AP ezreal is too strong, meanwhile AD ezreal is a bit weak.

JamesTheMage17·Sep 3, 2016·3 votes·1,509 views

Ezreals AP scalings are higher than Annie's and he has four means of damage, instead of the three that Annie has. So if Annie's broken, then AP ezreal is shattered! Ingame, the ult does about 80% of people's health (squishiest like adc and mages, not tanks) which is way more than other ults and has GLOBAL RANGE. Meanwhile, his QWE combo is enough to kill someone if he lands them all on the same person. I feel like his AP ratios should be tuned down a bit and his E shouldn't scale off AP, thus balancing him.

However, AD ezreal actually lacks damage right now due to his W being useless in this build (besides the small buff) and his E has a bad scaling. Increase the AD scaling for his E, allow ezreal to gain the buff as well (not just his allies) and he should be fine.

5 Comments

LadyRenlySep 3, 20162 votes

ap ezreal has zero waveclear, which is the reason nobody plays ap ezreal

you can't even compare annie to ezreal wth... ezreal has zero CC.

AD Ezreal does MORE than enough damage with Trinity Force.

SanctimoniousSep 3, 20162 votes

AD Ezreal is top tier, and AP ezreal is shit tier against wave clear mids. AD Ezreal generally scales with skill, and is problably trash tier in bronze, but is god tier in challenged tier atm.

His last buff wasn't needed, and he's likely to show up for multiple games in worlds.

TargonSep 3, 20162 votes

I personally don't think AP Ezreal is broken. Ezreal as a whole has no CC and is very squishy so he's usually an easy kill for assassins after he's blown his E. AP Ezreal also has horrible wave clear.

That said, AD Ezreal feels a little weak, probably because of itemization and how he tends to fall off very hard into the late game. There's two main sets of core items that AD Ezreal builds these days: Manamune + Iceborn Gauntlet, or, Manamune + Trinity Force. After that, most AD items don't feel that great on him since critical strike, attack speed, and lifesteal aren't that good because his damage is primarily in his Q and any auto attacks he can weave in between his abilities

Swiftstrike4Sep 3, 20161 votes

AP Ezreal is OK if you take smite mid. In general though the AP Ezreal trend is over.

VesarixxSep 3, 20161 votes

AP Ezreal has weaknesses that keep him in check, his only form of wave clear is his ult and he has no built in CC, he doesn't really have much early pressure which balances out his better late game.

As for AD Ezreal he's not in a bad spot at all, in fact he has the highest pick rate of any ADC in Korea, at 47.76%, meaning he's in nearly half of all games