Build sunfire and frostborn gauntlet on any champ and win
Why is this a thing? Ekko doesn't need a nerf. None of these champs do. Those two items need to be obliterated. Theyre way to cheap, way to cost effective, and provide way to many stats.
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Ya know... this is tempting to try in normals...
I saw it on vayne once.
It was awful up until he got spirit visage too, then he actually got somewhat problematic...
I build it on Riven, got the idea from a master Tier Riven player.
You basically become an unstoppable monster.
Ekko is still inherently broken without the items. His base numbers are too high. Iceborn is broken because it gives way too damn much cdr... 2700 g for it... please =.=
try it on leblanc
Iceborne gauntlet is pretty lame. Just hold off until you can get Frozen Heart.
Why is this a thing?
Best guess is this:
MR itemization is so amazing at the moment it's really inefficient to double magic damage by building damage. As big magic damage is to inefficient to really run with: armor items balanced around the stress needed to itemize armor and MR are just extremely cost-effective with only 1 real direction. Runs into a really awkward scinario where magic-damage champions don't do damage by building damage, but they get the chance to do a lot of damage by building tanky and just repeatdly smashing things. Due to pure tank builds it's also awkward trying to counterbuild them, and with surviving twice as long to double there damage there end damage result is actually more hybridized and difficult to counterbuild through AA's and Sheen procs making up a pretty solid portion.
Really obnoxious the best way to do damage as a magic-damage class is building full tank and unleashing hybrid damage due to how stupidly potent MR and anti-burst itemization is at the moment.
Ekko doesn't need a nerf.
His winrate really says otherwise, and Ekko's kit is objectivly the kit of someone that wants to run pretty heavy in the tanky direction. He's pretty much AP Malphite with the same incentive to build AP, but endowed with way to much utility given his damage potential, way to much mobility given how well he scales with defense, or way to much damage given his utility. Ekko's kit is pretty overloaded and tries to do to many things at once.
Those two items need to be obliterated. Theyre way to cheap, way to cost effective, and provide way to many stats.
Those 2 items have been pretty much the same since forever.
There issue is more AP itemization is so awful at dealing with MR, nobody needs to build MR because nobody is building AP. As such: armor itemization has free reign as being the only %damage reduction stat where it's not balanced to be the only %damage reduction stat.
Hopefully the AP itemization update will fix that and see greater pressure on MR itemization. If nothing else, Riot really needs to nerf MR items to not be a 1-stop-shop that hard-counters AP heavy builds.