ekko needs a nerf asap.
ok i know im no the only one. but im pretty much leaving league until ekko gets a massive nerf. nuff said.
ok i know im no the only one. but im pretty much leaving league until ekko gets a massive nerf. nuff said.
Nuff said? No not nearly, I agree that Ekko needs a nerf, but saying "He's OP, nerf him or I quit" and expecting Riot to nerf him is stupid. Here I'll give you an example:
Ekko's ult needs to be reworked, there's no reason that a nuke/reposition/heal on a low cooldown should exist on an assassin who already has insane damage, cc, strong mobility, and natural access to CDR. Especially not when the idea for Ekko was to make an assassin that won through superior playing, not broken damage.
"Ekko lacks the raw power to burst his targets down, so relies more on his cunning than his strength."(http://euw.leagueoflegends.com/en/page/champion-reveal/ekko-boy-who-shattered-time)
Allow me to tell you, early game two hits of Q and E will take 50 - 75% of your health. Mid to late game, if you're not a tank, it will kill you instantly. Mid to late, all he needs to use is E with Lichbane, and if you're not a tank, often times you will lose 60+% of your health with no counterplay other than just not getting close to him. At that point, you're forced to flash or die since a followup Q or two AAs will finish you. Then he either kills you anyway, runs away, or ults out, putting him on a 40ish second cooldown until all skills are back up if he ulted.
As if that wasn't enough, I'm not sure there is any other champion in the game with the capability to put themselves in awful situations and get out. Ekko can E over walls, ult, mass slow, mass stun/shield, etc. The only two ways I've ever seen him die are: He gets caught and cc'd until he's completely dead, or he ults to save his life and gets chased down(this is exceedingly rare for me, however). More common than either of those though is he gets cc'd, is extremely low, and then he ults, nuking everyone that piled onto him and instantly winning the fight for his team.
tl;dr: He's extremely safe, with high damage and strong mobility. The holy-trinity of attributes that makes a broken champion.
I feel like his ult doesn't need to do damage, and I'd be fine with him if that was all that changed. I can write-off everything else as him being an assassin, but his ult is just too much, getting him out of danger(its intended purpose) is fine, annoying, but fine; Doing 500 base damage + 130% of his AP is not, however. In order to kill him you need to be able to cc and kill him with no gaps inbetween or he'll ult and kill you/run. You almost need two people at least to handle him unless you're Veigar, since not many champions can do so much damage in such a short span of time alone.
EDIT: I realize I used the phrase "if you're not a tank" kind of a lot, so I'll explain what happens when you are a tank. His burst is still massive, and he has dps to back it up on his passive, his W, and just in the low cooldowns of his skills. He still has strong kill potential on you even if you're tanky.
not massive but a pretty good one when I'm two levels above him with
and a single slow gives him enough time to kill me vfrom full heath there's something really messed up even
fear doesn't last that long cmon Riot get your shit together
You need to get better if you think he needs a massive nerf, he is getting a nerf.
Massive? lol, well hes getting nerfed in about 6 hours and they're talking about nerfing him again in 5.12 :)
PLEASE STOP PELASE HE IS NOT EVEN OP. TRESH IS OP: VI IS OP RZYE IS OP LB IS OP