Runeglaive is a sucess

Actually. . . It's exactly the reason Riot was talking about reworking her into a bruiser a while back. The job of an assassin is to reach a high profile target, kill them, and get out alive. She does part one by bulldozing everyone in her way, then repeats for part 3. You end up with a high burst, high DPS, tanky assassin. And in Diana's case, you also end up with a healthy chunk of AoE damage (her ult is her only single target ability).

Evelyn is the best Lich Bane user in the game, and Runeglaive sacrifices tons of power compared to LB. She didn't need the mana sustain she needed the damage and AP of LB.

Wrong, they did. It nearly doubled gold generated from large monsters. 80 AP and 20% CDR as well as being extremely gold efficient was useful for every AP jungler in the game, and was also more useful for manaless junglers like Rumble and Akali (yes she could jungle after her buffs).

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Many other annoying poke mids than ezreal, hell lux is the same as ezreal with cc and self peel, all she lacks is a escape but if she catchs you in snare from fog of war you will die before even knowing who was there.

actually , lux deals way less damage while being immobile and her QE projectile speed is slower than ez QW

Lux has appreciable cooldowns and mana costs. Ez has neither.

Ez isn't a mage, he's an assassin. He has no CC, relies entirely on Trailblazer's for his waveclear, and his AOE teamfight presence is almost-sort-of-there, but just isn't close to what , etc... can pull off in terms of AOE. RG gives him a little bit of extra AOE damage, but it's true value to Ez is it's damage conversion on his Q, from physical to magical. Now, the magic pen he builds applies to his Q damage as well.

He serves the same niche as Leblanc does. Delete one squishy, then either provide some moderate single target sustained damage, or back off and wait for your full rotation to come up again. He's a pubstomper, but if people decide to start grouping and do some teamfighting, the traditional mage is going to shine brighter than Ez ever will.

Source: been playing AP Ez off and on since S1. Haven't gotten my hands on Runeglaive Ez yet, but I've been following what happened with the pros and why it worked. I also have mained Vel'Koz recently, and can say that it's stupidly hard to make up for the sheer amounts of AOE damage when teamfights start breaking out. Mage's need to know where their skills shine, and abuse those moments.

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Lich Bane will do the same. All Runeglaive does to Ezreal is make his power spike occur earlier. Which, itself, is a problem. A potential solution is to have the game auto-buy Hunter's Machete at the Fountain and tie the Smite effect strength to jungle camps cleared. Junglers will be completely unaffected. Laners can keep their FOTM items, but if they'll be forcibly gimped in the early game and be unable to truly benefit from Smite until later in the game.

Runeglaive procing Luden's Echo and Rylai's Crystal Scepter looks to be a bug. And bugs get fixed sooner or later (unless it makes Lee Sin stronger).

It's the "Do I buy a Longsword now, or wait for a BF Sword?" choice for laners with Smite. Who knows, waiting for BF Sword might actually gimp you more than getting Longsword based items.