"Ekko fares pretty well against mages..."
E - Phase Dive COOLDOWN 11/10/9/8/7 seconds ⇒ 9/8.5/8/7.5/7 seconds
"Ekko fares pretty well against mages when his cooldowns are up, so we’re giving him the tools to engage more often."
??? How does this sound to you: "Yi kills pretty well when his cooldowns are up, so we're giving him the tools to engage more often." "Morgana initiates pretty well when her cooldowns are up, so we're giving her the tools to engage more often." "Yasuo looks pretty cool when his cooldowns are up, so we're giving him the tools to engage more often."
You can literally make this statement about any champion as an empty justification to buff them. What this statement needed was some actual reason to buff him like (not that this is true, but for the sake of example):
"Ekko suffers against mages too often because of his long cooldowns, so we're reducing the cooldown of his E to give him the tools to engage more often".
The way Riot has justified this buff, they've essentially said "Ekko does this well, so we're giving him the tools to do it better". Why though?
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and now if Ekko becomes meta I'll have to quit this game until he will be fixed, I just love league of legends so much.
, since he's meant to be good against mages, we're giving him a slight CD buff on his engage, so he can better work around these match-ups' CC cooldowns."
