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Can we make Ezreal less of an "early game or bust" champ?

Cloud273··3 votes·972 views

There isn't a single adc in this game whose late game is more irrelevant than Ezreal's. He has a "decent" early/mid game, but compared to other early game adc's it's not even that good. Other adc's don't have to worry about mana costs, low base hp, insanely long cooldowns, landing skillshots, or long channel times on their ults. And other adc's actually have a way of SAFELY dealing damage to the backline. The only way Ezreal will ever touch the enemy backline is by arcane shifting in, which obviously puts him in danger. His ult does almost NOTHING in the late game because it's too easy for someone to just stand behind a minion, jungle creep, or tank and take reduced damage (this applies to his 'q' and 'e' as well except no reduced damage obviously). Finally as stated earlier other adc's NEVER have to worry about mana costs. Since Ezreal's kit is entirely skillshot based mana costs are a HUGE issue for him. I don't care how good you are. You will miss some of your abilities and then you'll be oom. Other adc's don't really have to worry about this, since their abilities are almost all targeted.

TLDR Ezreal should be at least somewhat relevant in the late game, and currently he just isn't. It's either you completely dominate the early/mid game and snowball or lose. What they should do is give his 'q' armor pen at later ranks and reduce his mana costs slightly. Mana and tanks are really his biggest issues, and I don't think this will break him. Even if he gets these QOL changes there are still more reliable adc's like Kog and Twitch who can just right click you to death. No matter how broken Ezreal is he will NEVER Be able to do this. Unlike other adc's he actually has a ton of skill expression in his kit.

10 Comments

PhantomPrankster2 votes

no, because the community hates ezreal even though he is perfectly fine as a character. the minute something outside of his kit breaks him he gets trashed and left there every time.

Hethalean1 votes

It is unfortunate that his kit lends itself to when he breaks something, he breaks it HAAAAAAARD

e46 Fanatic1 votes

No need to buff the Ezreal

Lucas Fehrwight1 votes

His late game is fine. Decent damage and good mobility.

Cloud2731 votes

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His late game is fine. Decent damage and good mobility.

His damage is good but he has no way of reliably getting past the front line. A squishy can easily avoid all of his damage (or have the damage reduced in the case of his ult) by just standing behind a tank. No other adc has this problem except Ezreal. All other adc's can easily bypass tanks. Since Ezreal can't do this, that's why I suggested giving his 'q' some armor pen or something (but only at later ranks).

Lucas Fehrwight1 votes

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His damage is good but he has no way of reliably getting past the front line. A squishy can easily avoid all of his damage (or have the damage reduced in the case of his ult) by just standing behind a tank. No other adc has this problem except Ezreal. All other adc's can easily bypass tanks. Since Ezreal can't do this, that's why I suggested giving his 'q' some armor pen or something (but only at later ranks).

You overthinking this. Just don't die and do some damage. Oh and have fun. If ap shaco players can so then you can too.

Erockandroll1 votes

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His late game is fine. Decent damage and good mobility.

His real problem is scaling. Most ADC's scale off a combination of AD, AS, Crit chance, and Armor pen. Which all basically act as a multiplier to their DPS.

Ezreal has a DPS problem since he is that spell reliant. He doesn't get the same benefit from AS or Crit chance that other ADC's do. And since he gets a massive mid game spike when he builds Tri force, no one particularly wants to give him a good late game.

Of coarse that doesn't make him worthless in the late game, his spells have a much longer range than most AA's giving him pretty good poke. What makes him worthless is that what he's good at, isn't particularlly meta. Tanks are pretty good a body blocking the poke damage made for their weaker counterparts, and because of wormarg's, Tanks can pretty much shrug off the damage you deal.

Lucas Fehrwight1 votes

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His real problem is scaling. Most ADC's scale off a combination of AD, AS, Crit chance, and Armor pen. Which all basically act as a multiplier to their DPS.

Ezreal has a DPS problem since he is that spell reliant. He doesn't get the same benefit from AS or Crit chance that other ADC's do. And since he gets a massive mid game spike when he builds Tri force, no one particularly wants to give him a good late game.

Of coarse that doesn't make him worthless in the late game, his spells have a much longer range than most AA's giving him pretty good poke. What makes him worthless is that what he's good at, isn't particularlly meta. Tanks are pretty good a body blocking the poke damage made for their weaker counterparts, and because of wormarg's, Tanks can pretty much shrug off the damage you deal.

Ez is not a hyper carry auto attack adc. We have enough of those. He's also not the only source of damage. I'm sure hypercarry ap carries prefer consistent ad over one that has a 50% chance of dying. Just don't die, so some damage, and have fun and you'll have a lot more success.

Cloud2731 votes

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His real problem is scaling. Most ADC's scale off a combination of AD, AS, Crit chance, and Armor pen. Which all basically act as a multiplier to their DPS.

Ezreal has a DPS problem since he is that spell reliant. He doesn't get the same benefit from AS or Crit chance that other ADC's do. And since he gets a massive mid game spike when he builds Tri force, no one particularly wants to give him a good late game.

Of coarse that doesn't make him worthless in the late game, his spells have a much longer range than most AA's giving him pretty good poke. What makes him worthless is that what he's good at, isn't particularlly meta. Tanks are pretty good a body blocking the poke damage made for their weaker counterparts, and because of wormarg's, Tanks can pretty much shrug off the damage you deal.

Just because he gets a power spike with trinity force doesn't mean his late game should be garbage. You realize literally anyone who builds trinity force will have tons of damage, right? And this item is even more expensive than infinity edge, which gives even more damage. ANYONE can build this item, not just Ezreal. Ezreal is pigeonholed into this build because his 'q' can't crit, his auto attack range is really short and his mana costs are REALLY high. He needs to get 2 mana items just to avoid going oom constantly. And yes this build is garbage in the late game because there's no crit, which means he doesn't have the damage to shred through tanks.

Pandemic Punch1 votes

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