What Does the League Community Think of the Newest Champion Ekko

At MSI, Riot released a preview of their upcoming League of Legends champion Ekko. The preview was aptly titled “Ekko: Seconds," and the teaser gave audiences a glimpse of champion's theme. And yes, you probably guessed it: his powers and abilities have something to do with time.

You can watch it here:

They even came out with a badass comic, "Chronobreak," which gives some backstory into Ekko's tragic past. And more recently, Riot released their new Champion Spotlight feature on Ekko:

Some fans on reddit are already predicting his place in ranked play:

People on Twitter seem pretty excited:

Here's a breakdown of his abilities:

Passive:

Z-Drive Resonance

Ekko's damaging spells and attacks build up Resonance stacks on his enemies. Every third attack against the same target triggers Ekko's passive, dealing bonus damage and slowing his enemy. If he triggers his passive on an enemy champion, Ekko also gains a strong movement speed buff.

Q:

Timewinder

Ekko throws a device in a target direction, damaging all enemies along its path. Once it reaches max distance or hits an enemy champion, the device expands, creating a field that slows all enemy and neutral units. After a moment, the device contracts and rushes back to Ekko, dealing extra damage to all enemies in its path.

W:

Parallel Convergence

Passive: Ekko's basic attacks deal bonus damage to low health targets.

Active: Ekko opens a time rift, creating an alternate reality copy of him that tosses a device to a target location. After a delay, the device expands into a broad slowing zone. If Ekko enters the sphere, it detonates, granting him a shield while stunning all enemies inside.

E:

Phase Dive

Ekko dashes a fixed distance towards a target area. Once his initial dash has ended, Ekko gains greatly increased range on his next basic attack, and blinks to his target to deal damage and apply on-hit and spell effects.

R:

Chronobreak

Ekko rewinds time, briefly turning untargetable and invulnerable before reappearing wherever he was a few seconds ago. Once he reappears, Ekko recovers a portion of the health he lost over those few seconds while dealing tons of damage to all nearby enemies.

Packed with mobility and crowd control, Ekko is a champion that many are speculating will be unbalanced and overpowered during release. Some people are commenting on the power of Ekko's kit:

strictly looking at the numbers ekko looks absurd, will be interesting to see the champ develop

— Zach Malhas (@T8Nien) May 28, 2015

ekko's w is a 30 mana cost 2.25s aoe stun with a 150 base damage shield at rank 1 hmm.... interesting. Long delay but those numbers :O

— scarra (@dscarra) May 28, 2015

Don't like bashing balance, but how the hell did Ekko's W make it through to live? I get it's meant to be a 1 point wonder but it's a joke

— Mark Zimmerman (@LiquidMarkZ) May 29, 2015

Ekko seems the same as when reksai came out, just blatantly op.

— I Will Dominate (@LiquidDominate) May 28, 2015

I can't be arsed to play against Ekko anymore. This champ is beyond broken.

— Maurice (@Amazing_EU) June 1, 2015

Riot has not specified which role Ekko will fill, which opens up all sorts of different possibilities in normal, ranked, and competitive games in the upcoming weeks. So are we going to see mid Ekko? Jungle Ekko? Maybe even support Ekko? Let us know in the comments below which position you'd play him in!