Rework Kat vs Rework Ekko

Ekko's capacity to build tanky assassin is just something that needs to be changed. Kat, imo, is considerably a very balanced champion. Yes, she can 100-0 you with resets, but hard CC or an exhaust just turns her into a pinata full of gold and XP. She's super squishy and requires her to dive in the center of the enemy team to get her damage off.

Ekko on the other had just has so much utility, damage and tank built into his kit, that he's allowed to build the way he does and it feel disgusting. His Q slows and deals tons of damage as well as applying stacks. His zone is a slow or a stun and shield, his ult is an uncontrolled teleport that heals him and nukes the area he lands in. A dash with a secondary teleport,letting him cover huge ground to gap close. Etc. Etc.

The thing that would make Ekko more balanced would be to either remove damage or utility from his kit. Remove the shield from his zone. Remove the damage from his ult. Remove the slow from his Q. Remove the free-cast from his dash and make it targeted-only. Once you do that, Ekko because much more balanced. He no longer has all hard CC, tank and assassin levels of burst and is forced to play more carefully. People are just allowed to faceroll with him right now and destroy, simply because you can't do anything against him with everything he brings with his kit.

ekko is new, beloved, not exactly disgustingly broken, but kinda broken. Kat on the other hand is either shit or just cheese grates the entire enemy team in 0.5 seconds.

Sadly, Katarina probably needs it more.

While Ekko is aggravating with an AD/tank build, he's viable in most rankings of play with fall-back patterns (waveclear, ranged waveclear, utility) so that he will always be useful.

Katarina is mostly a low-ELO stomper and is rather feast-or-famine due to the nature of her kit (very all-in, melee-ranged, lacking utility or fall-back patterns).

Ekko can be fixed and balanced by tuning his numbers. Kat's kit at its core is really hard to balance as its feast or famine.

Kat deserves a skill rework, ekko is fine getting his numbers tweaked