How is ekko balanced?

Sakuya5·Jan 31, 2020·16 votes·9,238 views

Why ekko has everything for an assasin really why? he has a dash, waveclear insane daamage aoe stun a slow and a ult that literally heals so much and deals a ton of damage wtf is this?

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FURRY V2Jan 31, 202023 votes

Dude, you don't get it? Ekko came from the future, where every champion is overpowered as hell.

As you can see, we slowly arrive to Ekko's real time, just take a look at the latest champions rito has released.

Ekko had to flee from his own time, because he was as garbage there as an Anivia now.

Minimac2000Jan 31, 20204 votes

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Dude, you don't get it? Ekko came from the future, where every champion is overpowered as hell.

As you can see, we slowly arrive to Ekko's real time, just take a look at the latest champions rito has released.

Ekko had to flee from his own time, because he was as garbage there as an Anivia now.

Hey, anivia onetricks are heckin terrifying. Don't you mock them or they will find you in your ranked games oof

RevechJan 31, 20201 votes

loooooooooooooooool

HÍTLÆRJan 31, 202011 votes

"Ekko IS a SkIrMiSheR aNd DiVEr bUt nOt An AsSaSsiN"

ZezockaryJan 31, 20203 votes

Most of his moves are pretty situational, his W requires a lot of prediction or setup by your team, his E leaves him vulnerable if he doesn't have ult or didn't predict his W properly, and his ult only does damage if you stand on the very clear indicator.

His Q is his only poke and it doesn't do muxh damage and is very easy to dodge, not to mention it stops early if it hits a minion.

He is strong but not overbearing. Learn to play against him and you will be fine with most champs.

ŚhunpoJan 31, 20204 votes

An assassin with a get-out-of-jail-free card that is as effective as Ekko's R AS WELL AS his the rest of his kit allowing him to put immense distance between him and his target(s), or to just simply chase.

ZezockaryFeb 2, 20201 votes

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An assassin with a get-out-of-jail-free card that is as effective as Ekko's R AS WELL AS his the rest of his kit allowing him to put immense distance between him and his target(s), or to just simply chase.

If you just list the tools the champ has then any character sounds broken.

An aoe stun, the abity to create terrain, an aoe damaging slow that has no set duration and a low cooldown, a targetted nuke with a small cooldown on top of a passive that revives you without giving your enemy gold.

People in another thread were saying anivia is really bad right now so thats why I picked her even though I think she is good, but you get the point. Saying the champ can do things isn't an argument as to why they are too good.

EDIT: It was this thread lol.

ŚhunpoFeb 2, 20201 votes

Poor example btw, Anivia is in a fine spot, she just has an extremely boring playstyle that's easy to mess up.

The thing I'm trying to get at is that Ekko's entire kit is too effective at kiting+chasing, resulting in him being overly safe AND overly effective for an assassin.

FSRERJan 31, 20206 votes

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Most of his moves are pretty situational, his W requires a lot of prediction or setup by your team, his E leaves him vulnerable if he doesn't have ult or didn't predict his W properly, and his ult only does damage if you stand on the very clear indicator.

W: if he is out of view range, his W will be invis and since you can't ward the entire Jungle (thanks Riot) you can't do anything about it. E: It leaves him vulnerable if he doesn't engage on you and simply miss it (something a plat+ will never do) but if he does engage on you, he will go all in and run away at the speed of Jhin while had half healthed you leaving you no room for counterengages (and if you try he will just ult away or on ya) Q: The only reason an Ekko will use it is when he is on top of ya, to get easy passive proc after he E you meaning that in half a milisecond he will have bursted ya down.

He is strong and overbearing vs most.

xDogMeatxJan 31, 20202 votes

correction on: E you mean runs away at the speed of "jhin crits". yes i do believe he can fill every role therefore needs a nerf somewhere.

ZezockaryFeb 2, 20201 votes

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W: if he is out of view range, his W will be invis and since you can't ward the entire Jungle (thanks Riot) you can't do anything about it. E: It leaves him vulnerable if he doesn't engage on you and simply miss it (something a plat+ will never do) but if he does engage on you, he will go all in and run away at the speed of Jhin while had half healthed you leaving you no room for counterengages (and if you try he will just ult away or on ya) Q: The only reason an Ekko will use it is when he is on top of ya, to get easy passive proc after he E you meaning that in half a milisecond he will have bursted ya down.

He is strong and overbearing vs most.

I just always assume when he comes into view that he put a W down and back off until I know.

What I meant by his W leaves him vulnerable is that the second part of it has a reactable time before he actually jumps and you always know where it will put him. When you see hom start to go for it throw a skill right where he will appear (right in front of you) and you will basically always hit him. Then move sideways for the Q, the first part will hit you but not the second. When you are far enough you can respond as he runs away.

Minimac2000Jan 31, 20202 votes

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Most of his moves are pretty situational, his W requires a lot of prediction or setup by your team, his E leaves him vulnerable if he doesn't have ult or didn't predict his W properly, and his ult only does damage if you stand on the very clear indicator.

His Q is his only poke and it doesn't do muxh damage and is very easy to dodge, not to mention it stops early if it hits a minion.

He is strong but not overbearing. Learn to play against him and you will be fine with most champs.

His w is situational in lane. It's just plain op in jg

ZezockaryFeb 2, 20201 votes

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His w is situational in lane. It's just plain op in jg

You mean as a jungler when he ganks or when he roams in the jungle and you follow him?

Cause I just don't do that.

Minimac2000Feb 2, 20201 votes

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You mean as a jungler when he ganks or when he roams in the jungle and you follow him?

Cause I just don't do that.

When he ganks obviously, covers pretty much the entire area under tower for free stun plus big shield and yeah, if you aren't under tower he just places it between you and tower and you are either zoned or stunned for 2 seconds either way, so it's like veigar cage, it guaruntees you die even when it doesn't hit you at all. And no one chases him through the jg because he always has 6 kills by the time anyone would try to chase him

Eternal TormentFeb 1, 20203 votes

He's currently a bit overtuned because he got a legendary skin.

Reverse the W stun duration buff and R CD buff and he will be back to being perfectly fine and acceptable.

people tend to forget that everyone who gets a legendary skin and those who get a prestige skin get buffs to boost sales. This is nothing new and the fact that people are STILL surprised at it happening shows either a great addiction to ignorance or an immeasurable collective of idiots.