Talk:Ekko/@comment-4636093-20150516132520/@comment-2179912-20150516135709

Ekko has three things (two are typical assassin traits):

>mobility (time travelling assassin, of course he would be mobile)

>insane damage (as all assassins have, but with the difference that Ekko's damage cannot be dealt up-front in 0.0001 seconds, unlike most other assassins like Zed or leBlanc or Talon)

>strong, but extremely delayed CC (tradeoff for his delayed damage but still not direct CC).

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As for the problems you're mentioning:

His Q cannot deal with waves until later in the game - unlike Xerath or Ziggs or Heimer or, or, or. And that is because it's his only AoE skill that he can safely dump on waves - and it destroys his mana if he spams it.

W - useless for waveclear, and the passive as well in lane since he's melee.

E - Even if E itself didn't apply, the blink, LichBane etc would appy on the turret. The 0.2 scaling on the turrets is not that terrible considering he just blew his gap closer.

R - if an enemy Ekko uses R for waveclear i'll be a happy man