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Ezreal buffs?

EmperorOfCereal·9/1/2014, 9:05:31 AM·1 votes·431 views

Personally I feel like Ezreal is very lackluster right now. He doesn't have the attack range to build just pure attack speed + crit + ie because he simply gets outranged by trist and kog and cait. His best build path is tri force which still doesnt do that much for him. He still gets outdamaged and outscaled by other ad carries. There are a few possible buffs that could help him out:

  1. Simply buff the damage on his Q. -as it is, it doesnt feel as though his Q scales well into the late game at all. If its scaling was buffed tremendously i think he could benefit greatly from it.

  2. Increase his base attack range. -If his base attack range was buffed just a bit, it would help him scale up against the other ad carries.

  3. (My favorite possible buff.) Let his Q crit. -His Q doesn't do much damage even though it is EXTREMELY HARD TO HIT against even just a moderately skilled opponent. Adding crit to his Q would give him that special long ranged damage to keep up with the other long ranged carries.

If we go over the other strong ad carries, all of them either have very long range (cait, kog maw, tristana, jinx, twitch{because of ulti}) or extremely high burst/dps (draven, lucian).

Ezreal doesn't really fall under the high burst/dps because his Q doesn't do much damage and also it is a skillshot so it is not guaranteed damage. whereas, lucian is guaranteed an extra auto attack on every skill he uses. Put crit on him and he has an insane amount of guaranteed damage. Draven is just draven. Auto attack for insane amounts of damage.

He doesn't fall under the long range category either because he has such a short auto attack and his Q cannot go through minions or crit and it is not even guaranteed damage, whereas caitlyn, kog, trist, jinx, and twitch can all auto attack from very far away for insane amounts of damage through crit or their skill buffs (kog w, jinx q, twitch ulti, tristana q).

Overall, ezreal is not given the proper tools to be effective in this meta. Some buffs on him would be greatly appreciated since he is a very fun champion to play.

4 Comments

Knight SoIaire 9/1/2014, 1:35:07 PM1 votes

ez is fine

its hypercarries who are too strong atm his q is not so weak, it cant crit because ez would be able to blow up tanks from even bigger range than any hypercarry can shot from, lack of crit limits it to be effective only vs squishies

also if you dont build ie you will never have the damage you need

all of the adc's that use triforce use crit items because adc cant do his job without it

compared to the hypercarries who go bananas atm ez is indeed lackluster but as a mid range adc he is fine

Doogmi9/2/2014, 10:54:34 AM1 votes

As an ezreal main I couldn't disagree more. With the ADC itemization changes (specifically soul reaver and botrk) ez feels stronger than he was in season 3. His q does plenty of DMG I always build botrk and tri force so each q is doing 115 plus 385 times 200% trin force process plus 8% of targets current health. Also ezreal has standard ADC range (550) he is not short ranged at all. And he is a caster ADC, his auto attack isn't his strong point by any means. Crit doesn't benefit him as much as aa reliant ADCs do. He is also not a hyper carry so those comparisons don't make sense. Lucian and corki are the closest by comparison in my opinion. He actually has great burst, it is just a matter of landing all of his skill shots at once . Which doesn't make him weak, he just requires the player to land the abilities. Try running cool down reduction on him. My build runs dorans-tri force-boots of lucity-soul reaver-furor enchant-last whisper-botrk-mercurial scimitar. I have a average of 16 kills 6 deaths and 9 assists. Ez was designed to poke, kite, and outplay your opponent until you are ready to full combo (eqwr). For me having 1.4 second mystic shots that I use at max range 1150 makes me very dangerous even more so with my two actives if things get dicey. He isn't a hyper carry which is popular at the moment, but used by the right player can be extremely deadly.