Talk:Ekko/@comment-26524931-20150623160856/@comment-26524931-20150623170257

On the one hand sure, only two abilities grant him survivability, sounds like a small number putting it that way.

On the other hand, that's half his kit. Doesn't sound low now, does it. and more importantly setting these situations up is not hard. If they attempt to CC burst you down and fail for instance, you get locked down for a few seconds, meanwhile your 4s behind ekko is approaching you (because of the wide AOE it doesn't need to be directly on top of you to be relevant) and you get a free aoe damage in an area near you to boot. Zhonya's hourglass existing only makes this more of a pain.

Also to say he needs to be in a fight 4s to use his ult offensively is wrong. That's really only true if Ekko was moving in a directly straight line and was approaching all his foes. If he was dancing around or moving in a zig zag, or was being flanked, or anything, yeah, not hard to set up his ult and doesn't require 4s. Yes you can counterplay it by not standing in a pretty wide AoE near yellow Ekko but again my whole point is that he's way way harder to counterplay-- you basically get these setups where opponents need to respect your zones for very little actual investment to setup.