Does everybody have to dodge because they didn't get Ekko?

Kürama·May 28, 2015·41 votes·2,769 views

Seriously, what the fuck. At least 15 matches Today players dodged just cause they didn't get Ekko. -_-

60 Comments

NaramielMay 28, 20157 votes

He's not only brand new, but insanely OP. Teambuilder games are having a hard time forming because no one wants to play an ADC.

KüramaMay 29, 20152 votes

Yup. He's pretty much pissing everybody off. I expect nerfs to him as soon as Monday on the PBE.

WolfBVMay 29, 20151 votes

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He's not only brand new, but insanely OP. Teambuilder games are having a hard time forming because no one wants to play an ADC.

Ekko broke Teambuilder XD

Extreme TrollerMay 28, 20155 votes

i think new champ should cost more ip. i suggest riot to make 20Kip the first week or 3000RP.

KüramaMay 28, 201516 votes

LOL. The amount of ragers that would fill these Boards...

bluegolisanoMay 29, 20151 votes

The ammount of people that would say "HELL YES HE NOT FOR FREE MOFOS!!!" would quadruple. Be sad they didn't do that.

DedriusMay 29, 20154 votes

I think upping the price would be interesting. Maybe not to 20kip but something like 10k might work since it would thin out the crowd during the first week and you would be paying more for the exclusivity of getting to play him. No one could really get mad because they would lower the price to 6300 like always but you would basically be paying for an early experience (not including pbe).

KüramaMay 29, 20152 votes

Yea, 10k sounds good, but people will still rage.

potatoandcupMay 29, 20151 votes

but they already do that. champions on release come out 7800 for the first two weeks (or week I forget) riot already did this so people would be more encouraged to spend money instead of saving up their ip. you'd be asking riot to strong arm you further into spending money on their advertised free to play game. don't forget there are other things to spend ip on for people a year or two into the game. runes and pages are still a big ip spender. so you'd be forcing people to spend an extra 1k ip (which without dailies is almost 20 games). thats an absurd amount of time to invest in a game for one champion. then multiply that by the number of champs PLUS the other 6300 ip that isn't part of the 1.5k to 7800, or the 3.7k ip to your 10k ip you want it to cost.. they might as well just say pay to play

DedriusMay 29, 20151 votes

My reasoning is that I would be willing to spend a bit more IP to not have Ekko picked in every game. It somewhat defeats the purpose of me buying him early (which I did) if it is going to be ridiculously hard to actually be able to use him in a game. If he was 10k ip, I would still have bought him with IP and would be willing to pay the extra 2200 knowing less people would be using him and I would actually get a good chance to pick him.

FreshMeat707May 29, 20151 votes

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i think new champ should cost more ip. i suggest riot to make 20Kip the first week or 3000RP.

You're kidding right? I mean, even just a bit more price would suck for all of us, we have to shell out more RP to buy them unless we wait a week. ALSO: 20.K. IP? and.....and.....3000 RP? You're crazy, man.

BoulderoxMay 28, 20154 votes

It's new champ syndrome, everyone wants to play them so you have 5 people fighting over that lock in. And when they don't they decide to dodge until they think they can get him.

Hate it, but that is the way it is.

KüramaMay 28, 20155 votes

It's stupid as fuck. I understand they want to play him, but if they don't get him, suck it up, play someone else. My gawd.

Commander SimmonMay 28, 20153 votes

Honestly i am gonna take a week off because this champ pretty much has the ability to 1 shot lvl 1 and i dont wanna be in the game now

NarasimhaMay 29, 20151 votes

I'd recommend you take a week off. Actually, a year. You might need that time to start making sense.

KüramaMay 29, 20151 votes

Well the 1 shot lvl 1 was exaggerated, but the point is, Ekko is hella annoying right now.

Kuroi86May 29, 20153 votes

Welcome to the League of Legends, filled with more whiney, entitled babies than all billionaire nurseries combined.

OxBakerMay 29, 20151 votes

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Welcome to the League of Legends, filled with more whiney, entitled babies than all billionaire nurseries combined.

Well, in fairness there can't be all that many billionaire nurseries in the world so I would kind of assume that LoL would easily have more... just saying...

LuggMay 29, 20152 votes

No one wants to play against a champion that is OP as hell is why.

KüramaMay 29, 20151 votes

I'm talking about people on my team mostly.

Summoner 1: Picks Ekko

Summoner 2: I wanna play Ekko

Summoner 1: So do I

Summoner 2: Let me play him I just bought him with the skin!!

Summoner 1: Nope

Summoner 2: Dodges

And this is in TT. in SR and CS, it can go up to other 4 Summoners. -_-

LuggMay 29, 20152 votes

Ok, I get what you are saying.

SexyTaylorSwiftMay 29, 20152 votes

Yup. I'm guessing they are the ones that are too unintelligent to realize there is a que where they can select exactly who and where they want to play.

GaleWinUnleashedMay 29, 20151 votes

But Team Builder has its own problems. New champion releases still impact Team Builder by making every other role take longer to fill.

CindikleMay 29, 20152 votes

This is why riot should of brought in All-For-One instead of Hexakill.

KüramaMay 29, 20151 votes

It's not Hexakill I'm talking about. I haven't even queued for Hexakill TT this yet round.

CindikleMay 29, 20151 votes

I mean each team could just pick Ekko. Everyone wins.

KüramaMay 29, 20151 votes

LOL. That'd actually be cool.

Puri Puri TaricMay 29, 20151 votes

pick champion builder pick ekko support voila there you go

Aria ValkyrieMay 29, 20151 votes

yeah, that's what we had to deal with on the pbe

KüramaMay 29, 20151 votes

I feel your pain.

BeatzBoyFTWMay 29, 20151 votes

In Team Builder, I dodge every team which includes an Ekko, cz it pretty much guarantees that he will do nothing but feed for the first week or two.

KüramaMay 29, 20151 votes

And that's the thing. They don't even know how to play Ekko, didn't even watch the Champion Spotlight, they're just like "OHHH NEW CHAMP I WANNA SEE WHAT HE DOES" "OHH WHAT DOES DIS BUTTON DO?"

Sigh.

Meanie40May 29, 20151 votes

Yes. It happens every release day on a champion that's even marginally powerful.

KüramaMay 29, 20151 votes

Sad. :(

NinjaFiferMay 29, 20151 votes

And that's why teambuilder exists...

KüramaMay 29, 20151 votes

And you don't get people to join Team Builder easily anymore because of him.

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He's not only brand new, but insanely OP. Teambuilder games are having a hard time forming because no one wants to play an ADC.

AerothalMay 29, 20151 votes

been playing since Season 2 and that's just how it is when a champ gets released. you can do a couple things. play teambuilder and enjoy ekko mirrormatches all day. play draft and dodge 1k times or get raged at when you ban ekko. play ranked where he is permabanned because a) he is new and b) he is fckn OP. cheers

KüramaMay 29, 20151 votes

I'll go with D: Take the weekend off of LoL.

sbsp13668May 29, 20151 votes

I think it's pretty funny that before people be like "release more mid lane/assassin champs!" But, this is what happens when they make new mid laners because so many people play mid.

Either way, people who want to play Ekko, but don't pick him fast enough: this is your chance to figure out how to counter him in other roles! :D

KüramaMay 29, 20151 votes

Not only in SR, in every map.

I already found out how to counter him - Don't get caught is his circle.

Rogue RevenantMay 29, 20151 votes

You must be new here.

This is called "New Champ Syndrome."

NCS is a devastating recurring condition of League of Legends where players are overcome by the crippling uncontrollable urge to play the new champion AT ANY COST! It also has a secondary condition that causes League to explode with QQs about the new champ because they don't know how to play against him yet and an extensive history of this behavior goes forgotten with EVERY NEW CHAMP RELEASE.

There is no known cure... I'm sorry.

For additional information please also refer to the section on "The Cycle of Stupid" otherwise known as Buff/Nerf Player Opinion Cycle.

KüramaMay 29, 20151 votes

Nope. Been playing since Season 1, though I don't remember it being this bad.

And it wasn't as bad with Kalista, Rek'Sai, Azir, Gnar, Braum, or the other champs being released last year. I didn't play the very same day all of them were released, but I think I remember playing on the day Azir and Rek'Sai was released.

T RexHasTinyArmsMay 30, 20151 votes

Just play ranked and ask fp to ban the stupid thing lol. People dodge less in ranked bc of LP loss so you get to play a game. Other wise yeah, new champ week is legit just "learn/play the new champ" week if you own it.

KüramaMay 30, 20151 votes

I'm not ready for ranked again, yet. :(

TrídentMay 30, 20151 votes

ikr, so annoying. Wasted like 8 minutes due to dodges

KüramaMay 30, 20151 votes

Indeed. I've probably wasted like 15-20 minutes due to dodges.

EvanestMay 31, 20151 votes

LITERALLY THIS

Sinister AnubisMay 31, 20151 votes

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Seriously, what the fuck. At least 15 matches Today players dodged just cause they didn't get Ekko. -_-

cause the way i see it is. Rito decided to take longer to release champions, then when one gets released everyone wants to play him/her and everyone knows it will be awhile before a new flavor of the month comes out. Aka new champion. I been here since season one when we would get 3 champions a month, we all knew this type of front loading couldn't go on forever so now we are left with OP champions on release everyone wants to play him/her because everyone is tired of the same old boring champions.

KüramaMay 31, 20151 votes

Been here since Season 1 myself, I know we used to get like 3 champs a month back then but still. It's ridiculous.