I too can boil things down to semantics and make them sound identical.
Did you know that there are two champions with bonuses when they attack three times? I guess Riot really ran out of ideas after
, they just copied her passive for
's passive! How unoriginal! Ekko is just Vayne, Zilean, Rengar, Sivir and Gnar. Please don't conviniently ignore the intricacies I leave out, I'm a sarcastic boards poster who thinks he understands champion design!
It's almost like the context in which things exist defines them greatly. You can literally boil down any champion and say they're copies of each other. Yes, his abilities might be similar in terms of mechanics, but is there a champion who is a tanky AP juggernaut who uses an AOE pull, a slam which does bonus isolation damage at a long range, A shield which is based on damage dealt and taken, that can be used to gain health, and also the ability to turn a fight into a 4v4 whilst stealing stats? Yes, each of these things is not unique in a vacuum, because thats how video games work. Every champion literally has the same basic design: They help kill your enemies and destroy the nexus, but their abilities are designed to accomplish this in different ways, Mordekaiser's kit can seem to be similar on paper, but its the combination of those things that makes the kit interesting.
"Doesn't just change the stats around", you're literally defeating yourself with this one too. "It's only got longer range, doesn't do max health damage, does physical damage, doesn't have an aftershock, doesn't slow and also has an isolation damage bonus! It's the same as poppy Q!"