Talk:Ekko/@comment-24496127-20150602073949/@comment-2179912-20150603160209

Exactly. He has extremely high risk and must actually predict everything the enemy does (like a true time assassin should), instead of just clicking all of your buttons on the enemy a-la Talon. Of course, you get unusually high CC and burst to compensate, that's the selling point of Ekko anyway, but both are also delayed so there's PLENTY of counterplay.

People cry when he lands 2 stacks on them (like that's not all he ever needs) and procs E, Luden's, Z Drive and LichBane on them and they're like "OMG RITO NERF THIS DAMAGE PL0X".

I mean, I wanna kill myself when I hear: "Omg, enemy Ekko oneshot me just because he landed his full Q on me and I happened to be standing inside his W with his hologram next to me, OP damage and stun, needs nerf, 0 counterplay."

Well of course, you idiot, you let him proc 5 of his mechanics on you, what did you expect? To do 300 damage?

Diana does the same damage without needing to predict nearly so much stuff and everything she has is point and click, except Q - and yet no one complains because they are actually used to her. Or Zed - no 3-hit combo, no anything. Click R on the enemy, land a Q and E and auto them a couple of times, R again, enjoy your kill.

I really hope Riot doesn't nerf his damage just because these people think it's OP when they die to a fucking assassin, "just because" they ignored his mechanics and he landed EVERYTHING on them.

An early game reduction to his shield and passive slow would be nice, though, but only early game. His E base damage is already nerfed in the PBE.