Talk:Ekko/@comment-26524931-20150623160856/@comment-5955640-20150623163645

The only utility that grants you any sort of survivability is the shield and the ult two abilities with a fairly long set up that's telegraphed to the enemy and requires Ekko to be in position (these are the spells that make or break an Ekko by the way).

Utility isn't what makes a tank. It's the survivability and crowd control that makes a tank. High utility is support which isn't always tanky and the marks of an Assassin is mobility and the ability to kill an opponent. You don't give up utility for that (seeing as mobility, stealth, and certain crowd controls are things that quite a few assassins have) as much as you sacrificed tankiness for it and as it stands he's a melee assassin so like most of them he has something for brief skirmishes that let him live long enough to do sustain damage and maybe burst.