Delete Ekko

This post is going to get a lot of downvotes based on the title alone, and the contents of this post will also likely cause downvotes from the players who actually take the time to read it, and if you are someone who took time to read this post, even if you downvoted, thank you for at least reading it.

I say that this post will get downvotes because I've noticed that a very large portion of the playerbase seems to believe that once a champion is released they should never be removed or even considered being removed, not matter how toxic, unbalanced, unfun, unfair, they are.

A few months ago was disabled due to an in game bug, and there was a post jokingly asking Riot to take their time in fixing her. The post got a lot of likes, most just because it was funny, some because they really did want her to stay disabled longer, but one thing is certain, and that's that almost every person who liked that post was happy about Fiora being disabled. Whether or not most players will admit it or not, this suggest that most players would be happy if certain champion were out right removed from the game. even if only temporarily.

Ekko seems like an attempt by RIot to take all of the most frustrating mechanics they've ever made while designing champions and put it into a single champion.

Riot design mistakes in Ekko (that I can think of right now)

• High Base Damage + High Ability Scaling ()
• Hyper Mobility ()
• Easy to land AOE hard cc ()
• Multiple abilites in one ()

Out of all the things that define League's most frustrating champions, you name it, Ekko's got it.

His ultimate was ridiculous, and for a while his numbers were too high, so he was fixed by nerfing his ult and numbers through a rework. I've seen some people say the rework ruined Kass, I can't disagree with that since I didn't see him in action before it, but currently he is relatively balanced so I would consider it improvement that he doesn't have a 97% banrate. Release Xin Zhou despite how bad I've heard it was, was just a result of numbers being too high, there was nothing inherently toxic about his kit, and this was fixed by nerfing his numbers. Yi's kit is certainly toxic on its own, and Sated Devourer pushed it to another level, but that's a problem with the item, not the champion. Sure Yi had to have an already toxic kit to be as stupid as he is with Devourer, but even so, by removing the item you make the champion somewhat manageable. Every ability is overloaded, numbers are too high, abuses tank items, ultimate is straight up forgiving in every situation and therefor ridiculous. Compared to the most insane champions to exist throughout League Ekko can't be fixed by only 1 of the things that balanced them. If he was to be reworked so much would have to change that it would essentially be the same as deleting him and giving us another champion, Kass notably had his ult changed, but with Ekko every ability including his passive would need to be changed because everything is so overloaded it's disgusting, if his numbers are nerfed his playerbase will complain and he'll still be toxic just by the nature of his kit and still a problem, we could change the item's he's abusing but he'd likely still abuse them as seen with the recent IBG nerf, or he'd just find a new item to abuse because of the nature of his kit.

I know a lot of people will hate me for saying it and that it won't actually happen, but I think Ekko should be the first champion to be deleted from the game. I do understand why people don't want to delete any champions no matter what, because that could set a precedent that it's alright to delete a champion.

** In conclusion I think Ekko should be an exception and be the first and hopefully only champion deleted from League of Legends because ** Ekko's kit is a big clusterfuck of overloaded unbalanced bullshit that is the manifested embodiment of every single major frustrating design Riot has ever made, to the point that even if he's kept in the game to please his playerbase they'll still be fucked in the end because he needs to be nerfed into the ground, and even with that done he will still be a cancerous and frustrating to play against piece of shit.

Champions have made me rage before, and there have been many times that I've been left feeling like I lost to the champion and not the player, but Ekko is the first champion that in every game he's in has tempted me to unistall the game, and made question why I was playing it in the first place. I'm silver and I'm not the best player and I don't know how to effectively play against something in every situation and sometimes I get rekt for an entire game, but against Ekko even if I'm winning and completely dominating him, makes me want to afk on the spot and uninstall while the game is still in progress. I get angry and frustrated, everyone does from time to time, but when something about a game makes me feel the way Ekko does, it forces me to seriously consider if I should, or even want to, keep playing a game that lets a champion like Ekko exist at all.

Let's be honest though, something much more important than a champion was removed from the game some time ago, I'm talking of course about our dear old friend Blue Potion who passed away last season QQ I think removing Blue was more of an outrage than removing Ekko, wouldn't you agree?