Talk:Ekko/@comment-26414669-20150619142652/@comment-5955640-20150619160546

He needs to be like Ashe, Lulu, or Lissandra? All of which are not assassins?

If you lower his damage and just make it about his utility he's a pretty worthless assassin and would end up relegated to support or jungle and he wouldn't offer anything special there either.

The risk and reward is good for the game and Nidalee's spear isn't a good example of that seeing as it has a really short cooldown ontop of it's high range and high damage. Ekko's main intiation spell is on a cooldown of 14 seconds at max rank and 22 seconds at early rank. Missing it you are out 50-70 mana and can't do anything.

This is quite different in comparison to say. Zed who you have to catch after he targets someone or Talon who is untargetable until he appears or someone uses pink or red. Utility is quite high on Ekko but it's tied to his ability to do damage is based on him landing his utility otherwise he's too vulnerable for the engage and his ult makes up for the fact that he has zero sustain and that shield and stun he gets makes a fight surivable if you were killing someone that wasn't squishy or trying to take on an entire team.

Mobility is standard on assassins so that's a silly thing to complain about. Killing at least one person fast and getting out quickily is what they do.