From abusing an old school jungle item, then runic echos, then blue Ezreal, to this seasons Ezreal jungle. This champion just always finds a way to be annoying at 1 point in the season.
$10 says he'll find a way to be annoying with the new runes too. I'm actually kinda looking forward to it
dominusx32 votesAn adc.. annoying ? Never in no season.
My Heartshaker45 votesAn adc.. annoying ? Never in no season.
Pretty sure this is because Ezreal bot lane is garbage.
Big Black Croc7 votesEzreal jungle is cancer tho
SweedishGunner9 votesGarbage bot because he doesn't build Crit, same with Lucian and his Bork BC build.
Take them to a different position however and they can function.
TotalJerk4 votesIt's less that he's garbage, and more that in the current meta picking Ezreal ADC is like picking Darius ADC. He simply doesn't belong there, and putting him there robs your team of having a real ADC.
Thryale2 voteswhat's changed? I remember when ez was a must pick adc bot lane...
TotalJerk3 votesCrit is so good right now that either a crit scaling ADC or Kog'maw is basically mandatory. Running Ezreal ADC robs your team of that.
Thryale1 votesokay, so what about crit magically made it so important recently? did riot buff the amount of crit damage IE gives you? did they buff the base amount of damage crits do? Not saying I don't believe you, but crit scaling has always been an important aspect of ADC's since season 1, and I just don't see why it's so important atm than before.
Now, keep in mind, I've been gone for little over a year and just came back a month or so ago, so I missed a few reworks and such. (alistar has bells now? rek sai randomly jumps to ppl? everyone and their grandma has grievous wounds? why the fudge does GA give AD and Banshees give AP!?!?)
D30PX10TG8VL2R9X5 votesThey made crit cheaper to buy, thus allowing ADCs to get crit sooner whereas the lethality items dont come online/scale as well as the crit items do and thus the game has shifted.
Truly though and I don't know why none of these fucking noobs havn't done it yet is move a mage to bot lane to abuse the marksman all lane phase and put the marksman top/mid with a tank top/mid. It's just fucking pathetic how no innovation ever happens in this game in terms of playstyle at the pro level until it's been seen in Bronze play (mind you playing it like shit) and then adapted to being used in challenger then into pro play. Bronze players are some of the most innovative players in the game because they're willing to try shit out, maybe it don't work for them because their mechanics suck (individually and team-wide) but they are almost always the ones logically coming up with these new strats, I'm not even kidding.
Thryale2 votesagreed. I remember back in late S2 early S3 I asked why we don't send duo lanes top and solo lanes bot to a friend of mine (he was plat/diamond rank and I was high bronze low silver) and he told me it was stupid and there is no reason to do that. then 6-9 months later, guess what all the pros were doin? lane swaps! lane swaps everywhere!
EDIT: but yeah, I think I understand why innovation is lacking in high ranks. it's because they prefer stability. they want to focus and hone their skills, and in a tumultuous environment with a lot of innovations means they have to relearn things constantly. If everything stays the same, you can come to expect certain things from your opponent, and if you know what your opponent is going to do, it makes it easier to plan your course of action and easier to guarantee a win based upon how well you execute your own plays.
Innovation introduces variables that can't always be taken into consideration, and thus the stability is shaken. Innovation is easy, adapting to that innovation is very, very hard.
Martyrofsand1 votesTruly though and I don't know why none of these fucking noobs havn't done it yet is move a mage to bot lane to abuse the marksman all lane phase and put the marksman top/mid with a tank top/mid.
They haven't done that because mages tend to bully ADCs based off of a level advantage that they won't get in a 2v2 lane, and if a mage tries to 2v1 the support/adc duo will ruin them if they are in anyway decent.
If you have trouble seeing that just look at Lucien/Varus/Corki when they have gone mid lane in various seasons, this one included. They tend to bully those lanes and push/roam hard. Putting a mage bot lane simply isn't going to make it work.
As for putting an ADC top lane a few can work there, Graves/Vayne have done ok for example but the biggest issue is if you put an ADC top against say Riven/Irelia/Wukong/Fiora/etc you are in for a very rough time as they will get on you very easily and blow you up. I had one game I was actually forced to go top lane as varus, because my team was throwing fits in champ select, and against a Wukong he hit 6 E+Q+R on me and I was dead before I hit the ground. Not a pleasant experience to say the least.
Glory ln Death32 votesHuh. He usually meets his quota by March. He's making progress towards being a tolerable champion!
Ralanr31 votesAnd he's actually not breaking anything this time.
Glory ln Death17 votesWell, he is breaking the meta. Although I suppose he may not currently be breaking it, since he's pretty much considered meta now.
DuskDaUmbreon16 votesI...
...Fuck. He has always done something annoying every season. Hasn't he?
flibitydoo14 votesThey are adding that "Kleptomancy" keystone rune
which for those of you who don't know is: whenever you cast a spell, your next basic attack on a champion_ (which by the way sounds a lot like sheen)_ will grant you bonus gold and potentially consumables like potions
Maybe it's just me, but it looks like he might infest the support role next season.
Penta Penguin3 votesif it specifies 'basic attack' then ezreal Q alone won't pilfer
NineTailedMystic15 votesThe wording in Sheen is the same and Ezreal Q still procs it.
Sugar Momma2 votesTo be fair, a few effects say they only work for basic attacks and truly only work on them (such as Lulu's pix). I guess we will need more details on the rune.
EcchiOtakuTM2 votesIt's a sheen proc, I've used it on both ezr and gp. It is 100% a sheen proc.
EcchiOtakuTM2 votesIt works as sheen. Gp and Ezreal trigger it.
LordRedStone Nr13 votesSome Rioter said _here _ that it inherits it's time to proc after a spell and CD from other Sheen effects. Another confirmation there, it is based of Sheen's code and should be the same for Ezreal and GP.
Glory to God13 votesTBH even if he is an abuser he never was considered to be among the most frustrating champions in the game. Ok maaaaybe that time where he was taking iBG regularly but that wasn't his problem.
OyddAWqJ5r9 votesI mean, you're about to see Meteor Ezreals comin in. Or maybe just the same jungle Ezreals with Predator now. Or even Ezreals with Fleet Footwork that they can proc with their Q to zoom zoom in or out. Or possibly jungle Ezreals with Dark Harvest suddenly hitting you with a ton of early game Q damage from FoW. Or they could run Glacial Augment since it procs on their Q's and they can go Blue Ezreal but build TriForce instead of Iceborn since they already have an AoE slow.
So many possibilities.
53018 votesYou never know... he might not next season
Ryze is still due for the yearly rework
XxxLumberJackxxX3 votes[{quoted}](name=tyIer fking l,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=0pf3dJEl,comment-id=000b,timestamp=2017-10-06T17:49:53.801+0000)
You never know... he might not next season
Ryze is still due for the yearly rework
P sure someone said it'll be part of preseason
Almighty6 votesYou are forgetting something.
This is still being used.
[sg-ezreal]
Karn Bishop6 votesNext season will be jungle sniper ezreal, somehow abusing spell based items and ultimate hat to fire off an ulti after every camp due to low CD.
Khristophoros5 votesI've been plotting Ezreal rune setups. There are definitely some fun potential synergies.
Critmaster Garen5 votestwo words.
hextech freezeray.
now he gets to gauntlet slow you every 2 seconds from lvl 1 out without having to buy a gauntlet.
Entheos Geon2 votesSure, it would be annoying but..
He'd be missing out on some meaningful damage from other keystones.
There are more tenacity options in the game than ever before with the new runes. Also, with Lethal Tempo and Alacrity, you could probably get away with not going Berserker's Greaves and go either Swifties or Merc Treads.
Catastrop4 votesAt least this time he isn't getting any items removed.
I Main Swain4 votesjust had a 20 minute aram as ezreal in which i spent literally the entire game non stop spamming taunt. no regrets
Stillname4 votesThe problem with Ezreal is that none of the items in the game are good on him.
He has multiple scalings but he cant make use of any of the hybrid items because a lot of them rely on on-hit. He doesn't fully auto attack so the crit items aren't great on him.
So he is balanced around every item being mediocre on him. Then when there is an item that is actually good on him it just breaks him.
Mizuki Zahra3 voteswell ya my friends and i already have 3 ezreal build are are ez-real ggs lol
Big Black Croc3 votesWhat
we have 3 ezreal builds in the works for the new rune system
mid delete jungle delete and my favorite catch me if you can tank support ezreal (hes becoming the new janna lol)
MarvelOtter3 voteswe have 3 ezreal builds in the works for the new rune system
mid delete jungle delete and my favorite catch me if you can tank support ezreal (hes becoming the new janna lol)
how does the tank ez work? am curious
BoilTheOil3 voteshes not really annoying though whats annoying is 
w e q and half your hp being gone
Big Black Croc2 votesWhat's annoying is him damaging you across the screen and having retarded safety. If he buys Ice born he becomes more cancerous spamming a xerath level range Q that slows and u can never touch him if ur a melee.I think its jungle Ezreal that people are complaining about right now tho, his ganks are retarded,especially when he has red buff.
BoilTheOil4 votesif he is buying iceborn as ezreal jungle he is losing a lot of damage
Big Black Croc3 votesI never said he buys ice born when he jungles
DaNinad7 voteswhats annoying is that you complain about a combo with 100% counterplay
BoilTheOil3 votesThere isn't too much counterplay to it yes he has no w but he can still farm and stuff if he just q's
DaNinad1 votesLITERALLY ALL OF HIS ABILITIES YOU CAN DODGE WITH HALF A BRAIN.
BoilTheOil2 votesYou can't always dodge everything
Blåbæret3 votesEzreal will never be fun to face as long as he has a low CD built in flash.
1011001110002 votesEzreal can proc Kleptomancy every Q, because Q counts as a spell cast to activate Kleptomancy AND as an auto-attack to give you the random consumable.
Kleptomancy has a random chance to give you mini-elixirs and the level up orb from old Quest Coin.
And wards.
And mana pots.
Kleptomancy Ezreal is literally cancer.
Kaeblen2 votesNo, Kleptomancy Ezreal is: http://cdn2-www.comingsoon.net/assets/uploads/2015/10/indiana-jones-header.jpg
