets see a tank like Maokai: Heal - passive Slow on Q Slow on E Knock up on Q Snare on W Mobility on W Damage reduction on R

Or Sion: Slow on Q Knock up on Q Slow on E Armor shred on E Shield on W Knock up on R Speed buff on R

Hmm, how about an utility support, like janna: Movement speed on passive Knock up on Q Slow on W Shield on E Extra AD on E Knockback on R Heal on R

Utility ADCs like Ashe: slow on passive slow on Q vision on E stun on R slow on R

Or Jhin: Snare on E i guess Slow on W i guess Slow on R Movement Speed buff passive

Out of this simple list we can see that Ekko has MORE UTILITY THAN: tanks, utility supports, utility mid laners or utility carry.

There's no "surprise" he ain't balanced. He never was supposed to be. But if you god forbid propose to take some of his utility away. Like one of those slows, like his heal or his stun. People go crazy mad.

nerf the black can cer once and fo all ,remove all slows and stuns and give something minor like 0.5 slow or root 0.25