Take off his AP scaling. Screw it. AP Ezreal was pretty much trash before the monster that runeglaive + ludens turned him into. Bring that pretty boy back down to bot lane where he belongs.
ETA: Oh and buff his AD ratios while you're at it. Dude's completely out classed as an ADC too.
NotDevan3 votesYes, let's make dramatic changes to a champion that forces them into one role only and lowers diversity, rather than fix the item that made the champion problematic.
Noctius281 votesI don't like it either but ez is one of the few champs (Kog being the other one) who can be build in different ways
Mora champs need to be able to do this and I don't think making him adc only will be good for anyone
DrCyanide1 votesI've maintained a 52.38%% win rate on AP Ezreal over 126 games spanning about a year now. In case you haven't checked, the AD builds for Ezreal maintain his win rate at close to 43% at all elos. If anything, AD Ezreal is the trash build and people are just now starting to realize it (granted, Runeglave makes AP Ezreal a bit more noob friendly).
The cat's out of the bag. Even if Riot removes the Spell Effects from Runeglave more people will play Ezreal AP now. Get use to it.
Meta Not Found2 votesYou currently have a 42% win rate on Ezreal. In Bronze.
AD Ezreal certainly isn't top tier in comparison to other ADCs, but it's definitely far more useful than any of his AP viability. Even with the broken runeglaive + ludens combination, AP Ezreal currently runs a 46% win rate in Platinum and above whilst ADC Ezreal runs 47% (still low, but higher than AP mid and certainly not meta).
I've got a 38% win rate on him this season and only play him AD but hadn't touched him since Bronze. I picked up back up recently in Platinum and played three games with him AD in bot lane while filling as he fit the team compositions and ran 2W-2L with a 10 / 6 / 10 average.. one of the losses was a 4v5 so it's a little skewed and I'm pretty bad at the champion (and adc in general) to begin with but he definitely still has viability in an elo where people know how to utilize a poke and kite back disengage composition.
Pretty much anything can be viable in Bronze - even Poppy - so I apologize if I don't really take anything from your opinion.
DrCyanide1 votesYou miss-represent my statistics. Your data is over 14 games, mixing AD and AP Ezreal. My data is over 126 games, only consisting of AP Ezreal games. That said, I also believe you can get anything to work in Bronze and Silver if you work at it.
The best evidence that I've seen will probably be un-accessable again. Champion.gg shows only data on Plat+, and having watched the Ezreal Mid stats for a while. Every once in a while, the highest win rate build would be something distinctly not AD. No AD Ezreal maxes W first, for example. The builds could never get enough following to become the most popular build, but it was enough to suggest that others were having success with it. I want to say that the AP Win Rates were in the 50's, but I can't remember for certain, it may have been only 5% higher than it's AD counterpart.
Unfortunatly, I don't think Champion.gg retains historical records on these things to go back and check the numbers.
It's safe to say that Runeglave will result in more people playing AP Ezreal, even after the 5.13 changes to Runeglave, now that they've seen it's damage. These players, plat and above, will find ways to refine the build and their execution. We've seen that while the AP Build can put out a lot of damage, it's not unbeatable, nor is it lacking in counterplay like some older AP builds (AP Yi, for example). At worse, Riot will probably nerf AP Ezreal in some way, but they will not remove a build that can be balanced simply because it's easy to delete his AP Ratios.
Meta Not Found1 votesI'm pretty sure you're right about champion.gg's data. As far as I am aware it is only by patch so I don't think it keeps any historical records.
The best way to get out of low elo (bronze/silver) is to exclusively play one champion (regardless of counters) until you're mechanically better with that champion than any of your competition... but Ezreal would be a difficult champion to climb with because he is extraordinarily team dependent (with either build). It'd be tremendously easier to climb out of low elo with a hard engage support than it would be with a poke carry but that doesn't mean that it's impossible.
I really don't even think AP Ezreal needs a nerf and I don't fear it at all - I'd much rather see an Ezreal on the enemy team than a Cho'Gath or Gragas right now but was just in a trolling mood when I wrote this original post as I was tired of all of the threads complaining about him - and I do think he could be buffed in regards to AD.
Mob Psycho 1001 votesIf Ezreal's Q didnt scale with AD, he'd never be played botlane, imo.