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Ekko: OP, UP, or Balanced

Top River King··2 votes·638 views

Ekko is my fifth most played champion after Garen, Tahm, Wu, and Azir, but most of those matches came back when he was released. When I picked him back up this week, I was surprised by how weak he felt. I was out of practice, sure, but it was really rough.

I looked up his win rate in plat+ and it's ~45% for top, mid, and jungle, with his win rate only surpassing 50% for those who have played him top or mid 125+ times, and even then just barely.

Yet his popularity and ban rate remain high. In fact, they're the only things he's anywhere near the top in. Clearly people still enjoy playing him, probably due to his grab bag of a kit. And people probably hate and ban him for precisely the same reason.

He's near the bottom in every other category, though, and I know this won't make me popular... but couldn't he stand to receive buffs of some sort? Or does everyone want him to stay as is, only seeing success in the most experienced hands, and even then not much?

10 Comments

Player of Games3 votes

As someone with an 80% winrate in ranked with Ekko and one of the main champions I got the diamond with, Riot has to be very careful about how they go in terms of buffing him. He has a naturally very overloaded kit and the only way I can see them buffing his numbers is if they shift levels of power in between his kit. As it stands a good Ekko has an answer for almost everything, you can't chase him, he can chase you, he has a dashing targeted blink-strike which can traverse walls, a gamechanging timesplitter ult, and a ridiculous stun if it's landed properly. Also one of the only champions in game with a very heavy movespeed sap.

I personally feel like he's on the weaker side, because he can definitely be exploited, but there are huge outplay opportunities for him within his kit which feel unbelievably satisfying when executed right.

ItsStout2 votes

I actually think he's near perfect balence- he's difficult to play and use, sure, but he definately doesnt feel bad to play. The game unfortunately doesnt suit him now (for the most part) and thats okay.

Dominick Destine2 votes

He is annoying but balanced.

UNLIKE YASUO/RIVEN/THRESH/LEE.

disregardable1 votes

He's better off now than he was a few patches ago. His combo is a little easy to mess up but hard hitting when you manage to. He can towerdive with ease and he can usually 1v2, 1v3 with his ult up. Just don't fall behind and you're good.

LaoBushido1 votes

after all the nerfs he got after released he's in a pretty balanced state imo. he is a champ that is really skill based now

Fowus1 votes

He was op during release but since he got continually nerfed he pretty balanced now

Sona Ping1 votes

Can't use the poll because the answer isn't on there "none of the above".

but couldn't he stand to receive buffs of some sort?

No because buffing broken champions tends to have poor results. The best thing to do is get them to some decent state and just leave them there; leave them until their kit gets worked on.

ItsStout1 votes

Broken...?

Uuuhhh... are we all talking about the same champ?

Sona Ping1 votes

Echo, right? Yep, we are talking about the same champion. Ask Faker; he agreed.

Summonerrr 11 votes

once I've played against him for the past 6 or so patches he's pretty tuned tuned in the hands of the average player and average group of soloqueuers.

In the hands of a coordinated team and skilled player he's a monster though, his playmaking ability is huge with the AoE stun and ult.

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