Talk:Ekko/@comment-26414669-20150619142652/@comment-5955640-20150619204810

Usually Ekko's shield and his stun go hand in hand otherwise if the enemy fled from your AOE and didn't get stunned the shield alone only grants you bonus health for 2 seconds. I've mentioned this on the Yasuo page. A second or two of a shield is not tankiness or sustain. It's you not getting nuked from a single attack.

Look at nautilius or Sejuani. Those are tanks. Has a harass spell that a support would like but has a terrible setup for a stun that supports would hate using seeing as it requires putting yourself in danger to actually make it useful as opposed to the easy stuns and knockup that Janna and the like get.

Some supports get extremely safe and point blank stuns and knockups so he really doesn't have the utility of a CC support like Lulu or Nami and he doesn't have the initation utility of Leona or Thresh, and he certainly can't heal and only save himself so he's not even someone who could help an ally if he wanted too.

No support level utility on him.

Given that he needs his shield, his stun, and his ult to make his initations safe, and has to hit a target three times to proc his passive. And if the fight lasts more than four seconds he can use his ult offensively I would consider that sustained damage (burst would be more like Kat where you almost never auto attack which isn't quite the case with Ekko although if you have less than 50 magic resistance...). And he is squishy.